Benny L. Tucker Hi Benny, and keep on striving for the best you can do. As to your direct question about whether unisons can be abolutly dead on with no rolling whatsoever in any partials, the answer is probably much more no then yes. And for those unisons you can get essentially dead on the length of time they stay that way is rather short. Some of this has to do with how accurate we are defining the concept "clean unison". Your definition as I read it is asking quite a bit, and thats good reading your basic goals of doing the best you can. On the other hand part of the trick in this buisness is to arrive at a point where you know what is good enough,,,,, when to leave well enough alone as it were. You dont want to spend more then a few seconds on any given unison in the end. Often enough when struggling with a unison results in minutes spent adjusting and re-adjusting you end up with a less stable and less clean unision then you would have had if you just plain slopped it in. To sum up, ... Go for as clean as you can get them, but temper that goal with realistic time usage. Do a couple passes, even three or four quick ones instead of dwelling on one note to get it extra clean. One other tip I find usefull... in addition to your usual unison tuning, listen to unisions in the context of intervals of 3rds, 4ths, and 5ths as quick double checks for cleanness. Sometimes can help getting a note extra clean without using to much extra time. Cheers. RicB Richard Brekne RPT NPTF Griegakadamiet UiB
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