korg pitchblack rack tuner

[walterw]

My amp has a mute button

does it have an option for a remote footswitch to mute? that's all you need then. bass straight into amp, "tuner out" from the amp to your rack tuner, amp mute footswitch to kill your sound when you want, done. it'll still tune when the amp is muted, right?

a tuner that's always tuning whether you're muted or not is a good thing in my book! you can look back whenever you happen to be playing a long open note and check your tuning, and grabbing a key and tuning down to drop D is a lot faster when you can hear it while you do it, watching the tuner when you're close so you can get it perfect.

 

[walterw]

Full disclosure, I've got another tuner on my pedalboard (ST-300) because I like redundancy, but it also give me the mute when I want it.

then you should lose the rack tuner! whatever it is, it's not as good as the ST-300, and is just taking up rack space.

frankly, rack tuners are mostly pointless; they really only make sense when you have no pedalboard and want everything to be in the one rack. that's why they've long been abandoned by guitar players, who pretty much always have pedals in front of them.

 

[beaglesandbass]

then you should lose the rack tuner! whatever it is, it's not as good as the ST-300, and is just taking up rack space.

frankly, rack tuners are mostly pointless; they really only make sense when you have no pedalboard and want everything to be in the one rack. that's why they've long been abandoned by guitar players, who pretty much always have pedals in front of them.

Pretty much the only reason I have one in my rack.

When we play on a smaller stage, go ampless with my pedalboard- which has a tuner on it.

No reason to have two. That's valuable space in a rack that could be used for something else, or get a smaller rack and lose some weight.

 

[47VevetS]

Tuner works on the buffered signal from the amp right?

 

[ArtechnikA]

Just some generic responses from personal experience...

• It has a button _and_ footswitch input for mute.
• Mute only works when the tuner is in the amp input loop.
• But the tuner _out_ is on the _back_ of the tuner, so you have to (somehow) route a cable to the front where your amp's inputs presumptively are, I used a Dremel to carve a slot in one of the plastic rack ears. Poor design...
• But it turns out you don't want the tuner in the input loop anyway, because it is, as has been reported by others, a massive tone (highs...) suck.
• So I drive it from the 'parallel out' signal from a pedal or my wireless receiver.
• Would have been nice to have the tuner in the loop since my rack amp has no mute, but I couldn't abide the tone suck.

I used it a lot (like every day) when I was getting up to speed on fretless.
It doesn't really take up 'extra' space in my rack since I sized the rack to accommodate it from the beginning.
It's small enough, light enough, and cheap enough that I have no regrets having it there even though I don't use it much these days.
If I play a venue big enough to need the rack rig, I'll be glad I have a tuner I can see from a distance.

 

[kulit17]

very surprised to see no one stated the obvious and posted a link to the manual. page 2 gives an illustration on how to connect everything as well instructions on how to use it.....surprise, surprise. kinda find it humorous that the OP would do a search for pictures of the front and back of the tuner instead of searching for a manual.


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[Goatrope]

then you should lose the rack tuner! whatever it is, it's not as good as the ST-300, and is just taking up rack space.

frankly, rack tuners are mostly pointless; they really only make sense when you have no pedalboard and want everything to be in the one rack. that's why they've long been abandoned by guitar players, who pretty much always have pedals in front of them.

Like I wrote, the rack rarely comes to gigs anymore. So it's sitting most of the time. I admit I'm a gear hoarder, but there was a time I didn't use a pedal board, so the rack was it.

I've upgraded and downsized all my gear in terms of weight, but I rarely sell anything. Micro amps, neo cabs. Life is good.

 

[ArtechnikA]

very surprised to see no one stated the obvious and posted a link to the manual. page 2 gives an illustration on how to connect everything as well instructions on how to use it....

True that.

But for all its highly illustrated and multilingual glory, it neglects to mention how you get the 'out' signal to the front of the rack where the amp expects it, or that you really don't want the tuner in the loop...

 

[kulit17]

True that.

But for all its highly illustrated and multilingual glory, it neglects to mention how you get the 'out' signal to the front of the rack where the amp expects it, or that you really don't want the tuner in the loop...

touche!