If you want to make sure that your guitar is in tune all over the neck, you need to check the intonation and adjust it if necessary. Here's a pretty much complete guide to help you with it.
Before you adjust the intonation on your guitar / bass, you wanna make sure it's set up properly with the string gauge and the tuning you are planning on using on the instrument.
Here are our 3 setup videos. Take a look at them before you proceed with the intonation adjustment:
Neck: https://youtu.be/1kEiYJ1kvIM
Nut: https://youtu.be/Z-uxEydowio
Saddle height: https://youtu.be/6_SUpMcB118
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Interesting bits and pieces:
0:00 Introduction
0:44 What is intonation?
1:02 How to adjust the intonation?
2:10 This is how you do it
3:07 remember: Flat - Forward
3:30 Intonation on Floyd Rose bridges
4:05 Vintage style Telecaster bridge
4:55 Compensated Tele saddles
5:27 Wraparound bridges
6:01 Evertune bridge
6:21 It's time for a test ride :)
7:15 Outtakes
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