I've always found playing certain VH songs like Dance the night away and Running with the Devil sounded slightly more in tune if the I tuned the B string slightly flat. After reading up on Just tuning versus TET tuning I can see why and it's made me start thinking about slightly altering the tuning ...mainly the B string at the moment because that's often where the major 3rd of the chord is played to suit the song rather than always just using your tuner bang on. If the songs got a lot of open G chord with a the open B string ringing than flattening that seems slightly better to me .... other chords can then a little off but you can fret a little harder to compensate those.
So who else is mucking around with this and what other tricks are there ?
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But yep, in E, tempering the 5th to match the fretted (tempered) B does make a lot of sense.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
He also detuned the other strings slightly; he gave the details in a magazine interview sort of recently, but the B and high E are the significant ones.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
https://youtu.be/Daw93bRHe4Y
With three compensated (drilled at an angle) saddles, the slack G is not strictly necessary. A milder offset may still suit some keys.