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Post by john on Mar 25, 2016 9:44:06 GMT
Does anyone use a phone app as their main tuner? I've never been able to tune by ear so I've always used tuners, back in the days of my youth I had to wait for more proficient mates to turn up then get em to tune my guitars. That's one of the main reasons I turned to drums back in the early 80's. Anyway, back to the future, I've had a basic KORG now since I can remember which is totally indestructible and will probably be around after me but I've started using a phone app which is good. I use PitchLab Lite, it's got every conceivable tuning for just about every stringed instrument known to man and picks up perfectly just sat on the guitar body or the top of the amp. I've compared the two and really no difference in accuracy. I still use the KORG for intonation & set ups but will the stand alone tuner go the way of the dinosaurs?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2016 10:29:28 GMT
Im all ears
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Post by john on Mar 25, 2016 10:43:11 GMT
Im all ears I can't even get close by ear.
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Post by dodger on Mar 25, 2016 15:27:25 GMT
I used to be all ears but I find the guitar will be in tune with itself OK but not orchestrally tuned (in tune with other instruments) and therefore either slightly sharp or flat I find the fishman tuner built into my HB tunes slightly sharp compared to my ear and my Boss BR80 and Pitchlab from my android phone
I find Pitchlab to be closet to what I hear - my sister who is a proper musician says I have may have perfect pitch (my ears not my voice sadly)
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Post by mototech on Mar 25, 2016 16:29:46 GMT
I use Guitar Tuna, dead easy & appears to be accurate.
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Post by Djangle on Mar 25, 2016 16:44:49 GMT
Thumbs up for Guitar Tuna too Pretty accurate
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2016 14:49:30 GMT
the audience applauded the first 5 minutes, “If you like our tuning so much, I hope you will enjoy the playing even more.” Love the West Meets East where the violin God Yehudi Menuhin and Ravi Shankar kick some serious a.s! I just might listen to that now ...
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Post by nytar on Mar 29, 2016 5:45:48 GMT
I was running late to my first lesson for guitar about a month ago, I had been using RockSmith for my tuning and my playing up to that point so the snark I got a couple years ago vanished, which I never likes any ways as it was to hard to read. I stop at the front counter and see what they have, I got an inline tuner which wasnt badly priced. it had the back up of a small microphone for using it not inline. I walk into the room we sit down and my instructor pulls out his iphone and has an app pop up "there ya go should be pretty easy to tune up with this" .... REALLY?! I could have DLed a free app to tune my guitar with... well the inline one will still find use as an intonation tuner.
Guitar Tuna is simple to use (VERY) its accurate for tuning with options to set for alternate tunings,left hand modes, head stock style, calibration if you dont like the 440 standard. has other little sub apps you can mess with. a lessons section, a metronome with BPM (30-240) and 12 rhythm settings. chord charts, games to help you with practicing, even songs. (some things like the songs and I think some of the advanced lessons are in app purchases) but its been VERY helpful! I would simply use this over any other tuner out there for anything situation cept if I were doing some mega precision work that 1 in a million players would be doing. one note tho, turn the sounds to mute (in tuner settings) or it has a pop sound that throws the scale around when it hears itself.
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Post by bigh on Mar 18, 2017 18:28:40 GMT
PitchLab available on iOS is just brilliant, its very accurate and offers a lot of features, more than that the free version has some great options.
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Post by Banana on Mar 21, 2017 12:44:13 GMT
Most of time I use the Yousician for quick tuning, works fine if I use standard tune. For other tunings, I use either Fender tuner app or use the built-in chromatic tuner of Zoom G1XON
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Post by salteedog on Mar 22, 2017 21:49:42 GMT
I've a cheapo clipon tuner which I use if I can find it. Mostly though I use the waves app on my phone.
Incidentally I also have a Zoom G1Xon. The onboard tuner there is handy too.
...hard to believe I spent my first few years of guitar playing without a tuner at all - instead trying to tune by ear against a piano. I suppose I knew nothing about properly intonating a guitar either.
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Post by dodger on Mar 23, 2017 13:04:41 GMT
I always used my ears up until I downloaded an app for my phone and then bought the CLD41SE which has a built in tuner. Funny when i first got it thought it tuned the strings just slightly sharp but think it tunes them to perfect pitch now - strange?
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