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Post by growler on Mar 17, 2010 11:08:43 GMT
Can anyone recommend a guitar tuner for Slide Tunings where you can select the note and tune to it , or is there a tuner out there where you can just select the whole tuning........... What were the tuners people had attached to their headstocks at the Slide festival
Regards
Growler
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Post by fitchmeister on Mar 17, 2010 11:51:14 GMT
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Post by Gerry C on Mar 17, 2010 11:53:17 GMT
Hiya G. I have an Intelli IMT-500 chromatic tuner which clips on the headstock. This registers any note played, either as a natural note (eg A) or as a sharp (A# - rather than Bb). It can be set to A=440 or a variation within ten degrees flat or sharp. It works on the vibrations of the string. I also have an ENO ET-3000+ which works the same but also has a built-in mic. Both work on the 'needle in the middle' idea, but the ENO also gives you red when you're not quite in tune and green when you are!
They are fantastically useful devices and work with any instrument in any tuning: I've even used one to check the tuning of the piano at my church! And another thing: the IMT was about a tenner and the ENO about twenty quid.
Cheerily,
Gerry C
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Post by bod on Mar 18, 2010 18:16:11 GMT
The headstock tuners i suspect you are talking about, are the clip on ones that work off of vibrations of the instrument rather than the acoustic sound and are great for tuning in loud environments like a guitar workshop . Indeed they are, but do look out for the little sharp or flat indicator - if you've poor eyesight or are a tad inattentive or just a bit on the daft side you can miss that and in a noisy environment may not otherwise tell until it is too late. (I managed to spend the workshop at a certain recent slide festival in what might euphemistcallly be called "open G augmented 5th" - well, I knew sumfin weren't right ;D)
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Post by blueshome on Mar 18, 2010 19:03:12 GMT
The clip on tuners are great and I use mine regularly, but if you want to really be precise there is a great app for the iPhone - the iStroboSoft from Peterson. This is an electronic strobe tuner and, with decent set up and machines on your guitar, it is possible to get within a cent of the target pitch. Great for the studio. Having said this, I still believe you need to fine tune by ear to get the instrument to sound just right. For example, in Spanish that B string always needs to go down a little.
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Post by slidenpickit on Mar 18, 2010 19:36:21 GMT
Phil,
How much was the App?
Chris W
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Post by blueshome on Mar 18, 2010 20:46:34 GMT
Can't remember, but less than a tenner I think. I've tested it against studio strobes and it seems spot on.
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Post by honeyboy on Mar 18, 2010 21:11:25 GMT
I've tried the Intellitouch tuners, but they all seem to constantly struggle to pick up certain notes (such as low D low E low C etc) - They seem especially bad when used on resonant acoustic instruments. I've found the Korg AW-2G to be an excellent chromatic tuner. It picks up the low D cleanly every time (no need to find the octave harmonic and pray like the Intellitouch), and has the combination of a microphone and a piezo sensor for use in noisy environments. The display is large and clear, and the battery life is very good (just using a simple cr 2032 battery). It works fine on noisy acoustic instruments with a variety of weird tunings. I also used to have a Sabine Zoid tuner, which was also excellent. It's big selling point was a display that changed colour when a note was in tune. I bought it in LA, but unfortunately it got trodden on and ceased to exist as a tuner.
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