![]() ![]() Sure it clips on fine, and it's easy to adjust the display to a variety of positions, but I think the clip is a letdown. This is an expensive tuner, but the clip feels loose and cheap to me. The clips on the Snark and other tuners are as good as this, if not better. Why oh why then, did they choose to attach such a nice looking and feeling tuner body to a cheap plastic clip. The design is nice, and the body of the tuner is finished in full metal. I say overkill as surely it will end up in the ukulele case on it's own. The Peterson arrives in a plush (but overkill) metal tin box. Whilst I said above that clip on tuners are cheap enough for anyone to buy one - the Peterson comes in at an eye watering £60. No needle or LCD readout can provide that level of accuracy. When the string is 'dead on' the boxes don't move at all. Basically, when a string is plucked slightly flat, the black boxes move to the left of the screen, and when sharp, they scroll right. The Stroboclip uses the same visual pattern on it's display screen. Using strobe theory, by spinning that strobe pattern, when the record player is spinning at exactly 33rpm (or 45rpm) the boxes stop being a moving blur and appear to stand still. In short, it works on an old analogue technology that you may have seen used around the edge of a record player platter - the little black boxes. A strobe tuner uses a different way of displaying the readout which means it is proven to be accurate to about 1/10th of one percent of accuracy - quite a leap. As such, most clip on tuners are only accurate to about 1-2 percentage points. The thing is with those tuners though, is that the accuracy is limited by the way the reading is displayed. Simple really, when the needle points at 12 o clock and turns green, the string is in tune. Most tuners use either red and green lights, or perhaps an LCD needle, such as on the Snark. So what IS a strobe tuner? Well, it's basically a clip on tuner that works in the same way as any other, but the way it provides you with a visual representation of when the string is in tune is displayed differently to any other tuner. I've reviewed some other tuners on Got A Ukulele before, but have wanted a Peterson strobe tuner for some time now, and bit the bullet. I know a lot of purists will say that players should learn to tune by ear, and I would agree that is a good skill to develop, but clip ons now are cheap small and so convenient, then why not. ![]() As I say regularly, a clip on tuner is really a must have for a ukulele player these days.
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