Amp tuner interference

BobArsecake · Post by **BobArsecake** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:20 pm

Why does this happen?...I can't leave my tuner on my amp head while tuning my guitar 'cause it totally fucks it up and won't tune.

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:21 pm

Picking up the magnetic field of the transformer? Does it matter where on the amp you put it?

Post by **Mike** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:24 pm

What tuner do you have?

It sounds wank.

Post by **Doog** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:41 pm

I take it it isn't a lil' tuner with built-in mic?

BobArsecake · Post by **BobArsecake** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:50 pm

One of those Korg jobbies.

Here it is;

I don't think it does matter where I put it either.

Post by **Mike** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:52 pm

You need DT-10.

Post by **Doog** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 1:08 pm

I take it you're plugging the guitar into it, rather than just using the built-in mic? Cause putting it on top of your amp and using the mic isn't gonna give it a very loud or pure signal for it to register..

Pedal tuners are very much for the win- instant "MAKE QUIET" function and all at yer feeties. The Arion stage tuner is a cheap but totally effective solution, although it's not chromatic- just EADGBE.

BobArsecake · Post by **BobArsecake** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 1:16 pm

Yeah I plug my guitar into it, don't use the mic. I ought to invest in a tuner pedal, bah, another bleedin' pedal.

Post by **Doog** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 1:21 pm

You could always just make/have someone make you a passive A/B box to send your signal to your tuner on the floor. Although I guess that's technically a pedal, and you'd be running through batteries like a MUTHA.

euan · Post by **euan** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 1:46 pm

I can't remember if it was the DT10 or the WH4 where I would use the dual outputs to run different chains before combining them with the Space Echo. That was always fun.

Post by **Mike** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 1:48 pm

Yeah you can do that with the DT-10, only the "output" output is muted when you tune.

Post by **dots** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 3:28 pm

crap tuner

do better

More Cowbell · Post by **More Cowbell** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 1:35 pm

BobArsecake wrote:One of those Korg jobbies.

Here it is;

I don't think it does matter where I put it either.

That is the worst tuner ever. Throw it out the window, or better yet, bring it over here and we'll smash it on video.

THe bass player in my friend's band used that tuner until we compaired it to a boss tuner and a different korg, it was all over the place when tuning, and would usually tune a bit sharp.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 1:36 pm

I guy in my old band had one the same and it just died one day. Stupid cunt.

BobArsecake · Post by **BobArsecake** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:05 pm

It's served me alright for 8 years 0_o Then again, I've not known a different tuner.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:08 pm

Have you been giving it proper abuse though?

Will it withstand beer submersion?

Post by **Doog** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:16 pm

I used one of them for my bass in I3 for a while because we tuned one or two semitones down and my Arion stage tuner DID NOT LIKE OTHER NOTES. It was free though, a promoter's wife gave it to me because she was tired of it being in their kitchen after some band left it there years ago.

Worked okay for me then, but the guitarist was out of tune more often than not anyways.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:17 pm

Being in tune is so mainstream

Post by **Doog** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:21 pm

He just had the habit of tuning it slightly flat, to compensate for the slight sharpening of the note first off when you hit it hard in a dropped tuning. Priceless advice from some idiot muso.

Which of course was totally pointless seeing as I wasn't tuning like this and refused to, seeing as there was no way of getting it dead on. So I usually had to tune, then get him to play me an A onstage for me to match him

Idiot. I finally talked him out of it, though.

Justin J · Post by **Justin J** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:22 pm

i've got the chromatic version of that tuner and it works fine for me, on top of the amp or otherwise. i used to have better tuners, but they kept getting stolen. no one steals a $10 tuner.