Repair of Korg Tuner

Mike Bagwell · From: Greenville, SC, USA

I have 2 Korg tuners models AT 12 & WT 12 that are broken. Does anyone have any ideas about getting them fixed? I called Korg and they were of little, they just directed me to our local electronic guy and he doesn't work on this type of equipment.
I would welcome any help or suggestions.

Thanks
Mike

Jack Stoner · From: Kansas City, MO

Without sounding like a smart a$$, but you'll probably never find anyone to fix them or if you find someone getting parts will be a problem let alone the cost of repairing them. If Korg can't do anything, I seriously doubt that you will have any success as there are no schematics that I know of around for them.

Unfortunately they fall into the same category as a lot of equipment, anymore. They are "throw away" items and a new one will be less expensive (maybe not as good but cheaper) than repairing it - if you can find someone to repair it.

I have a WT-12 and it died on me. I got into it and played around with it and it started working. It was just blind luck and probably something that a "drop test on the floor" would have fixed.

Gene Jones · From: Oklahoma City, OK USA, (deceased)

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[This message was edited by Gene Jones on 06 May 2002 at 09:43 AM.]

John Russell · From: Austin, Texas

Maybe we can start a Korg users group like the old Commodore 64 users groups, etc. After reading your post, Jack, I went and fished mine out of the trash. The damn thing cost me about $140 and that was in 1980! The meter is so easy to read and I never did mind dialing up the correct octave. It really made that needle sit still once you found the right one. So ya just need to jiggle the handle, huh?

The Boss TU 12 that replaced it just never measured up, but I did see a new Korg the other day and it may be worthy of its namesake. It had a LCD display and looked pretty much like the old WT 12's meter. It was about 1/8 the size of the WT 12 and I think the price is in the $30-40 range. JR

John Russell · From: Austin, Texas

Oh, BTW, I did a gig last week and the guitar player had a new Ovation guitar. All carbon graphite, composite whatever, (wood neck) but it had a tuner built into the guitar! Just turn down the volume and tune up.

So how about it PSG builders? What's so hard about a built in tuner and maybe an EQ and delay while you're at it! JR

LARRY COLE · From: LANCASTER, OHIO, USA

Try the Korg AT-120. It is better in everyway than the WT-10 or WT-12. It has a bigger meter, automatically tells the note and octave, shuts itself off if you forget, the meter folds down to protect the face, has sound, a headphone jack, will tune in Hertz or Cents and you can calibrate it to anything from I think 430 to 450. I paid $220 for mine and a local store ordered it for me.

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LC. WILLIAMS U12, SHO-BUD PRO1,CARVIN TL60

[This message was edited by LARRY COLE on 04 May 2001 at 09:28 PM.]

Jack Stoner · From: Kansas City, MO

I've found the LCD type "meter" displays to be slow and not good for steel. My wife has one of the Korg CA20 Chromatic Tuners she uses with her Bass and I've tried it on the steel and I wasn't impressed with it unless you tune everything to "0", but for $16.95 I guess you can't expect it to be that good.

John Lacey · From: Black Diamond, Alberta, Canada

I've had my WT-12 for over 20 years and the darn thing refuses to die. It sure does meter well and years ago I had a friend install another small bulb in the display so there's lots of light. I've tried one of the new ones and they're very good too, but quite expensive up here, around $500.

MALCOLM KIRBY · From: Crofton, KY USA

I contacted Korg a few years back for tuner repair. They wanted $40 to look at it.

I agree with Larry. AT-120 works best for me also.

Bill Crook · From: Goodlettsville, TN , Spending my kid's inheritance

If you can stand the price..... DTR-1

I've been useing this one for a couple of years now & would'nt trade it for anything !!

Roger Miller · From: Cedar Falls, Ia.

Don't deal with Korg. Please take my word for it, they lost my rack tuner when I sent it in. Then after they fixed it, they could not find who in shipping would send it back. 6 mo. for a repair, don't mess with them, buy another, throw them away. I sent them a Dt.1 pro rack tuner.

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