i'm remembering now why i cut the song up, and specifically ejected the raunchy riff at the end that next levels it. i was hoping to play the thing live with that singer friend of mine....

...but the low e is tuned to a microtone between e and eb.

yeah. that's weird. i know. but it sounds awesome when i get the tuning right. i happen to have been playing an out of tune guitar the last few days that was pretty close to the detune i need, so it didn't click until i tried to tune it and it all came flooding back.

the problem is it's hard to get it right and it has to be done by ear. i was thinking it wasn't worth the risk of fucking up the tuning on an acoustic that doesn't stay in tune anyways, because if it goes flat it's really dreadful and if it goes sharp it's just boneheaded. i can't really measure it on a tuner so i don't know what the exact ratio is. but it's got this really raw, slightly atonal sound to it when it hits the sweet spot....

it doesn't matter, now. i'm not playing this live, so i'm going to get it down the way it's supposed to sound and then walk away from it. but playing with the tuning heads to get the right tone isn't exactly the most fun thing to do.