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Tuners, what are these all about then?.. This is aimed at those of us who don’t read the instructions.
Sit back and I will try and explain just what I mean, So there I was buying my 1st guitar( this time round) and like so many other 1st time guitar buys this one also came as a package, gig bag, stand, and the all important tuner. “clip on, turn on and tune in” is probably how the radio ad would sound.
And that is just what happened and I have to add here I was happy with this in my blissful ignorance to what these things could do….
Guitar/bass/violin/chello is there nothing that these little battery powered wonders couldn’t tune, and there is the metronome, wow. now I could keep time and stay in tune if I had one of those..
It is about time I added a picture ( for those of us who like pictures and not a lot of words)
The little “Fender” tuner was the original of the group but I decided that it wasnt good enough cos as already mentioned I needed a metronome/tuner because, well. just because…
That was when I added the JB500, Now I could get the metronome to work alright, the tuner was defeating me big time, for some reason my guitar strings wouldn’t tune and God knows just what I did with the instructions, who in their right mind needs instructions anyway..jeez, Im a grown up and someones grand dad, I don’t need instructions….It must be broken.
That was when I introduced the Polytune to my now growing collection, this is all singing all dancing, what more could a modern man like myself need, It has strobe lights like a 70’s disco…man, I am sorted.
Well, you would have thought by this time I would have been, but nope. that just isn’t the way things work.
I decided that I needed another tuner, one that would sit discreetly on the headstock of my guitar which no one would notice and I can tune my guitar like a pro…yep, you got it. it is time for another picture..
This my friends( if anyone is still reading this drivel) is a D’Addario mini, another all singing all dancing tuner, which comes with instructions but as I have already established, I don’t need those….
Hmmm this is strange, I cant seem to find the auto tuning setting on this one, whats this HZ thing all about then,Hmmm looks like some sort of scale. I know what to do with this, find a HZ number on the tuner and tune my guitar to that…470hz, bingo.. yeah…er, maybe not… the G is tuning sharp, why is the G tuning sharp..why isn’t my guitar staying in tune, dear God this here modern technology is pretty rank rotten..
I went back to the original “Fender” tuner and seen that all the strings on my guitar even though they were tuned to EADGBE but all way too high, WTF is going on here I asked myself.
Time to google some instruction on tuners..
440HZ is the magic number, I didnt know we had a magic number for standard tuning because I took it for granted that all tuners would do standard tuning, well. that and the fact that I didn’t read the instructions….
I would like to say though now that I can compare the results from 4 tuners and using my “Fender” tuner as the benchmark that the others +/- by 1 or 2
thanks for reading my ramblings...Billy..
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