Guitar Intonation Dublin

saucers82

I have tried myself and no good (complete noob)

Could anyone recommend somewhere in Dublin (central/southside preferable) to get the intonation done?
How much would it cost?

The guitar is a bog standard Argos one (just learning)

artvandulet

Dont want this to be a 'told you so' type response but had you purchased from a guitar shop rather than Argos you could have just brought it back to them and they'd probably sort the intonation for you for free.

With that being said there are many places. To name a few:

Guitar Workshop http://www.theguitarworkshop.ie/
John Moriarty http://archtop.ie/
Haze Guitars http://hazeguitars.com/
Troubadour Studios http://troubadour.ie/
Xmusic http://xmusic.ie/

Im sure most of the guitar shops would probably do it for a nominal charge too.

saucers82

artvandulet wrote: »

Dont want this to be a 'told you so' type response but had you purchased from a guitar shop rather than Argos you could have just brought it back to them and they'd probably sort the intonation for you for free.

With that being said there are many places. To name a few:

Guitar Workshop http://www.theguitarworkshop.ie/
John Moriarty http://archtop.ie/
Haze Guitars http://hazeguitars.com/
Troubadour Studios http://troubadour.ie/
Xmusic http://xmusic.ie/

Im sure most of the guitar shops would probably do it for a nominal charge too.

cheers

couldn't find a shop that accepted a one4all voucher

Ravelleman

You'd probably be better off learning to do it yourself, as the price of getting the guitar setup will probably be close enough to the price you paid, if you go for someone decent anyway.

feylya

OP, is it an electric or an acoustic?

saucers82

it's electric. I have real problems performing the harmonic. i just get a buzz

feylya

It's usually better if you intonate by the note at the 12th fret, rather than harmonic.

Honestly, intonation is one of the simplest guitar maintenance things you can do. Have a read of this, and shout if you don't understand something

saucers82

feylya wrote: »

It's usually better if you intonate by the note at the 12th fret, rather than harmonic.

Honestly, intonation is one of the simplest guitar maintenance things you can do. Have a read of this, and shout if you don't understand something

Read of?

Yeah it seems simple but I cannot get the 12th fret in tune
everytime you make an adjustment the open string obviously goes out of tune
so you tune that back in and I just can't get the 12th fret lets say on E to read E2 in the green at the same time.

A friend commented that my strings look very high off the board...could it be something else?

feylya

It helps if I paste the link http://www.wikihow.com/Set-Your-Guitar's-Intonation

When you adjust the intonation, you will change the pitch of the string. Adjust the bridge, retune the open string, compare the note at the 12th, repeat until happy.

High action would affect it but it would have to be very high...

saucers82

thanks.

One thing can i check with you

Open E1 - 12th Fret = E2
Open A1 - 12th Fret = A2
Open D2 - 12th Fret - D3
Open G2 - 12th Fret - G3
Open B2 - 12th Fret - B3
Open E3 - 12th Fret - E4

are the above the readings I should get on the meter?

feylya

Yup, sounds about right