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Dingwall Owners Club
- Thread starter FroggyOne2
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Nothing else is comparable to the Turbo tuner, assuming that you get along with the super-high pitch resolution and the strobe-style display.Question to all the european dingwall owners : what do you use for a tuner ?
I tried to buy a ST300 but nobody has it here .. well musik-produktiv supposedly has it but their website does not work
People with OCD tend to not like the visible drift with strobe displays, and prefer a simple Lock indicator. I like strobes, because I can see the natural pitch shift as the note decays. This lets me decide whether I want to tune based on the initial attack, the final decay, or somewhere in between. It also makes it easier to recognize a bum string visually.
Just as important to me, is that the high resolution of the TT gets you closer to the exact pitch centre, even if you weren't able to get the display completely frozen.
With a Boss tuner, where the lock window is so wide, you may be "in tune" with one string just shy of 1 cent sharp and an adjacent string just shy of 1 cent flat. A 2 cent difference is enough that the slightest additional movement will be audible to just about anyone with a decent sense of pitch.
In my experience, the end result is that an instrument tuned with a Turbo tuner can drift further before the tuning error is audible. This creates the illusion that the tuning and intonation on my basses and guitars is more stable, when it's actually just a byproduct of using a higher-resolution tuner.
If you can't order a TT-300 locally, maybe consider order direct from the company, or look for a used ST200?
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Strobe tuners are nice, but modern Peterson pedal tuners haven't been king of the hill for quite a while...
The Strobostomp HD's accuracy is only 0.1 cents. This is much better than the +/- 1 cent that Boss advertises for the TU-3.
However, the Turbo Tuner is +/- 0.02 cents, almost an order of magnitude better than the Peterson.
I'm not familiar with the HD, but older Strobostomps had some durability issues including cracked displays. The Turbo Tuner ST-200 and 300 are absolute tanks.
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Orange may not rhyme with anything, but it pairs nicely with a wide variety of pickguard colors. Parchment, cream (-sicle), pearl, and black are all great--you can't go wrong. Of course, the fretboard and neck/headstock woods may have an impact on the choice.
I use the Peterson Stomp Classic on my workbench for doing intonations. It is nice and stable and easy to read.
I use the ST-300 mini on my pedalboard, joined at the hip to the tuner output of my Line6 Relay G70 wireless receiver. It is always on, and is fast reading and super easy to read under all conditions. But for doing intonation jobs, it is so sensitive it becomes dizzying to try and read it, mostly probably a function of just my aging eyesight combined with the fact that it is so bright.
If I had to pick just one, I would pick.... BOTH.
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BurningSkies
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Yeah, I really want one...in the way that anyone who already owns a couple polytunes and an ol' Korg rack tuner can want yet another tuner.Alas, it's more space than I want to give a tuner on my board right now.
...I also just dropped $$$ on a SA C4 and Neuro Hub, so that's probably all my expendable gear cash a few weeks.
Keen to hear your thoughts on the C4 vs the Future Impact, by the way.
BurningSkies
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Meeee tooooo.
So far Sweetwater hasn't taken my cash dollars, though I've been invoiced for it. Even though I told them to charge it out ahead of arrival, I think their system won't let them. BTW, buying the pair (C4 + Neuro Hub) and asking for some wiggle on pricing from my rep netted me 24$ in additional discount on the two.
I'm looking at the C4 as two things:
-Expansive envelope filter designing tool kit.
-Synth lab with (hopefully) usable programming interface & effects suite.
They both interest me, maybe the envelope filter more than the synth but I could be surprised. And the MIDI implementation will be a factor. I've become woo'ed to the world of one-button multi-effect patch switching across a standard pedal board.
On the Synth side, I know there's a lot of what reads to me as cork-sniffing "nothing can live up to the quality of the FI processor and patch tone"...but there's a whole lot of patch types that I don't really need and I'm not looking to clone specific song-tones like many FI guys need.
...also many of the other pedal synths sound like envelope controlled fart-generators (Hell, even some of the FI tones are like that).
To me parchment and cream are far enough off from bright white that I enjoy it, but I totally agree about clinical bright white.
Thank you.
I feel like it’s already being darkened by the tort guard and black would get things into a Halloweeny/ spoopy season territory. I’ve never really seen a black pearl guard I liked. But to each their own!
I’m gonna go with parchment and then when the itch strikes a few months down the line, Terrapin will have the template and I’ll probably order the aged pearl.
Good point on the “orange + black PG = Halloween”
I think the aged pearl would tie the body and the fretboard colors together the best
I think the aged pearl would tie the body and the fretboard colors together the best
It's hard for me to get used to the look of the reverse P configuration. I know mine would probably benefit from doing that as well, but the look is preventing me from trying (plus I don't have a pickguard). Are they making P-Tone pickups in the straight shells for the SJ5/SP5?
Well, my bridge pickup is an FDV and I believe the shape/size is universal across the range now, so you could probably buy any P-tone and have the body routed for it to fit.
I’m not wild on how the reverse looks, but I love how it sounds and that’s what matters most.
I do as well, but I am not sold on the tone. Specifically the D and G strings. My SJ5 (PJ) is more even across all the strings and I wonder if it's the pickup spacing (the SJ5 P's are about 1/4" closer to the neck and the bridge is in the 70's Jazz position), the pickups (SuperFatty in the bridge) or just the differences in those particular pieces of wood. My SJ5 is an older version with the chambered body as opposed to the newer thin bodies as well, so there's that too, I guess.
