Peterson StroboClip HD Clip-On Tuner | Guitar, Bass, Violin, Ukulele, Harp, Brass, Woodwind, Orchestral

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At MusicRadar, we understand the importance of having a reliable and accurate tuner to keep your guitar in perfect tune. With our dedication to helping guitarists find the best gear, we have extensively researched and tested numerous clip-on guitar tuners to identify the top options available.

First and foremost, we are guitarists, and we want other players to find the right product for them. So we take into careful consideration everything from budget to feature set, ease of use and durability to come up with a list of what we can safely say are the best clip-on guitar tuners on the market right now. Of course – this list can’t go without the Boss TU pedal tuner. This tuner is the successor of the TU-2, which is/was on most of the professional players’ pedalboards. For instance, John Mayerused the TU-2 tuner during the original Trio tour. People seem to like their accuracy in a tuner. In reality, there’s rarely a need for a tuner that’s accurate beyond the standard accuracy. This is around +/- 1 cent. To put things into perspective, one cent is one hundredth off a semitone (or a fret on your guitar). This is combined with a clear and vibrant LED screen and the polyphonic functionality will reveal which of your strings are in and out of tune by simply strumming your strings.If you at any time researched pedalboards of famous guitar players, there's one pedal that you saw at least once. The famous Boss TU tuner. Classic looking stomp pedal that… Gear Review Snark ST-8 – The Little Tuner That Could For most of us, these presets are more cool and nice to have than they are practical. I tried tuning my classical to standard tuning, and then to Peterson’s custom tuning for classical guitar. I couldn’t tell the difference at all. For trained musicians, these will likely be more useful, but for the rest of us, they are just that extra thing to try out and play with. I certainly wouldn’t call this the main selling feature of the tuner. StroboClip’s side menus.

A chromatic tuner means that it will detect any note being played. In western music, there are 12 notes; of course for all of these you can be either sharp (higher in pitch), or flat (lower in pitch), but a chromatic tuner will tell you which note you’re closest to and how far off you are. What makes the Peterson StroboClip HD stand out from the competition, in addition to the super-fast speed and precision tuning, is most certainly its use of Sweetened Tunings. A tuning Sweetener is a slight deviation from traditional Equal Temperament interval spacing that most tuners use, allowing you to accurately tune your instrument, whatever the instrument is! To find the right tuner for you, it’s important to start by asking yourself a few key questions. Allow us to walk you through them: Why do I need a clip-on guitar tuner? On the top of the tuner, there are three buttons. One is for turning the tuner on (long press), and for the setup menu (short press). The other two are simple plus and minus buttons for navigating through the menus. On/Off button in the middle has a distinct surface, to avoid confusion when using the tuner in the dark. Clip opens up to around 3cm, or 1.18 inches. Count on slightly less than that just to be on the safe side. Menus, Sweetened TuningsFurthermore, strobe tuning feels better and more precise than chromatic. You’re not limited by the physical sections on the display. The note isn’t in tune when a LED light on a tuner lights up green, but when the strobe pattern stops spinning. You have to try it to feel this superiority in methods of tuning, but it is definitely there. That’s easy – because you are not a sadist and you wish to keep your bandmates and audience sane! There’s nothing worse than an out-of-tune guitar, or indeed the sound of a guitar tuning up.