Murph Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 My Boss TU-12 has been dying a slow, weird, unstable death to the point where I had to break out my 20 year old Seiko ST707 the other night, held together with duct tape for the last 10 years. I'm giving lessons to a special needs kid and he has a cheap clip-on and the damn thing works better than my Boss did when it was new. So I ordered a Fishman clip-on from Sweetwater, but it might not make it today so I'm gonna load a free one on my iPhone. Why have I not thought of this until this morning? My brain still thinks old school....... How's the Plusadd Chromatic Lite? What's YOUR choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassetman Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 The Snark " Super Tight" tuners are cheap and work well. Never found an app tuner that worked well.....yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 I have tried about 3 or 4 of them just to see about it. They all seem to do the job in a pinch. One thing to note, if you try to intonate with them, you'll get varied results, they don't seem to handle that for some reason. for clip ons, they do work good I've got three Planet Wave NS tuners, from various versions, and one of the newer Snarks. They work just fine. The NS are nice because they are very small and discrete but have a bright screen and are pretty fast an accurate When I really needs something accurate tho, (like setups/intonate checks) I use my Peterson VS1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluesKing777 Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Polytune from TC Electronics has a phone app tuner. (You get a surprise if the phone rings whole tuning though!) BluesKing777. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olie Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 If you go to Fender's website you can access a tuner for free. It's sonic though, not colored graphics.Just click on "Community" and you'll find it there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortyearspickn Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Ive got the free app - "p!us add tuner PTU-2" on my iPHone6. right now. The latest in a series as I've changed phones. It's OK, but I finally got as unhappy with it as it's predecessors and got a clip-on a couple of months ago. KLIQ Uber Tuner. I'm really pleased with it. The free app one I'd been using was tough to zero in, especially on Low E. The needle would jump all over the place. It had 3 sensitivity settings which seemed to do nothing. But, being Old School - it was much better than when I use to tune by ear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willie King Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Panotuner is good and free and easy to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boyd Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 I got the Peterson iPhone app a number of years ago. It worked, but really not as accurate/responsive as a clip on tuner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldCowboy Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 I use a tuning fork. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blindboygrunt Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Guitar tuna is on my phone Works fine murph And cowboy - a tuning fork ? Really ? 😄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the other side Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Sn1 Snark (for guitar & bass) is least expensive than the super snark (for all instruments). I have compared the two, having the same results. I've tried phone app tuners, but have found less accuracy, especially with the "G" string being off. Of course snark (vibration) vs phone app (sound). SN1 is my preference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldCowboy Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Guitar tuna is on my phone Works fine murph And cowboy - a tuning fork ? Really ? 😄 Yep! Proud to say. ☺ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avery Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 I sometimes use the Guitar tuna app also. Good and free app. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave F Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Panotuner is good and free and easy to use. This is my favorite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
62burst Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 I use a tuning fork. That’s quaint. I’d like to raise a glass to anyone who’s ever had a tuning fork slip from their hand and fall, in what seemed like slow-motion, onto the top of their guitar. Clip-on tuners are nice in that you don’t have to ask everyone to please shut up so that you can tune. Martin also has a free tuner app from their site. Gibson ought to have one of their own; they could bling the tuner app up with some animated hummingbirds that come out and hover when you’re in tune, etc. As a backup, nice to have a tuner app on your phone in the rare event you ever find yourself in a guitar shop and find the guitar isn’t remotely in tune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave F Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 That’s quaint. I’d like to raise a glass to anyone who’s ever had a tuning fork slip from their hand and fall, in what seemed like slow-motion, onto the top of their guitar. Clip-on tuners are nice in that you don’t have to ask everyone to please shut up so that you can tune. Martin also has a free tuner app from their site. Gibson ought to have one of their own; they could bling the tuner app up with some animated hummingbirds that come out and hover when you’re in tune, etc. As a backup, nice to have a tuner app on your phone in the rare event you ever find yourself in a guitar shop and find the guitar isn’t remotely in tune. Gibson does have one. Gibson +StudioShare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russell Davis Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 The phone app I had at the time wasn't in agreement with my Snark on what should be A440, so I had to send in the old tuning fork to settle the disagreement. The Snark was declared the winner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted January 21, 2017 Author Share Posted January 21, 2017 So here's a question? I got the (Plusadd chromatic Lite) ap and it works OK, but I'm wondering about the ads. If I'm not in wifi will it pull ads from my data plan? What if I'm in the woods with no signal? Do ALL of the free aps use ads to make them free? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
62burst Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 A guess would be that the Plusadd works like Pandora- you will still have pop-up ads; the non ram stuff will already be loaded to the app. The Martin tuner app (Link) does not have any ads, and the lower right corner of the meter shows an actual measured frequency for the note (or double that for it’s 12th fret harmonic) being played- don’t know how accurate these Hz readings are, “my oscilloscope’s in the shop, waiting for some new Sovtek tubes”. ;). I did, however clip on two other tuners to the headstock; a Planet Waves micro tuner, and an Intelli tuner which has a display bright enough to help you walk around in a dark room. Here are the frequencies for std guitar tuning: String Frequency Scientific pitch notation 1 (E) 329.63 Hz E4 2 (B ) 246.94 Hz B3 3 (G) 196.00 Hz G3 4 (D) 146.83 Hz D3 5 (A) 110.00 Hz A2 6 (E) 82.41 Hz E2 The Martin tuner app was surprisingly accurate, and doing the math (2x the expected open string Hz for the 12 th fret) might expose some intonation issues for that string. Although, personally, the mic-based &/or 1/4” input tuners have always picked up the bass guitars or the low E of the guitar better, the Planet Waves Micro clip-on tuner picked up the bass strings better than the other clip ons, without having to hit the 12th fret harmonic to get a good reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mz-s Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 Guitar Tuna works well for me. I also have a Snark clip-on that I use most of the time. You can get a clip-on tuner for $2 shipped from Reverb: https://reverb.com/item/204704-reverb-clip-on-tuner (use the coupon code 2dollartuner). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fsharp Posted January 22, 2017 Share Posted January 22, 2017 Gibson does have one. Gibson +StudioShare I guess Gibson has 2 - there is L & M Guitar Its got a tuner, chord patterns, metronome. Haven't used it much for tuning only because its easier to throw on and see a Snark clip-on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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