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Recommended tuners... for setting up guitar and bass (self.guitars)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by TheInsane42 to c/guitars

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I'm working on setting up my dusted-off guitar and bass and for intonation I need a better quality tuner then the Korg GT-3 I have. Which ones will help with the intonation? One that shows how much any note is off, not just the one of the open string.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Cheapest thing to try is probably apps for your phone or tablet. If you find a usable one, you'll always have a free backup tuner to use.

I like Peterson strobe type tuners myself and either use mine or, more likely, just the high frets (tune a note on a lower string or even an external sound to a harmonic and then compare to same fretted note and adjust until both pairs match) to set intonation. Neither quantifies the error, but I don't really care about the numbers.