Re: OT: Tuning guitar in fifths for wider orchestration options

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

>> But
>> maybe a fifths based tuning will interfere badly with the ability to
>> play fluent melody lines?
>
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:14 PM, andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk> 
wrote:

> not if you only tune down the lowest string

Or two or three of them. Like parroting a stick tuning.


>>
>> Another approach would be to have a bass pedal (octavider).
>
> You didn't try Chopitch?

Yup. Chopitch proved to get the job done. I leave just a tiny bit of
the direct signal to color the attack for better sense of timing.

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Per Boysen
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