[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]1. How long have you been playing your instrument?[/font][/color]
[b][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]22 years[/font][/color][/b]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]2. Do you use an electronic tuner? If yes which model?[/font][/color]
[b][font="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"][color="#282828"]Yes, Aroma pedal tuner (korg pitch-black copy)[/color][/font][/b]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]3. Do you tune by ear or electronic tuner?[/font][/color]
[b][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Tuner at gigs, by ear at home.[/font][/color][/b]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]4. If by ear how do you go about?[/font][/color]
[b][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]I tune to a track that I know the key of, tune whichever string is closest to the home key, then use harmonics for the other strings[/font][/color][/b]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]5. Are you always 100% happy with your tuning? / if not[/font][/color]
[b][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Yup. I've spent a lot of time setting the intonation on my bass, so it's always in tune wherever I am on the fingerboard[/font][/color][/b]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]6. Why are you not happy with your tuning?[/font][/color]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]7. What disturbs you about the electronic tuner[/font][/color]?
[b][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]It only displays '#', not 'b', so I have to tune to D#, not Eb - nitpicking, I know.[/font][/color][/b]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]8. Do you know how to tune by ear?[/font][/color]
[b][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Yes. I do it often.[/font][/color][/b]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]9. What is your preferred tuning method? [/font][/color]
[b][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]A[/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]t home I prefer to tune by ear, as it's one less device to worry about, but live I use my pedal tuner because it mutes the output when it's switched on; nobody wants to hear that, it's like a hoover warming up. [/font][/color][/b]
[b][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]The other advantage of a pedal tuner is that the rest of my band are REALLY noisy, and tuning by ear is impossible.[/font][/color][/b]