Oh it can definitely go psychotic...that's why we retain our ears.... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net> To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org> Received: 1/9/2007 4:43:25 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] huge pitch raise question >> An SAT resets and calibrates to 440 when you turn it on. I'd guess the >> others do too. You can also use the "calibrate" function, but I like to >> turn mine off and on after a tuning pass if I've used the pitch raise >> feature to be sure it recalibrates before I do a fine tuning. There is >> a scenario where the pitch can reset without you realizing what has >> happened, but it has to do with the way you use the "measure/reset" >> feature and changing from memory mode to tune mode. If you aurally >> check intervals regularly, you should catch it before you have to redo >> too much. Even so, a semitone reset is pretty unlikely unless you tell >> it to do that on purpose. >> >> I had similar wonderings back when I was just a young fork basher myself :-) >> Jeff >Thanks Jeff. It's been a lot of years since I bashed a *young* >fork, but the possibility of an ETD gone psychotic seemed >possible. Sounds unlikely though. Looks like we're down to >evil spirits. >Ron N
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