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You get what you pay for...
I bought this tuner because of it's rechargable battery, since my previous clip tuner is showing humidity and temperature when it's "off" which means that when I need it every now and then, the battery is drained and the CR2032's are a bit expensive to use for only a single tuning. Also the environmental issues...
Got the tuner, charged the battery and tuned my guitar - so far so good. But when I came back to it some time later (I mostly use a pedal tuner, so the clip is for backup) the battery was drained again. I recharged it, used once and the next time I picked it up it was empty again. So after a bit of testing I found that the battery doesn't hold any charge. I reported it to Thomann and they sent me a new one, but this one is really struggling to tune the 6-th string and is absolutely unusable for bass. The chromatic mode shows you the whole alphabet when tuning a string so you have to use the designated guitar tuning mode to the job done.
I really like the swivel design and the coloured screen is amazing. Also I like that in addition to the rotary dial it shows in numbers how far off you are which makes finetuning a lot easyer but unfortunately the tuner part being incompetent ruins the good idea. Also you can accidentally change the tuning from 440 to 441, 442 etc. without noticing or change the tuning mode which is done by pushing the power button, so when turning the device off and not pressing the button long enough you change the tuning mode to say ukulele or violin and the next time you use it starts up in this mode and can cause some confusion.
Since it's so cheap I'm going to keep it for tuning at home but I wouldn't take it to band practice an certainly wouldn't go on stage with it.
Got the tuner, charged the battery and tuned my guitar - so far so good. But when I came back to it some time later (I mostly use a pedal tuner, so the clip is for backup) the battery was drained again. I recharged it, used once and the next time I picked it up it was empty again. So after a bit of testing I found that the battery doesn't hold any charge. I reported it to Thomann and they sent me a new one, but this one is really struggling to tune the 6-th string and is absolutely unusable for bass. The chromatic mode shows you the whole alphabet when tuning a string so you have to use the designated guitar tuning mode to the job done.
I really like the swivel design and the coloured screen is amazing. Also I like that in addition to the rotary dial it shows in numbers how far off you are which makes finetuning a lot easyer but unfortunately the tuner part being incompetent ruins the good idea. Also you can accidentally change the tuning from 440 to 441, 442 etc. without noticing or change the tuning mode which is done by pushing the power button, so when turning the device off and not pressing the button long enough you change the tuning mode to say ukulele or violin and the next time you use it starts up in this mode and can cause some confusion.
Since it's so cheap I'm going to keep it for tuning at home but I wouldn't take it to band practice an certainly wouldn't go on stage with it.
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Fait son job...
Absolument illisible quand il y a du soleil.
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C
works decent
it's not the best clip-on tuner out there, but it gets the job done. I takes a lot of patience to get solid readings in low tunings or on bass, but it's usable. i originally got this to use it live, but I went back to using a pedal, so this is mostly my go to tuner when practicing at home.
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Does the job
Very portable, light and small.
The display is very easy to read, but sometimes it doesn't respond to the strings that are played and it takes a few attempts to get it to show what note is being played. It wouldn't replace my pedal tuner, but it's nice to have it handy when I don't want to use the full pedalboard.
The display is very easy to read, but sometimes it doesn't respond to the strings that are played and it takes a few attempts to get it to show what note is being played. It wouldn't replace my pedal tuner, but it's nice to have it handy when I don't want to use the full pedalboard.
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c
Doesn't work well with bass guitars.
I purchased this tuner to use it on bass guitars, but it doesnt work well, specially on E and B strings. Higher pitch strings, it wors fine. G and C strings are easy to tune. But for lower stringd, It does not capture the vibration of the strings. Hitting the string soft or hard, does not matter. A couple times the tuner showed the string tunning information after 5 seconds I played the string. Even if it was consistently showing the tuning after a few seconds (what is not the case), it would take minutes to tune the instrument.
The tuner has both chromatic and bass modes, and neither works well.
The tuner has both chromatic and bass modes, and neither works well.
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R
HB Clip tuner
Unclear to get a proper reading... am I doing anything wrong?
Or do I need new reading glasses?
Please your reaction...
Best regards,
Ron Reijnders,
Or do I need new reading glasses?
Please your reaction...
Best regards,
Ron Reijnders,
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S
you get what u pay for
the only problem I have with this product is that its not accurate, or rather, it takes awhile to be accurate. It is however...CHEAP and does the trick after a half dozen attempts
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K
Very good
Very good for the money. It has a chromatic setting which is what I use on any instrument
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