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05-21-2010, 06:10 AM
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I have the Boss TU-2 tuner. Pretty standard, I would say most use this one, its reliable and fairly accurate. I've started putting together my pedal board for my bass and I seem to have encountered a problem and I wonder if I'm the only one. It doesn't matter if it is in my chain or when I use it alone, if I plug my bass into the tuner I experience a massive drop in volume. And I mean massive.
If I am playing at a booming loud live volume when its just 'bass > amp' and leave all the settings and then go 'bass > tuner > amp' the volume will drop from a loud live setting to almost a whisper where it is as if I am practicing at home, alone, trying to not wake someone in the room next door.
I have tried this with a total of 3 Boss TU-2 tuners.
Does anybody else have this issue? |
05-21-2010, 06:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Glagow, Scotland, UK | | | Not to insult your intelligence, but are you plugging it into the output or the bypass?
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05-21-2010, 10:57 AM
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I have a question. Why would you want to plug into the bypass input? If you wanted to really tune wouldnt you have to unplug, and plug into the 'other' input? Sorry for the dumb question, I just never could understand the point in a bypass input.  
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05-21-2010, 11:28 PM
| | | | I plug my bass into the input and come out of the output. If i plug into bypass, doesn't that not allow me to step on the pedal and cut the signal? |
05-21-2010, 11:42 PM
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regardless of problem with boss tuners, I have the answer! 
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05-23-2010, 12:07 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central Illinois, USA | | | There are two outputs and one input. Plug your bass INTO the input (duh). If you run your amp from the "Bypass" jack the signal is NOT muted when you step on the tuner. Handy for practicing fretless or if you use something else in your chain to mute the signal (e.g. the mute on an amp or a volume pedal). If you run the amp from the Output jack it should mute the whole signal when you step on the switch to tune.
No idea why you'd have a huge volume loss unless you're hooking things up wrong.
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05-23-2010, 12:34 PM
|  | Player Characters fear me... Moderator | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Middletown CT, USA | | | never had that happen. JTE is on the money as far as jacks go, you only plug into the input, the output is the "output you'd use if you want it to mute the signal when you tune, the bypass in the "output" you use when you don't want to mute the signal when you tune (or check intonation) also very handy as a signal splitter.
Mine chews up batteries, but that's it. with 3 units i'd say you're doing something wrong.
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05-23-2010, 02:11 PM
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05-23-2010, 02:15 PM
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Originally Posted by iandi.bass  I have the Boss TU-2 tuner. Pretty standard, I would say most use this one, its reliable and fairly accurate. I've started putting together my pedal board for my bass and I seem to have encountered a problem and I wonder if I'm the only one. It doesn't matter if it is in my chain or when I use it alone, if I plug my bass into the tuner I experience a massive drop in volume. And I mean massive.
If I am playing at a booming loud live volume when its just 'bass > amp' and leave all the settings and then go 'bass > tuner > amp' the volume will drop from a loud live setting to almost a whisper where it is as if I am practicing at home, alone, trying to not wake someone in the room next door.
I have tried this with a total of 3 Boss TU-2 tuners.
Does anybody else have this issue? | i use one live and ive never had a volume drop ive had it cut my sound all together and even with new batteries it still didn't work i think im just gonna get a danelectro and forget the tu2 
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05-23-2010, 09:08 PM
| | Player Characters fear me... Moderator | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Middletown CT, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by solutionbassist i use one live and ive never had a volume drop ive had it cut my sound all together and even with new batteries it still didn't work i think im just gonna get a danelectro and forget the tu2 | coulda been broken, plugged in wrong, or my favorite, someone could have stepped on it muting your signal. Overall I and all the cats i know who use one find it to be a pretty indestructible pedal. Just sayin'
and come on Bryan, it's a stomp box! it has the magic tone suck of a non true bypass unit, ergo, it's an effect........... That and the folks here will have the most knowledge about such things seeing as they are always looking at the floor and stepping on stuff............  |
05-23-2010, 09:14 PM
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