Best tuner display for outdoor bright daylight gigs?

Rick Schmidt · Post by **Rick Schmidt** » 24 Jul 2023 5:17 pm

Ok personally I'd rather not do those kind of gigs anymore, but you know how that goes...

I have an older Peterson "Strobo Flip" and various clip on tuners, but they're just not getting it on some of the outdoor gigs I've done lately. Any suggestions? Has anybody tried a Peterson Strobo Stomp with the different color displays in bright sunlight?

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 25 Jul 2023 6:46 am

You could always go back to a Boss TU-12 with the needle.
Erv

Bill A. Moore · Post by **Bill A. Moore** » 25 Jul 2023 7:04 am

I shoot with a club that keeps score with a tablet, we saw one of the other clubs with an aluminum shield over their tablet, but they don't know where it came from. A fellow fabricated one from cardboard, and it works great!

Slim Heilpern · Post by **Slim Heilpern** » 25 Jul 2023 8:03 am

I've used the tuner in the Zoom MultiStomp in direct sunlight, and it works well. It's a backlit LED display, but in direct sunlight, you don't see the back lighting, but you do see the what's being displayed.

- Slim

Larry Dering · Post by **Larry Dering** » 25 Jul 2023 9:14 am

Need the shield like the fish finders use. I can't see my phone or tuner display. Good to know the Zoom pedal works.

Steve Lipsey · Post by **Steve Lipsey** » 25 Jul 2023 9:21 am

Boss TU-2 and TU-3...hold the left button in for a few seconds and the display gets super bright. Lasts till you power it down. Repeat if needed...
I added a few labels above the scale to translate to my chosen offsets (G#, F, C#) and this tuner is great...can see it on the floor in any lighting conditions....

Slim Heilpern · Post by **Slim Heilpern** » 25 Jul 2023 9:38 am

Forgot to mention, the Peterson StroboClip HD is also good in direct sunlight.

- Slim

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 27 Jul 2023 8:51 am

As long as you don't need a cents display, the Korg GA-1 or GA-2 work great, even in direct sunlight.

But if you need a needle with a cents display and an LCD, the Korg OT-120 is great (but pricey).

Dave Grafe · Post by **Dave Grafe** » 27 Jul 2023 9:55 am

Survey sez:

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail ... robe-tuner

A bit spendier than others but you get a lot more and it will not be soon obsolete

Multiple sweeteners are available including two each for E9 & C6 necks

And it can be read easily in daylight

Dan Galysh · Post by **Dan Galysh** » 27 Jul 2023 11:12 am

Strobo Stomp, Rick. Visible in all conditions.

Steve Schmidt · Post by **Steve Schmidt** » 28 Jul 2023 9:29 am

My favorite tuner is the turbo tuner ST-200. It's an awesome tuner, except outdoors. You cannot see the LEDs in the bright sun. Fortunately, I don't do too many outdoor gigs

Brett Lanier · Post by **Brett Lanier** » 29 Jul 2023 8:42 am

Aside from the display, which is really good (and much better than the stroboplus or turbo tuner imo) - the Strobostomp HD has some other nice features that you won't get with other tuners.

"Pop-less true bypass" makes it possible to tune or mute at any point in the show without worrying about a big "chunk" sound coming through foh. I use true bypass mode, rather than the buffered mode because to me it sounds a little better in my setup. There's also a third mode that gives you a tuner display while passing sound. I use this mode along with a headphone rig to fine tune in noisy environments. My only critique of the pedal is that I wish you could switch these modes without having to go through the battery compartment.

The pedal is set up so when I scroll up or down with the +/- buttons, it only cycles through three settings; E9, C6, & equal temperament. It's a lot faster and more fool proof than scrolling through modes on the Stroboplus hd.

Paddy Long · Post by **Paddy Long** » 30 Jul 2023 6:52 pm

The new Strobostomp and the Stroboplus HDC are easily readable in any sunlit conditions - and you can change the background colours to improve it even more.

Ron Pruter · Post by **Ron Pruter** » 31 Jul 2023 7:54 pm

Rick, outside, you've got to be kidding. In Az?

Bob Shilling · Post by **Bob Shilling** » 1 Aug 2023 9:28 am

The pedal is set up so when I scroll up or down with the +/- buttons, it only cycles through three settings; E9, C6, & equal temperament. It's a lot faster and more fool proof than scrolling through modes on the Stroboplus hd.

Brett, On the Stroboplus HD, the sweeteners you use most are at the top of the stack (I use SE9. SP9, ET), so you only scroll through those.

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 2 Aug 2023 11:25 am

I recently got a StroboStomp HD and I'm loving' it. The display is huge, easy to see (now that I'm in my 70s), although I haven't played a gig in the sun yet with it. I have three outdoor gigs this weekend, so we'll see how it goes (no pun)!

I don't run the StroboStomp "in line". My Hilton volume pedal has a "tuner out", so I come out of that into the StroboStomp... and that's it. There's no need to use the foot switch at all because that controls the output, and I'm not using the output from the tuner. I never liked having a tuner in line. I don't have the tuner on my pedalboard, I just set it on the floor.
Using the SE9 setting, which was also in the older StroboFlip that I used for many years.