Peterson Stroboflip Tuner

Charley Adair · Post by **Charley Adair** » 29 Apr 2010 11:11 am

My Peterson Strobe tuner has started misreading notes. I have it set to the sweetened e9th. I did a gig last month and while I was tuning up, it sort of locked up a couple of times and then it started reading wrong. It is reading the F#'s as C# and all others are wrong. Has anyone else had a problem? I have tried all I know to do. Any advice other than sending it in for repairs? Minimun charge $60.
Charley

Paddy Long · Post by **Paddy Long** » 29 Apr 2010 1:03 pm

Charley how are you connecting the guitar to it? are you running it from the battery or the power supply?? could be something simple, like a failing battery or maybe you have it hooked up wrong, sounds like the tuner is not getting enough of a signal from the string.

Sue Haslam · Post by **Sue Haslam** » 30 Apr 2010 5:07 am

Hi Charley,

Please send it in to the company to my attention. We'll look at the tuner and fix whatever is necessary at no charge to you.

Best regards
Sue

Rick Barnhart · Post by **Rick Barnhart** » 30 Apr 2010 5:33 am

Sue Haslam wrote:Hi Charley,

Please send it in to the company to my attention. We'll look at the tuner and fix whatever is necessary at no charge to you.

Best regards
Sue

Just one of the many reasons why I love my Peterson Stroboflip!

Charley Adair · Post by **Charley Adair** » 3 May 2010 6:27 pm

Sue,
Sorry for the late response to your post. I will certainly get this thing in the mail. I will send a letter with it. Thank you so much. This is one reason I love this forum.
Charley

Sue Haslam · Post by **Sue Haslam** » 4 May 2010 5:23 am

Hi Charley,
I'll look for your tuner to come in.
If anyone has tuner questions they can always email me directly also
Thanks
Sue tw@petersontuners.com

Ken Metcalf · Post by **Ken Metcalf** » 4 May 2010 5:27 am

Hello Sue,
Thanks for the great product and service!!

Chuck Snider · Post by **Chuck Snider** » 4 May 2010 4:12 pm

Sue is a great help, I've talked with her a few times and she is ALWAYS patient with me and takes the time to explain things to this dumb as fencepost steeler. Sue, thanks for all your help!!! you're a great asset to the Peterson team.

-Chuck

Sue Haslam · Post by **Sue Haslam** » 5 May 2010 10:16 am

Thanks! It is my pleasure to be able to help all of you Steelers!
I love the way a pedal steel sounds. Chuck, anyone who plays a pedal steel should not call themselves 'dumb as fencepost'. I think it is one of the most difficult instruments to learn, much less play!

Sue

Dennis Wallis · Post by **Dennis Wallis** » 5 May 2010 12:08 pm

They fixed a VS II for me twice for free and even paid the shipping back . Great product ; great service . I now have TWO Stroboflips and wouldn't be caught without one .

Jeremiah Wade · Post by **Jeremiah Wade** » 6 May 2010 4:34 pm

I have a question for Sue. My Stroboflip is great. I was wondering how much cabinet drop are the sweetened psg0E9 offsets designed to compensate for? I know that all guitars can experience differing amounts and wanted to consider going through the process of customizing the cent offset for my Rains. My guitar sounds super on 95% of the changes on my D-10. I feel some pedal/lever combos could sound a bit better. Thanks in advance, Jeremiah

Ric Truett · Post by **Ric Truett** » 6 May 2010 5:52 pm

I'm a pretty new steeler and have been debating which tuner to buy. Your service here in this forum has sold me on the Petersen Stroboflip!

I'm going to get one right away.

Wayne Franco · Post by **Wayne Franco** » 6 May 2010 10:55 pm

You're WAAAAAY Cool

Wayne Franco

Tony Kotula · Post by **Tony Kotula** » 9 May 2010 11:37 am

Sue, I like my strobo flip so much that I bought another one! Thanks for a great tuner!!

Sue Haslam · Post by **Sue Haslam** » 11 May 2010 11:09 am

Hi
The 0E9 preset has the E's at 0.0 cents with everything else tuned more or less beatless from there, so there's not as much compensation for cabinet drop as there is with the SE9 preset which has the E's at +9.8 cents.

You can enter your own offsets to compensate for things like cabinet drop, custom raises and lowers etc.
Tune the guitar until it sounds good to you, then measure and note the offsets using the tuner in Equal Temperament.
Then you can enter your settings in one of the programmable spots (S1-S4 or T1-T4)

Please call me with any questions. This is much easier to explain over the phone

Thanks
Sue 708-388-3311 x143

Matt Elsen · Post by **Matt Elsen** » 14 May 2010 6:39 pm

Love this company! They really take care of their customers and build great products. Kudos to everyone at Petersen.

Mark Wade · Post by **Mark Wade** » 16 May 2010 6:11 pm

Love my Peterson strobe, I would suggest it to anyone.
Mark

John McClung · Post by **John McClung** » 17 May 2010 10:00 pm

Jeremiah: there are some pedal/kl combos that just never will sound sweet and beatless without compensators, but that's no fault of the tuner, Peterson or otherwise.

For instance, I couldn't live without: my F lever's 2 raise compensators, simply extra pulls that sharpen strings 3 and 6 a tiny bit. Those strings are the 3rds in an open chord and generally tuned flat to sound good. But in an A+F chord (no bar, a C# chord), the G# is the 5th in a C#, and it's a lousy sounding chord unless you raise it back to straight up on your electronic tuner.

Similar problems exist on string 7, more on that if you're curious.

John Palumbo · Post by **John Palumbo** » 18 May 2010 4:24 pm

Guess I'll have to call Sue some time I keep going back to the Korg CA-30, I just can not get the strobe image to a full stop, if its rolling down as the note is flat as I tighten the tuning peg ever so slowly to increase it's pitch to the point where the strobe is now rolling up and maybe some portions stop at various points. I'm new to it and just can't catch on. Spending 20 minutes just trying to get one string in tune.

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