MABB v6.6.6

Just got me one of these:



Works quite well, unobtrusive and its nice to not have to plug into a tuner (my old korg thing died some time ago).

How accurate is it? I had some troubles yesterday with teching for a band with 3 guitar players who all used a different tuner and were all slightly out of tune with each other.

Fur instance the BOSS TU2 has a deviation of about 3ct. So two of the same tuners might be 6 ct apart. Which is audible..

In my experience the Korg tuners i used were the most accurate.

[quote name="Uni"]How accurate is it? I had some troubles yesterday with teching for a band with 3 guitar players who all used a different tuner and were all slightly out of tune with each other.

Fur instance the BOSS TU2 has a deviation of about 3ct. So two of the same tuners might be 6 ct apart. Which is audible..

In my experience the Korg tuners i used were the most accurate.[/quote]

I have no other tuners to compare it to since my korg broke, but it seems accurate to me. I'll have to compare it to a software tuner (amplitube's). Its probably a good idea to have it as a backup or to re-tune quickly in a live setting. One thing though, its a bit sensitive, I'm not sure you could tune this properly if there is a ton of background noise/amps blasting.



Anecdote, fwiw: yesterday I fine-tuned my guitar and it went (unnoticeably) sharp overnight, the tuner picked it up. Strings are not new so the only thing that could have changed the pitch was the neck tension (its getting cold and moist here) or maybe the bridge slipped, but I have my tremol-no locked down so that's unlikely.



Planet waves makes a high end pedal tuner into which you can plug in two instruments at once, might want to check that out.

I have the first verson of the Korg Racktuner in my rack. The Korg DT-1 Pro. So I myself am covered. But i need to tech for those guys on a regular basis now so i might buy a new more accurate pedal tuner. The BOSS TU-3 does not have the deviation the TU-2 has. But i am also looking at the pitch black, TC poly and the regular Korg DT-10.



They have 3 guitar players and a bassplayer so that is about 8/10 instuments to tune and maintain depending on the setlist.

And the visibility of the led is also a big factor in the decision. As i am changing broken strings in the half dark. Yesterday my working space consisted of a couple of stacked Irish-red barrels haha.

6 cents difference? damn.

[quote name="Uni"]I have the first verson of the Korg Racktuner in my rack. The Korg DT-1 Pro. So I myself am covered. But i need to tech for those guys on a regular basis now so i might buy a new more accurate pedal tuner. The BOSS TU-3 does not have the deviation the TU-2 has. But i am also looking at the pitch black, TC poly and the regular Korg DT-10.



They have 3 guitar players and a bassplayer so that is about 8/10 instuments to tune and maintain depending on the setlist.

And the visibility of the led is also a big factor in the decision. As i am changing broken strings in the half dark. Yesterday my working space consisted of a couple of stacked Irish-red barrels haha.[/quote]

Have you checked out the tu1000? Thing is supposed to be very accurate, just look at the resolution on the thing:

irish red barrels well, at least that's a beer you do like!

First of all, long time no see for me and this forum



Regarding the topic, I was in a need of a tuner in pedal form for live use, so I looked a bit around. Turns out Digitech has released this new pedal with chromatic and strobe modes a few months ago, sort of their take on TC Electronic's Polytune, but a bit sturdier and IMO with better display options. Its accuracy is plus/minus 1cent.



http://www.hardwirepedals.com/en-US/pro ... onic-tuner



Drawback for me would be that it only has a few tuning options in the polytune mode (but it does have an usb input, which is supposed to be used for possible future custom tunings updates), and that it's meant for use with a 6 string guitar. But no biggie, 'cause I could use the chromatic mode for the 7th string. Another really cool feature is that the moment you engaged it, it instantly mutes your signal, which is really cool for live use. Oh, and apparently it's a true bypass.

Anyways, I'll probably end up buying it.







They also has HT-2, sort of the chromatic-only version of HT-6, which is also supposed to be good, so you might also want to check that one out.

yeah, in my opinion the pitchblack is the best ~$100 pedal tuner that's out there right now.



I've used the TC Polytune and wasn't impressed at all with the actual polyphonic feature but as a standard monophonic tuner it worked nice and I like the display. The TU-3 is as good as any boss pedal tuner has ever been but I like the displays on the others a little more.





still when it comes down to tuning accuracy I don't think anything can touch the Petersons, although sometimes they are a little too much just for quick live tunes.

yeah I never tried plugging a 7 or 8 into the polytune but just based on how it handled a 6 I wouldn't be surprised by that at all. it seemed to me that the guitar had to have extremely hot pickups for it to want to register and actually hold on the screen for more than a second or two, and if you had anything too low I imagine it would only make it worse.

yeah I view it in the same light as the voice harmonizer technology, it started out as a great idea but really slow and digital sounding, and after about 5 years it got appreciably better and usable. I am sure that in about 4 or 5 years poly tuners will be the defacto and have many more tunings available like opens and the like and be very accurate. but not now.

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