[sdiy] frequency counter

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Peter Grenader <peter at buzzclick-music.com> wrote:
>I see your point.
>
>An argument to this - if you have reached the point where your ear fatigue
>cannot suitably pick off tuning, then I'm confident that there would be
>other complications from that fatigue that would cause problems in your
>composing as well that that given time.

I have had this happen to me.  Can't tune the guitar, can't play for sh*t
that day either (I don't own a guitar tuner, I tune one string against a
digital synth, then the guitar to itself, all by ear).  It makes me think
that there is a psychoacoustic connection between being able to correctly
recognize intervals and being able to use them creatively.  If you can't
hear them, you can't use them...  I would guess, that for me, on those bad
tuning days, a tool might help get the instrument in tune, but probably
wouldn't fix the lack of creativity.  Just my opinion.

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