Clip on tuners that pick up low B string?

Have you tried a snark? I use it on my 6 string and it picks up the low b without any issues.

 

No. None of them are good. The best way to go is a small Korg out a side jack. Accurate. Inexpensive.

 

Have to disagree. I have a Korg Pitchclip that works very well. I would never intonate a bass with it, but for simple tuning of open strings, including the B, it's good.

 

I use a Snark clip-on, it seems to work fine with my low B-string.

 

I would have said snark, but I've had several of them, and the my latest, snark "super tight", is iffy on B and sometimes E.

 

I'll +1 this. My pitchclip picks up my low B no problem.

Though I do use a Korg tuner that goes directly into my jack, as the headstock tuner gets iffy when there are too many vibrations on stage.

 

Use the 12th fret harmonic and the clip on tuner will work fine.

 

+1 Ric5. My thoughts exactly.

 

Really. Don't fight the problem, solve it.

 

I use a Boss TU10, works nice enough on my basses.

 

Yeah, that was the only way I could get a Snark to work reliably - especially with drop tunings... I ended up giving it away, and going back to using either a racked tuner, pedal type, or a Pitchjack... I won't be buying any more clip-on tuners, most likely...


- georgestrings

 

In my studio I use my Conn Strobotuner that I bought on eBay for twelve bucks (really!) but at gigs I use the clip on. It works fine, though I have to chime the octave for it to pick up the B string.

 

No problems with my Snark or Planet Waves NS tuner, but it might depend on the bass. These pick up on vibrations, right?

 

+1 for snark...

 

The octave harmonics 12th & 5th frets) are exact octaves of the open string. This has nothing to do with set-up, it's how the physics of a vibrating string works. If your tuner tells you accurately that the open string is in tune but the harmonic isn't, you have a bad string and it doesn't matter how you tune.

Because tuners work by could to g vibrations over a time period, usi g a higher frequency, like the 5th fret harmonic, gives it a higher sampling rate, hence more accuracy. That's more important when dealing with very low frequencies on the order of 40 Hz. or less.

The Snark works great on my Lakland Skyline 55-01.

John

 

+2 for Snark

 

My Snark works just fine.