Don and others... Wanted to get back to this before taking off for the first part of the weekend. I gotta admit I am a bit thoughtfull about whats been said so far. If the ETD sees two strings that have clean partials for the partial being used, whats the problem ?? Why would an ETD have any problem resolving that at all ? Ok, you have to go back and forth a bit to deal with changes in pitch due to coupling, but as long as there is no falsness coming from any strings at the relavant partial then you should think there would be no problem getting a phase display to come clean. You end up sort of tuning the note relevant to its spot in the tuning curve and the unison itself at the same time... kinda similiar to the descriptions I have heard about how Virgil handles his unisons / octaves. It would seem to me that tuning one string at a time is just asking for problems. For one you have to guess a bit at any pitch change due to coupling. For the second any falsness that is present in either string is going to present exactly the same problem (or perhaps even a bit worse ) to the phase display. In anycase my experience with tuning unisons with Tunelab or Cyberear tell me that the major problem with doing this is not so much that its difficult to get a good match on the partial being read, quite the opposite.. that one doesnt have any way of taking into consideration the behaviour of the rest of the envelope. Have a good weekend folks. -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
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