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Clip-On Tuners --- best and cheapest

#81
It was a few months back, but hellomusic.com had a promo where they gave $10 credit to all members.

Including shipping, I payed $1 for a Snark SN-5. Tunes spot on and I haven't looked back since.

(my band leader also has a habit of nabbing it for his acoustic. I use it to tune up at the beginning of practice and then he clips it on his for the rest of the time)
 
#84
I keep a Snark SN-5 clipped to the bridge of my upright at all times. The battery has lasted for 5 months and the display is still bright. I need to tune the E with harmonics sometimes, but other than that it works great. As an extra added bonus, I keep it on sometimes at gigs and can get a real time reading on my intonation. I love the little guy!
 
#96
The newer Snark Super Tight SN-8 is my favorite. Brighter, faster and slightly more accurate than the originals. I have a lot of tuners. I bought a few Planet Waves NS tuners and hate them.

They don't grab the notes, no matter where I put them on the headstock. I bought them (the minis) intending to leave them on my basses, but the location of the switch causes them to turn on when in the gig bag, insuring a dead battery every time I take my bass out.

When I tune instruments with the NS, guitars or basses, they don't match any other tuner I have, including the Snarks, my Korgs or my Peterson Strobe tuner.

I hate 'em. I have three...and they all act the same. I use good, new Sony or Panasonic batteries. Waste of money.
 
#97
I clip mine (and I guess it is a micro, not mini) to the very end of the headstock on my Fenders. Plenty of space there and plenty of vibration so I don't have any trouble with it picking up the low C (I tune CGDA). One of my basses has a drop tuner on the C and with the NS micro on the other end of the headstock there is no issue with it at all. I can clip it on the headstock near the Hipshot extender key and they don't interfere with each other but it picks up low notes better out on the end. On that bass the Hipshot is set up to switch between C and the A below C (or B) and it picks up the A just fine too. I don't see why it would have any problems with a low B if it picks up notes on either side of the B.

Ken
 
#98
I have several of the recently discontinued, 3-color, Planet Waves NS headstockers. I love them; very convenient, sensitive, and accurate. I leave them on my Fenders. I got two of the new mini(er) ones. A little smaller, but I'm not crazy about them. I have to pluck the strings pretty hard to get them to register. Seem to be a little better on my Jazzes than on my P's. YMMV, of course. PW offered to take them back for product credit (I didn't buy them direct.) which I thought was great customer service. I think I may keep them and keep trying since they're a litte more compact.

khutch said:
I clip mine (and I guess it is a micro, not mini) to the very end of the headstock on my Fenders. Plenty of space there and plenty of vibration so I don't have any trouble with it picking up the low C (I tune CGDA)...

Ken
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Thanks, Ken; I'll give that a try on my Fenders and see if that helps.



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#100
I had 3 headstock tuner each for my bass, its samson, NS mini, NS/PW micro (the newer one)

IME the samson was the best among three of em, quick detect open low B, drop-D even a drop-A (I use detuner for my 4str and 5str bass)

the NS mini had a better performance than the new one, its quicker than the newer micro model, and brighter screen. YMMV
 

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