Strobe Tuners: Their History and How They Work This would be the perfect tuner to tune your entire band with. The great things about the StroboFlip are, it’s as accurate as any other strobe tuner, it’s very affordable and it’s extremely portable. It also discusses the new and extremely affordable LCD readout strobe tuners such as the Peterson StroboFlip VS-F. The following video details the history of the strobe tuner and how they work. I wrote a post yesterday about the Peterson Autostrobe 490ST which is accurate to 1/1000th of a semitone! The reason strobe tuners are so accurate is because of the moving strobe wheel on the device. The best solution of all is to get one of the extremely accurate strobe tuners from Peterson and have everyone in the band tune with that. Of course, if you keyboard is not adjustable to the tuner, then you’re in trouble again. This way, if you all tune on the same device then even if it’s a little bit out of perfect tune the band will still be off an equal amount which will still sound “in tune”. So how can you deal with this problem? The easiest thing to do is to have everybody sharing the same tuner. I hope you can see how using multiple tuners onstage can lead to serious tuning problems. Some tuners will show a light every half semitone until you’re “in tune” but even when the “in tune” light is on, you may still be off by up to 100 cents (a half-step). The audience will simply hear an out of tune band which isn’t good for any performance by a live musician.Īnother problem with simple electronic tuners is that the accuracy of the display scale is limited by the number of lights or increments on the dial. If you have two different tuners and they’re both a little bit out of calibration, let’s say one is slightly sharp and the other is slightly flat, you’ll hear a big difference in tuning between the different instruments that have been tuned on them. You would think that a tuner is a tuner and that they’re all properly calibrated but the truth is that any individual tuner can be slightly out of calibration. The problem that I’m talking about is the use of several different electronic tuners while tuning the various instruments in a band. It’s a problem I’ve encountered working with various musicians in my studio as well. I’m going to talk about a common problem that I hear quite often when I’m out listening to bands.
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