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To answer a couple of questions above –
If one must quickly change from one song to another and you’re playing loud raucous rock n’ roll, sure IMHO ya can sacrifice a little tuning for the perceived advantage of gig dynamics and flow.
Aside #1 – Kanter’s guitar tech retunes Paul’s capo’ed guitars between every change. Granted we all probably don’t have guitar techs on our payroll.
Aside # 2 – Just came from a workshop with bluegrass musician Pete Wernick who stated (unsolicited by anyone) “re-tune when applying (and taking off) a capo!”
As far as concern about breaking a string – as others above have said, the pressure on the Shubb is adjustable by using the screw. The capo should be just be tight enough to make the adjoining fret act as a nut. Not to squeeze dear life out of the strings. So, tuning with a capo on is entirely possible.
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