I also found I was in tune no matter what pedal/knee lever combo I used so I am very pleased with this tuner. My band played a song that was in A and as I slid from the 5th fret A to pedals down A open, it was dead in tune with the band which I never noted using any other tuner. If you play in clubs where the DJ typically plays 5X louder than the band then you will love this tuner in that respect.After tuning my steel to the E9th presets in the quite of my bedroom, I was amazed at what I heard.I really don't think I have ever been in better tune.Same thing at the club that weekend. Nick, For what it's worth,I've been using a Korg tuner for years and recently decided to buy the Peterson VS-II I think the Peterson cost about30% more than a TU12 but you get a very useable leg clamp and a really cool carry bag.
I invested in a Peterson tuner when I was in Dallas this year and when I used the programmed settings the difference was astounding,I really did feel that I was playing with better tone and expression and I would recommend this tuner to anyone. One of my steel playing friends always commented on me being a little out of tune and we had several (sometimes heated)discussions on this. I tuned for many years with a Boss TU12 and memorised the spot where the needle had to be for each string and I thought I sounded ok. I am one of those unlucky people with cloth ears which have had a lifetime in industry and I envy all the guys who can tune their E's with a tuner and then do the rest by ear. I like it alot for the presets and large accurate display. If you want to test drive one before making the decision, you can borrow mine. I have a VS-II and several others including a TU-12H and it's no contest between the VS-II and the other tuners. Whether it's worth the price?, over a less expensive (and less accurate) tuner? I don't use the pre-programmed Steel Guitar tunings, but it does have two memories where you can program your own. I don't remember what the published tolderance is, but it's extremely accurate. The tuner's accuracy is much better than any needle or LED type tuner. If want to tune your G# at -4 on Tuesday and -8 on Wednesday, you would have to re-program the machine, or make a guess by estimating how fast it appears to spin. They only let you compare to a pitch that you have programmed into them. BTW the fact that some harmonics may be in tune while others are not is called "inharmonicity".Ī disadvantage of these tuners is that they don't tell you the pitch of your string. After all, you can't tune each harmonic independently. It allows you to see each of the lowest 4 or 5 (6?) harmonics simultaneously compared to exact multiples of the fundamental. The wheel has bars that go by at the frequency you want to tune to, and 2,3,4,5 etc times that frequency. That is: it creates a display that looks like a light flashed by your signal shining on a wheel.
It emulates in software what a real strobe tuner does. it's not using a timing check light or anything, so how does it work, and what advantages does it really offer?Īwfully stupid question, I guess, but I'm just trying to understand the reasoning behind paying an extra $200 for a tuner. Not having used one (getting by with a TU12H), I can't quite understand what the difference is between a regular electronic tuner, and a "strobe" tuner. Topic: What's different about Peterson Strobe tuner? Your profile | join | preferences | help | search What's different about Peterson Strobe tuner? Classic country shuffle styles for Band-in-a-Box, by BIAB guru Jim Baron.