Dan Mooney
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...$50 buys a lot of strings!!
I picked up a Blue Snark from a Guitar Center sale not long ago . . . And it so much more fun saying "I gotta Blue Snark"
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...BTW for those unfamiliar, there is also auto tune for singers, Here ...not that I would of looked into anything like that, what with my vocal skills and all
Ok, This is really getting out of hand.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/roadietuner/roadie-tuner-the-ultimate-guitarist-tool
[video]https://d2pq0u4uni88oo.cloudfront.net/projects/759679/video-316723-h264_high.mp4[/video]
I sure wouldn't want one. It just screams 'gimmick'.
For starters, 2 cents accuracy is pretty poor. The average for even inexpensive tuners is more like one cent.
Then there's the dependency on a smart phone or tablet. Might be feasible in the living room, but not so much for live performance.
They are planning on a retail price of $99. Pretty much any one of us here could tune a guitar faster, and just as accurately, with a $10 clip-on tuner and our hands.
And the real deal-breaker for me is the fact that, according to the video, it will tune a string down to a note. Major fail. With even the very best machine heads, there will be some backlash (slack) in the gears, and if you tune the string down to a note, it will soon slip and go lower than you wanted. You should ALWAYS tune up to a note, to ensure there's no slack in the gears.
... Now I could see having a little app on my phone that would let me pick an instrument and tell me what to tune each string to. That would be useful...
Ken, your guys have a way to go still, lol...