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Location: Michigan | can anyone advise me on what is a good and safe app to download to my phone for a guitar tuner ?
i need something simple and easy , ( like my women )
thanks GWB |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Android or iphone? |
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Location: Tennessee | I use PolyTune from tc electronic on my iPhone. It works great for me. Simple, but every effective. |
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Location: Michigan | motorola droid |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | I can only speak for iPhone apps, but these days they're all pretty accurate. My absolute favourite, TuneUp by Planet Waves, is so good they've pulled it from the apple store. I reckon it was impacting their hardware sales. i couldn't find it in the AppStore, but I found it on the D'Addario site. BUT if you click the link, it takes you to the AppStore to a blank page. A lot of them are free or dirt cheap. Try a few until you find one YOU like. |
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Location: NJ | t c electronics poly tune is the way to go
peterson has a good one also |
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Location: closely held secret | Pitchlab for android is very cool. Accurate as far as I can tell.
Lots of presets (bouzouki!) and you can create your own. 8 different display styles.
Oh, and it's free.
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Location: Michigan | thanks guys i will try them.GWB |
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Location: SF Bay area, California | I'm liking "Strobe Tuner", mine is an Android app. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | I searched for "strobe tuner" and nothing came up. My new phone is Android. (I wish someone would make a smart phone with all the best bits of iPhone and the best bits of Android. I'm liking the android, but iPhone does some things better.) |
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Location: Always beautiful canyon country of Utah | I guess regular tuners are obsolete?? |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | muzza - 2014-06-20 3:18 PM
My new phone is Android. p>
Gees Muzz, playing a wood box, got rid of the iphone. What next? Windows? |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | nerdydave - 2014-06-20 3:34 PM I guess regular tuners are obsolete?? My "regular tuner" is my ever reliable Korg. But I don't carry it around in my pocket. You never know when you're gonna pick up a guitar that's not properly tuned. i used to be able to tune a guitar to concert pitch by ear, but that skill seems to have abandoned my ageing ears. Richard... never! |
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Location: Munich, Germany | Wow, this board costs me a fortune...
Now I've ordered a Peterson SP-1. Never heard about them before, but I am very interested in saving your own sweetened tunings. Great! |
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Location: Always beautiful canyon country of Utah | Good point! Always on the ready!! |
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Location: Thredbo, NSW, Australia | I use G-strings on Android, and have compared it to my other tuners and have found it accurate.
For tuning during a gig or jamming, I need my Snark 8 as using the phone just doesn't work - unless I go for a walk.
The good thing about the phone is that I always have it with me, so if I get a chance to play someone's out of tune guitar, I can tune it.
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Location: Fort Worth, TX | The Martin guitar tuning app has the best user interface readout of any I've seen. It also has an ear trainer feature I actually use to tune with instead of centering a readout. |
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legitimate guitar tuning apps ???