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Korg rackmount tuner decision

JTGale

JTGale

Oct 26, 2004
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#1
I have had a Sabine tuner in my rack for years now and I am finally fed up with it. It just takes too long to register and is hard to tell from any distance what note it is trying to register. So, it is a shoppin' I go! :D

I have been looking at the Korg rack tuners for a while now and am wondering if anybody has any thoughts as to which model they have and why they prefer it. I like the idea of being able to see which note is registering from a distance and Korgs, in general, are pretty good products.

Should I go DTR-1000 or consider the DTR-2000? I have a rack light on my Furman and don't necessarily need that function. So is the DTR-2000 worth it over just that?

Any help with this decision is greatly appreciated!
 
#5
I have a DTR 1000 and love it.

The 1000 and 2000 are functionaly idential the 2000 just has a couple features the 1000 doesn't. They are as follows:

As mentioned a light on the front.
2 inputs with an a/b switch
MIC input to tune acoustic instruments
Reference tone generator to tune things you can't hook to it ( think of it like an electronic tuning fork )
displays in CENT and Hz as well as the standard output

The 2000 will also tell you what string you are playing if you tell it what kind of instrument your playing. On a bass guitar this really only works well with a 4 sring. If the string played is anything other than EADG it reads L or H for lower or higher.

Thats it.

To me personally the difference between the 1k and 2k seemed like glitter and fluff mostly and I decided I liked the 1k's more straight forward just do it and not be flashy about it aproach.

I think the difference in price is usually about $100 retail.

Hope this helps.

-Rav
 
#6
Rav said:
On a bass guitar this really only works well with a 4 sring. If the string played is anything other than EADG it reads L or H for lower or higher.
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Thats not true. Maybe the model has been revised from the one you tried.

Also the DTR-2000 does strobe tuning, that the 1000 does not. Strobe is alot more accurate than conventional.
 
#7
...both Sabine and Korg rackmount tuners are accurate within +/- 1.0 cent. So the question is, are you getting more accuracy for more money?

Peterson tuners, on the other hand, are supposedly accurate within 0.1 cent.
 
#8
DLM said:
...both Sabine and Korg rackmount tuners are accurate within +/- 1.0 cent. So the question is, are you getting more accuracy for more money?

Peterson tuners, on the other hand, are supposedly accurate within 0.1 cent.
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I think the bigger question is how accurate do you really have to be? I think they'll all work fine in respect to accuracy and what you actually hear.
 

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