But believe me, once you get used to tuning this way, it’ll become second-nature. Also, the tuner is so sensitive that once you make an adjustment, you have to remove your hand from the tuning knob because the slightest pressure will affect the tuning. You have to get used to moving in much smaller increments than what you might be used to. The bigger screen really helps.īut there is a bit of a trick to tuning. When the string is in tune, the checkerboard stops moving. If it moves clockwise, the string is sharp and vice-versa if the string is flat. With a strobe tuner, what you get is a checkerboard pattern that sweeps left and right to indicate the sharpness or flatness of your string. I was so used to seeing a needle sweep over a gauge. I have to admit that the first time I used a strobe tuner, it was a little weird. The + and – buttons scroll through choices. The middle turns on the unit and acts as the menu selector. The clip’s springs are pretty tight, but not so much that you can’t squeeze the clip open, and combined with the silicon pads will ensure that the clip stays put on your headstock. Damn! That thing is readable! And with the higher number of pixels, the readout is super smooth.
The kicker for me is the comparatively large screen to other tuners. And even though they’ve gone with a plastic body, it doesn’t feel at all cheap. But when I listened to the recording, wow! It was truly a revelation.Īll Peterson products are built rock-solid. That said, you have to get used to the sound because up close, it might sound a little off.
With standard, equivalent tuning, it sounded okay but tuned with the ACU (acoustic) Sweetener, it just seemed to ring so much better. I noticed it especially with recording my acoustic guitar. That’s the best analogy I can come up with for Peterson’s Sweeteners. People don’t necessarily know that you’ve shined your shoes, but they notice that you look a bit sharper. The difference is like wearing a nicely shined pair of shoes. In any case, the Sweeteners are extremely subtle, but the first time I used a sweetener for a recording, I noticed that my guitar just sounded better. They’ve gone to great lengths studying the actual sounds that come off a stringed instrument and have come up with special tuning algorithms for different types of instruments that they call “Sweeteners.” A Peterson rep shared with me that for their acoustic Sweetener, JT’s tuning influenced their algorithm. According to JT, strings will ring a little sharp, so he actually tunes each string down a few cents per string – not evenly – as each different string requires a different adjustment.Īnd this is where Peterson tuners have always stood out. And that’s great – you might be thinking that at this point, there might be a “but” in there… Yes, there is…Īs James Taylor puts it, because of how guitars are constructed, and how the strings vibrate, the actual sound that they produce when plucked is not actually in tune if you tune the strings to their exact tuning. The StroboClip is super-accurate at 0.1 cent, which is pretty incredible. So tuner manufacturers have strived to get as accurate as possible, getting into the tenths of a cent (or even the hundredths of a cent). So it stands to reason that the more accurate your tuning, the better you’ll sound. An accurately tuned guitar can make the difference between sounding just okay and sounding incredible. And with this updated, upgraded version, I’m a very happy camper!īelieve me, not all tuners are made the same. It did the job okay, but there was always something special about the sound of a guitar tuned with my StroboClip. Tone Bone Rating: 5.00 ~ After my original StroboClip got stolen last year, I went with a cheap Snark tuner. Comparatively larger, HD, backlit LCD readout.50+ Sweeteners for different kinds of instruments – thank goodness the guitar ones are first.
But it’s really the Sweeteners that have always sealed the deal for me.Ĭons: None for me as I used the original for a long time (until some a-hole stole it at a gig), but using a strobe tuner will take a newbie a bit of time to get used to. This thing just works and it’s accurate – very accurate. Pros: I said pretty much everything in the summary. But add to that a larger, high-definition, and a high-contrast screen, then throw in a high degree of accuracy, then add Peterson’s unrivaled “Sweeteners,” what’s not to like? Summary: Peterson is the pioneer in strobe tuning and this new version of the highly-acclaimed StroboClip is a huge improvement over the original StroboClip which, in my opinion, just couldn’t be beaten. Peterson StroboClip HD TM High Definition Clip-On Strobe Tuner
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