I'd like a back-lit tuner - rackmount or otherwise. I use my 6-string rig for both steel and strat with a KORG chromatic guitar/bass tuner on the pedal board, I just can't see it very well in the stage lighting.

Thanks!

Brian

But if you want the absolute finest, check out the Precision Strobe Tuner. IMO, it is truly the Rolls Royce of all tuners. Go to the following website and find the article by a fellow forumite (under "comments") as he tells of his experiences with this incredible tuner.

It is not cheap. But then the finest never is.
http://www.precisionstrobe.com/

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Bill, steelin' since '99 | Steel page | My music | Steelers' birthdays | Over 50?

will your peterson store tempered tunings,if not how do you use it with a tempered tuning, I had a yamaha tuner that was recomended to me by a piano tuning course I was going to take and it would do a strech tuning on a piano, he said it and a sanderson act tuner were the only ones acurate enough to do that but the yamaha is about 700 and the sanderson in about 1400. Im very interested in the v-sam since a article I posted about 442 tuning I have had a lot of luck tuning out the beats and can actually tune more acurate by ear than my korg tuner puts me but when you are in the middle of a song or play at church the way I do and something goes out there is no way you can sit there and tune out the beats. I have read a lot of post about how most all of the professionals use a tuner to tune the e by and then tune the rest by ear, I just wonder how they do this in the middle of a set

The Peterson VS-11 and V -SAM tuners have 2 programmable settings where you can program and store your own settings. These 2 programs are in addition to a number of different tempered tunings including E9 and C6 tunings that actually work.

More info here:
http://www.petersontuners.com/products/modelvs2/index.cfm
http://www.petersontuners.com/products/modelvsam/index.cfm

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John Fabian
Carter Steel Guitars

Yes BOTH the Petersen and Precision Strobe tuners can be programmed to store any "tempered" tuning you want. They will both hold this tuning on power shut down also.

The Precision Strobe tuner has 40 "presets" that you can use for all stored temper tunings of any shift from the standard 440 reference. If I am not mistaken the Petersen has two presets. (The older Precision Strobe tuner only had two-the new one has 40).

The reason I love the PST-3 over the Petersen is it uses bright red LED's to simulate perfectly, a revolving strobe; whereas the Petersen uses a simulated vertical strobe on an LCD screen. Also, the PST-3 has a moving flat and sharp LED to indicate when you are close; and how close in either direction.

Finally, since the PST-3 has incredibly accurate filters so it can tune the very bottom most notes on a piano, the strobe is rock solid for bass notes on a PSG. Which has been a problem for needle type tuners from day one.

The Petersen is an excellent tuner. IMO, the PST-3 is even better. Its price may not reflect that difference to many players. To me it does.

Best advice is to check them both out if you want the higher quality/more accurate ones. Then decide on what is best for you.

Finally, IMO it is ludicrous to buy a tuner and just use it for setting the E's. Yet, this appears more normal than not from what I can ascertain from reading posts on this forum.

In this case I see no use in spending a lot of money, when a tuning fork would do the same thing; since the "ear" is the tuner for all the other strings (in this case), why not the E?