ETDs & Pitch Corrections: Verituner

[paul bruesch]

A recent pitch raise with my RCT started -150c to -250c, so I selected the
>100c option on the PR screen. In the low bass I was having trouble getting
it to hear correctly, so I went up to C2, tuned that, then started down.
Well, the RCT expects you to go left-to-right, at least with that big a PR.
I tuned C2, then started playing B1, but the RCT jumped UP to C#2. It
apparently detected the note change and just assumed that C#2 was THAT
flat.  I finally figured out that I had to set the RCT down one note before
playing it, and then it would act like I wanted it to.

On a less-than-60c PR it does not behave this way.

BTW, a classmate of mine suggests tuning the A's, A1-A5, prior to
"calibrating" the RCT for a PR, then take the measurements, then flatten the
A's back to where they were. The RCT uses a moving 5-note average to
calculate overpull, so if the A's are still in tune during the PR, that
throws the subsequent A#, B, C, C# decreasingly flat. Also, the A's are
SIGNIFICANTLY flat during the second pass.

On 2/16/07, Farrell <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>
> My understanding is that the procedure that will yield the best calculated
> tuning in one pass is to measure all the A's, measure the two adjacent
> notes
> at the tenor/bass break, then start tuning a A3 and go up to the top. Then
> return to A3 and work your way down.
>
> Sometimes what I do is measure the A's and then measure all the notes from
> A0 to A4. Recalculate tuning and start tuning at the low tenor to C88 and
> then high bass to A0. Gives you an optimal calculated tuning and only
> takes
> about five extra minutes at most.
>
> Terry Farrell
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > With Verituner you are to pull A4 up to pitch and measure its
> > inharmonicity and then pull A3 up to pitch and measure its
> inharmonicity.
> > After that where you tune is up to you.  I like to tune down from A4 to
> > the bottom then up from A4 to the top.  Makes sense to me as Verituner
> > does partial matching and you don't know what nonsense you will discover
> > at the big break if you come from under it.  I always have Verituner
> > recalculate before doing a second pass as accounting for some of the
> > breaks (scaling breaks aren't just between bridges) will result in a
> > change in note placement, a change that I am more likely to agree with.
> >
> > Andrew Anderson
> >
>
>
>
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