GUITER TUNERS

[Valentino Villevieille (valvil)]

Douglas,  
 
The store I worked at  until a few months ago, carries Peterson Strobe tuners; I sold a few of them, and fooled around a bit with one, but I would not consider myself an expert.  Having said that, I did like what I saw when I tried one, and one of my more experienced co-workers, Rik Elswit ( a former Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show bandmember, a guitar salesman extraordinaire for the last 14 years or so) swears by them.  As you know, they do cost a lot of money, but their reputation is amazing & you can tune anything with them.  
Personally, as Jan & Michael  indicated earlier,  I would probably choose either the older Korg DT models( DT1, DT2) or their newer incarnations the DTRs (DTR1000, DTR2000); those  are excellent tuners that are great for stage work as well, because of their easily visible display; they also cost much less than the Peterson tuners, which might be a bit of an overkill if all you want to tune is a bass guitar.  
Also , if you can find one used, you might like what i have which is a Boss TU50 chromatic tuner (now discontinued), a half rack unit with a good display that shows tuning from +/- 50% down to +/- 2%.
 
Valentino
 
 

[Jan Riviere (janriviere)]

Hi Paul,
 
Everything's fine with me, thanks
 
Can't you move the DS5-R to the back of your rack ? What is the depth of that unit ? Then you have 2 units free in the front ?
Your rack must be deep enough whith that poweramp in it I guess. Just an idea ...
 
Cu
Jan

[Paul Lindemans (palembic)]

Jan,
 
could work.
I've never seen an Alembic DS5-R actually, I dunno if they are deep or not.
The only inconvenient will be that you enter the rack with your guitar on the back of the rack.
Another possibility is going further with the small Boss-tuner I always keep with my guitar.
Than I'll put the Korg DT1 Pro for sale together with the Lexicon MPX 100
 
CU
Paul

[Jan Riviere (janriviere)]

Paul,
 
I just looked something up, Furman did make the European version of their PL tuner ! check http://www.google.be/search?q=%22Pl-Tuner+E%22&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
 
So, if you have the time to follow-up the European Ebay-sites on a regular basis, you might be lucky finding one.
 
happy hunting ;-)
Jan

[Jan Riviere (janriviere)]

And another thing, I should think twice selling that old Korg tuner. It is not the first time I hear people say that these tuners are(were) very good. I also had a problem once with the rear connectors that is now fixed. I found a guy in Tielt (Belgium) who repaired my Korg tuner. You can contact him at http://users.skynet.be/musiccenter-tielt/intro.htm
The guy is a real electrnic music wonder. It is not near your door, but he does a fine job.
 
Talk to you later
Jan

[Paul Lindemans (palembic)]

Po-po-po-pooooooom, po-po-pooooom
This is Paul humming the Indiana Jones theme again on his hunting mission. (I start commenting to myself like Snoopy ..jeeez).
Thanks Jan for the lead.
Yes ...I know about the Korg but, unfortunately I have to throw something out when something comes in, kinda deal with Senior Management. I prefer throwing out a device like that instead of a guitar. (But I can't throw out a lot of them: there is only one LOL!)
 
Paul

[Jan Riviere (janriviere)]

If the senior management :-) decides to throw Bonnie out the door, I'll be more than happy to be in the neighbourhood LOL :-)

[Douglas Signorovitch (1stbass)]

Thanks agin for all your input i went and did it i just bought a Peterson R590 Auto strobe tuner. It was a lot of money but i have tihs crazy idea to open a music store one day and i think this will be a great tool to have in the shop.The last thing i need to do is to get the credit card bill past senior management
 
Doug

[Paul Lindemans (palembic)]

OK ...ONE BIG HAND FOR DOUGLAS AND HIS PETERSON!.
Here's the deal Doug, we don't need pictures but we do like your opinion on it when you start using it. Fair?
BTW: we didn't know you were going in music business kinda store. I guess it's THE thing to buy than.
 
Paul
 
PS: hint: hide the creditcard bill between a bunch of roses this evening when presenting to Senior Management.

[Douglas Signorovitch (1stbass)]

OK Paul, that sounds fair enough. As fare as the music sotre thats a long way off. I hope to one day retire and be a kranky old man that selles and fixes fine guitars etc.
And with the cost of that thing it my be roses and dinner out for senior managment.
 
thanks  
doug