1) Size/Weight - it is much smaller and lighter than the VS-II or V-SAM. The flip design is very cool and will certainly protect the screen. It will also be much easier to store in a pack-a-seat.
2) Tuning - it comes with 3 built-in Jeff Newman "sweetened" tunings: E9 with E's 9.8 cents sharp, E9 with E's straight up at 0.0 cents, and C6. It also has 8 programmable banks: S1-4 and T1-4. The tuner is very stable and seems to be more stable than the VS-II. I have tried both of the built-in E9 tunings and prefer the "straight-up" one. It seemed to be more in tune with several CD's that I played along with. The next step will be to program my own tuning. With the extra memory banks, this should be a much easier task for my U-12 MSA. There are also 2 Dobro tunings and various guitar and bass tunings as well.
3) Power - the unit runs on AC or 3 AA batteries. There is a cool blue light that stays on whenever the AC is plugged in, even when the tuner is switched off.
4) Pitch Holder - this is a new design which is much better than the holder for the VS-II and V-SAM. Unfortunately, the clamp on the first batch of pitch holders is too small to fit on the leg of most steel guitars (it didn't fit on my MSA). Not to worry though, as Peterson is aware of this design flaw and has ordered new pitch holders with a bigger clamp. Just call Sue at Peterson, and she will send you a free replacement when they arrive.
5) Features - there are signal in and thru jacks on the right side of the tuner. I tested the thru jack, and it added absolutely no noise. On the left side are the AC 5V jack and an audio out jack that outputs a reference 440 Hz signal (this can be changed). Besides the Off and On buttons, there are only 6 additional buttons. These are used to access the various tunings and adjust the parameters if desired. I found it very simple to operate right out of the box, even before looking at the manual. There is also a built-in mic and a clip-on TP tuning pickup included for tuning acoustic instruments.

[This message was edited by Paddy Long on 24 July 2006 at 02:14 PM.]

Why would you have to program the C6 tuning offsets if they are all 0? (I assume you mean you tune your C6 neck to ET -- all 'straight up' relative to A440)

Doesn't it just automatically tune EVERYTHING to straight up unless you change the offsets?

Just wanted to give a shout-out to these folks that I bought the Flip from: http://www.pedalgeek.com

Don-Does it program in E6 or A6 or Bb6, etc just by changing the root name from C6 or do you have to re-program it...al

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I tried the E9 at 0 and it's very close to my own modified Jeff Newman settings. I suspect that's because I took the Newman settings (E's ref to 0) and then adjusted what was needed so my guitar was in tune with itself. E.G. I tune the B pedal raises to -2 cents instead of the -6 (-1.5Hz) that the Newman settings list. Same way the open F#'s are at -2 cents rather than -4 cents, etc. I tune my C6th with the C at 0 rather than the Peterson +9.6 cents and also have a couple changes to the Newman chart.

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Does this unit have true bypass?

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I own a Strobostomp, which claims "true bypass" capability, and I think it passes the signal through pretty much unchanged. I can't say that about the Stroboflip, and I've spent close to US$100 for a signal splitter to address the issue.

[This message was edited by Dave Potter on 27 August 2006 at 05:16 AM.]

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you could have saved a chunk of dough and bought a steel-specific signal splitter from one of our forumites... it's called a Jerry Rig. Very cool box.

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