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Topic: sonic research turbo tuner |
Steven Welborn
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Ojai,CA USA
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Posted 13 Jul 2010 8:17 am |
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who uses these tuners can you program custom tunings for both necks? thanks  |
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Scott Swartz
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St. Louis, MO
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Posted 13 Jul 2010 8:50 am
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I can recommend the Turbo Tuner (stompbox version).
It really is true bypass, nice solid construction, tunes as accurately as a Peterson, works great.
I have a Peterson VS-II with P1 and P2 programmed for E9 and C6 steel guitar, and I can use the two tuners interchangeably. Given the stompbox design, the Turbo Tuner works great for guitar, fiddle, mandolin use, I often do that.
It stores up to 3 custom temperments, you toggle between then with the two small "mode" buttons, see a pic here
http://www.turbo-tuner.com/pages/manual-st2.htm
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Steven Welborn
From:
Ojai,CA USA
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Posted 13 Jul 2010 8:59 am
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thanks scot, my Peterson Vsam tuner is broken. probably dropped it too many times holding on my knee while tuning. Never liked clipping that big thing on the leg. not very sturdy, hard to read. spent 300 bux for that. the turbo looks more desireable to me at half the price.
so i take it to understand that you CAN do several custom tuning prgrams to bring that feature on par with the Vsam? the C6 and E9 tunnings WAS a cool feature about the Peterson.
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Scott Swartz
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St. Louis, MO
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Posted 13 Jul 2010 9:16 am
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Yep, you can do 3 custom chromatic temperments, exactly like the VS-II and V-SAM has the P1 and P2.
The Peterson also has the "E9" and C6" pre-programmed for you, but I never used those, I want the custom temperments so I can optimize it for a given steel.
Check out the manual here
http://www.turbo-tuner.com/media/ST200_Manual.pdf
It takes a while to get the E9 and C6 temperments programmed, but you only do it once, same deal as on the Peterson for P1 and P2.
Also it looks like Peterson is about to introduce a new stompbox tuner
http://www.petersontuners.com/index.cfm?category=170
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Lynn Oliver
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Redmond, Washington USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 13 Jul 2010 10:37 am
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You can edit the notes of any preset except chromatic, so that gives you up to five custom tunings.
The Turbo Tuner locks on very fast and seems very stable--I've never seen it lock onto an overtone. |
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Tom Wolverton
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Carpinteria, CA
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Posted 13 Jul 2010 3:52 pm
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I've used a Turbo Tuner for about 9 months now and it has been real solid for me. I like it.
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Jack Stoner
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Kansas City, MO
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Posted 13 Jul 2010 4:10 pm
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I've got one and it's as accurate as a Peterson. One feature it has that the Peterson does not is that you can program different settings for example D3 and D4. With the Peterson's you can only have one setting for "D", you can't have two different settings you would need two different programs to have different settings for a note.
I hear, from Don Sulesky, that Sonic is about a month away from a "new improved" model strobe tuner. |
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