new to guitars, need tuning help KORG CA-30

[bedhead]

hey everybody. i need help with the KORG CA-30 chromatic tuner. i just got a guitar and it's really out of tune, so out, in fact, that the tuner doesn't pick up the right note even. i know that you can go through all the notes, but i'm not quite sure how to pick the note i need to tune on the tuner. can anyone help or even make sense of what i wrote? thanks, jon

[Pantallica1]

Do a search on google, and try to find a wav of the low E string (the thickest string). Try to get as close to that as possible and use the tuner.

Tuning goes like this (from thinnest to thickest string):

e
B
G
D
A
E

Notes go in order like this:

E F F# G G# A A# B C C# D D# E F....and so on

[bedhead]

thanks, i'll try that right now. also, what's the standard frequency (Hz) i should set the tuner to?

[John O'Carroll]

Here's an easy trick. Listen to the dial tone from your telephone. It's almost exactly A440, so tune your A string to the dial tone and go from there.

[bedhead]

sweet i think i got it in tune. now if i could just figure out what the hell to do next. thanks!

[SkippyT]

I have a similar tuner a KORG GA-30, and I was making the same mistakes you probably are. I kept wondering why it wouldn't pick up any of the notes or was showing the wrong notes all the time. It was only until a friend of mine showed me how to do it. I had to tune it with "one flat" selected, then just pick the open strings starting from the thickest to the thinnest. Piece of cake, it's also super easy to tune by ear using the 5 fret method if you have a reference tone for the low E string.

[dinell2]

really !

[Edited by Dr_simon on 01-24-2004 at 12:01 PM]