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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?

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

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!

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

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

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....

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

- Slim

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).

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

Strobo Stomp, Rick. Visible in all conditions.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.