Just restrung my guitar and I cant tune it, it sounds like crap, is it because the strings are new or is it my guitar? its steel string acoustic

How tight are my strings supposed to be? do they feel tighter because theyre new?

please help

Do you have an electronic guitar tuner or access to a piano?

The strings should not be slack but not really tight either. You may be in the wrong octave and have overshot your note. Alot of my students do that.

Is this the first time you have restrung your guitar? Guitar string need to be stretched out to stay in tune. First, you tune them all up to pitch, then gentlely tug on each one and retune. You want to do this a number of times. Then do some serious strumming and retune, repeat. If you don`t, your guitar strings will continue to stretch out for as much as two weeks and just won`t stay in tune for very long.
Does this help? Or are you really having trouble matching the pitches. There are CD`s out there with the pitches to match on them. Or go to Truefire.com and ask what lesson to download (they`re only a couple of bucks) that might have you match the pitches before they start the lesson.

Oops. I`m new to this website, so I just noticed that there is a guitar tuner in the resources page. Try that to help you find the right octave for each note.