The Steel Guitar Forum

Anyone use one of these? How do you like the Newman presets?

RoBo

I like them. Very similar to what I was doing before I got it but now I can do it on the fly.

I've had my stroboflip for about 3 weeks now. I Think its great. Jeff Newmans E9th and C6th presets are very close to what I was doing also, but a lot faster now.

I've had one since they first came out. Great tuner but I have my own E9th/C6th tuning settings programmed, don't use the pre-programmed settings.

I've had mine since they 1st came out.
Except for a couple of numbers, I use the Newman presets for the 440 tuning.

Interesting. How does it work with the raised and lowered notes? In a preset, does it just jump right to that position?

RoBo

It is programmed for each note of the scale and detects whatever note is being played. Thus it has a setting, for example, for the B note and then when you raise the B's to C# and you play the C# note it will detect that.

Being a student of Jeff, I got used to his turning chart and like it. It is programmed into the Strobe O Flip, so when I turn it on, it automatically defaults to the Newman settings. I had to do some work and replace the bracket that allows you to fasten it to the leg of your steel. The problem is it is made to clamp onto the upper part of a mic stand, which is smaller in diameter than the bottom part. A steel guitar leg is just the opposite with the large part on top, so my bracket would not work on it. Having a workshop, I was able to duplicate the metal bracket and make it larger to fit the steel leg. The odd part is, after all the work, I don't even use the bracket. I just lay the tuner on top of my steel like a normal tuner. I am too lazy to hook it up in line and I just keep it laying close by and use it between sets. I hightly recommend the turner. Expensive, but well worth it in my opinion.

George, contact Peterson and they will send you a retrofit part so it will fit on the steel leg.

Do they come with presets for a Universal tuning?

Mike
They have two open banks where you can program in your own numbers.
So I would assume that you can make it work for a UNI.
Don

Thanks Don.

I ordered one from Jim Palenscar last week.

I don't have one, but got to see it along with a new Rains steel and a Hilton pedal earlier this week. Loved them all.

I assumed they'd have some room for your own presets. Nice tuner. I'm still reading an analog scale with 10-cent graduations, but that's the least of my problems for now.

Believe it or not, I've never read a strobe tuner. It just always looked like a lot of rolling around to me. Are they fairly easy to read/understand compared to the needle type tuners?

RoBo

Does Buddy Emmons use a tuner or does he still use his Harmonic Method?


Roger

I got one a couple months ago. The presets are sure nice for a non pro like me. It does take some getting used to. My steel sure sounds better. Now if it would just make me play better.

At noisy gigs there life savers. For recording I start with the Petersen and fine tune it to my ear, but its good enough for my guitar to trust live. I hear you Charlie, if I could just hold the bar straight it might make a difference..........

Somebody mentioned seeing Buddy at one of the Midnight Jamboree shows and they said he was using a tuner to tune up. Don't know if he was just getting a reference or using it for all the strings (I suspect just using it to get a reference).

He tunes to 440 tho right?