There was an interesting thread recently about the additional noise from a 3-under release correlating with the amount of load on the ring finger of the drawing hand. After playing around some with the tape trick on the last knuckle and moving that finger back on the string to the pad, I seem to be able to tell a modest reduction, although it still seems awkward. Wish I could shoot 2-under, but my fingers can't stand more than a few shots. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the theory is that bowyers adjust the tiller to keep the limbs synchronized with respect to loading at full draw. When this doesn't happen, the limbs are staggered in their discharge of energy which contributes to the additional noise (and some hand shock I would think). The standard seems to be 1/8th" to 3/8th" positive (top limb)for split and dead even for 3-under. Given that, their still seems to be a universal consensus that 3-under is noisier, couldn't this at least in theory be remedied by going to negative tiller (greater distance on the bottom limb), or am I missing something?