Best Clip on tuner for 2025......

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VonBonfire said:
Once you remove the tuner from your signal chain it's like taking a blanket offa da speakers. Virtually none of the greats used an inline tuner on their most famous tones. Now you know the secret. :LOL:
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Yeah, they also pay a guy to hand them a guitar that was just tuned off stage with a Peterson. I tune my own guitars. I use my own tuner pedal.

Besides, my pedalboard sounds better with everything off than it does with a short cable straight in simply because I know how buffers work.
 
7704A said:
Last one for tonight. 5 clips. Some are recorded after detuning my guitar than tuning to pitch with my favorite phone app. The others were after tuning up with my Peterson clip-on. Which are which?
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7704A said:
Alright, how's about testing this? Here's 5 clips I recorded of my electric guitar unplugged. Some have the Peterson clipped on, some don't. Which are which?
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From that perspective kind of proves my point. Cellphones provide as good or better tuning than even the priciest clip on.
 
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7704A said:
Could you point out which clips show the cellphone tuning the guitar "better"?
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No but in general would say in person in many cases and IME a cellphone has actually tuned to a lower margin of error, "better" is subjective but that's what I'm trying to say.



In that sense in 2025 Clip ons are sort of really 2010s and that's something many don't really know or perspective many hold now but it seems to be the case.
 
I like clip on tuners the best because when I'm on those big stages, my cell phone picks up too much ambient noise. Mainly the girls in the first 20 rows. They are screaming so loud due to my big juicy chops, I get a lot of false readings in the "B" and "E" range. You'd think I could just figure it out by feel but I use some exotic (shall I say dangerous) tunings. How do I remember these tunings you ask? Easy. I just remember this phrase while on stage. Every Good Boy Does Eat C****.

The other reason I don't like using my cell phone while on tour is because all of my leather chaps have no pockets :dunno:

That and my phone is usually getting bombed with calls, texts, and likes from the hotties, it will never pick up the deep resonating vibrations from my crushing low slung guitar.

YMMV
 
311splawndude said:
I like clip on tuners the best because when I'm on those big stages, my cell phone picks up too much ambient noise. Mainly the girls in the first 20 rows. They are screaming so loud due to my big juicy chops, I get a lot of false readings in the "B" and "E" range. You'd think I could just figure it out by feel but I use some exotic (shall I say dangerous) tunings. How do I remember these tunings you ask? Easy. I just remember this phrase while on stage. Every Good Boy Does Eat C****.

The other reason I don't like using my cell phone while on tour is because all of my leather chaps have no pockets :dunno:

That and my phone is usually getting bombed with calls, texts, and likes from the hotties, it will never pick up the deep resonating vibrations from my crushing low slung guitar.

YMMV
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I heard that's why the Beatles stopped touring. Clip-ons hadn't been invented yet, and with all the screaming girls they couldn't tune up on stage with their cellphones.
 
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And it's all about what your comfortable with, for some a clip on is fine and well for others it just doesn't cut it.
 
Kordoba said:
I can't count how many times I've seen some ass-clown tuning his guitar thru the full PA at stage volume. The best part is looking around the venue to watch the crowd's reaction: mean faces and hands over ears.
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Hey that assclown seems rather familiar......



But in all honesty if I do go out and play or whatever I take a Turbo Tuner because it's that good and there is no substitute for me and that is what I'm comfortable with. Also other dudes that know more about theory and stuff find a ton of use for it when I let them borrow it because they can tune to different keys on the fly and accurately too and intuitively once they get the hang of it, many dudes simply think it's brilliant for that reason alone...... and this is from the Clip on crowd mind you.



For intonation and other stuff I like to use different tuners as its hard to explain but there are margins of error and what they pick up sometimes vs one another. When your intonating a guitar this becomes much more noticeable and especially if your tuning and intonating at room volumes or higher volumes to really dial it in. The higher the volume the wider the margin of accuracy becomes IME so you have to adjust if you want to dial in at those wider margins.


Needless to say tuners and even the best tuners have a finite range in which they can tune in and tune up to and Clip ons in general can only go so far vs a tuner on a cellphone app in that regard nvm an actual tuner like one from Boss or Sonic Research. When using a cellphone vs a Snark for example and tuning based of room volume instead of a tuner pedal I was surprised to find a cellphone did better than the Clip on.



Intonating using different tuners and room volume vs straight from the signal is harder because they kind of pick up different things but when you find a middle ground between them where they both tune as close as can be that's probably the best intonation one can get IME. Obviously your not going to use a cellphone during a live gig or something at full stage volume to tune up but at home or when tuning to intonate it's a better option just from a tuning and intonating perspective IME nvm an actual tuner.
 
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I only tune during a string change. After that, I know it's time to change strings when my guitar goes out of tune.
 
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