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Why are tuner pedals so expensive?
- Thread starter Danilixo
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This is a lie. Everyone know fuzz is the most important.
Also my H9 is an excellent tuner and the price was great!
You get what you pay for. While it s true that not everything that is more expensive is always better, usually, everything that's better is more expensive.
Exactly. It only works 90% of the time.
Don't be a bloody tight a$$.....or, be a tight a$$ and look like an idiot on stage trying to use you mobile phone to tune with all the other noise going on.
I put off getting a good tuning pedal for years. I had a cheap but very reliable plug in korg with a terrible display. Got a snark, those are good. They work fine and you don't look like a doofus with your phone.
Then I got a turbo tuner and wondered why I waited so long. It's money well spent. Buy used if you're cheap (like me).
Then I got a turbo tuner and wondered why I waited so long. It's money well spent. Buy used if you're cheap (like me).
Leaving a clip-on tuner on your headstock looks tacky. Unless you're in a Country Western band.
Well, a pedal tuner can also be used as a paperweight unless it's velcroed down.
Meanwhile, Pitch Lab Lite offers you 6 or 7 different modes such as simultaneous strobe and needle tuning,
polyphonic tuning, and my favorite mode the spectrograph which lets you see the tuning of everything audible for the last 5 seconds or so.
I find that real handy for training my fretless intonation, training my ear or just as an extra visual clue as to what exactly did I just hear.
There's also a pro version that offers a few more features. But it's a pretty damn slick app for free.
Works 100% of the time IME.
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?!??! 
This was a first for me. First time I've heard anyone complained about the expensiveness of a tuner. Like there's some difference between how they sound or audiophile settings on them.
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31 USD...
You can't be serious, are you?
This was a first for me. First time I've heard anyone complained about the expensiveness of a tuner. Like there's some difference between how they sound or audiophile settings on them.
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31 USD...
You can't be serious, are you?
Sucker, I made 12 easy payments of $19.95 for video lessons to achieve perfect pitch
Like if you should buy one of those multi-FX from Zoom, Korg, Boss, or whatever and find that it's the tuner inclusion on all the effects that makes them expensive as hell, and if it would come without one, it should be down at least 100-150 dollars or something...
This one beats me.
This one beats me.
All that and several kinds have one or more power outlets on them to power other pedals.
Never mind that I have had my tuner pedal for almost 10 years now. No telling how many shows, rehearsals, string changes and setups it has done.
Worth every penny.
Honestly, you could make a better argument for overdrives and other actual effects being overpriced. The schematics of most overdrives are stupid simple and the components (box included) probably cost ten bucks.
OTOH I played an impromptu bar gig yesterday, local rural area. With my headless bass. There were 2-3 other guitarists switching between acoustic and electrics. In spite of them tuning up meticulously with tuner pedals between songs silently, and being in tune whenever the song started, they always drifted so much out of tune DURING songs, that they have to dive into their tuner pedals again, between the numbers. All of the evening. So one could really wonder what's the point of having a posh tuner pedal, when their guitars lose it/ lost it as fast as they played a while into the song. I sat, stood, with my volume down on bass all of the time while they took time. I tuned up my bass before leaving home. It stayed. Not de-tuned numbers (thank god, wouldn't believe it how much time it would take the others to do a simple drop D song, in tune).
Probably it was due to that they didn't know they were using floating tremolos and so on, but their acoustics behaved the same.
Some of the punters in the audience asked "how does that bass works?" and I told them cheekily "it was in tune when I bought it", and they gave me that look... but how come I was the only one that not even brought a tuner with me? And had no problems with tuning at all during the night?
Because I parasited on others maybe?
Cunning tip to cheapskate OP: As you can rely on others and just say "oh I forgot my tuner at home...can I borrow yours for a while?" you can get away with spending 0 dough on any tuner.
Probably it was due to that they didn't know they were using floating tremolos and so on, but their acoustics behaved the same.
Some of the punters in the audience asked "how does that bass works?" and I told them cheekily "it was in tune when I bought it", and they gave me that look... but how come I was the only one that not even brought a tuner with me? And had no problems with tuning at all during the night?
Because I parasited on others maybe?
Cunning tip to cheapskate OP: As you can rely on others and just say "oh I forgot my tuner at home...can I borrow yours for a while?" you can get away with spending 0 dough on any tuner.
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I played with a guy once that used his phone to tune.
Once......I fired him after that gig!!
Once......I fired him after that gig!!
