Arcy
Strummin' in the Rain
I avoid Snarks for the reason displayed on the box: "The Best Selling Tuner" means that everybody has one. This makes them easy to get mixed up in a group setting - somebody always needs to borrow a tuner, so they get passed around, left on tables, etc., and then nobody can remember whose Snark it is.
I don't have that problem with my Fender California tuners. Even less so with the Peterson Stroboclip, since nobody wants to borrow it
From a practical standpoint, any decent tuner is more accurate than the margin of error you'll get tuning uke strings in a typical jam session, and there are oodles of name brand tuners available fairly inexpensively. I pick whatever's on sale that has a big bright screen that I can read without changing glasses, and which works for me ergonomically.
A few favorites:
Fender California - big & readable, brightly colored, auto-on-and-off when clipped to the headstock
Kliq ubertuner - Uber-bright screen. If I were to rebuy I'd get the USB chargeable one
Peterson Stroboclip, Strobostomp - expensive and overkill for the uke, but they pick up the low notes on the bass wonderfully.
Less favorite:
d'Addario micros - small and can be left on the headstock. These used to be my favorite, and I had them on everything, but I'm finding the screens harder to read now. YMMV
Owl thingy - cute when playing with kids, but hard to read.
At home I'm trying to tune by ear - I'm not good at it, and the only way to get better is to do it. If I start by tuning one string to a known good note I can tune the rest to it and then check how close I am off of a tuning app (I like TE Tuner)
I don't have that problem with my Fender California tuners. Even less so with the Peterson Stroboclip, since nobody wants to borrow it
From a practical standpoint, any decent tuner is more accurate than the margin of error you'll get tuning uke strings in a typical jam session, and there are oodles of name brand tuners available fairly inexpensively. I pick whatever's on sale that has a big bright screen that I can read without changing glasses, and which works for me ergonomically.
A few favorites:
Fender California - big & readable, brightly colored, auto-on-and-off when clipped to the headstock
Kliq ubertuner - Uber-bright screen. If I were to rebuy I'd get the USB chargeable one
Peterson Stroboclip, Strobostomp - expensive and overkill for the uke, but they pick up the low notes on the bass wonderfully.
Less favorite:
d'Addario micros - small and can be left on the headstock. These used to be my favorite, and I had them on everything, but I'm finding the screens harder to read now. YMMV
Owl thingy - cute when playing with kids, but hard to read.
At home I'm trying to tune by ear - I'm not good at it, and the only way to get better is to do it. If I start by tuning one string to a known good note I can tune the rest to it and then check how close I am off of a tuning app (I like TE Tuner)