Peterson StroboClip HD Clip-On Tuner | Guitar, Bass, Violin, Ukulele, Harp, Brass, Woodwind, Orchestral

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The StroboPLUS HDC encompasses decades of tuning authority and technology to deliver the ultimate strobe tuner/metronome combo! As guitarists ourselves, we know that a well-tuned instrument is the foundation of great playing and enjoyable music-making. Whether you're performing on stage, practicing at home, or jamming with friends, our goal is to provide reliable and informed recommendations that help you find the perfect clip-on guitar tuner to keep your instrument in tune with ease. For example, the Peterson StroboClip HD has an alleged accuracy of 0.1 cents. This is one-thousandth of a semitone. In other words – this is something an average person would in no way ever notice. It’s pretty much pointless, and only a marketing strategy. It sounds like a cool thing to have, but it is not necessary. At MusicRadar, we understand the importance of having a reliable and accurate tuner to keep your guitar in perfect tune. With our dedication to helping guitarists find the best gear, we have extensively researched and tested numerous clip-on guitar tuners to identify the top options available. That’s easy – because you are not a sadist and you wish to keep your bandmates and audience sane! There’s nothing worse than an out-of-tune guitar, or indeed the sound of a guitar tuning up.

Keeps the screen brightness without added glare and does not create a shadowing effect when viewed from different angles. Fortified with anti-shatter glass that features a 9H surface hardness to repel scratches and swirls. The ultra-thin tempered glass design provides edge-to-edge full-screen display protection.

If there is trouble connecting or reconnecting as a product is switching modes, ex: StroboPLUS HDC product id 0006 to StroboPLUS HDC Firmware Mode 8006 run the command: TC Electronic turned heads (and ears) when it unveiled its PolyTune pedal in 2010, five years later the Clip continued that good work and it remains a popular option for players with impressive +/- 0.02 cents accuracy in strobe mode and 0.5 cents in chromatic mode. You use the same button for On/Off and to access the menu. Long press for turning the tuner off sometimes feels tedious.

Furthermore, strobe tuning feels better and more precise than chromatic. You’re not limited by the physical sections on the display. The note isn’t in tune when a LED light on a tuner lights up green, but when the strobe pattern stops spinning. You have to try it to feel this superiority in methods of tuning, but it is definitely there. First, the StroboClip HD is made of plastic, like most in its class, but this tuner is solid. The clamp jaw, padding, 3-point swivel mechanism, buttons, and screen feel as precise as the 0.1 cents tuning accuracy it delivers. Speaking of the high-def screen, it’s wide, crystal clear, and void of blinking lights or multiple colors—just clean and intuitive. So for anyone who has steered clear of strobe tuners in the past because they seemed confusing, no need to stress here.Overview: The display is clear and the interface allows a very exact method of achieving correct pitch. This is in contrast to the usual digital tuners which can be annoying to use. I've used ones in the past where there is a long delay between sound input and the displayed pitch and also ones that really only tune approximately to a true pitch. This tuner is better than any I have used previously, and allows you to get very precise tunings. A tuner’s accuracy is measured in cents. You’ll see this a lot in the recommendations in this buyer’s guide. A cent is a hundredth of a semitone. So if a tuner is accurate to 2 cents it is accurate to within 2/100 of a semitone with a 4-cent swing either way. When you factor in the other five strings, there could be a noticeable difference in a guitar that is “in tune” according to a tuner with a 2-cent accuracy and one that is “in tune” to a 0.02 cent accuracy. The TU-3 takes a lot from its older brother. Starting with the classic stomp pedal design, which many like, especially when they want the tuner to fit well with the rest of the pedalboard. The TU-3 has a more detailed display compared to the legendary TU-2, with a larger amount of sections/LED lights. It’s worth noting that this display performs the best out of all listed here outdoors under sun glare. Keep that in mind if that’s something you want from a tuner.

Anyways, to conclude, Peterson and Snark ST-8 showed the same notes, but the former allowed for more precise tuning. The phone app lagged behind every other tuner. The Windows app seemed almost on par with Peterson, but there’s an obvious minus to this method of tuning. You’re tied to your computer/microphone. Should this worry you? To a degree, yes. We should always be striving for accuracy, for our intonation to be set up correctly.

Chromatic tuners have around 1 cent of accuracy, which translates to a one-hundredth of a semitone. In other words, one-hundredth part of the space between frets.