Snark making a BIG mistake! Buy yours now!

[HelpImaRock]

Just like you need ID to buy alcohol or rec weed, they should have plain old tuners with good old batteries for folks too old to have kids

You have to show your AARP card to get it tho.

 

[Jefenator]

IIRC my Snark broke before I could run down one battery.

 

[edwinhurwitz]

I am not a fan of Snark tuners, but I was very happy when Peterson went to rechargeable. I found myself with dead coin cells and no spare far more often than I've ended up without a charge and not having a spare battery is much harder to fix than just plugging the thing in for a few minutes. The charges last a long time and can charge up quickly. If you are setting up and notice that it's low, by the time your rig is put together, you've got enough juice to get through soundcheck, if not the gig.

All that said, headstock tuners are a compromise at best. They can be OK, but nothing beats a Turbo Tuner or Peterson Strobostomp.

 

[Bar Band Bassman]

My Peterson Strobo clip-on's battery went dead from lack of use. Rechargeable seems like a good idea, IMO. I have a rechargeable fan and IEM. Charge them both in the car. Always ready to go. Works for me.

BBB

 

[vvvmmm]

I like the replaceable battery ones, myself, because you can use the used battery for a greenroom game of tiddley-winks, see.

They are also useful to throw at misbehaving drummers, and if their back is turned they might never learn or know what hit 'em.

If you don't

 

[gln1955]

This is likely in response to the "danger" of children thinking coin cells are something good to eat and figuring out how to open your tuner.

They are also useful to throw at misbehaving drummers, and if their back is turned they might never learn or know what hit 'em.

So, don't throw them at your drummer.

 

[WRM]

The issue is that if your tuner has reached the stage that its battery won't hold enough charge to last from when you charge it at home to when you need it at the gig, you might not discover that until you're at the gig. So it's not the same as having one with a coin cell, and having spare coin cell.

Sure, you can bring more than one tuner to the gig.

But the issue for me is that when the battery becomes useless, the whole device becomes useless, because you can't change the battery. So those devices are potentially quite wasteful.

I have some sub-C cells that I picked up to use in an RC engine glo-plug igniter, and they finally got to where they wouldn't even hold a charge overnight! I can depend on C cell Alkaline batteries.

 

[Mastiff_5]

Fun fact: you can buy a snark at GC, get the pro-coverage for less than 5 bucks, and mark your calendar. Then give it a good, long soak in the bath, take it back and get another one under the pro coverage.
You get a new snark every year, forever. So it doesn’t matter if they don’t last. You always have a new one.
Lame, but true. Just sayin’.

 

[HelpImaRock]

I am not a fan of Snark tuners, but I was very happy when Peterson went to rechargeable. I found myself with dead coin cells and no spare far more often than I've ended up without a charge and not having a spare battery is much harder to fix than just plugging the thing in for a few minutes. The charges last a long time and can charge up quickly. If you are setting up and notice that it's low, by the time your rig is put together, you've got enough juice to get through soundcheck, if not the gig.

All that said, headstock tuners are a compromise at best. They can be OK, but nothing beats a Turbo Tuner or Peterson Strobostomp.

If Sonic Research ever came out with a Turbo Tuner Clip, I'd buy it instantly.

 

[Jack]

Good news. I have one of these in my gig bag as a backup should the two tuners on my pedalboard fail. Or more likely the power supply I suppose. I never have spare coin batteries but there's always a few usb chargers around. For the best imo.

I have never liked or needed clip on tuners. The most basic requirement of my basses that I gig with is that they stay in tune for a minimum of 1 set. I use my tuner at most once before each set and 99% of the time, that is only to verify tuning. My pedal tuner is plenty adequate and convenient for that and it is more reliable than clip ons.

Sure most basses will last most sets, but there's always the outliers. See the above story about led lighting. Or sudden air-conditioning. Or the sun going down during a festival set. Drunk dancers knocking into you. Etc etc.

So… days before your gig you wouldn’t be working on stuff on your own and getting all your things kinda together and check your gear before taking off for your gig?

Wild.

Never! My gig stuff is my gig stuff and stays in my gig kit bag. If I took anything out of there at home I'd forget to take it to the gig.