BOSS chromatic tuner FREE on Android (and IOS)

Wolfetone

You can get a free fully working TU-3 for your phone and did I say that it's free??????????

100% free!!!!!!!!! 

TheMarlin

http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/77973/free-boss-tuner#latest

Rocker

Thanks for the tipoff @Wolfetone

TheBlueWolf

Ah, must have missed the last thread.

Thanks for the heads up

lloyd

Nice just got I thanks

Handsome_Chris

Cheers @Wolfetone

ICBM

Much as I love the Boss TU-2 and TU-3, I'm still using the TC Polytune app and have no plan to change. It was a whole £3, but it paid for itself the first time I used it to set up a guitar with a floating trem. The all-strings-at-once tuning is the killer feature, anything that doesn't do that is now a non-starter for a phone app tuner, for me.

It also doesn't have a switch to break, unlike the hardware one.

Winny_Pooh

Tried it, crap. Da tuner or the polytune is way better.

Chalky

I just tried it and it was fine. Pluck string and adjust string tension until the app shows green. How can it be crap? Am I missing something?

Thanks @TheMarlin and @Wolfetone.

John_P

Thanks for the PSA -   just downloaded it,  I think I prefer the polytune app as well but I got that for free - now it costs money its probably not a fair comparison.  As a free tuner the boss one is pretty good.

ICBM

I just tried it. The first thing I found was that the Stream button doesn't work. Since that's one of the features I like best on the TU-2/3, that's a fail right away.

The Mode button doesn't either.

On top of that the display is smaller and harder to read than the Polytune, largely because they've made it too much of a picture of a real TU with a border round it.

Sorry Boss, this isn't good enough even for free really.

In fact its main purpose seems to be to push the 'News' adverts...

strumjoughlamps

Chalky said:

I just tried it and it was fine. Pluck string and adjust string tension until the app shows green. How can it be crap? Am I missing something?

Thanks @TheMarlin and @Wolfetone.

me too, works fine for me, tested it against 2 standalone tuners and a tuner on Boss ME-70 and all were consistent.

cannot fault it for free

Wolfetone

strumjoughlamps;1116014" said:

Chalky said:

I just tried it and it was fine. Pluck string and adjust string tension until the app shows green. How can it be crap? Am I missing something?



Thanks @TheMarlin and @Wolfetone.





me too, works fine for me, tested it against 2 standalone tuners and a tuner on Boss ME-70 and all were consistent.

cannot fault it for free

All I would ever use a tuner for is to tune my guitar at concert pitch. This does it just fine!

crunchman

Given that I've already got DA Tuner it's not really worth my while as it doesn't sound like an improvement.

It might be worth looking at the Polytune one though.

fretmeister

I've got the Petersen app, it's great.

thermionic

ICBM said:

I just tried it. The first thing I found was that the Stream button doesn't work. Since that's one of the features I like best on the TU-2/3, that's a fail right away.

The Mode button doesn't either.

In fact its main purpose seems to be to push the 'News' adverts...

To be fair, the instructions say that stream and mode don't work "now", which suggests they might with a future update. I agree about the news thing, but I'd like to hear about new Boss products anyway. There is also a sensitivity adjustment slider, which may help people who've found that it doesn't work well for them.

I got the Polytune app before I even had an iPhone (downloaded it in iTunes when I heard it was free), and that is my go-to phone tuner.

RobDavies

S'alright for nowt, I guess.

 Polytune is better, though.

joeyowen

I've got better apps, but it's free! So no complaints here

Winny_Pooh

@chalky, you cant see small increments on it and the needle swing is haphazard. I like tuning my E-G to -2 cents open (I use Feiten intonation offsets) and use my tuning app to actually set the intonation on my guitars acoustically.

Chalky

Winny_Pooh;1116692" said:

@chalky, you cant see small increments on it and the needle swing is haphazard. I like tuning my E-G to -2 cents open (I use Feiten intonation offsets) and use my tuning app to actually set the intonation on my guitars acoustically.

Fair enough - you need a lot more complexity than me

lloyd

For an on the fly tuner it's pretty bloody good-you're not gonna intonate your guitar with it but that's not what it's for.

Good piece of kit and better than the last free phone tuner I had.