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Post subject: clip on tuners
Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2015 6:27 pm
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:roll: I use a Korg GA-20 LCD tuner. Thinking of getting a LED clip on, but don't know which one. I've seen then from 9 to 99 bucks. Anyone have any suggestions? Do you like it and is it accurate? Thanks for your input.


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Post subject: Re: clip on tuners
Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2015 7:15 pm
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I use a Peterson clip on strobe tuner. They are very accurate and easy to use.

Here's a link.

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ ... Hwod0voHpQ


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Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2015 8:29 pm
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I have 3 clip-on tuners.
A $17 Snark, a Peterson Strobo-Clip and more recently the TC PolyClip.

The Snark is nowhere near accurate enough for my ear.
If you are used to the Korg CA-20 then it likely won't be accurate enough for yours either.
At some point I will give it to some newbie who has none and consider it a lesson well learned.
Lesson being: you get what you pay for.

I find the Strobo-Clip gives me the best state of tune of the three but's it's also the slowest to use.

I pretty much use the PolyClip exclusively now. It's fast, insanely easy to read and accurate.

As a sidebar, I don't find much use for clip-ons on electric guitars, preferring to plug one in. I only use clip-on on my acoustics. I find on solid bodied guitars, my ear disagrees with a clip-on every time but it never disagrees with my StroboStomp or my PolyTune.

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Post subject: Re: clip on tuners
Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2015 8:49 pm
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I'm using the TC Electronic, polytune clip. It works great. 8)

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Post subject: Re: clip on tuners
Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2015 9:53 pm
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Love the TC Polytune on my pedalboard so planning on picking up a Polytune Clip.

Had a handful of Snarks. . . Just not durable enough out in the world.


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Post subject: Re: clip on tuners
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2015 6:16 am
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Deja vu...we discussed this a few months ago here:

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=99387&hilit=Clip

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Post subject: Re: clip on tuners
Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2015 9:32 am
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JazzHat wrote:
Love the TC Polytune on my pedalboard so planning on picking up a Polytune Clip.

Had a handful of Snarks. . . Just not durable enough out in the world.


I use the Polytune Mini, in conjunction with the polytune clip also. A good combination. 8) I had a couple of Snarks break apart.

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Post subject: Re: clip on tuners
Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2015 6:50 pm
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:roll: Thanks to all for the replies. I guess it's like " which is better, lager or guinness?" Sorry Mike, I d
didn't pay attention to the previous post. But, I'm probably older than you, so I am excused. Kids!!! Think I will look at what's new from Korg when I go to the Veterans day sales. I served. Thanks to all.


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Post subject: Re: clip on tuners
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2015 3:14 pm
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I use a POS clip-on from Reverb that cost me $0.99. Works ok, but slow to register on low E. For my electrics, I mostly use the tuner on my Mustang III v2 amp.

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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2015 12:49 am
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I use a Snark.

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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2015 3:07 am
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I have 2 of them. One is a Fender which works fine and the other is a Epiphone which came with my DR-100 package that my wife got me back in July. They both serve their purpose but IMO, nothing beats my old Korg GA-30.


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