Clip on tuners

[wingwalker]

Whats the one to have??

 

[guitargod2u]

Whats the one to have??

not sure on the "one" but i use a intellitouch pt-10 clip on tuner as my main tuner.. haven't had any problems with it and i'm not worried about being in 100% tuning since if i bend or something i'm sure it will just go out of tune a little anyway.

 

[GASaholic]

The Peterson clip-on looks good

 

[Dale]

I have 4 Snarks. They work pretty well. A little brighter would be nice.

 

[teleclem]

The Peterson clip-on looks good

Yeahp. It gets rave reviews.

But it's much more costly compared to the Snarks, which are pretty cheap. Quality's questionable though.

 

[lp_bruce]

Love my Snark. I went into the music store to buy one and was looking at the more pricey ones (can't remember which). When I asked the salesman (who I know... I'm a regular) to recommend one, he handed me the Snark. I was surprised to see it actually cost less than the others too. I use it live with my acoustic and around the house on everything. Quick and easy to read.

Peace,

 

[musicman1]

I have the Korg...frankly I think it sucks especially next to a pedal tuner of almost any kind. No matter how I mount it, it always favors a sharp reading and even when the string is allegedly in tune, the gtr seems to be sharp. Also, it just cant lock onto the low E string very well. Cant tune on the fly as you always have to activate it when you want to tune. Its ok at best for a reheasal situation but Id never use one on a gig. For less than the same price of a headstock tuner buy a decent plug in chromatic tuner especially if your gtr stays in tune well. You could even intonate with a decent regular tuner as well.

 

[Taylor 339]

I have the Korg...frankly I think it sucks especially next to a pedal tuner of almost any kind. No matter how I mount it, it always favors a sharp reading and even when the string is allegedly in tune, the gtr seems to be sharp. Also, it just cant lock onto the low E string very well. Cant tune on the fly as you always have to activate it when you want to tune. Its ok at best for a reheasal situation but Id never use one on a gig. For less than the same price of a headstock tuner buy a decent plug in chromatic tuner especially if your gtr stays in tune well. You could even intonate with a decent regular tuner as well.

I just picked one of these up and am experiencing the same thing as you are.

 

[TNO]

The Snark is really good. Very bright display. The Planet Waves mini is compact enough to leave on the guitar all the time.

 

[geodr]

Snark $10

 

[Trotter]

The Snark is fast, accurate, and $10... doesn't get much better than that.

 

[Tweeker]

The "one to get" for fast, accurate and bright is the newest Snark SN8.
http://www.snarktuners.com/cliponst.html

 

[Christoph R.]

http://store.daddario.com/category/471249/NS_Mini_Headstock_Tuner

works great & love the size!

 

[Craftmatic]

I got the Snark for $8 with the MF match and 10% price-beat policy and I have to play each string on the 12th fret harmonic to get an accurate reading (well, as accurate as it gets compared to my ST-200 Turbo Tuner). If I just pick an open string it always goes into the yellow which I find annoying.

 

[lord preset]

I've tried three - the Crafter which works great - the Sabine, finicky tracking - and the Fishman which is a complete POS (won't track at all much of the time, inaccurate, spotty battery connection, etc)

There doen't seem to be much relationship between price and performance for these products.

 

[mcdonaldkd]

Snark!

 

[Dale]

The "one to get" for fast, accurate and bright is the newest Snark SN8.
http://www.snarktuners.com/cliponst.html

Great! I just ordered 3 of these. If they are a nice as my others but brighter I am a happy ol' fart.

 

[wingwalker]

This thread enforces my fears...I am putting together a small grab and go gig board and was thinking I might leave a tuner off of it and just use a slip on but it looks like I was wrong!

What kind of accuracy do these things have?

Do they work if you use a capo?

 

[wingwalker]

http://store.daddario.com/category/471249/NS_Mini_Headstock_Tuner

works great & love the size!

Interesting that Ned Steinberger designed a headstock tuner when his claim to fame is a guitar with no headstock!

 

[Dale]

This thread enforces my fears...I am putting together a small grab and go gig board and was thinking I might leave a tuner off of it and just use a slip on but it looks like I was wrong!

What kind of accuracy do these things have?

Do they work if you use a capo?

My experience is that they are as good or better than most pedal tuners. They are not a Peterson or Turbo but they are easily better than say the popular Boss or my Planet Waves pedal. I do not see a need for the pedal tuner live anymore.