Mrs. P ordered me a Turbo Tuner stompbox.

[Prages]

It came in today.

Holy Crap!!!

I never thought I'd say this about a lowly tuner, but this thing is amazing.

I'm going to be spending the next week or so setting the intonation on all my guitars.

The video is no joke. It really is instantaneous readout and the display is so simple to read, even a drummer could do it. :D

[Mark Wein]

* googles "Turbo Tuner" *


drools.

[telecaster911]

The literature says + - two hundredths of a cent. If that is true, that will drive you crazy on stage. Especially with the Floyd. I'm guessing it's marketing and it is + - 2 cents though. The steel player had a peterson strobe tuner and it made me absolutely crazy. Looks cool though, would like to try as I need another tuner. :aok:

[Mark Wein]

Actually I think thats the tuner the r-dub has....I'll check it out in his Wednesday night class...

[telecaster911]

Just dug a little deeper... The accuracy of the crystal is + - .02 cents. The pitch adjustment is incremental in .1 cents. This seems a more likely spec for repeatability. Probably + - .1 cents repeatability, very respectable. :aok: Waiting to hear more review.:cool: Like I said, I need another tuner...so.

[SLBluz]

I like mine just fine.........once I got used to using it......of course it's just at home not at any gigs. It's extremely well made.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v512/CaptDick43/Tuner.jpg

[Prages]

I just used it to set up my bass. I put on fresh strings and adjusted the intonation. It worked great. Setting the intonation was far easier than it ever was with my old $20 Korg, and I'm sure it's a lot more accurate too. All of the strings were sharp, some more than others. Now they all read correctly up to around the 12th fret.

BTW, if any of you bass players ever start to feel like the sound of your bass is too dull and undefined, new strings are your friend. I love the piano like brightness and sustain of new strings on a bass.

[White Gold]

holy crap...i just lloked it up...

that's a preety trippy piece of equipment

[Help!I'maRock!]

how does it work with your floyds?

[Prages]

how does it work with your floyds?

It works fine with them. Most of my Floyds are blocked to drop pitch only, and with those, it works just like on any hard tail guitar. With the floating Floyd on the US Masters, it took a little longer to get it dialed in, but it still wasn't too bad. Setting the intonation on the Floyds is a bit of pain, since I don't have 'The Key' (yet). Still, I didn't have any more trouble using it with the Floyds than I did with the bass...I mean, it's just like using any other tuner with the Floyd...just use the same little tricks. For instance, once you get it pretty close to being in tune, if you tune the low strings a little bit sharp, then by the time you get to the high E, they'll have dropped down to almost in tune. With the floater, it took me maybe 20 minutes to get it in tune, but that was after taking all the strings off, cleaning the fretboard, and setting the intonation.

I plan to mount it to my pedalboard tomorrow morning for my gig tomorrow night.

[12Pack]

Yes - I picked one up the about a month ago - Once I got comfortable with it I can tune my guitar in half the time.

On Sunday night during rehearsal - I tuned during an intro that the other guys were playing - My part came in and bam - I was done with the tuning - never had to stop and hold everyone up.

You can predefine setting on this too - like open G tuning for example.

This does kick ass compared to other tuners - no doubt about it.

[Help!I'maRock!]

Yes - I picked one up the about a month ago - Once I got comfortable with it I can tune my guitar in half the time.

On Sunday night during rehearsal - I tuned during an intro that the other guys were playing - My part came in and bam - I was done with the tuning - never had to stop and hold everyone up.

You can predefine setting on this too - like open G tuning for example.

This does kick ass compared to other tuners - no doubt about it.

how long does it take to program?

[12Pack]

how long does it take to program?

Not long - You have to put the tuner in edit mode. Then read some indicator lights to make sure you editing the right bank and string. You would have to edit each string automatically - but once it is saved - you don't have to edit it again. You simply save your open tuning - or whatever tuning you need.

Off the shelf it comes with guitar - chromatic - bass - 6 string bass and I think dropped D tuning. You could use the chromatic - then edit the others as you see fit.

[Help!I'maRock!]

i only ever use chromatic mode. it does make me wonder though.

[Prages]

I haven't taken it off of chromatic mode yet. :o

[baimun]

Just placed the order for one. biggrin

[Prages]

You won't be disappointed. I still can't believe how much I like this tuner. messedup0

[baimun]

In all the years I've been playing guitar, I've never owned a tuner. :p


The one in the Nova made it easy to silent tune, but wasn't as accurate as my ear especially for intonation.... so I felt I needed to get a real strobe tuner.

[Prages]

The only tuners I'd owned before were the cheapie Korgs.

I think the Turbo Tuner will be accurate enough to satisfy you though. You can also program your own temperments in there, so if you're used to hearing your b string a few cents flat or something, you can program that temperment in there.

I haven't, but you can.

[baimun]

I was always a cave man about it when I gigged. We would tune during our breaks (usually Floyd Rose with downtune only) and if a guitar went way out of tune during a set, I'd just switch guitars until the next break.

I just want to get the tuning and intonation super accurate on all of my instruments so that I can use an A/B/C switch into my looper and not have any problems when switching instruments or when playing along with other musicians.

This weekend, I hooked up my looper to it's own amp (took it out of the loop from my guitar) and used two mics... one on the cabinet of the guitar amp, and one on a mic stand. I layered vocals in with rhythm and chords.... it was sweet with the loop coming out of one speaker and my solo coming out of another. :aok:

[baimun]

Turbo-Tuner arrived today. Love the size of it... like an MXR phase... It'll pop right in the guitar case. :thu:

[Mark Wein]

hmm.....you guys shouldn't be tempting me like this...

[Mark Wein]

OK. I just ordered mine...I'll probably have it by mid week :o

[Prages]

You will love it, Mark.

[Mark Wein]

You will love it, Mark.


It seems to be the only pedal tuner other than the Peterson that can do the Fieten tuning offsets, and I've always been leery of the display on the Peterson for gigs....

[Prages]

It seems to be the only pedal tuner other than the Peterson that can do the Fieten tuning offsets, and I've always been leery of the display on the Peterson for gigs....

Well, mine got rained on over the weekend and seems to be fine. No glitches with it at all, unlike my Barber and EVH Phase 90, which both suffered from shorted LEDs (though they seemed to function fine).

[Mark Wein]

Well, mine got rained on over the weekend and seems to be fine. No glitches with it at all, unlike my Barber and EVH Phase 90, which both suffered from shorted LEDs (though they seemed to function fine).

Thats a pretty good endorsement. The only thing better would be if someone dropped it in a pitcher of beer :D