casarole45
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High, does anyone know any high spec tuners for ukulele, I'm talking really high spec luthier 0.1 cent accuracy stuff. Currently looking at a Peterson Stroboflip. Any ideas/suggestions?
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An Intelli IMT-500 is more than good enough. What percentage of inaccuracy can you hear?
John Colter.
P.S. One more suggestion. Don't give your ukuleles names , and if you have to don't let anyone know.
An Intelli IMT-500 is more than good enough. What percentage of inaccuracy can you hear?
John Colter.
Again why would one need that accuarte a tuner as slight finger pressure will make it run up and down like crazy and the fact that most people cannot tell anything less than 5 % off. to me usuing harmonic waves is the best way of fine tuning instruments...listening for those in octives and unisons tellyou all you need to know
Someone has stated on ebay that the IMT-900's tolerance is +/- 0.5 cent which is pretty good, can't find an official site to verify it though
I did the old cent test and could tell the difference of 1 cent difference played at the same time..... QUOTE]
I could hear the difference when played at the same time, too. But could you hear the difference when played separately? I couldn't. Sure, i could tell myself that I did, but in all honestly, I couldn't tell the difference when played apart. I use Korg tuners for all of my instruments. These measure to each cent like many of the digital tuners do these days. I can definitely hear after a couple songs when my uke is 3 or 4 cents off. No worries, I just tuner her back up again. To keep it perfect, you should retune after each song. That's all you need to do and you can do this with a $20 Korg or a $400 tuner.
I did the old cent test and could tell the difference of 1 cent difference played at the same time..... QUOTE]
I could hear the difference when played at the same time, too. But could you hear the difference when played separately? I couldn't. Sure, i could tell myself that I did, but in all honestly, I couldn't tell the difference when played apart. I use Korg tuners for all of my instruments. These measure to each cent like many of the digital tuners do these days. I can definitely hear after a couple songs when my uke is 3 or 4 cents off. No worries, I just tuner her back up again. To keep it perfect, you should retune after each song. That's all you need to do and you can do this with a $20 Korg or a $400 tuner.
No you wouldn't hear a difference playing them seperately. The limit of human pitch resolution is only about 5 cents. That's why we tune by listening to beats rather than matching pitches.