leave clip-on tuner on while performing?

[Holdsg]

I voted sometimes, because sometimes I forget to take it off after tuning.
I do agree it's kinda lame, but I'm also just lazy enough not to care too much if I leave it on.

 

[LBS-bass]

I guess you’re missing the point - good music being in tune is the cost of entry. Everything else is chaf.

Did you not get what I said about ears vs. eyes? Or listening versus seeing? Didn't think I'd have to explain this three times. Wanna try again? You're sitting here agreeing with me when I say sound is more important than appearance, but you apparently think we're fighting about something.

 

[Loring]

Did you not get what I said about ears vs. eyes? Or listening versus seeing? Didn't think I'd have to explain this three times. Wanna try again? You're sitting here agreeing with me when I say sound is more important than appearance, but you apparently think we're fighting about something.

not at all - I’m saying the ears are the bare minimum. Without that you have nothing. That isn’t to say you can’t have more...

The most important thing isn’t the only thing.
Icing on the cake as it were. Can’t have a cake without cake but most times icing is the finishing touch...

 

[Btbp]

D’Addario NS micro... barely seen

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Are those Jazz necks on those Ps?

 

[staurosjohn]

Are those Jazz necks on those Ps?

Yup- the Oly White one has an American Special & the Black one is a Geddy Lee (CIJ). I have, since, changed the waterslides to ‘Precision’ (for aesthetics) I also put Hipshot Lollypops & Fralin 10% overwound pups in the Oly White.

 

[Btbp]

Yup- the Oly White one has an American Special & the Black one is a Geddy Lee (CIJ). I have, since, changed the waterslides to ‘Precision’ (for aesthetics) I also put Hipshot Lollypops & Fralin 10% overwound pups in the Oly White.

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Looks good. I plan to put one on my P. My G&L L-1000 has a J neck as well.

The American Special - did you get that from another bass or buy direct from Fender?

 

[Btbp]

Since I'm posting here I should probably post on topic -

I have one, an Intelli I bought in Singapore, it works ok but I wonder which brands work better than others.

Before that I preferred, actually, to tune to someone's A and use harmonics. I only recently got a TC Tuner, so the clip-on rarely comes out of my case. I have no feelings one way or another about clip-on use. I certainly don'e Clip-on Shame.

I supposed I'd be considered a Luddite to admit that until I lost it years ago, I actually preferred to use my tuning fork, it was a good, solid one.

 

[staurosjohn]

Looks good. I plan to put one on my P. My G&L L-1000 has a J neck as well.

The American Special - did you get that from another bass or buy direct from Fender?

Thx! I got the neck from ‘The STRATosphere’ - Guitar Parts, Bodies, Necks, Pickups, Fender, Gibson and more | The STRATosphere
I’ve gotten 10 or 11 necks and/or bodies from them!

 

[Michedelic]

I can think of worse on-stage optics than clip on tuners...white socks with sandals, cargo shorts, men who look like they’re 7 months pregnant, man buns.

 

[StereoPlayer]

Must be a perfect world for ya.

 

[vvvmmm]

Pedal tuners, for me, are sometimes hard to see.

And they waste space on the pedal board.

And I have more than one pedal board so cost.

And tuning by ear (which I can and do in proper context - I recall one Banjo Mart employee being amazed) can annoy audiences, other musos, recordists ...

And finally, clip-on tuners are good to have to throw at the geezers hitting on my after-show date.

 

[Lagado]

'Tis as a fly that hath perched on the end of your nose.

 

[Polkatronixx]

Watching a local band perform on televi-zee-own & the bass-player had his tuner on the headstock for the entire show.

Maybe it helps with all the resonance.

 

[landrybass]

just turn it around to the back side if you have to. Ive seen some headstocks damaged by leaving them on all the time though. So I wouldnt do that.

 

[H. Bob]

Watching a local band perform on televi-zee-own & the bass-player had his tuner on the headstock for the entire show.

I too leave it on because there is often little time between tunes to clip on, wait for the display to come up, and tune. Staying in tune can be challenging in situations where there are frequent temperature shifts caused by a doors opening and closing, HVAC systems kicking on and off, etc. D'Addario's micro tuner is great because it is very small, inconspicuous, and can be clipped-on with the display behind the headstock where no one will see it.

 

[netminderchuck]

D’Addario NS micro... barely seen

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I like the Jazz neck on the P bass. I’m thinking of doing that as well.

 

[tri2bob]

Seems a bid vain to even worry about this. It's the music that matters.

 

[ccfalkner]

lol at the pretentiousness of the people in this thread. You guys have your heads way too far up your own ass if you think anyone cares what you have clipped to your headstock, especially the bass player... hell I’m the singer and bass player in my band and my own band doesn’t notice when I switch basses or amps, let alone the audience. You guys are a riot. Life’s too short for those hang ups.

I would like to see it devolve into a clip on vs. strap on debate.

 

[ArenW]

I can think of worse on-stage optics than clip on tuners...white socks with sandals, cargo shorts, men who look like they’re 7 months pregnant, man buns.

Are you saying that fat people shouldn’t play music? Or just that they shouldn’t do it in public?

 

[vvvmmm]

Seems a bid vain to even worry about this. It's the music that matters.

Egregious spelling error there - I think you meant, "vein".