How to Adjust Intonation - Fender Strat
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- Learn how to adjust the intonation on a Fender Stratocaster. Intonation affects the tonality of your guitar, and must be properly adjusted to get the best tone and pitch. Learn more at:
thank you for putting together a nice and compact tutorial so many others have 30 min videos just blabbing about nonsense
At 4 minutes in he was talking about how gravity works.
A thousand thanks! You have given me the courage to try things for myself. Now, if only I could improve my playing too!
If the string is flat you have to shorten it, so you should have loosened the saddle to go forward.
Tightening the screw would just make it flatter.
The best part of the video is him setting the screwdriver every so gently on the body.
anytime you move the saddle to adjust your intonation on the 12th fret you need to re tune that string before you recheck the intonation again.
if you tighten the screw,and removes the bridge back,wouldn't hat lengthen the string causing it to be even flatter?
I'm sorry to say that this method is completely backward. The saddle should be moved toward the neck, then retune to open E, then recheck at the 12th fret.
One more thing, this should be done in the playing position and not flat.
Jim Cain if the fretted note is FLAT only then should it be moved towards the fretboard (shortening the scale), if the fretted note is sharp then it should be moved AWAY from the fretboard.
The ONLY way to truly Intonate your Guitar, is with a Strobe Tuner! I don't understand al these videos with people using these "inaccurate" little tuners... Not to be condescending...But Too few you find here on youlube set their guitars up it like a Pro! There is WAAAY more to it.. That guy from Ann Arbor Guitar knows what he's doing..(not affiliated ) David Collins is his name... Also for the content creator here, he has a real good in-depth video series about the subject! Anyway, thanks for the Video!👍
Thank you for the video, it helped me.
Your supposed to get it back in tune in the open position first then check the 12th after
But after you tighten or loosen the screw you lose your tuning on that string, so even tho you have the right note that you need at the 12th fret you won't have the right note when you play open
Should we take a screwdriver and chip at the paint first too?
I see that some viewers have also picked your mistake,if the string is flat the saddle should be loosened not tightened,maybe you do a fix up the mistake video now
I'm subscribing just on Hope's to see a video on what happened to do that damage
I got to 4 minutes or so in and a explanation about how gravity works and gave up. Did he ever get to intonation?
made my day
After 4 minutes or so
I tigtened the screw as much as possible and it didn’t do absolutely anything... what is up with that?
Christopher Ordonez same
Me too!, help 😭
I think u need to adjust the truss rod
Are you holding down the finger on the 12th fret when turning the screwdriver? When I do this, the 12th fret note is in tune, however the clear note drops or goes higher, by loosening or tightening the screw.
Mate, you missed a core step, matching the open string vs. 12th!
Nothing is correct except lowering the pickups to eliminate magnetic pull, go check with decent guitar makers website such as Fender, to begin with, playing position please
Is that a limited edition paint job finish? Just joking. As long as it sounds good
Damn, you know, even I loose the all the tense on high E the guitar offers me, my PRS SE 24 Custom High E is still sharp, I mean harmonic higher than the 12th fret, I have no space to loose tense, what shud I do?
Redo the tutorial again and do it right next time...
What you show here is just not correct. And I'm intermediate player at best. Your terminology is backwards regarding the screw, and after adjustment you re-tune the open string THEN check intonation at 12 and keep adjusting until both are good (or usually split the difference if you can't get it perfect, depending on guitar)
Edit: i also adjust my guitars in playing position since that is the conditions I'll be playing it, not flat on a table
You want to intonate with the guitar in the playing position. Good video though.
I had too watch this a couple of times to make sure I didn't miss the obvious. You are totaly wrong on setting your intonation. Doing what you demonstrated leaves your open E out of tune. Unless you managed some slight of hand, you only showed that your E string was in tune at the 1st octave. If you're REAL lucky, you should end up with a string that is tuned on the open, harmonic and closed note.
This is incorrect information and the exact opposite of what you're supposed to do. When your intonation is flat it means that the DISTANCE between the 12th FRET and the SADDLE is TOO LONG. You should have turned the screw COUNTERCLOCKWISE (loosened) so that the saddle moved TOWARDS the neck, not away from it. Yes the pitch will go even flatter when you do that because you're loosening the whole string but the intonation will be sharper than before. Just re-tune your string. When doing intonation, think DISTANCES, not what the pitch is doing when you're adjusting the saddle. You must make the DISTANCE from the SADDLE to the 12TH fret, and from the NUT to the 12TH FRET the SAME. I can tell your high E is way too flat just by looking at the position of the saddle. It should be slightly in front of the B string, not behind it. You also don't need to check that the open string and 12th harmonic are in tune. They always will be. Asides from that, your recommendation to support the neck and use the neck pickup is right but I find it more practical to just hold the guitar like I'm playing it while doing the intonation.
Oh btw thanks for the vid.. Get that strat some help
Lost my will to live after half a tutorial of CHATTER!
It's so easy to do yourself..........guitar shop charges 65 bucks.
dude, looks like someone drove their car over your ax
But it's not strong enough to pull down a helium balloon..
Bro! Were you mad at your guitar or something?
Gravity isn't real. Good video though.
wait what
do yo fly or really high?
99% of viewers play standard tuning, so don't mix up the deal by talking about half step lower.
What
So the same force gravity that holds us all to this spinning rock we our indoctrinated to believe in, is strong enough to pull your strings down on your guitar but putting a towel under the neck stops that? Why not just intonation your guitar in playing position? Ps the earth is flat
That thing looks horrendous
Damn weeaboo, it's a D#. Your amp even says it, and you're spouting off how it's a D.
Lol, fake wear on that strat!!