Tuning: There’s An App For That!
For guitarists who are iPhone users, I highly recommend the Peterson Strobosoft guitar tuner download for an incredible $9.99. This is the same precision tuner in their stomp box and it’s fantastic. Add the 1/4″ adaptor jack for electrics and this is the tool to have (IMHO).
I can’t recommend it any higher. It’s simply the best!
The Strobosoft is a stripped version, but the tuner engine is identical to the stomp-box. The sensitivity even without the 1/4″ jack is excellent. It has a noise filter, pitch adjustment and boost. The accuracy of a strobe tuner beats any chromatic tuner. I’d suggest Peterson Strobosoft sets the bar as being the maker of the best strobe tuners on the market. Their strobe program, or as I say “engine”, is the same regardless of whether it’s burnt onto the chip set in a stomp box, or as a download on your iPhone - Meaning the actual tuning program itself. Most of these programs are compiled in C++ as EXE files then burned to a chip set. It’s the same, just with a smaller add on library - No alt tunings. It’s theses features that are stripped out of this basic program, but as far as performing the task as a tuner, it’s second to none and is easily up to the task of more demanding work like setups (IMHO).
As for digital VS analog, I’d suggest that argument was certainly relevant a few years ago. Today’s D/A converters are vastly improved.
This is my new favourite iPhone App!
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