CaptainMoto
Blues Voyager
That's a damn cool unit.
Glad I don't worry about tuning, I need a paying pedal.
Glad I don't worry about tuning, I need a paying pedal.
Miscellaneous Today I officially became a full fledged guitar geek!
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With this tuner, I've already discovered that on most guitars, the volume shouldn't be all the way up and the tone turned all the way down. Also, I found the pitch doesn't wander nearly as much if you pluck the string right at the bridge. I've also found (with new, locking Grovers) that if I get the pitch dead on, it will go slightly flat when I take my hand off the tuning knob. It's that sensitive. I'm sure my learning curve has only begun.
I don't worry about tuning. I just want the 12th fret to be as out of tune as the open string.
Might be time to dig mine back out and try again.
Al Holloway
Devizes UK
close enough for rock and roll works for me
cheers
Al.
cheers
Al.
Believe me, I need all the street cred I can get!Isn't that in the same category as: "But it goes to ELEVEN!"?
Hope so!Nice find! Now, that should motivate you to get that workbench built.
Now if you REALLY want to be a guitar geek!
https://www.musiciansfriend.com/accessories/peterson-strobe-center-5000-ii-tuner
https://www.musiciansfriend.com/accessories/peterson-strobe-center-5000-ii-tuner
Yeah, that would definitely bring out any latent geekiness! If I was 40 years younger and thought I had a chance at becoming a guitar tech, I'd have one in a heartbeat. For this late 60's old geezer, my 40+ year old strobe tuner is just dandy!Now if you REALLY want to be a guitar geek!
https://www.musiciansfriend.com/accessories/peterson-strobe-center-5000-ii-tuner
JohnHurley
Rock and Roll
Yikes going XXX rated here ...
JPsuff
Blackstar Artist
Now if you REALLY want to be a guitar geek!
https://www.musiciansfriend.com/accessories/peterson-strobe-center-5000-ii-tuner
And to think that for hundreds of years countless symphony orchestras have delighted countless audiences by playing some of the most beautiful music ever written and beginning each performance by having the entire ensemble tune - by ear - to a humble oboist playing an "A".
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And to think that for hundreds of years countless symphony orchestras have delighted countless audiences by playing some of the most beautiful music ever written and beginning each performance by having the entire ensemble tune to a humble oboist playing an "A".
That's pretty much how I checked calibration on this gadget! I called the NIST radio station WWV and listened to their audio stream at 2 minutes past the hour, when they broadcast a precise 440Hz tone for one minute.
PapaBear
Guit Fiddlier
Work bench? He needs to get the stage built for Lloydstock!Nice find! Now, that should motivate you to get that workbench built.
Well, then there's this that's supposedly accurate to 1/10 of 1 Hz: https://www.musiciansfriend.com/accessories/snark-super-snark-hz-clip-on-tuner
Until tomorrow morning, you can buy two for less than the price of one on an SDOTD: https://www.musiciansfriend.com/stupid
Until tomorrow morning, you can buy two for less than the price of one on an SDOTD: https://www.musiciansfriend.com/stupid
Yeah, but everyone has a Snark (or twelve.... busted... in a junk drawer).
That's why you have to buy a 2-pack.
I have to say, I've got about 6 of them and not one has broken (knock on wood).
MarkDyson
Blues Hound Wannabe
That's why you have to buy a 2-pack.
I have to say, I've got about 6 of them and not one has broken (knock on wood).
I have one, yet unbroken, but it doesn’t get much use so there’s that. I’ve become a TC Polytune guy, both pedal and clip on. The strobe setting seems pretty accurate to my untrained ear.
PapaBear
Guit Fiddlier
You just need to buy batteries in bulk, I'm digging the D'Addario Equinox tuners these daysThat's why you have to buy a 2-pack.
I have to say, I've got about 6 of them and not one has broken (knock on wood).
Iheartbacon
Blues Junior
The Snark may claim whatever accuracy they want, I find them impossible to use to that precision compared to a strobe tuner.