I use mine at band practice and home practice. Like others have said, you don't even need to be plugged in. I think I paid around $5 for mine. It's a very handy gadget to have. I wouldn't use it live, though.
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Clip on tuners??
- Thread starter shawshank72
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I do not leave my house without my Snark SN-8. It comes to gigs and rehearsals with me and I have a backup and I carry some extra batteries. Great tuners. Bright, fairly accurate and inexpensive. My only gripe is the rubber grip pad on the outside arm of the clip falls off and is tough to glue back on.
From a certain distance, mine picks up vibrations from other speakers. The instruction booklet even mentioned not standing near a stereo or other amps when tuning because they can throw it off. I'm not sure if that's true for all tuners, but it is for mine.
When playing live, I think you would be better off with a pedal. I have a Korg tuner on my pedal board which also acts as a mute function when activated.
Yup Snark 8 the black one gigging nearly every weekend had it for over a year now and it is still on the same battery.
I had a tiger clip on tuner which was great but has decided to now randomly throw a wobble after only 6 months. Not a clip on tuner but I use the Korg pitchJack which plugs directly into the guitar Jack and can be shoved in your pocket. I really like it!
I don't like the snark. It is slow to read the E string, especially if you ever tune down at all. Also, with loud rock and roll guitars in the room , forget it, the vibrations from them render my Snark useless. They also look silly live on stage, IMHO, and diminish a rock and roll aesthetic vibe.
Go buy a nice 6 pack of microbrew instead.
Go buy a nice 6 pack of microbrew instead.
I use one made by Fender, works great. Even picks up the low B, which I will tune to at rare times on the E, just fine. Works good in loud rooms too. My guitarist is always asking to use it. $25. I recently picked up a Polytune Noir mini so I've been using that more and more but I will bust out the Fender every so often. I always thought I would stick with the clip on, never saw a point to get a pedal tuner. Until I got one. The PT Noir is awesome. So is my Fender clip on though.
Bought a snark just to test it out a little and havent used my pedal tuner in three years since. Things are awesome and accurate. never had a problem with interference from other sounds live. also, to get the e string tuned up quick use the harmonic on the 12th fret no prob
I have a Peterson clip on strobe, Intelli touch PT-10 & PT-20, Several Planet wave mini's mostly using the PW mini's on most used bases. Live use either a Boss TU-2 or the TC poly tuner my rack has a Peterson rack mount strobe tuner.
I really like the clip on tuners as well. I have a Snark (the blue one). One thing I'll say though, mine got knocked around a bit from gigging. And this has caused it to not pick up my E string at times and at other times it'll read the strings wrong, I'll pluck the E it says it's in tune, but it reads it as an A. I mute the strings for a second, pluck the E again it comes up as an E, perfectly in tune. And of course it'll do this type of stuff from time to time on the other 3 strings as well. So just take care of it and don't let it get knocked around!
I didn't care for the Snark - compared to my other tuners(DTR-2000, Strobostomp, Pitchblack, and Pitchjack), it tracked much slower, and wasn't as accurate - I ended up giving it away with an amp I sold...
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