I TOLD YOU NOT TO POST THIS. i can't let people ever know i played a guitar ☹️

It‘s called true temperament because no matter how nice and relaxed your luthier usually seems, when you ask him to do fret work on this, you‘ll learn of _his_ true temperament.

I love how that guitar sounds... it's so smooth, warm, and clear. It's almost harp-like.

I feel like Morty when he experienced true level.

Oh look it's an alternate reality of Good Mythical Morning

It sounds like a keyboard with a really good electric guitar setting.

It's like he's always playing on open strings

as an orchestral string player i cannot tell you how refreshing it was to hear this guitar

Adam, is that a short scale 6 string soprano bass? Siiick duude

Adam blink twice if you're playing that guitar against your will

That D major sounded like a too good MIDI plugin because of how perfect the pitch on each string is

Those 2 guitars being played together gives a fantastic sounding chorus effect!

To my hearing, the weird guitar sounds clearer and easier to the ear..

If all guitar frets had always been adjusted for intonation, what we're used to now would be totally unacceptable.

Both of them: "I'm used to hearing guitars with crappy pitch, so I can't work with this thing."

When both are playing together, it sounds like one guitar playing through a chorus pedal.

R.I.P. to whoever has to re-fret that guitar someday

All the chords sound like open chords and that’s just freaky

The weird guitar has clearer overtones. So we're actually hearing a what sounds like a fuller and cleaner sound out of it.

That guitar looks a whole lot like the time I tried to draw my dad's guitar when I was 5 years old.

It makes your bass player angry but your keyboard player loves it...

I didn't know how badly the imperfections in "normal" guitars bugged me until watching this- I NEED TRUE TEMPERAMENT EVERYTHING NOW

This is awesome! I remember tuning my guitar by ear when I was learning and went crazy trying to get it in tune. It’s always bothered me. Sometimes when I’m recording something delicate in a specific area of the instrument I’ll tune it so THAT specific area is perfectly in tune. It’s cool to see the technical reason why this is. Awesome!

the true temp guitar just sounds perfectly in tune with some chords like a guitar preset on a synth it lacks the warmness of the tele but its free from the dissonance which can be quite jarring sometimes i like it hope to see more of them being played

It basically sounds like what we think a guitar sounds like in our head

Looks like the guitar i tried to refret the other day...

OKAY so after hearing the spaghetti guitar I can never listen to a normal guitar again without hearing the imperfections and I can't breathe

When playing an open D maj chord, you eventually learn to press down on the G string about half the pressure of the other strings depending on how you tune the thing and similar tricks with other open chords. You find a compromise between chords tuning it so each chord sounds the best. It's that dreaded G string 1st and 3rd frets which intonate the worst hence the massive difference there on the TT frets.

I love how when you play in unison the tuning causes a really lush natural chorus

But are they in tune with the chakra tho

I can't stand the sound of a "normal" guitar now. Thanks. 😀

Those arpeggios between both guitars, with the subtle difference in intonation sounded sounding at once so beautiful oh my goodness

To my ears that guitar sounds impossibly perfect on every chord you played. I now understand why I can always hear beating in my chords no matter how much I tune my guitars, even with an electronic tuner. Mystery solved, finally! Thanks for this, you guys - great collab, wonderfully useful video.

Poor Adam... Playing a guitar....

I LOVE the sound of that guitar!! AMAZING!!!

Guitars are theoretically set up for "equal temperament" pitches. For each note, the next half step up should be 1.059 times that pitch (or 2^(1/12). Many fretted and keyboard instruments are set up like this. This is different from "just intonation", which is based on whole number ratios. E.g. a perfect 5th up from A=440 in just intonation would be 440 * 3/2, or 660. In equal temperament, a perfect 5th is 440 * (2^(7/12)) or 659.3. So there is always a slight "error". But equal temperament is what lets us play in different keys, b/c in just intonation the right notes for one key might be wrong for another. Fret positions on a guitar involve even bigger compromises, because the correct position of a 2nd fret for the 3rd string is not necessarily the same as for the 2nd fret of the 1st string, so fret placement is a "good enough" affair. With True Temperament the 2nd fret on the 3rd string is the right equal temperament pitch, and the 2nd fret on the first string is right too. This then also fixes problems with unisons and octaves between strings, so things sound smoother all along the fret board. So "True Temperament" isn't meant to change guitars over to "Just Intonation" but to fix errors in their "Equal Temperament" pitches. What stuns me is that there are people who prefer having their guitar out of tune because that's what they're used to. This is where habit and tradition become bad things.

to me the true temp fret guitar sounds almost like a sampled guitar ... it sort of sounds "fake" because it's so "perfect."

This is a video about the first impressions we had when playing this quite unique fretting system called True Temperament. I'd love to explore it some more with different sounds (especially with overdrive or distortion) and different applications. Anyways, I think it's quite fun to just watch us develop our first thoughts and opinions during this little vid :)

The frets are as strait as me when I hear Paul speaking in his calm, beautiful voice.

It sounds exactly like a guitar should do. Holds tune in all positions. Its design evolution. Awesomely Mint

Stop calling it "beating." It's scientific term is "wub wubs."

When you were both playing the same chords, there was a chorusing effect that I think really shows the difference between them

Its awesome when you play the same chords, it makes this natural chorus effect...sounds amazing!!!!

Fun video! LOVE THE GUITAR THAT Y’ALL CRITIQUED!!! LOVED IT!!! SOUNDED SO BRIGHT.

"No problem. I'll bend it in." Man it feels good to be a gangster.

