Clip-on guitar tuners- A fad?

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Ive seen alot of these pop up latley-

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/CLIP-ON-DIGITAL-LED-AUTO-TUNER-FOR-GUITAR-BASS-VIOLIN_W0QQitemZ270223044345QQihZ017QQcategoryZ22672QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Has anyone had any experience with them? How accurate are they compared to the regular plug in tuner or a rack tuner?

Im presuming it sence the vibrations in the neck to gauge weather the string is hitting the right pitch. I have a bit more confidence in plugging a guitar into a tuner, as the signal that is going to the amp comes out of the guitar output, and thats what your plugging into the tuner.

Im a bit sketchy- i want to like these, but i wanna know what others think...

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

For that price I'm guessing they are crap.

My first ever tuner was one of these:

Then I bought one of these and kicked myself for ever tolerating the above:

Of course then I had an acoustic so I also bought one of these:

Both of them kill the first. No waiting for the LCD to react when you hit a string.

 

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haha yeah. boss do rock..but does the TU-2 affect the tone in a recording situation?

 

[Sloan]

I find the clip-on tuners great to keep in your acoustic guitar case or as an emergency tuner.
If you don't use a pedal tuner, they might be handy, but don't tune somewhere where loud shit is going down or the readings might be off.

In a recording situation, don't record with the tuner plugged in.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

haha yeah. boss do rock..but does the TU-2 affect the tone in a recording situation?

I don't leave it in the signal chain.

 

[Aaron Smith]

For the project I'm doing now, we're tracking DIs for reamping and using a POD for listening reference. I didn't want to have to unplug a cable and plug it into the tuner every time we wanted to tune, and I also don't want a tuner in the signal path, so I'm using an A/B switch, routed like this:

Guitar > Radial DI (XLR out > interface, "Thru" out > A/B switch) A > tuner, B > POD > interface

Hopefully that makes sense

 

[garry666]

i tried one out and found it to be absolute shit it just couldnt read the low E for some fucked up reason, id say get a real one.

 

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For the project I'm doing now, we're tracking DIs for reamping and using a POD for listening reference. I didn't want to have to unplug a cable and plug it into the tuner every time we wanted to tune, and I also don't want a tuner in the signal path, so I'm using an A/B switch, routed like this:

Guitar > Radial DI (XLR out > interface, "Thru" out > A/B switch) A > tuner, B > POD > interface

Hopefully that makes sense

nice! i may have to steal that idea

 

[Zack Uidl]

I use a similar approach to Aaron.

 

[Sloan]

woah, doesn't the POD have a tuner built in already?
or are you guys just using a BETTER tuner or something?

 

[Metaltastic]

woah, doesn't the POD have a tuner built in already?
or are you guys just using a BETTER tuner or something?

Yeah, it definitely does, and it's always worked fine for me. *shrugs*

 

[egan.]

IME the pod tuner is a little more 'accepting' than I am...of course I made that assessment on the 2.0 and haven't retested w/ the XT. It just seems easier to use a dedicated tuner to me.

 

[pifos_2]

for recording : http://www.jhc-software.com/gtune.htm