Best Tuner For Acoustic Guitar
Hey there.
Have you ever wondered what's the best guitar tuner for your acoustic guitar?
Well, today I'm gonna show with you some ideas on how to choose a guitar tuner and I'm gonna
show you my favorite tuner.
I'm Tomas Michaud and today we're gonna talk about guitar tuners specifically for acoustic
guitar.
Now, a tuners have come a long way in the last several years.
I can still remember a time way back when some of the musicians had tuners and some
didn't and we'd always be borrowing the other person's tuner.
You see, if we could all tune to electric tuner, we'd all be in tune very quickly.
It needs that fumble or play the first song of the tune with each other.
Nowadays, they've gotten cheaper, better.
They work better and they're very affordable.
In fact, you can get a down good tuner nowadays for around 20 bucks.
One of the things I really like in a tuner is for acoustic guitar I like the tuners that
clip on the headstock because I have both hands free to turn the knob and pluck the
string.
There are lots of tuners that you set on the desktop or you have to hold in one hand and
try to pluck with the other but why not go for a Clip-on.
If you have electric guitar, get one that plugs in but for acoustic guitar Clip-on is
the way to go.
And there are a lot of tuners nowadays that are very small and fairly unobtrusive.
I like one that doesn't look too gaudy on my guitar so when I'm using it or when I'm
playing the guitar, I can keep it on the guitar all the time.
Now, I also look for one that's gonna hold up well some differently better for that and
others and I want one that I can see easily and understand whether they're tuner or not.
I don't like the one that I have to figure out if it's in tune.
Some of the dials of some of the tuners seem to move more smoothly or the kind of lock
in tune more than others so I'm gonna show you some tuners.
I'm gonna show you my three favorite right now including my all-time favorite.
Now keep in mind that this can change.
There are a new tuners coming out all the time and of course, I like to try new things
too but these are pretty stable tuners and these are tuners that I've been using for
quite a while so let's get going.
So the first tuner I wanna show you in my roundup is a KORG tuner.
I deliberately put on a light colored shirt so you could see it better.
This is a PC-1 made by Korg.
What I like about this tuner is very small.
It is pretty accurate and has a nice, big screen.
Let me show you how it goes on my guitar.
Now I set it up so I could see it easily on the headstock like that and I have it aimed
at me from the back.
It's right side up and aimed up at me.
Now, look at this.
You can angle it in and out to get it just where you want it.
Here is my high E, that's good and I can flatten up when I'm not using it so it's not my face,
KORG PC-1 very affordable, works great.
I've used it for a while and it holds up really well.
The next tuner I wanna show you is on my iPhone.
Now I realized that not everybody does have an iPhone so this may not be the best solution
for you but what I like about this tuner is, it is accurate and more accurate than other
free tuners I've tried.
It is a paid tuner that cost about 10 bucks.
It's called GUITAR Toolkit by Agile products, Guitar Toolkit.
Now, what I like about it is it's with me everywhere I go -- that's the main thing and
it works right.
The free ones didn't always tune accurately but this one works right.
It also by the way has a metronome so I can use it if I want for practicing my scales
and things, it's called Guitar Toolkit -- works really well and sometimes it saves my life.
I've had the bad wear out to the tuner I normally use (4:17).
I have my iPhone with me.
I don't normally use this as a backup.
I use the Clip-on tuners, my primary tuner and so this is number 2.
And now, for my favorite tuner this is number 1 in my shoot out.
It is a D'Addario NS Mini Headstock Tuner.
Now, they also refer to as a Planet Waves.
Planet waves is really the brand name D'Addario makes makes Planet Waves so you might see
both D'Addario or Planet Waves.
This is a PW-CT-12.
I love this tuner.
This tuner is small, affordable, works well, accurate and I can leave it on my guitar when
I'm playing and nobody really knows that it's on there.
Watch this.
I put it right here at just after the knot of the guitar and it sits on my guitar right
there.
See.
I can see it but most people don't notice it all.
All they can see is the little black piece right there.
Most people don't even notice that.
To turn it on, you just press the little button right there and then when I look up, see I
can also swivel it around to get the right angle.
I can see I'm just a little sharp, bring it down, E -- B. I'm done tuning.
I just hit the button, turn it off and a way we go.
I love this and I leave it on my guitar all the time.
This is number 1 right now and I have one on every one of my guitars.
I just leave them there.
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