The Steel Guitar Forum

I just bought a Peterson Stroboflip tuning and I have been playing around with the two tuning temperments that they have for the e9th tuning. I tried the OE9 tuning which has the e's tuned striaght up (0 cent sharp or flat). This tuning sounds great! Just for fun I retuned to the SE9 temperment (the original tempertment on the Peterson Strobe tuners). I noticed that most of the pitches in this tuning are a few cent up from the OE9 tuning. The biggest change was the E's of course which are almost 10 cent higher than the other tuning. This Tuning sounded great too! But the really intresting thing was that as soon as I started to play with this tuning...I noticed that the overall tone of the the guitar had a much more vintage steel sound. I am not sure exactly how to explain it except that the tone was much closer to an early Tom Brumley tone. The E's straight up tuning has a much more modern tone to it. Am I the only one who noticed this? I really have to say that the Peterson Tuners are one of the best things I have found for steel and the ability for them to capture these temperments and make them available for newer players like myself really has taught me alot about how the steel can have a completely different sound just by varying the tuning temperment a little.

Am I the only one who noticed this, or is this something everyone else has known all along?

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1995 Derby D10 8x6 Fender Vibrosonic Amp


<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Bill Myers on 21 October 2006 at 08:17 AM.]</p></FONT>

I'll second that opinion, Bill, the best $300. odd dollars I've spent in a long time. The bars are easy to read and sensitive, yet not too sensitive to dial in, and the whole tuner is very versatile and fun to deal with, including great engineering and forethought. Thanks to John Norris for having the vision to include us steelers in the presets, it sure makes my job a lot easier.

I've tried the plus 10 cents tuning and everytime I do, my Franklin does not sound right and hard to tune. If I go back to the "zero" referenced chart it seems to "fall in place". However, I use my own modified Newman tunings, not the StrobeOFlip's for both E9th and C6th as my guitar is not in tune with their settings. Each guitar is different and "one size does not fit all".

The tuning has been covered and beat to death many times, including beat to death over the new Strobe O Flip.

I tend to use the OE but tune the E's with pedals down to 440 and then the A's to 440 thus I am just about right with no pedals. My PP sounds the best it ever has, so glad I spent the money. My dobro and banjo also sounds just terrific.

Everyone should have a strob tuner, having had dials and lights for years, what a mistake that was.

Larry Behm

Peterson Strobe Tuners-Great products from a unique company with some really nice folks behind it! I'm greatful to be their local steel guitar liason and thereby being given opportunity to be the very first pedal steeler to evaluate the Jeff Newman presets in the original V-SAM and VS-II tuners as well as the new Stoboflip which has incorporated some changes to meet the ongoing demands of steel players-Everyone (including myself) owes a big "Thank You" to John Norris (Peterson's Sales Mgr) for his attention and devotion to pedal steel tuning issues-I'm gonna apply for a real job there someday when I retire from my current job <font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by PAUL WARNIK on 25 October 2006 at 01:11 AM.]</p></FONT>

I 2nd the two thumbs up for the StroboFlip. A genuinely terrific tuner with a true bypass in a small package and programable presets.

It's really nice for D10's, lap steels, and as a bonus, I tuned my wife's autoharp with it the other day using the 1/4 comma meantone temperament - it sounds the sweetest it ever has.

My VSII was a little over a year old and I began to notice lines appearing across the LCD. I ordered a new Strobo Flip and decided to send the VSII in for repairs. I called and they told me to send it in and what the approximate charge would be. I was expecting about $100 to replace the LCD. It was returned within 10 days, like new and there was no charge for the repairs or shipping.
Not many compaines out there that stand behing their proucts like that. Thanks Peterson!

Mr. Palenscar

I've got one too... love it, and it makes me look way cooler.
But according to Peterson, the only true bypass item they manufacture is the Strobostomp.
So I do as they recommend; Connect the Stroboflip to the 2nd output of my volume pedal.
Suites me fine 'cause that's one less thing to go wrong in my signal path.

Cheers

Alan H-your story is one of many that I have heard from Peterson tuner owners whom have had great customer service from the company-In the unlikely event that the tuner has malfunctions, Peterson often repairs or replaces the unit free of charge-I have known them to even do this for steel players who have had the unit longer than the first year warranty period which had expired-For the record-Of all the different models of Peterson tuners that I have owned over the years I cannot recall ever having one of them malfunction