What's A Good Tuner for Bridge Intonation

[mandough]

Hi,
I've made a couple of new bridges recently and need a tuner for intonation.
I have a Boss Chromatic Tuner but it won't catch the string sound fretted on the 12th fret of the e string. Which tuner do you guys use that is sensitive enough to catch the fretted 12th and the harmonic?

[c3hammer]

Just buy one of those little clip-on tuner pickup for it. You plug your tuner into it and then clip it onto one of the tuners. It should solve all your issues for about $15.

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They work great at jams and such where everyone is noodling around between songs and you can't hear your self think much less your tuner hearing your mando.

Cheers,
Pete

[frets1]

The "intellitouch tuner" is the best that I've found. Great for tuning and bridge intonation. It works as well in a loud jam as it does at home. The great thing about the tuner is that when you are at a jam or a gig, you can leave the tuner on your headstock and watch it as you play. Buy one!

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[mandroid]

The Peterson has the best display,(parts of Hz'cents') now a LCD version of the original spinning strobe lit disc.
Recently offer a stomp pedal version.
The piezo clip is a banjolin nessisity, all those overtones confuses my Intellitouch.
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[John Flynn]

I have several tuners, including an Intellitouch. I love that model for performance, but I am not wild about it for intonation setting. It is just not accurate enough to suit me. I much prefer the Sieko. It is very sensitive and consistent and has a digial readout down to the cents. I agree with the others that you need some sort of a contact pickup for setting intonation.

[SternART]

I also found the Intellitouch not accurate enough.......I thought it was till I got a Peterson strobe. I actually found my old Korg DT-1 to work well for this task too. I'll bet a lot of mandos out there could be set up better. IMO it really makes a BIG difference.

[Talon]

Peterson is probably one of, if not the best tuner. Problem is they range from $250 to $3,000 for a tuner.
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