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mandoplyr70
May-14-2008, 8:30am
We all know most tuners are at 440. So i have my mando tuned to greenlight on my tuner. right before band plays check it with onother tuner and according to it its sharp. I know both these tuners are set on 440. I would bet that if I tried 4 different tuners they would all show different. So do you all tune up to the same tuner ? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif
Rick Cadger
May-14-2008, 8:37am
I gave up.
If I disagree with my Intelli then I fine tune until my ears can live with it. If I start checking with other tuners I just go nuts.
MikeEdgerton
May-14-2008, 8:41am
My entire band moved to the same brand tuner.
GTison
May-14-2008, 9:10am
good move. My former banjo player insisted on using one with a needle type meter,swore it was more accurate. I'm sure it was because he paid about 80 bucks for it. But that tuner never matched any other tuner and was a pain to use. And people don't use/see them the same either. Some folks think if it's close it's good enough.
Roger Kunkel
May-14-2008, 9:48am
How about getting a tuning fork(presumably accurate) and calibrating your tuner to it. Have your band mates do the same. This assumes your tuner is adjustable, I know my Intellitouch is.
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Gutbucket
May-14-2008, 11:12am
I've had problems on tuners when the batteries were getting low. Fresh batteries are always in the gigbag now.
JGWoods
May-14-2008, 5:22pm
We all know most tuners are at 440. So i have my mando tuned to greenlight on my tuner. right before band plays check it with onother tuner and according to it its sharp. I know both these tuners are set on 440. I would bet that if I tried 4 different tuners they would all show different. So do you all tune up to the same tuner ? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif
While most tuners default to 440 at first it is quite possible to accidentally set them to another value. Perhaps this happened to you?
Among the many tuners I own and the many my friends own there's not a one that tunes different than the others.
My tuners all seem to agree that my A tuning forks are precisely in tune. Maybe I'm just lucky that way. It is easy though to inadvertently hit the calibrate button on some of them.
sunburst
May-14-2008, 6:30pm
Electronic tuners are such a pain-in-the-...
I've mostly given them up. We tuned by ear until those things came along some years ago, and it still works fine for me, until I get in a situation where there's too much noise to hear to tune, then sometimes I have to dig through the case and find the tuner.