New used tuner day

FuseG4

FuseG4

Our Neighbor Totoro
My old planet waves ct-11 tru-strobe's power supply jack broke so I was using a korg headstock tuner for a while but it's just painfully slow to read the notes

I got a slightly older korg unit, the pitch black custom, with the big 3D display and true bypass and it was less than $50. And it is very fast and accurate.

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I wonder how it looks in bright sunlight...that was always the hardest thing to find in a tuner. Lotsa shows here are outside, and the sun is always shining.
 
I have two of those as well as the handheld version and the sledgehammer clip-on. My favorite tuner out of many I have used.
 
ive been using a boss tu2, then tu3 when the tu2 got stolen and they are great, but not on a bright outdoor stage. they become useless in that situation
 
Amazing that leds can be that bright but totally gone in sunlight
Worst case is, it looks wicked great in the dark

The korg sledgehammer is the clip on tuner I was using, great but slow to register like I said

That's interesting about the sunlight, you can tell I play indoors haha.
I knew there had to be a reason these got discontinued lol
 
For sunlight, there's always this solution:

http://pedalshade.com/

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I have a Guyatone pedal tuner, which works in the most direct sunlight. Most of the time, I am using my HX Effects or Fractal tuner, which can be seen in the sun, too.
 
Not to sidetrack the thread, but y'all talking about not being able to see the tuner in sunlight made me think of those gigantic Boss TU-1000 tuners....lol
 
I used to have a PW Tru Strobe tuner, and I hated it, LOL.

Those Korgs look really nice. I'm using a Polytune myself. I also have a TU-3. I like the buffer on the Polytune way better, but sometimes, the shitty buffer of the TU-3 has its uses.
 
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This new one feels lightning fast compared to the planet waves
the PW lasted a long time but it has a horrible chrome finish that picked up fingerprints and dirt like nothing else
felt accurate, when it actually did read the pitch and not some overtone

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FuseG4 said:
This new one feels lightning fast compared to the planet waves
the PW lasted a long time but it has a horrible chrome finish that picked up fingerprints and dirt like nothing else
felt accurate, when it actually did read the pitch and not some overtone

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I noticed mine tune everything slightly flat or sharp. Don't remember which. Like very slightly. And yeah, the finish looks killer when they're new, but it tarnishes and starts looking all messy super easily too.

Each tuner tunes differently, TBH. I notice that with the TU-3, Polytune, and HX Stomp.
 
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Ive had them all, and I stick with Korg Pitchfork and Boss TU-2 for live stage work -tuners that are overly accurate cause issues tuning quickly -like the TC ELectronic stuff - I only need a tuner accurate enough to hear so within 2-3 cents and Im good, tuners with accuracies like .10 cent just make me chase perfection on a dark stage -annoying.

In the studio, I love the strobe tuners and other ones
 
NegativeEase said:
Ive had them all, and I stick with Korg Pitchfork and Boss TU-2 for live stage work -tuners that are overly accurate cause issues tuning quickly -like the TC ELectronic stuff - I only need a tuner accurate enough to hear so within 2-3 cents and Im good, tuners with accuracies like .10 cent just make me chase perfection on a dark stage -annoying.

In the studio, I love the strobe tuners and other ones
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For strobe, are you using a particular Peterson model, or are you kickin it old school with a Conn?
 
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For strobe, are you using a particular Peterson model, or are you kickin it old school with a Conn?
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I have the Peterson Pedal which is great (just not for live IMO) and I do have a Conn somewhere (the larger tall one) -from when I was a kid playing saxophone -I've never used it with guitars now that I think of it -by the time I had a studio -I had a korg and a Sabine rack mount -so never occrued to me to break out the Conn.

Damn, I need to go over to pops and get it!
 
NegativeEase said:
Ive had them all, and I stick with Korg Pitchfork and Boss TU-2 for live stage work -tuners that are overly accurate cause issues tuning quickly -like the TC ELectronic stuff - I only need a tuner accurate enough to hear so within 2-3 cents and Im good, tuners with accuracies like .10 cent just make me chase perfection on a dark stage -annoying.

In the studio, I love the strobe tuners and other ones
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I don't play live, but yeah. I see your point.

I actually kinda like how the TU-3 tunes better than the Polytune, TBH. But the buffer on the Polytune is MUCH better. I wonder if the buffer un the TU-3W is as good.
 
I have an original Korg Pitchblack, my most used pedal.

It is accurate enough to set intonation, where none of the tuners in my effects processors or software are. It has a "strobe" mode that I use. Its big and bright, but I can't vouch for how it looks outside.
 
I use a Turbo Tuner. I've only used a handful of others but it's by far my favorite - accurate and quick. Again, maybe not bright enough for daytime? Ideally I'd like to use the tuner on the HX Effects, but it gets spooked too easily and I wind up taking a long time with it. The only time I used it live was at my buddy's wedding last year and we all wound up having to tune by ear to the sax player anyway.
 
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