New tuner day: Tru-strobe

[FuseG4]

I've been using a Seiko ST757 chromatic tuner for about 5 years, it's my oldest piece of gear besides my purple faux-snake strap. Lately it's been harder and harder to get it to lock onto a pitch, even with brand new batteries. Finally I gave up!

I thought about the usual stuff, the polytune, pitchblack, TU-3, and strobostomp. I didn't wanna fork out for the strobostomp, and wanted accuracy over anything else, so looked around and figured it'd be either the pitchblack or this less-talked-about planet waves digital strobe tuner. I thought the PW one looked like a nice interface (and it was slightly cheaper), and it is a REAL strobe tuner, so why not?

Easy to use, easy to read? YES
Tuning accuracy? YES. Oh yes.
Built strong? Looks like it.

It also has drop tuning presets and a buzz feiten mode, about which I don't care very much. True bypass, and a silent output and a mutable output jack.

I'm so glad I did this. Tuning is a snap now, not a chore. I can't wait to see if i can reset my guitars' intonation now and see how much better it gets.

 

[GLJazz]

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Killer - Thanks! Been wondering about these, since PW tends to get a pretty bad rep...

 

[FuseG4]

Re: New tuner day: Tru-strobe

Killer - Thanks! Been wondering about these, since PW tends to get a pretty bad rep...

I'm not very familiar with their reputation. What do they normally get slammed for?

 

[Gearjoneser]

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I've been putting it off, trying to convince myself that my glasses allow me to still use a Boss needle tuner, but I'm getting ready to grab a Planet Waves Tru Strobe. IMO, it's the one tuner that's dead accurate and easy to see from a distance.

I think you can change the big read out to be orange or green background, with a giant note letter. Right?

 

[Ayrton]

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[Virtual Kevorkian]

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^^Tardblog actually tunes down to pitch, surprised he did that!

Strobe tuners rule, though. My Strobostomp is one of the best gear purchases I've ever made - it actually helped to train my ear to be better at detecting pitch, and now most other tuners sound 'off' to me (and I'm not using the 'sweetened' settings, either). It's kind of sad, but I can tune on my Strobostomp and have the guitar sounding perfect, but then check pitch with my POD's tuner and have it show it as slightly off on most strings, despite it sounding/being perfectly in tune.

 

[FuseG4]

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Mine's the stomp pedal version, and it's an orange display.

 

[briggleman]

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For some reason FuseG4, I thought you would go for something like the Sonic Research Turbo Tuner ST-200. That thought based on your previous post history here in SD Forum. Glad you like the PW pedal tuner. PW's tends to make really good stuff. I love the guitar straps they produce.

However that being said, I am very happy with my Hardwire pedal tuner. Easy to read and accurate, picks up the notes quickly. I also use a Snark clip on tuner which has amazed me in its ability to lock on to notes, even low E on my electrics as well as bass guitars and acoustics. We live in a wonderful time, so many toys!!!!!

 

[FuseG4]

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I wanted to save a few bucks. After all, it's just a tuner.

 

[Nightburst]

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The PW tuner is more expensive than the Pitchblack & Polytune here!

I've read about the switch being not so tough on the PW tuner.
In a band situation with more than 1 guitarist I'd recommend everybody having the same tuner. Accuracy is great but... not when you are the only one in tune.

 

[FuseG4]

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the switch isn't as tough as a boss switch, I can see that. I'm not really worried though. Right now, I don't take my gear anywhere but other people's houses to jam, and I'm not very rough with my gear.

For anyone doing the gigging thing, I dunno, maybe it could develop issues after a while.

 

[drpietrzak]

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The PW tuner I have (not this one) is noisy (bled through) if placed in the wrong place in the chain. It was a design flaw. I assume they have that fixed in this model.

 

[FuseG4]

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The PW tuner I have (not this one) is noisy (bled through) if placed in the wrong place in the chain. It was a design flaw. I assume they have that fixed in this model.

I just have it in front of my blues driver, and I don't notice extra noise at all.

 

[King IzzO)))]

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I've got the older PW model, and yep, mine has the broken latch. It still works great though, easy to read. I don't know if it's true bypass, I don't think so.

 

[FuseG4]

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I've got the older PW model, and yep, mine has the broken latch. It still works great though, easy to read. I don't know if it's true bypass, I don't think so.

this one specifically says it is true bypass in the product description, the manual, etc.
we'll see if the latch on mine hold up.

 

[ImmortalSix]

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LOL @ that video:

About a tenth of a cent (+/- .01 cent)

 

[FuseG4]

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LOL @ that video:

About a tenth of a cent (+/- .01 cent)

Thats what the pitchblack and peterson tuners claim as well.

 

[FretFire]

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Thats what the pitchblack and peterson tuners claim as well.

He's laughing because that's not a tenth of a cent :laugh2:

 

[FuseG4]

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He's laughing because that's not a tenth of a cent :laugh2:

totally didn't catch that. How awesome!

 

[Mr 9finger]

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I've been thinking about one of these. I bought one of the newer Sabine's. It's a little over 2 months old and it's already starting to have problems. They used to be tanklike, dunno what happened to them.