Tuning Guitar With Tuning Pedal

Video Transcript

"Now you might ask, "How do I make sure that the string is in tune"? If you're going to do the fifth fret method, how do you get one of those strings to be exactly in tune? Well, you'll need a device to do that, unless you have perfect pitch, which is not very common, you need to train your ear to be able to be exactly on a pitch. So you're going to get a device to do that, usually called a tuner. Now I've got a pedal which will do that job for us here. It's a chromatic tuner in the form of a pedal. Now what you would do is you would plug from the guitar, from your input jack, into the input of the tuning pedal. Now that's really as far as you need to go, you don't have to worry about anything else over here, just go into the input. Now you'll need either an AC adapter to plug into the pedal for power, or a 9 volt battery. Now note that when you're done tuning, to turn off the pedal you have to unplug it from the input jack. Now this keeps reading here because I have an AC adapter, so there's unlimited power going in there, but if you have a battery, it's going to zap the power out of your battery if you leave this input jack in. So now let's look at the tuner there. The idea is that if your string is in tune, it will tell you the number of the string you're on, with 6 being the lowest sounding string on your instrument, and then you'll want to make sure that this red light goes to the center, and in this case turns green. Lots of tuners have different aspects of them, you might want to check out the instructions, but this is an example of something that you can have under your feet, it's great for playing live because it also acts as a bypass. It will cut your signal so if you need to restring or tune up or something, it won't be coming through the amplifier."