If anyone's interested I'll post my presets.

I'd love to see what your presets are, as I picked up the VS-II at NAMM. I'm actually thinking about getting a Stomp for my Dobro rig (using the DI too).

The Peterson units are great aren't they?
Thanks,

P1 (E9th)

1. F# -02.2
2. D# -15.0
3. G# -10.4
4. E +02.0 (This is the high E setting)
5. B +03.4
6. G#
7. F#
8. E +04.6
9. D -01.4
10 B

P2 (C6th)

1. D -03.0
2. E -10.0 (High setting)
3. C 0
4. A -12.0
5. G +03.7
6. E -08.0
7. C
8. A
9. F +03.0
10 C

These are just the open tuning settings. I don't bother tuning my pedals with a tuner, maybe laziness on my part. But I figure if they were in tune when I left the guitar...

[This message was edited by Randy Beavers on 03 August 2004 at 04:16 AM.]

If you plan to use it as a direct box (I don't) you should have an external power supply. That mode eats batteries.
If you just use it as a tuner the battery life is fine.

1. Most of the time there are just 3 lines of black/white bars rolling around, but sometimes a 4th appears on the left, just temporarily. Why? What does that mean?

2. I presume if the bars are generally rolling up, you need to flatten the string and vice versa, right? And you tune until ALL THREE bars have stablized, right?

3. While tuning a string, there's a little subscript number (1, 2, 3, or 4) next to the letter name of the note. What's that mean? If it's an octave indicator, that's weird because I'm just playing one string, not several octaves (unless it's picking up the overtones?)

4. Also while tuning a string, I'll suddenly see the bars go away for a moment, revealing either "##" or "bb". Does the "##", for example, mean I need to GO sharper, or that I'm ALREADY too sharp and need to GO flatter?

5. It doesn't look like you can tune two strings of the same pitch, but different octaves, by a different amount of offset. For instance, all 3 C's on the C neck have to have the same amount of offset; is that correct? (The only apparent exception being a low E vs a high E, thanks to 6 string guitarists)

6. Randy, when you wrote no offset next to your 10th string, low B string, but have +03.4 next to your 5th string B, am I correct that you actually tune the low B to the +03.4 also, since you can't get a different offset for the same pitch in a different octave?

7. Why is none of this in the freakin' manual??

Thanks guyz.
Jimbeaux

As to the ## and bb...for visual tuning of the VS II ( and I assume for yours) of higher octave sounds, normally auto note selection will adjust the tuner to the scale-note of the incoming sound. Usually this means the incoming sound can vary by +/- 50 cents before the reference scale note indication is adjusted. As the incoming sound goes flatter (lower frequency) compared to the auto note frequency, the strobe image will appear to move downward at an increasing rate. Conversely as the sound goes sharper relative to the scale note the image appears to move upward at an increasing rate. Normally this movement is easy to see over the entire +/- 50 cent range. However for notes at higer octaves the rate of movement when approaching the 50 ct. offset extremes become difficult to see with eye. In the case of the VS II ( and yours I presume) will produce the appropriate ## or bb in place of the strobe.

As to the note with the small number beside it...this is an indication of the octave of that given note. You will notice on notes of octaves 1 to 3 all four bands will be shown. But on octaves 4 and up you usually will see only 3. So as you tune the strings some low ans some hi you will see a different octave number for that given string.

I hope this helps. I just got this thing a couple of weeks ago and while I am very pleased with it, it does take some getting used to. I have found that I can tune by just turning it on and moveing to Tmpr:Equ, but I have read this manual several times before it started to sink in, and I am not really sure it has. What I have found is, once I was able to pull up the E9 and C6, all the rest becomes somewhat useless to me, as I am not really sure I understand all I know about it.

The manual for the Strobo-Stomp could be quite better. I already have a Peterson V-Sam so I was using information I learned from that manual to program this unit. I believe Harold answered most of your questions.

It's my understanding that all the Peterson tuners "stretch" the tuning from one octave to the next as a piano does. A C note in the 2nd octave in higher than in the 1st octave, an so on. I'm not sure of the reason for the "E" designation to be stretched, other than the unit is designed for a 6 string guitar.

Long story short, my guitar sounds in tune to me.

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Most of the time there are just 3 lines of black/white bars rolling around, but sometimes a 4th appears on the left

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I presume if the bars are generally rolling up, you need to flatten the string and vice versa, right? And you tune until ALL THREE bars have stablized, right?

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While tuning a string, there's a little subscript number (1, 2, 3, or 4) next to the letter name of the note. What's that mean?

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Also while tuning a string, I'll suddenly see the bars go away for a moment, revealing either "##" or "bb".

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It doesn't look like you can tune two strings of the same pitch, but different octaves, by a different amount of offset.

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Why is none of this in the freakin' manual??

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F#4 +07
D#4 -10
G#4 -08
E4 +03 (high)
B3 +04
G#3 -08
F#3 +07
E3 +01
D3 -01
B2 +04

Each guitar may have to be tuned slightly different for the guitar to be in tune with "itself". There a couple of notes that can't be programmed into the tuner. The E9th 4th string F# has to be programmed manually with the tuner as there is only one F# that can be programmed into the memory and I used my "open" F#'s for that. The Bass C (10th string)on the C6th neck is the same way, it has to be tuned manually with the tuner rather than the programmed mode.

E9th
1....F#[-2]...G#[-14]
2....Eb[-14]...D[-4]...C#[-14]…E[+2]
3....G#[-14]...A[-.2]
4....E[+2]...F[-28]...F#[-12]...Eb[-8]
5....B[-2]...C#[-14]...C[-4]...Bb[-4]
6....G#[-14]...A[-2]...G[-2]...F#[-2]
7....F#[-2]...G[-2]
8....E[+2]...F[-28]...Eb[-8]
9....D[-2]...C#[-14]
10..B[-2]...C#[-14]