It's Monday, April 22nd. And it's time to start another week, although we already start to run out of strength since the beginning of the year. Today is the day to be able to that song that we composed with the electric guitar and activate ourselves for the rest of the day. Okay, I know, most of us don't know how to play guitar, but with gStrings we can always have a tuner on top to play.
The world is full of people who do not know how to play the guitar well, but who have a house. And it is that, it is what usually happens, we buy a guitar with the intention of becoming a high-level guitarist, but we end up leaving it parked. However, a few months ago I started playing again, and taking it really seriously. The main difference compared to a few years is that we now have smartphones. If before tuning the guitar was something more complicated, now it is extremely simple with an application like gStrings, the best for tuning guitar strings.
What is gStrings and why it stands out
gStrings is a chromatic tuner that measures tone and intensity of the sound through the mobile phone's microphone. It allows tune any instrument (guitar, bass, ukulele, violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano, wind instruments and even in the wagon). Its key functions include: multiple instruments and preset tunings, support for custom tunings (perfect for Drop D, DADGAD or open tunings), a extensive list of temperaments historical and modern (just, Pythagorean, Meantone, comma, among others) and the possibility of define your own temperaments. It includes orchestral tuning to shift/redefine frequencies of the reference pitch (e.g., setting A4 beyond 440 Hz) and a pitch pipe to play reference notes if you prefer to tune by ear. The free version is with advertising and the Internet permission is used only for ads; there is also a paid version without ads.
With gStrings we can select the string we want to tune y will adjust automatically to tell us if the string is tuned too low or too high. On the other hand, we can also select that reproduce the pitch of the note, in case we want to tune it by ear. In the last case, we can even select a automatic tuning, so that we pluck a string, and recognize the note in which it is tuned.
Settings and advanced options
In addition to the basics, gStrings allows you to adjust the microphone sensitivity and optimize the frequency range to capture faint notes or filter out background noise. You can choose the tuner behavior Prioritizing precision, battery saving o response speed. If you are not familiar with Anglo-Saxon notation, change the settings name of the notes a Southern European (Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Si). For advanced musicians, the built-in temperaments and custom open the door to historical interpretations or specific styles, and with the orchestral tuning You can shift the A4 tuning fork to the frequency you need. All this is combined with saved tunings to quickly switch between settings.
But that's not the best thing about gStrings. A few weeks ago, I tuned my guitar, and it was perfect, except for one mistake: I had gone an octave higher on all the strings. When I got back to the store the next day, they told me I could have bent the neck with that tuning. The gStrings app also has a frequency meterThe higher the pitch of a sound, the higher its frequency. So, I only have to tune it perfectly once, and write down or remember the approximate frequencies. It's the only way I've managed to avoid having to go back to the store a million times and tell them I can't get the guitar to sound right. The app gStrings It is free and available on Google Play. Although it also has a paid version.
A practical note: being an app that uses the microphone, its accuracy depends on the technology. For tuning at home or in the studio it works wonders; in noisy environments a clip-on or pedal tuner It may be more stable, as it reads vibrations or a direct signal. However, with a quiet environment and the appropriate sensitivity settings, gStrings offers fast and precise tunings for E–A–D–G–B–E or any alternative configuration.
Google Play - gStrings.