I'm trying to figure out who Justin Tonation is. He probably hangs out with Jason Waterfals

Liked the sound of the two guitars being played together more than anything. Perfect 12TET plus something sliiiightly out just sounds great.

It is amazingly sweet sounding as you might expect and Neely is fascinated, I love it

I'd like to have that guitar just so that I could play an open D chord occasionally and not want to smash the guitar against the wall.

As a violinist, I get frustrated playing guitars, because they’re never quite in tune, and you can’t adjust pitch. I like this guitar... closer to what I want to hear...👍

It is a guitar thing, violin family, wind players, all play in tune! The piano which we know is tuned slightly off (tempered tuning) , is closer to the ‘squiggly” finger board. It affects how the chord tones blend but also how sympathetic vibrations are set up within the instrument - which is why it sounds clearer and fuller. Very cool demo

intonation makes perfect sense to me. I love the way the micro-tonal fretwork sounds. it all oscillates in a beautiful way. I started off not using a tuner and now after owning many, I only tune by ear so long as i'm the only guitarist. A musically accurate fretboard sounds so appealing to me personally.

"Hey bro can you level these frets?" and watch your luthier scream.

The true temperament guitar sounds soo much clearer and I guess "open/airy" is the best word I can describe it with.

Your luthier just absolutely loves it when you bring him Paul's guitar for a refret

I love this. I want it so much more, I have perfect pitch and that's something that has driven me crazy for the over 20 years I've been playing music and guitar specifically.

You know what you have to do now right? Record a song tracked with true tempered guitar and bass, then tracked with regular guitar and bass.

Yes, you should buy that guitar.

That sounds so pure!

two of my favorite youtubers!!! i like it!

Hearing the D major chord hurts so badly on a standard guitar as soon as someone points out how off it sounds.

I hired a guy who stands behind me and adjust each tuning key as I play to take it slightly sharp or flat. That way I have perfect pitch all the time. Genius! But Chester gets real tired after Eruption...

I like it. It sounds clearer somehow. I want one now.

It sounds beautifully!!!

The stranberg or whatever it is with the weird frets...sounded so much clearer ..the tele had a winderful tone but It didn't sound as musical ..man its 2019 ..if somebody finally figured out how to give a guitar better intonation why not embrace it..I am sold. My ears were so pleased ...I am not sure if I will find peace till I try a better intonated such as this.

That does look fairly interesting for comparison on the traditional guitar. It does look like something meant for Fusion Jazz or Progressive Metal, and that was what makes it up my alley! Awesome to see Adam on the Channel!

I love you guys! This was a collab I didn't know I needed haha! You guys are so inspiring! I love the video editing too! Adam's shirt is so nerdy its cute haha

Love the clear tuning.

It was a very strange feeling for me because when you played the chord on the telecaster I felt it was the right thing, but when I hear the chords on the other guitar I feel that everything fits together, I feel the "weird" guitar more familiar and natural and when it comes back to playing a telecaster chord after hearing the same chord on the other guitar, I feel we have been ruled by a canon. Sorry for my english. Kisses from Barcelona.

I wish i could have heard it. That true intonation sounded crazy even on my smart phone. So crazy. I loved it.

That things sounds so buttery smooth it’s mind blowing

the true temperament sounds amazing, I love it and I want one

I have to say, that guitar sounds more like a harp than a guitar with that "perfect" intonation. It think it cool. Get it👍

The True Temperament sounds more like a harp with less dissonance. I wish that you had run some distorted tones.

I liked the true temperament better immediately. I couldn’t understand why you guys thought it was weird! Sounds much more crisp and pure than the standard guitar

This sounds so angelic. Wow.

Oh the clarity of that Strandberg and it's tone is georgeous

Headless guitars - I just can’t get used to the way they look and probably never will!

I really love how pretty the guitars sounds together

Really interesting video! Thank you!

Really like the sound of that true temperament guitar. Watched with my studio monitors, could feel/hear the pulsing you guys were talking about.

The G string always sounds wrong no matter what on a normal guitar to me, it's so frustrating

👍🏻👍🏻 such a satisfying sound! I need one of those.

Wow, it sounds beautiful.

The true "temperment" sound is gorgeous! Can you imagine how much this would add in Nashville Tuning playing rhythm?

True Tempermant: The guitar you didn't know you needed, until you knew for certain that you didn't need it.

that thing sounds beautiful. holy moly

OMG , its so much better , wow . So round , soft like butter . I am so happy to hear this . Thank you . I thought i got all guitars i need . Ok . i only need them refretted .

This is the most beautiful guitar sound I ever heard, its perfect tune is something that I always missed in regular guitars

the weird fret guitar looks like a tortilla

I love the improved intonation.

Great clarity

Amazing always wanted to see this happen loving the collab

This guitar cures my OCD when I play a guitar. I want this so bad.

It came across in the video, thanks so much for this guys!

Wow that's very clean sound! And the chords sound very tuned

You should have played the intro to Scar Tissue that you'd previously done a video on, just to see how it would sound.

This guitar looks like the fast forward on VHS.

As Adam is talking about the “beating”, that’s on point!! That is EXACTLY what I wanted and what I got rid of, when I bought 8str Boden TT Strandberg guitar. For highly distorted guitars, I always hated that beating. I think this is amazing modern concept and it is very exciting. On the other hand, it definitely takes something from the music and it is a matter of taste and also style of music. When you do something busy with a lot of layers/track, I prefer cleaner intonation. But when you do something more intimate, natural… I think those “old concept” imperfections are just spot on.

you can SEE their minds exploding behind their eyes lmao I love this. pure wonder and awe