#BEST CLIP ON ACOUSTIC GUITAR TUNER PRO#
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They make tuners available in rackmount, clip-on and pedal variations. They cost a bomb, but if you’re after strobe tuning, these guys created it.

Peterson – Top dogs in accuracy and price.All chromatic and all excellently reliable. Cheap clip-ons like the TU-01, the midrange and most famous TU-3 and high-end with the TU-3W Waza. They have one for every occasion, in every style. Boss – The kings of the tuner industry.

#BEST CLIP ON ACOUSTIC GUITAR TUNER PRO#

Several pro guitarists use the Pitchblack pedal.

#BEST CLIP ON ACOUSTIC GUITAR TUNER SERIES#

The Pitchblack series also come in different shapes and sizes depending on the room you have to spare. Offering a range of polyphonic and chromatic tuners, Korg arguably win the fight for brightest displays.

Korg – They look the part and act it too.

Mostly an outdated type of tuner compared to other options. You'll find them in guitar starter packs or in a metronome. They won’t include the semi-tones like Ab. Most models will only show you how far off the strings are from standard EADGBe guitar tuning. As far as home use goes, these used to be the cheapest most viable option however clip-on tuners have probably taken that spot. These are not very useful live because you’ll often have background noise that’ll interfere when trying to tune. These are the least accurate, but will often just serve the purpose of helping you tune-up.

Microphone - Uses an inbuilt microphone to pick up the frequency of the notes that you play.

The screen then shows a rotating motion, even if there’s the slightest difference between the two. A strobe tuner generates a reference frequency and shows you the difference between that and the musical note. A needle tuner uses a microprocessor to measure the average period of the waveform and convert that into an easy to read frequency. These are the go-to for guitar techs, producers and pro guitarists. They tend to be more expensive, but the accuracy is almost always worth paying for.

Strobe - The most accurate tuner available on the market.

Obviously, you can only tune one string at a time unless you’re an octopus, but this allows you to see how tuning one string will affect the others by: strumming & tuning, then strumming and tuning again. They give you a holistic view of what your guitar's current tuning looks like at once. These tuners, like the Polytune 2, allow you to play all your strings at once and easily recognize which strings are in or out of tune.

Polyphonic - A fairly new invention made by TC Electronic and adopted by Korg.

Probably not the best choice for absolute beginners, but the most all-round for any guitarist with at least a small amount of understanding. This is useful for alternative tunings as well – as long as you know which notes you’re after. A chromatic tuner will allow you to tune to every note in the chromatic scale, which is all 12 notes between octaves. These can be found in microphone, clip-on and pedal formats. All tuners can be classified under the following umbrella categories: This guide will narrow down the best one for your needs, be it tuning at gigs, at home or extremely precisely in a studio. There are loads of variations of tuner to choose from, all with their own positives and negatives.

Best clip on acoustic guitar tuner