Re: Live tuning

[Nestor Tytla <tytlane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, it's a gizmo made by TransPerformance. Jimmy first started using it
during his Outrider tour during his extended guitar solos and then he took it
into the studio for the Page Coverdale album. They give credit to a Perry
Margouleff from Transperformace for the auto tuning guitar. On the PC album they
only credit it in Absolution Blues but in the last P/P tour Jimmy took the
Transperformance to new limits. I still get a chill when Shake My Tree comes to
mind. I've searched extensively for TransPerformance on the net and a couple of
sites come up for it, most of them are about Dave Beegle of Fouth Dimension as
he uses it extensively. oagl.com has some more info on that.
If anyone knows anything more specific I'd love to know all about it as I am a
gizmo junkie.

Carol Hall wrote:

> Has anyone noticed that Jimmy's purple Les Paul has an "L-Cat" on it.  An
> "L-Cat is used for tuning switching in live performances.  If you are
> playing lets say Stairway and the next song you want to play is Kashmir you
> can preprogram the "L-Cat" so that the E string plays in D and you do not
> have to bother with manually tunning.  The L-Cat is powered by  6 motors and
> you can preprogram tunnings so that when you want to play that song you
> would indicate the code on the touch pad on your guitar and the motors will
> change yours strings to that tuning.  It is really good if you change more
> than one string.   Jimmy is known for alternate tunings.  Tunning changes in
> live concerts is can be time consuming.  Kind of cool stuff
>
> Carol
> -----Original Message-----
>
> >>>Sorry, but I just can't accept this.  There is perhaps the *tiniest*
> >hint of sharpness on TSRTS, but it is nowhere near a half step.  You can
> >play along in normal tuning without sounding off.  If you tuned up a
> >half step, you would be way off.<<
> >
> >Not trying to start an argument here, but when I held my electronic tuner
> up
> >to the opening D on TSRTS (off of TSRTS CD) it registered so sharp that it
> was
> >almost a flat D#.  When I held it up to an open A on IMTOD off of PG, it
> >registered right at 440.
> >It's a pretty significant difference, which I assume would be due to either
> >the master tape being slightly fast or Plant liking to sing slightly sharp.
> >Anyway, I don't see the big deal about this.  Either way they cranked.
> >
> >Pete