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Roadietuner! Wayhey!

  • 29-01-2015 04:21PM
    #1
    Oink
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 2,163 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I desperately need one of these since 5 minutes ago:

    https://www.roadietuner.com/

    "Simply connect Roadie to the tuning peg, strum the string, and watch Roadie tune it for you."

    It looks pretty handy. I could use it for my acoustic guitar, as I use a modified tuning (a few cents off here and there). That kind of precise tuning doesn't happen when you are doing it manually at 4 AM at a hooley, but now it just might!!!

    Whaddyathink?


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  • #2
    noby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,111 ✭✭✭noby


    Oink wrote: »

    Whaddyathink?


    I think a 4am at a hooley precise tuning might be lost on most people!


    THe yoke looks interesting, though.


  • #3
    KeithTS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 742 ✭✭✭KeithTS


    It's a neat little gadget but can't see the point myself.
    If it didn't require a phone it would be nice, the fact that you need the mic on your phone/instrument cable plugged into it makes it completely pointless and inconvenient.


    A few cents off here and there? Why would you do that, sounds like an out of tune guitar, mmm nice!


  • #4
    Gaspode
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,062 ✭✭✭Gaspode


    I think it works without your phone, the app just addes other opetion to it - maybe I'm wrong.
    If it needs a phone it can **** right off, what's the point! You'd be better of with a clip-on tuner.

    EDIT: it does need a phone. It is therefore an utterly pointless piece of kit that will be of no use to a gigging guitarist ever..


  • #5
    Oink
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 2,163 Mod ✭✭✭✭Oink


    Gaspode wrote: »
    If it needs a phone it can **** right off, what's the point! You'd be better of with a clip-on tuner.

    Oh yeah in many cases I wouldn't bother. I wouldn't use it as my only tuner at every gig. But it would certainly be quicker for me to use it when I do want my fancy tuning.

    KeithTS wrote: »
    A few cents off here and there? Why would you do that, sounds like an out of tune guitar, mmm nice!

    Actually, no, it sounds like a slightly more in-tune guitar. Tuning on an acoustic guitar or a piano is all about compensating. You'll never get a guitar where every single note is perfectly in tune. You just want it to be more in tune with itself.

    Your man JT says it better:
    http://www.jamestaylor.com/guitar/lesson-five-bonus-video/


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