So...it's a TC Clip

fretmeister

18 hour battery life. If left on all the time.

Sassafras

£35 does seem dear compared to other clip on tuners but it's not that much compared to a good tuner, if it is as good as they claim.

ICBM

Sassafras said:

£35 does seem dear compared to other clip on tuners but it's not that much compared to a good tuner, if it is as good as they claim.

Exactly. It's also the same price as five sets of decent acoustic strings. (At shop prices anyway.)

I'm probably going to buy one, if it works as well as I expect it will. The £3 for the Polytune app for my phone was probably the best £3 I've ever spent - it saved me more than that in hourly-rate time the very first time I ever used it when setting up a guitar with a floating trem. Its only real flaw is that it doesn't work that well when there's a lot of ambient noise, so a clip-on version will solve that.

£35 is also about what a second-hand Boss TU-2 sells for...

hugbot

Did he say this is the thing they've spent the most time developing out of all theyve worked on?

hubobulous

I'll be getting one. Have been considering a clip on tuner recently and I like the Polytunes so this is well timed for me

lustycourtier

the deluxe snark one is about 20 quid, so not that much more

fretmeister

It will still suck on a low B on a bass.

guitarfishbay

fretmeister said:

It will still suck on a low B on a bass.

Playing the harmonic fixes this, though stops you tuning to attack. When you tune to harmonics you usually end up with something along the lines of tuning to the decay, which doesn't work for heavy pickers on fast songs (as the string goes sharp and doesn't return before the next note).

Hertz32

I'Ll be getting one for my travel Taylor.i have a g7th Nashville that I keep on the headstock and this looks perfect to accompany it. 

£35 is steep but worth it imo. I hate my snark. The rubber pads fell off and it falls off my headstock all the time. Plus im pretty sure they arent nitro friendly. This may well be. 

not_the_dj

Hertz32 said:

I'Ll be getting one for my travel Taylor.i have a g7th Nashville that I keep on the headstock and this looks perfect to accompany it. 

£35 is steep but worth it imo. I hate my snark. The rubber pads fell off and it falls off my headstock all the time. Plus im pretty sure they arent nitro friendly. This may well be. 

I got a Snark a few months ago, and in the little instruction sheet it does warn about leaving it on Nitro finisged guitars,

ICBM

not_the_dj said:

I got a Snark a few months ago, and in the little instruction sheet it does warn about leaving it on Nitro finisged guitars,

I would be wary about leaving anything made of plastic, rubber, cloth with dye in it, or just about anything else in contact with nitro for an extended time period, no matter what the maker might say about 'nitro safe'. Or even anything that just applies pressure. Nitro is soft, and absorbs almost any dye or plasticiser.

My Gibson Dove has a mark across the logo where the former owner used to leave his Kyser capo, and they're supposed to be nitro-safe. Luckily I put mine there too - and it actually almost looks like a bit of figuring in the pearl, until you look closely and see the pressure mark - so I don't care.

dindude

ICBM said:

not_the_dj said:

I got a Snark a few months ago, and in the little instruction sheet it does warn about leaving it on Nitro finisged guitars,

I would be wary about leaving anything made of plastic, rubber, cloth with dye in it, or just about anything else in contact with nitro for an extended time period, no matter what the maker might say about 'nitro safe'. Or even anything that just applies pressure. Nitro is soft, and absorbs almost any dye or plasticiser.

 

Nah, why's everyone so precious? - it's the new cigarette burn - ROCK 'N' ROLL!!!

EricTheWeary

I watched the tc video. It is both amazing ( all that cleverness in such a small space) and also meh it's a headstock tuner.
I guess if it's a market they could dominate its surely massive compared to selling posh phasers.

Hertz32

If its just as accurate as they say, that is crazy... The Polytune 2 pedal is +/- 0.5cents. This claims to be +/- 0.02 cents.

Thats what, 25 times more accurate from a bloody headstock tuner. Seems pretty decent value to me

stickyfiddle

I don't care what you lot think. It even flips so the screen always reads the right way round depending on whether it's on the front or back of the headstock. I'll be buying one.

UnclePsychosis

If the accuracy is correct then that's definitely a big selling point. I'd consider one just for doing setups and nothing else.

Cirrus

Does the accuracy really matter that much? I mean, surely fretting finger pressure/ the difference between equal and just temperament is enough to swamp the difference between being half a cent out or two hundredths of a cent? Or am I being dumb? That does happen...

I'd be more excited by a clip on proco rat.

ThePrettyDamned

Sounds accurate enough to do intonation...not bad for 35 quid.

guitarfishbay

guitarfishbay

Cirrus said:

Does the accuracy really matter that much? I mean, surely fretting finger pressure/ the difference between equal and just temperament is enough to swamp the difference between being half a cent out or two hundredths of a cent? Or am I being dumb? That does happen.

That is my view also.  I think you should set the guitar up to be intonated as well as possible, but that doesn't mean that when the open strings are in tune for performance it will consistently sound in tune throughout.

Sometimes when recording I will tune per chord and punch in/out (that is a real test of even dynamics and timing or else you can't do it seamlessly).  Not always, but sometimes it sounds better.  That mostly comes down to technique rather than tuner quality IME.  I just use the built in one in Logic X and have no idea how accurate it is, but it sounds good to me.