[steve/f]

How does a chromatic tuner work ,am sure the instructions said everytime the E comes up on the screen every string is in tune ,doesn't seem right .

Thanks

[Donovan]

You're right, that must be the weirdest instructions ever What a chromatic tuner does is display the nearest note (C, C#, D etc.) and possible octave (C2, C3 etc.) to what you are playing AND list how much "cents" (100th part of a semitone) you are off OR display some sort of needle indicating how much you are off. Then just tune up or down so that the note displayed is the one you want for that string, then move on to the next string.

Make sure that ur tuner is on "auto" setting if there is such an option. There may be some other values on the tuner that you can mess with, such as the reference pitch (which should just be kept at 440 Hz) and in some cases the key (setting this to something other than C is not recommended). It's (supposed to be) really easy!

[namiguShin]

Originally Posted by Donovan

What a chromatic tuner does is display the nearest note (C, C#, D etc.) and possible octave (C2, C3 etc.) to what you are playing AND list how much "cents" (100th part of a semitone) you are off OR display some sort of needle indicating how much you are off. Then just tune up or down so that the note displayed is the one you want for that string, then move on to the next string.

I have a question... All tuners I had to deal with had these characteristics... So all of them are chromatic... My question is what would this "other" kind of tuners look like, since I've never seen a tuner diferent then the one in the above definition? I.e. is there any tuner that isn't chromatic and what does it look like?

Thanks in advance

[randomaire]

You have micro tuners, digital tuners, pedal tuners, orchestral tuners, and a variety of guitar/bass tuners.

For example a Korg Guitar/Bass Tuner GA-30