kdstag - Posted - 08/25/2008:  17:44:00

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What do yall use? I have an Intellitouch which works on the five string but won't pick up notes on the reso. Time to get another... thanks.

Square Neck - Posted - 08/25/2008:  20:38:00

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Try to play a 12th fret harmonic, your tuner should pick it up. Or get one of these.......

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They are very small gut have a big display and are easy to read! Everyone seems to love them except the buttons can rattle when you play hard. I carefully covered the front of mine with one piece of clear tape and no more rattle!!

Good luck on your quest!!

meldooby - Posted - 08/26/2008:  08:44:58

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There are hundreds available, and most are good. Right now my favorite is my Fender plugin with an adapter off another tuner that lets me do strictly acoustic through the Fender. The Fender has a wide range that really fine tunes things.

Mel

oldredneck57 - Posted - 08/26/2008:  15:10:19

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I use a Boss TU12H chromatic tuner. I like it. My brother uses some kind of strobe tuner for his pedal steel.

"The choice was all his but the truth was and is. The cross in the middle should have been mine. "
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MitchC - Posted - 08/26/2008:  19:21:56

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I just use a cheapie Korg to tune the high D, then the rest by ear... tuning the B's a bit flat to what sounds "in tune"

dpete210 - Posted - 08/27/2008:  14:28:20

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For the most part I like the IMT 500 as it clips to the headstock. I have 2 and each can be irritating due to lack of response. But they work much better than the older Intellitouch clip on tuner for about half the price. A word of caution on the IMT 500s. They can damage the finish on some headstocks. A friend's Deering banjo shows the damage, and I have a Taylor acoustic guitar that was adversely affected. I no longer leave the IMT 500 on the instrument while I'm not using it. The tuner I like best is my Sabine MT9000. I also have a trusty Korg tuner that I can use either on my acoustic or my 5 string bass guitars.

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El Dobro - Posted - 08/27/2008:  17:49:40

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I have a couple of old Korg chromatic tuners that I just lay on top of the guitar when tuning. They're very reliable and when they ever bite the dust, I'll just buy another Korg.

I don't like keeping tuners clamped to the instruments because they can discolor the finish and they can also wind up becoming a crutch.

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banjomon - Posted - 08/28/2008:  08:21:07

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Like El Dobro, I have a couple of old Korg chromatic tuners that are actually still great tuners. At one time they were all I used.

These days, due to portability and ease of use, I'm using only the IMT-500 clip on tuners on all my instruments - guitar, banjo, mando and reso. These little tuners work great for me.

If your IMT-500 doesn't seem to pick up on the bigger strings very well - they will if you do not pluck them with a pick and instead just use your bare finger. For some reason the pick seems to confuse the tuner on the lower strings.

YMMV......

sitnslide - Posted - 08/28/2008:  10:48:13

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I have a Peterson Strobo-Flip. Super tuner with built in dobro tempering if you choose. I have the pickup clipped to my music stand so the stand acts like a big mike. Works better than clipping it to the headstock, or the internal mike, in my opinion. Anyone else tried this?

I have one of the little clip-ons, too. An Intellitouch. Ok for the price.

Chris in Pair-O-Dice

BoiDetroit - Posted - 08/30/2008:  21:56:48

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Originally posted by MitchC

I just use a cheapie Korg to tune the high D, then the rest by ear... tuning the B's a bit flat to what sounds "in tune"

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Mitch is correct to flatten the third (B in his example). A guitar, steel or otherwise, will sound better if you learn to hear the intervals. A guitar tuned to a electronic tuner will not play in tune. I will use a Planet Waves strobe tuner to set the bridge saddle position on a standard guitar and to help set the pedals on the Multi-Kord (yeah, I lied, I really do got pedals).


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DougB - Posted - 08/31/2008:  11:53:33

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Intellitouch works pretty well for the price although you will find yourself making minor adjustments on certain strings to get the right sound for yourself. Strobe tuners seem to be the best. I never felt that a tuner was a crutch and I've only met one person in my life that could tune without one and he still needed a starting point. Maybe I misunderstood the statement but there's nothing worse than out of tune players. To me tuners are just like picks and steels, we sound better with em. Pickngrin, D.

BoiDetroit - Posted - 08/31/2008:  22:04:57

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Originally posted by DougB

Intellitouch works pretty well for the price although you will find yourself making minor adjustments on certain strings to get the right sound for yourself. Strobe tuners seem to be the best. I never felt that a tuner was a crutch and I've only met one person in my life that could tune without one and he still needed a starting point. Maybe I misunderstood the statement but there's nothing worse than out of tune players. To me tuners are just like picks and steels, we sound better with em. Pickngrin, D.

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Doug is right. Most of us need a starting point and D is a good one for GBDGBD. Having perfect pitch (knowing concert pitch by ear) is rare and I met two people that had it. One was my father and he would hand me a tuning fork if my guitar was off concert pitch. On a fretted instrument it is important to temper your tuning to get chords to sound in tune up the neck. It's no different than a piano. On a slide guitar tuned to a major chord the third should be a little flat.



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