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102 of 104 found the following review helpful:
 It is a Korg so you know it's good Aug 03, 2005
By Tony Thomas
I've been playing the guitar about 45 years, acoustic, electric, and nylon string. I like Korg tuners and find them the best, particularly for the money, not only for my guitars but also for my fiddle and my banjos. They are small, sturdy, and no frills. They are accurate and inexpensive. They work easily.
This is the only real guitar tuner that I like. I have other guitar tuners that are pretty good that are not really guitar tuners but chromatic tuners with guitar settings. This is small accurate and sturdy and fits easily inside your shirt pocket or inside the small compartments in a guitar case.
It does have features for other settings which are great for alternate tunings.
Don't be fooled by the Intellitouch and other strap ons. You can't figure out all their arrows as well as the dial on Korgs and others. They are too much trouble to use especially is you are doing precision work like setting up an adjustable bridge.
The only thing is that they can be a bit unreliable if the a battery gets worn down. I usually check in new batteries every time I am going out to play some place serious.
With the discount prices you can find in shops and around the web, the only way to beat the price on these tuners is to steal one!
14 of 15 found the following review helpful:
 Tuna Your Bass (or Guitar) for a Shrimpy Price! Jul 27, 2008
By M. Allen Greenbaum
This ridiculously inexpensive tuner is an amazing value. I've had mine for over five years without a hitch, and it's kept an electric bass, and electric and acoustic guitars in tune, quickly and easily.
It features a flat rectangular panel display which--if you're anywhere near the right note, detects which string you're trying to tune. So, if I'm tuning the 5th (A note) string of a guitar, I hit the open string (i.e., do not place your fingers on any of the frets), and a meter will show how far flat (left of center) or sharp (right of center) it is with the snall built-in microphone. Stop the vibration, and then turn the tuning key of the guitar until the meter settles into the center of the screen. If you're tuning a bass, switch it to bass, and it will re-set for the those strings.
Electric instruments are easy to tune because you can connect the guitar/bass output directly to the tuner (instead of, say, an amplifier). Acoustics tune well also, although getting the meter to center is not as precise or just-so accurate as a more expensive digital meter. For most purposes the tuner is MORE than adequate, and any beginner bass and guitar books will show you how to refine the tuning by sounding the same note on two different strings.
The KORG has a nice feature for instruments that are WAY out of tune, hit "Sound" and the tuner sounds out each string's tone. If you're really without a clue on what the proper range of tones, I suppose you could have all your strings one octave high or low--but, really, absolute beginners should have little or no trouble getting the hang of it. The tuner also has a button to produce the next 5 flatted notes. (Not being a very advanced musician, I haven't used it, but since it's on a basic tuner, it must be useful!)
It takes 3 AAA batteries, and the tuner doesn't seem to burn them up. For the beginner to intermediate player, it's an inexpensive, useful, and reliably accurate tuner within its non-digital display capabilities. MOre advanced players, performers, and perfectionists may want to spring for the pricier tuners, but this will suffice for the vast majority of those learning to play.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Great value Mar 14, 2007
By Michael J Edelman
This may not be the best tuner on the market- my Boss TU-12H is more sensitive and accurate- and it's not as rugged and convenient as my Boss stage tuner. But it may well be the best value of any tuner on the market. It's cheap enough to put one in the case of every instrument you own, and accurate enough to do a better job that you can with your ears alone. At that price, there's just no excuse for not being in tune.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
The best so far Sep 22, 2006
By Pedro Villarroel
At least the best that I've tried. I am not a professional player or anything, I've been trying to learn to play the guitar for years it seems but never have, so here I am trying again. This is my third tuner, and as I said before is the best, is the most accurate of them all and very easy to use.
If you are looking for a very accurate and very much affordable guitar tuner you can not possibly go wrong with this one
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 Good all around Sep 20, 2007
By T. Cooper-Novak
"KEEP IT HEAVY!!"
this a GREAT tuner for the price. it allows you to tune to all veritaions such as drop D and C tuning and such by just add "Flats" with the flats button. it allows you to tune any acoustic guitar with its mic function. and im sure it does a lot of other things i havent figured out yet! GREAT DEAL!!
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