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I'm in the market for a new tuner and it's a toss up between the Korg Pitchblack Poly or TC Electronic Polytune / Mini. Does anyone have any good/bad stories to tell about either?

My previous tuner is a Korg DT10 which has never let me down, so i'm inclined to go with the Pitchblack Poly - but I was wondering if the lack of buffer will have a detrimental effect on my tone? All my other pedals are buffered though so I wouldn't have thought that it would have made a difference.

The polytune is much much better than the pitchblack poly (at least in my opinion).

The mini also does more or less an identical job to the full size poly, it just has a couple less features which most people probably wouldn't miss.

So I'd go for the Polytune mini noir, because it's small, works well and looks cool in black too which is always a plus!

Gabriel wrote:The mini also does more or less an identical job to the full size poly, it just has a couple less features which most people probably wouldn't miss.

Do you happen to know what these features are?

No usb connectivity for firmware updates, no second power socket for daisy chaining. I think it has one less output too. Nothing that would bother me mind.

Gabriel wrote:No usb connectivity for firmware updates

Why would you need this? Does the frequency of a note change?

When they released the Mini, TC Electronic said the differences were:

TC Electronic wrote:The original PolyTune and the PolyTune Mini are the same, except for three features:
- Size. Obviously, the Mini is much smaller.
- Battery operation. No room for batteries in the Mini, power supply only.
- Polyphonic tuning for bass. The guitar/bass selector had to be sacrificed in the Mini, meaning that only guitars have access to polyphonic tuning. You can still tune your bass in normal chromatic mode with the Mini, though.

They obviously missed a couple of things though as, like Gabriel said, the mini doesn't have a USB socket or DC out.

johnnyseven wrote:

Gabriel wrote:No usb connectivity for firmware updates

Why would you need this? Does the frequency of a note change?

They did release a software update for the full size one that added some additional functionality (Drop D tuning, I think). I doubt USB connectivity is crucial for a tuner though.

I was looking into swapping out the pitchblack for a polytune... but from I've gathered the general consensus has been that the Pitchblack is better..

The Pitchblack Poly is cheaper and as i've never had an issue with my DT10 i'm swaying towards it. I have heard that TC pedals have had issues with the switches.

I'd just stick with the DT10, to be honest.

I have the full size tc polytune and nothing to complain about. Plus you see the led lights better.

I'm looking for a tuner pedal too.

I wondered if Mooer do a tuner in their new series, but it doesn't seem so. However, I have across this:



The above is branded as 'ENO', I think, but it looks excatly like one of the Mooer pedals. I wonder if it's made by the same people?

I've also come across a Joyo one:



Anyone have any experince or heard anything about either of the above?

Doog wrote:I'd just stick with the DT10, to be honest.

I'm not getting rid of it, it just won't fit on my new, smaller pedalboard.

I found a video of the Eno tuner...

It's dead small.

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TC Electronic wrote: - Polyphonic tuning for bass. The guitar/bass selector had to be sacrificed in the Mini, meaning that only guitars have access to polyphonic tuning.

Seriously? I've been ploytuning my bass in guitar mode all this time. Just ignoring the reading for the A and the high E seems to work perfectly, unless I'm missing something, here?

Guess they mean it doesn't have a separate 4 string polyphonic mode?

I always switch mode on mine when using bass rather than guitar. Sounds like I needn't bother.

I have a Polytune Mini - it's great. No problems with it and it has a drop D mode.