![]() ![]() a tu-2 is very stable, because it has a 6-cent wide margin of error. On normal tuners, a "stable" display is by definition one that's not following the string. (hit it with sine waves from a synth and the display will show no "instability" because the sound has none.) In that way it's 100% "stable", because there is absolutely no lag or processing between the string's actual vibration with all its complexity and what you see in the display. it is in fact doing exactly what the string is doing, transients, overtones and all. The turbo's display is driven directly by the string, so it's not that it's less stable, it's more accurate. (that's why i won't gig with anything else).Īs for the display, you guys have it backwards. The video shows how much faster the turbo tracks, that's all. That's why strobe tuners are better for set-up work. Now if you're setting up and get in-tune readings at either extreme, instead of being off by 6 whole cents, you're only off by 0.2 cents. It's got an accuracy of 0.1 cent- a tenth of a cent. Now compare that to the Peterson virtual strobe technology. That's going to be noticeable when you start playing with others. When you play the open string and it reads as in tune even though it's 3 cents flat, then when you play the fretted note and it reads as in tune except it's now 3 cents sharp, you've got a 6 cent error. But if you're doing set-up and the tuner is only accurate to ± 3 cents (the published specs on the Boss TU-2), then when you set up the bridge, you could be off by as much as 6 cents. They're fine for getting into tune on stage with everyone else. It took me about five minutes to get the G string on that guitar set so it sounded in tune all they way up and down, and in conjunction with all the other strings. But I bought a Peterson VS-II as soon as I could and used one electric guitar that had never sounded right no matter what I did as the test. It got to the point where I used a Sabine and a Boss TU-2 in series to average out the discrepancies. After I left retail music I got by OK for the most part with various tuners using quartz timer systems (what they all use- despite the advertising hype most tuners wind up being about the same). I started in a guitar store with a real Conn Strobo-Tuner. ![]() Whether that makes a difference is where the issue is. If it's not a virtual strobe, or a real strobe, it's not as accurate as it could be. ![]()
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