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Topic: What tuner(s) do y'all use? |
JamesMCross
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Houston, Texas, USA
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Posted 13 Apr 2004 9:10 am |
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Any suggestions on a good tuner for use in club dates? I can't see the needle on the one I have anymore, my eyes are getting a little weak on me.
I'd like a back-lit tuner - rackmount or otherwise. I use my 6-string rig for both steel and strat with a KORG chromatic guitar/bass tuner on the pedal board, I just can't see it very well in the stage lighting.
Thanks!
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John Floyd
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R.I.P.
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Allan Thompson
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Scotland.
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Posted 13 Apr 2004 11:03 am
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James,
The new Peterson tuner is great, very easy to see and probably the most accurate tuner there is. You can also get a leg clamp with the tuner. Chuck Campbell a forum member will do you a good deal. |
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Loren Morehouse
From:
Meadowlands, MN USA
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Posted 13 Apr 2004 11:37 am
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| I've recently gone to a Boss TU2 and love it. It's always plugged in, easy to read and use even in the dark. I'm a minimalist so I'm not into carrying rack rigs or other rack effects. If it don't fit in the seat, it ain't going anywhere. My 2 cents. Loren. |
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Paddy Long
From:
Christchurch, New Zealand
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Posted 13 Apr 2004 1:32 pm
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James, I have a Korg DTR1000 rack job which is so well lit you could read it from the other side of the stage -- my eyesight is fading a bit too, I still have my Kork WT12 portable but the rack job is a beauty - display is either strobe or cents (not hertz)
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 13 Apr 2004 2:39 pm
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James, i use a Korg DTR1 rack tuner which is easy to use and see - the DTR1000 has replaced the DTR1 - sometimes one does pop up on Buy and Sell here
there's also the DTR2 -(replaced by DTR2000 ?) |
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Chick Donner
From:
North Ridgeville, OH USA
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Posted 14 Apr 2004 11:16 am
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| I use the Korg DTR-1. . . . the DTR 2000 replaced the DTR-1, and the DTR 1000 replaced the DTR-2. |
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Ricky Davis
From:
Bertram, Texas USA
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Posted 14 Apr 2004 6:19 pm
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Wolfgang Bednarz
From:
97848 Rechtenbach/GERMANY
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Posted 14 Apr 2004 10:20 pm
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Peterson VS-II or V-SAM ist the real key....
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Brian Davis
From:
San Francisco, USA
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Posted 15 Apr 2004 5:28 am
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Hey Ricky,
I know the TU-2 is a great stage tuner, but how does it work for tempered tunings? The display seems like it would be pretty inaccurate.
Brian
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C Dixon
From:
Duluth, GA USA
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Posted 15 Apr 2004 6:03 am
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The Petersen is a great tuner. A number of PSG players have bought them and apparently they are pleased.
But if you want the absolute finest, check out the Precision Strobe Tuner. IMO, it is truly the Rolls Royce of all tuners. Go to the following website and find the article by a fellow forumite (under "comments") as he tells of his experiences with this incredible tuner.
It is not cheap. But then the finest never is.
http://www.precisionstrobe.com/
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Bill Llewellyn
From:
San Jose, CA
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Jeff Hogsten
From:
Flatwoods Ky USA
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Posted 15 Apr 2004 6:59 am
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Carl
will your peterson store tempered tunings,if not how do you use it with a tempered tuning, I had a yamaha tuner that was recomended to me by a piano tuning course I was going to take and it would do a strech tuning on a piano, he said it and a sanderson act tuner were the only ones acurate enough to do that but the yamaha is about 700 and the sanderson in about 1400. Im very interested in the v-sam since a article I posted about 442 tuning I have had a lot of luck tuning out the beats and can actually tune more acurate by ear than my korg tuner puts me but when you are in the middle of a song or play at church the way I do and something goes out there is no way you can sit there and tune out the beats. I have read a lot of post about how most all of the professionals use a tuner to tune the e by and then tune the rest by ear, I just wonder how they do this in the middle of a set
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John Fabian
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Mesquite, Texas USA * R.I.P.
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C Dixon
From:
Duluth, GA USA
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Posted 15 Apr 2004 8:35 am
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Jeff,
Yes BOTH the Petersen and Precision Strobe tuners can be programmed to store any "tempered" tuning you want. They will both hold this tuning on power shut down also.
The Precision Strobe tuner has 40 "presets" that you can use for all stored temper tunings of any shift from the standard 440 reference. If I am not mistaken the Petersen has two presets. (The older Precision Strobe tuner only had two-the new one has 40).
The reason I love the PST-3 over the Petersen is it uses bright red LED's to simulate perfectly, a revolving strobe; whereas the Petersen uses a simulated vertical strobe on an LCD screen. Also, the PST-3 has a moving flat and sharp LED to indicate when you are close; and how close in either direction.
Finally, since the PST-3 has incredibly accurate filters so it can tune the very bottom most notes on a piano, the strobe is rock solid for bass notes on a PSG. Which has been a problem for needle type tuners from day one.
The Petersen is an excellent tuner. IMO, the PST-3 is even better. Its price may not reflect that difference to many players. To me it does.
Best advice is to check them both out if you want the higher quality/more accurate ones. Then decide on what is best for you.
Finally, IMO it is ludicrous to buy a tuner and just use it for setting the E's. Yet, this appears more normal than not from what I can ascertain from reading posts on this forum.
In this case I see no use in spending a lot of money, when a tuning fork would do the same thing; since the "ear" is the tuner for all the other strings (in this case), why not the E?
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Jeff Hogsten
From:
Flatwoods Ky USA
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Posted 16 Apr 2004 9:05 pm
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| you make some good points Carl, I remember about the precision now, have you ever heard of the sanderson, it is unreal but about 1500 which is overkill for us really but if any piano tuner is going to use a tuner that is what they use. I am not going to use it to just tune my Es Im going to tune my e and then start tuning the beats our of everything and then store the sittings, that way when Im playing I can just look at the tuner and it should be real close Jeff |
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Funny how that works, Couldn't be because of the age 
