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What Are Sweetened Tunings? "Sweetening" a tuning is the art of using consonance and dissonance to affect the sound of an instrument, and therefore aid the creation of tension and release in music. |
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With regular tuners, you get one bland inconsistent flavor of tuning. Peterson strobe tuners are totally different, they are loaded with presets that see a particular tuning as a group of notes (not just individual pitches). A Peterson can therefore optimize the notes within these groups to be much more consonant with one another and pleasing to the ear, in a word - sweetened.
The term 'Sweetener' was coined by us here at Peterson to make a clear distinction between temperaments and these 'other' sets of offsets. A temperament, by definition, implies the use of no more than 12 offsets, one for each pitch in the 12 tone chromatic scale. These offsets form a "template" octave. C0, C1, C2 through C8 for example, will all have the same cent offset that has been defined for 'C'. For the most part, temperaments tend to lend themselves more heavily towards a key - most commonly C.
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Equal temperament became widely used for the purpose of catering to all keys and tonalities equally, in order to not sound better in any one given key than the other.
The problem with Equal temperament is twofold. Because it is equally out of tune for all keys, there is no "sweetness" to it. Equal temperament also makes no allowance for a particular instrument's individual characteristics and limitations.
'Sweeteners' are not temperaments because they do not necessarily pertain to a scale. They are sets of offsets designed with a particular instrument in mind. |
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The GTR sweetener, for example, is meant to battle the common tuning problems inherent to a 6 string guitar and ONLY a 6-string guitar. Unlike temperaments, when looked at separately, these Sweetener offsets do not make any musical sense; only when applied to the intended instrument will they have any musical benefit.
Which Peterson tuner can help you today? Find out now. (Click the tabs below to view the Sweetened™ Tunings by product model.) |
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StroboSoft™ includes the following Sweetened™ Tunings:
• Electric Guitar (GTR) • Bass (BAS) • Acoustic (ACU) • 12-String (G12) • DADGAD • Steel Guitar (OE9, SE9, SC6) • Dobro® (Pure and 1/2 tempered settings) • 5 String Banjo • 4 and 5-String Violin (VLN) • Cello (CLO) • Viola (VLA) • Viola Da Gamba (VDG)
Also included are Buzz Feiten® open-string and intonation offsets for:
• Electric • Bass • Acoustic • 12-String • Classical Acoustic |
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The StroboRack™ includes the following Sweetened™ Tunings:
• Electric Guitar (GTR) • Bass (BAS) • Acoustic (ACU) • 12-String (G12) • Steel Guitar (OE9, SE9, SC6, U12) • Dobro® (Pure and 1/2 tempered settings) • DADGAD • Violin (4 and 5 string) • Viola • Cello • Baritone (BRT)
Also included are Buzz Feiten® open-string and intonation offsets for:
• Electric • Bass • Acoustic • 12-String |
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The StroboFlip™ includes the following Sweetened™ Tunings:
• Electric Guitar (GTR) • Bass (BAS) • Acoustic (ACU) • 12-String (G12) • DADGAD • Steel Guitar (OE9, SE9, SC6) • Dobro® (Pure and 1/2 tempered settings) • Violin (VLN) • Cello (CLO) • Viola (VLA)
Also included are Buzz Feiten® open-string and intonation offsets for: • Electric • Bass • Acoustic • 12-String |
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The StroboStomp2™ includes the following Sweetened™ Tunings:
• Electric Guitar (GTR) • Bass (BAS) • Acoustic (ACU) • DADGAD • 12-String (G12) • Steel Guitar (OE9, SE9, SC6) • Dobro® (Pure and 1/2 tempered settings) • Violin (VLN)
Also included are Buzz Feiten® open-string offsets for:
• Electric • Bass • Acoustic • 12-String |
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