As always, I'm tearing out what's left of my hair trying to keep guitars in tune. I'm from a small area and there is no “go to” guy for setting up guitars. I've got a few buddies who do a solid job, but I hate to keep bugging them to intonate guitars.

It looks like I'm just going to need to learn to setup guitars and intonate them myself. If I took a month to learn how to tune guitars, I'd probably get that month back before the year is up. I can't count how many days we've done nothing but tune at my place. It's outrageous sometimes! However, when I'm producing a real record that needs to compete with the big boys, I can not allow an out of tune guitar to ruin a song that otherwise sounds great.

Anyway, I plan on linking to a few different places here over time.

Here's the first article, which I found to be pretty cool.

Peterson Tuners? This article explains how you can set intonation with both the 12^th fret and 12^th fret harmonic trick or you can set intonation with the 5^th fret 17^th fret trick. I have never even thought about the octave trick (5^th fret and 17^th fret) but it makes total sense.