A couple years ago, I cobbled together a partscaster with a neck I'd had fretted for a grab-bag of just intonation intervals--24 to the "octave." It's been a while since I used it for one of the weekly tracks, because the plastic nut was slotted to have the strings closer together than I'd prefer. I'm planning to replace it with a bone nut, which I'll slot with spacing more like my other guitars. It could probably use a little tweaking with the action as well; you'll hear some inconsistent fretting, though some of that may be my limited positioning given the close spacing.

The signal chain is similar to the recent ones: JHS Colourbox, UA Volt, a bit of send to a convolution reverb, and compression/eq/limiting on the stereo.

Aesthetically, this one has some stronger sections and some floatier sections. There were other themes I liked, but which didn't fit and were left out. You'll hear me trying to get comfortable with this tuning again, which...may change soon. It's currently Bb F C E A D: fifths on the bottom, fourths on the top. While I liked the idea of the extended range, this ends up a bit weird: some things I'd want to fingerpick are long stretches, already made awkward with the tight fretting. Fifths all the way up would have been too much tension on the neck, I think.

The title comes from the town in Ireland on R640.

Tags: 68bpm, ableton, guitar, just intonation, microtonal, week 14 2026, View by:onezero