I realised during the first Garage Days jam that tuning your guitar with your phone, while everyone else is busy making a racket with their own guitars, basses, vocals and drums... doesn't work.
Decided to get a clip-on tuner. Any of these any good?
Imo - They're all designed to break ?
I've broken every single one, the plastic around the pin that holds the jaws together usually goes - except for the snark, which I lost - and didn't cry about because it wasn't very good. There is the TC Polytune - pricey and I'm wary of the clip thing breaking. And I see Boss now do one too
I regard clip on tuners as disposable now - useful, but if I get a year or more out of one, I've done well.
Get a pedal rather - they usually have a 'mute' tuning function - so you can tune without signal passing through to the amp. TC does the Polytune in a pedal and there's always the Boss TU3 - which will outlive the sun.
I almost exclusively use the Clip-ons, just for the ease, as you don't need to make a racket to tune,
I have a few including the Korg, which is nice large clear screen for easy reading, simple, functionality and ease of use, from what I've seen, also fairly highly accurate,
I've use an AROMA for around 18 months and it works well enough. Struggles on low E and bass but does the job.
I have a snark which unlike Meron, i find reasonable. I got a d'addario one like the ine in the pic for my sons geet. I dint really like that one.
My opinion... rather than splurging 200 odd ronts on one of these.. save a bit more and get a pedal tuner. I use a korg which is great. Picked up 2nd hand for 350ront. I also used the tu2 in the past.. equally good
Thanks fellas, I'm going to take your advice and get a tuner pedal. Haven't seen any great deals on those yet so I'll need to keep my eyes peeled.
Again, much obliged ?
Pedal far more accurate.
guidothepimmp I have a snark which unlike Meron, i find reasonable
I had the bells n whistles multi instrument one - was fine on electric, okayish on acoustic (it hunted around for low e) but abysmal on bass (std tuning and drop tuning). It did survive long enough for me to loose it - so there's that ?
The only thing I've used that handled drop bass tunings was...my (t)rusty ol' zoom b2 - that thing friggin works on everything. The TU3 didn't really like drop tunings on bass - but works fine on a 7/8 string guitars and std tuned basses.
If I was buying new, it would be a tough one between the polytune mini and the Boss TU-3.
Secondhand, it's easier to find a TU-3 than polytune.
V8 I regard clip on tuners as disposable now - useful, but if I get a year or more out of one, I've done well.
Indeed
Jazzman105 V8 I regard clip on tuners as disposable now - useful, but if I get a year or more out of one, I've done well.
Indeed
Gigs are clip-on killers, the snark survived one and at the next I lost it.
Probably should add, I use the boss tuner app at home (Guitar Tuna is a bit complicated and bloated for a quick tune) and the Zoom at jams (and the rare gig)
