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Topic: Experience with Sonic Research Turbo Tuner? |
Jon Irsik
From:
Wichita, KS USA
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Posted 9 Jan 2009 9:10 am |
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Has anyone used this tuner on steel? The guitar forums are full of people who swear by them...there is a chromatic setting and adjustable presets:
http://www.turbo-tuner.com/st122-index.htm
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Brian McGaughey
From:
Orcas Island, WA USA
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Bill Patton
From:
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 9 Jan 2009 2:35 pm
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I have the Sonic Research Turbo Tuner and I couldn't be happier. It's rugged, accurate, true-bypass, and very easy to read. You can program any temperament in 1/100th of a cent increments, and with one button you can toggle between temperaments, including standard chromatic tuning for guitar or whatever. It's also compact (smaller than a Boss pedal), and battery life is very long (estimated to be a year or more, if I remember correctly). I had a Peterson Strobo-Stomp which I hated - it was hard to read, flimsy, ate batteries, and eventually broke in three different ways (the display came unglued, the battery compartment broke off, and it was periodically issuing a loud low buzzing sound into the amp!) I can't think of a single bad thing to say about the Turbo Tuner.  |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 9 Jan 2009 5:15 pm
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An update to my posts on the referenced forum thread about the turbo tuner. After having it for about a year, it doesn't seem to be as accurate as my Peterson strobe o flip. I have the exact same E9th and C6th tuning temperments programmed into both of them but when I tune with the Peterson my steel sounds in tune. When I tune with the turbo tuner some strings just don't sound in tune. If I compare some strings there are small variances between them and probably what I'm hearing.
But, with my Telecaster I can tune with either and it's in tune. |
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