SAT users

[Jim Coleman, Sr.]

Hi David:

The reason the FAC numbers project a tuning that is slightly wide at
the double octave is in order to help the triple octave to not sound
so flat. Most tuners can tolerate a little wider single octave in order
to not have the high treble sound flat.

It is still a personal preference, and you are certainly within your
right to your own view of what sounds best.

The new SAT III will have an even better control of the double octave
relationships and will not have the necessity of resetting the machine
at C5 if one wishes an even wider double octave stretch.

Jim Coleman, Sr.

On Fri, 7 Nov 1997 DGPEAKE@aol.com wrote:

> Jim,
> 
> I will add my 2 cents here as well.  Most of the time when I use the FAC
> stretch,  I find that the upper register is too sharp for what my ear wants
> to hear.  I do not know if this is the best way to do it, but I find it takes
> more time to measure the lower octaves or partials that I may as well tune
> the last 2 octaves aurally.  However, I find that if I measure the octave
> below, and then the double octave below, I then move the numbers up and down
> until the R-L speed of the LED light movement is the same (i.e., the double
> octave sharper than the single octave), I will tune the intended octave, and
> find it checks out very close.  At this point, the numbers are not important
> but they are close to what you find in most tunings.  After all it is what
> you hear that is most important.
> 
> Food for thought,
> 
> Dave Peake, RPT
>