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The other day I set the bearings with Tunelabs standard ET according to the tuning curve. I wanted to compare with how my results would come had I aurally tuned the temperament. Some of the 3rds progressions could of been better so I then tweaked it aurally here and there until I was happy, nice 4ths and 5ths.

I wanted to save this aural temperament in tunelab so I locked each of the notes as offsets. Most were tiny variences. Then I tuned the rest of the piano with those offsets. It would seem this gives a better custom tuning. It keeps the musical balance of an aural tuning with the accuracy and precision of the ETD (provided the right stretch is chosen of course) Has anyone else tried something simalar?

Jim

This is the way most high level technicians use an ETD.

If you saved a new temperament, you only saved 12 offsets that get applied the same in every octave. This is not the same thing as saving a tuning curve with custom offsets for all 88 notes. It is somewhat unusual for aural corrections to fall into a pattern of repeating every 12 notes, unless your aural tuning criterion really is an unequal temperament of some sort.