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Recommended Clip-on Tuner


blinddrew
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I thought there was already a thread running about clip-on tuners but I couldn't find it so...

The battery was running out in my clip-on tuner when I was in the pub last monday so I asked a mate if I could borrow his briefly.
What a revelation.
I've been using one of these: but to get it to register on the lower strings I've been needing to use the harmonic.
The one I borrowed was one of these:
A Snark SN2. It works perfectly. Good clear consistent signal with no need to move to harmonics. Even works well in a noisy environment.
Important to know that there are two models - the SN1 is designed for guitars, the SN2 has an extended register and a built in microphone and is the one you want for a double bass. Can't recommend it enough.

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[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1387204607' post='2309280']
I got an intellitouch PT10, it cost about £10 from Amazon.

Also changes colour to green when you're in tune.
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I've got one of these too - works fine for the low E and the colour change makes it really easy to read on a dark stage.

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I've got a Snark tuner too,
It's really good, and well priced,
It works superbly at home

but I do find it picks up other sounds, and isn't quite so easy to tune a DB
in a pub environment, where guitars and vocals are going on in the background
This is with it switched to the vibration setting too...
This may be partly due to my pickup system having a mic of course.....

EDIT: At my last gig on saturday,
I took along another tuner, and connected it to the Tuner output of my Markbass amp
This suffered from other noises going on too
Again, must be down to having a mic as part of the pickup
In future gigs, I'm going to try tuning with the output from the mic turned down to zero

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I also use the Snark tuner on both my electric and EUB. Works great and battery seems to last and last. Very accurate and pretty fast to latch on but mine also doesn't like lots of loud ambient noise, normal conversation buzz is fine but it gets confused with a loud guitar going off in the vicinity!

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The guitarist I'm playing with these days isn't particularly loud
either when playing or singing
It really doesn't take too much background noise level to interfere with the Snark

Funny enough, he's got the very same tuner
and says exactly the same thing!

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