Korg DTR-1000 Tuner - Picks Up Outside Sounds

Groover · #1 06-15-2009, 09:09 AM

I'm using a Korg DTR-1000 tuner, but I'm about to dump the thing unless I can get this figured out. I think it has a mic somewhere to allow tuning of acoustic instruments, which I guess is great for those who need that, but it's driving me nuts when I'm trying to tune my electric in a bar where there are a bunch of sounds going on messing with me.

Is there a way turn the external mic off?

Is that what is happening, or is my bass picking up the sounds from the room and feeding the tuner through the pickups?

rratajski · #2 06-15-2009, 09:17 AM

I never had any problem w/ my dtr-1000 when I owned it.

There's nothing in the manual or switch-wise on there to disable the mic. If you pluck a note and let it sustain, the tuner should read the note coming in, not the other noise...unless the bar is louder than your bass signal................

countrybassist · #3 06-15-2009, 09:24 AM

I never owned a Korg 1000, but I don't think that there's an extenal mic. I looked up on their website and quickly read through some stuff. Unless I missed it, I didn't see anything about an external mic. And no your pickups aren't picking up bar sounds like people talking or such. I did read about the lack of complete muting when trying to tune. Maybe your hearing that?

Groover · #4 06-15-2009, 09:31 AM

Hmm... not sure what is going on then. I'm using the tuner out from my amp, plugged in to the back of the tuner. All works fine in a quiet environment, but again, if I'm out live I can't count on it. The tuning is jumpy, and I'm pretty sure it's picking up say that guitar player puzzing around.

What I do to solve the issue at that point, is to plug my instrument cable to the front panel of the tuner, then it's stable when doing that. Just defeats the point of having the handy rack mounted tuner.

Maybe the tuner input on back is acting up / going bad?

rratajski · #5 06-15-2009, 09:54 AM

Do you have all of your effects off when you're tuning? Just a thought..

Groover · #6 06-15-2009, 11:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rratajski

Do you have all of your effects off when you're tuning? Just a thought..

Ahh... Not sure, but I do know it happens "sometimes"... so that might be the problem..... I'll have to keep an eye on that next time.

rratajski · #7 06-15-2009, 12:34 PM

Tuning "clean" (no effects) is considered the best way to tune. Many of the pedal users on this forum place their tuner 1st in their effect chain to get the cleanest, purest sound before coloring, etc. occurs with the signal. Since you have a rack unit, it might be best to go clean to tune. If you have a bunch of pedals, you may want to consider a True Bypass Looper.

Groover · #8 06-15-2009, 01:27 PM

Ok, thanks again. You actually just mentioned something I wasn't even aware of, that being the True bypass loopers. Great concept, and now I want one...

Are there loopers that also switch the order of the pedals (say I want to switch between having Flange > Fuzz then be able to switch to Fuzz > Flange)?

I only have 3 pedals at this point, but may be adding more soon; At that point, I'll have to really look into those bypass loopers.

Thanks again for reply.

totallybacan · #9 06-15-2009, 09:34 PM

I also have the korg dtr-1000, and it doesn't have a mic. The 2000 does.

+1 on tuning clean. If your amp has an effects loop, why don't you run your pedals off of that so that your tuner is first in chain? I can guarantee that a rack space in my rack is not wasted by this tuner, and i'd hate to see it get bad reviews for something that might be fixable :/

SuperFineLin9 · #10 06-15-2009, 10:01 PM

This is hilarious. I get the same issue. I thought I was crazy for the longest time. After experimenting with different set ups turns out It was my bass. It was too hot and picked up random stuff.