Not just to the OP's question:
I actually use 'sweetened tunings' on my Majesty. I
do understand how perfect 5ths and major/minor 3rds are created
sonically (Iow, taken from the harmonic series), yet in order to make transcribing possible, our western music had to come up with a system for all of our notes to "work."
Meaning, the frequency of each ascending successive note is: the pitch of the current note X the 12th root of 2.
This formula assures that as you continue up, every octave will be a multiple of 2 (A=110, 220, 440, etc.), and the intervals will be as close as possible to how they're "created" using physics/ratios.
But it also means that all of our intervals intervals are
slightly off. Tune your guitar to an open E chord by ear, then play an open C chord and you'll know what I mean.
Between the sweetened tunings I use and the EBMM compensated nut, I believe (and I have a
very good ear for the peaks/valleys of the sines waves of a root/5th interval not aligning when they should- think of how EVH used to compensate for that physical characteristic when he'd play a D-shape barre chord @ 5th fret), I hear it striking the best balance between the 3 open-string chord shapes we mostly use- E, C, & A.
In short, I love it,
and use it with sweetened tunings. When I play a G, C, F chord, all in 3rd position, they all sound as good as they can.
What I
don't quite understand is how a compensated nut is supposed to work. But it seems to give me something I've never been able to achieve on other guitars, so it's one reason I'm an EBMM fan.
Thank you. Now i have to decide if it’s worth $2750.
Just make sure the strings are centered along the neck. This seems to be EBMM's weak point! Across all their guitars. Idk why tf they can't address this, but it IS a problem!
