tuner pedals
Tuner pedals are essential in any guitarist’s pedal rig. Though they might not be the pedals that will help you define your tone or make your solos a bit beefier, they’re the ones that will save you a lot of time, and in certain cases, they’ll even save your show.
Pedal tuners are used on stage by guitarists and other stringed instrumentalists. The electronic tuner rests on the floor and is used with a “pick-up” mic wired directly the instrument; this eliminates ambient sound.
Behringer CHROMATIC TUNER
StroboStomp LE Pedal Tuner
The player has the option of muting or turning off amplification so that he or she can tune without disturbing the audience or other band members. Other features are geared to stage settings, such as extra-bright displays visible outdoors and “bypass” mode which takes the tuner out of the amplification circuit during normal playing.
By having one in your pedal chain you’ll be able to check out if your strings are in tune and depending on which model you’re using, you can re-tune even in the middle of a song.
Zoom AC-2
AZOR Tuner Pedal Boar
Stomping on a tuner pedal gives you an option to completely mute out your signal and just focus on tuning it. There’s no need to have an entire audience listen to you tuning your guitar, which can be pretty annoying, especially if you do it multiple times per gig. This is exactly why we’d rather recommend a pedal tuner over a conventional one.
This particular feature is also an advantage compared to clip-on tuners. While they’re most certainly a great thing to have, you still need to cut off the signal by using your guitar’s volume knob. It’s much more practical to have it all done with a simple stomp on your pedalboard.
TC Electronic PolyTune 3
Korg Guitar Pedal Tuner
An instrument like an electric guitar, or an electric bass, is never simple. In fact, no matter how much you learn, there’ll always be more things that you’re not informed about and that can impact your tone.
After all, it has basically all turned into a science and you often need to learn new stuff in order to excel at it. And one thing that plenty of guitar players overlook, or are just not informed about, is the buffered bypass.
The alternative to it is the so-called “true” bypass, a description that you’ve probably seen on many effects pedals, shoved down our throats as one of the most important features. Be it a selling point or not, the choice between buffered and true bypass pedals is mostly based on personal preferences.
Monoprice Chromatic Pedal Tuner
ModTone Guitar Effects
However, most of the tuner pedals come with a buffered bypass circuit. And this is where things get interesting. A buffer in your signal chain can actually save your tone, contrary to what some guitar players might think. Quite often, you’ll see a pedal like Boss’ TU-3 tuner at the beginning of the signal path.
Since this is a device with a buffered bypass, it buffers the signal to all the pedals that come after it in the chain. In other words, this means that you’ll balance out the signal if you have true bypass pedals in there that you turn on and off. This is why tuners are also pretty popular among pedal enthusiasts since they provide a buffer at the beginning of a signal path.
LEEMMURS
JOYO JF-18R Power Tune
It’s also important to note that electric guitars are high-impedance devices. And if you’re using longer cables, as well as a lot of pedals with additional patch cables in between them, you’ll most definitely experience signal quality loss.
Making sure signals are well tuned and muting signals is one of the benefits that comes with working with a tuner pedal, and having your audience listen to well tuned sounds is very fulfilling.
KLIQ MetroPitch
Nady Chromatic Tuner
Tuning the guitar could get annoying sometimes because of the way it sounds, and the fact that you have to do it before a show is also more embarrassing. This also explains the importance of a tuner pedal to a conventional pedal, and one advantage tuner pedals have over clip pedals is paying attention to tuning signals.
Clip on tuners might be fun to work with, but the fact that they cut off signals makes them a wrong choice of investment.
Stomping on your pedal board can tune your guitar with no one noticing, and this is one of the attributes of a tuner pedal most people are in love with. Being convenient and easy to use is what we love about tuner pedals, while having a visible display tells you how you can handle things better and faster.
LEKATO
MOOER GE100
Tuners are highly rated as buffering occurs at the beginning of the signal path, and making use of a buffered tuner pedal helps you cut down on losing signals.
The use of a pedal board provides you with great versatility, and this presents you with the option of making use of different loops. It can also come as an advantage when your tuner pedal has a different output, and this makes sure clean signals are constantly being produced.
Placing your tuner pedal before any other pedal in the pedal board would make sure that clean signals are produced, and this results to an accurate tuning pitch.
ModTone Guitar Effects
GUITARX X7 – Chromatic Tuner
Placing a tuner pedal after any pedal will result in the distortion of notes, causing your signal pitch to be affected. Muting signals for silent pedals is the job of the tuner pedal, and this also explains why the tuner pedal should be in front of any other pedal.
It is very crucial that you stay in tune when playing the guitar because it is impossible for a crowd to enjoy the performance of a guitarist that is finding it difficult to stay in tune.
Vox VXT1 Pedal Tuner
Recommended Tuner Pedals
Boss TU-3 Chromatic Tuner
Housed in a tank-tough BOSS stompbox body, the TU-3 features a smooth 21-segment LED meter with a High-Brightness mode that cuts through the harshest outdoor glare.
Nano Tuner Guitar Foot Pedal
The Nano’s revolutionary compact design fits on any pedalboard by combining the screen a foot switch. It takes up half the space as a typical tiny pedal and quarter of the space of a standard electric guitar tuner pedal.
Peterson StroboStomp HD Guitar Tuner
The StroboStomp HD boasts a high-definition, LCD screen that incorporates a variable color LED backlight. The user-selectable colors can be used to personalize the tuner or to increase display viewing quality in different levels of ambient lighting depending on the usage environment.
Hotone Smart Tiny Tuner
This is a smart tiny tuner with the Skyline shape, with fast pitch detection technology and a big bright LED display－a real guarantee for your strings! In addition, it provides a VOLUME knob to control the output volume when active.
Korg Guitar Tuner
The Pitch-black custom features the first vertical 3D visual meter on a pedal tuner. Three-dimensional lights and versatile display modes deliver an unprecedented level of visibility.
D'Addario Chromatic Pedal Tuner
The D’Addario Pedal Tuner+ takes the speed and accuracy of our original pedal tuner and boosts its performance with two new onboard features. First, it has a high-quality signal buffer to maintain your sound across long cable runs and prevent signal loss through your effect chain. Next, it includes a programmable count-down timer to keep track of your set or session time.
Behringer CHROMATIC TUNER
To begin tuning, simply stomp the TU300’s footswitch. It features a precise single-digit LED display to tell you what note it’s reading, and the 11-point stream guarantees accurate tuning from 438 Hz to 447 Hz. Plus it is bright enough to help you tune up in even the darkest club.
