![]() It makes sense that this would be the best among the clip-ons, since KLIQ Music Gear, the company, was founded by a couple real musicians who really liked the clip-on idea, but (like me) couldn’t find a reliable one. There are some cheaper, and more expensive, that don’t work as well as this one! It also appears that, in today’s market, this particular tuner is the best bang for your buck if you can only afford at most twenty or thirty bucks. Or NOT giving you, which is usually more the case. You don’t want tuning to take long, and you need to be able to see your unit regardless of what the lighting person is giving you. In a pro gig environment, unless you have your own side-stage gear techs to handle your guitars and tuning them (and if so… can I be YOU for a week… or more?!) those are two of your biggest concerns. It’s the easiest to see and read onstage.So we’ll start things off here with the cheapest option I can actually recommend without cringing: the Kliq. That being said, tho’, I realize that there’s a huge market for inexpensive, non-professional tuner uses. Plus, I haven’t found them precise enough for my liking. They just don’t come equipped with the real estate necessary to really see the micro-measuring that I need in a professional stage environment. Let me be up front about this: I’m not really a fan of clip-on tuners. Whether you’re playing live, or just practicing at home, intonation problems can be as frustrating as trying to find your cell phone when it’s time to head to a gig (not that that has ever happened to me, mind you)! lolįear not, ’cause I’ve found for you some truly fail-safe and rockin’ options.īelow is the LAST LIST YOU’LL NEED this year, and at the end… my number one pick, and the very choice I still use to this day! 1) KLIQ UberTuner Clip Have you ever been frustrated because your guitar’s out of tune? Others prefer the results of a strobe tuner.One of Teaj’s live rigs with his favorite tuner shinin’ blue on the right! Some people prefer the sound of the strings being tuned to the frequency of the overall waveform. Which measurement is correct? That's up to you decide. This is exacerbated by the pickups which pull on the strings and cause the overtones to be off (in extreme cases causing the dreaded "stratitis"). The resonances of the overtones aren't always perfect integer multiples of the fundamental. So it's like having two tuners, a traditional tuner and a strobe tuner running simultaneously and, just as with separate physical tuners, the results may not necessarily be the same.Ī guitar string is not perfect. The frequency of the fundamental will not necessarily match that of the overall waveform. This effectively measures the fundamental ONLY. It "demodulates" the signal with a quadrature oscillator. The strobe tuner works like, well, a strobe tuner. ![]() The bar tuner measures the average period of the waveform. The strobe tuner and bar tuner use different algorithms. You guys have any suggestions? Is anybody experiencing similar problems? I’m inclined to use the strobe but, if I do, both other tuners show me being way flat. I’m so frustrated i’m Back at the point of buying a Peterson but it sure seems like a $2500 modelor should not need this. ![]() So, I have 3 tuners on my Axe 3 and none of them agree. The FC seems happy if you are w/in 3-4 cents but that doesn’t work for me-to inaccurate. However, if I tune to the Axe linear, the FC will show me in tune as well but I am very flat on the strobe. If I use the strobe to tune (which I prefer) and tune everything “up” to that, then the other 2 tuners often show me 2 bars sharp. The linear tuner on the Axe display might show me a few cents off and the Strobe tuner shows me WAY off (maybe 5+ Cents, almost always sharp vs the other 2 tuner displays. The FC12 will show me dead center, perfectly in tune. When I strike a string to tune, I am getting 3 very different readings from the Axe strobe, the Axe linear tuner and (by far the worst) the FC12 tuner. With my Axe II, I was almost ready to buy a Peterson Strobe because I never felt the Axe 2 was as accurate as I like.īut, gloiusly, the Axe 3 has a strobe tuner! However, i’m Having problems this it. I can’t stand a guitar that’s out of tune. let me say 1st that I’m a freak about my tuning.
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