Sonic Research Turbo Tuner vs Quick Tune

This is a quick demo featuring my new Sonic Research Turbo Tuner and my old Qwick Tune tuner. I was looking for a new tuner and considered a variety of tuners before settling on the Sonic ST-122 Strobe Tuner. The ST-200 stomp box version is the way to go unless you have unplugged instruments. I figure I could use the version with the built in mic to learn how to do vocals in key. :p

In both Sonic Research tuners, the red LED dial spins counter clockwise if the note is flat and clockwise if it is sharp making it pretty easy to make fine tuning adjustments.

I had the pleasure of attending an Allan Holdsworth concert May 2, 2009 (second row center, but it still wasn't loud enough!). He is playing June 11- 13 at the Baked Potato in L.A. so be sure to check him out if you can. Also, Abstract Logix has the John McLaughlin instructional DVD set (almost 4 hours) on sale. One I saw the You Tube vid of the late Shawn Lane mention McLaughlin's influence on him, I knew I had to have it even though it the course work looks a little tedious. And of course Frank Gambale's classic Modes: No More Mystery DVD (about an hour) is available at Amazon at a reasonable price. That DVD is brilliant in how it encapsulates so much, so succinctly. I think Frank Gambale and maybe Vinnie Moore were the first guitar superheroes to point out that guitarists need to treat the entire fretboard as one, unified scale as appropriate in contrast to the common approach of breaking the fretboard into a specific series of dots.

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Music

Tags:

• Sonic
• Research
• Model
• ST-122
• True
• Strobe
• Tuner
• Qwik
• Tune
• Chromatic

[Svet69]

The new tuner is the way to go. Faster and much more accurate, apparently.

With precision like that it will be the right tool for any guitar player who wnats to set up a compensation nut or to do precise intonation.

[snouter]

No doubt about it. And the strobe effect leds makes it real easy to fine tune.  With the Qwik Tune I would be lucky if I could just get one string was in tune and then tune the rest off that string which of course increases the likelihood of being out of tune overall.

[krelbar]

Next, we're going to compare prime rib to london broil...stupid comparison...waste of time.

[Gumbyspike]

i'm a newb who got this thing as a gift and none of the intonation videos online are clear. Not a one show the tuner readings while intonating. would it be possible to demonstrate how to set intonation on an electric guitar using this tuner?

[guitartec]

@Gumbyspike Setting intonation properly is not quite as simple as matching harmonics and fretted notes. Further compensation is typically needed depending on several technical facets of the instrument being intonated and the player's playing style. In other words, there is a lot of experience required to temper each string's scale length for the person who is playing the instrument.

[Doomzdayxx]

This is such an unfair comparison lol.

[Damien6ix]

This one seems to be more "complete" than the stompbox version. They should cut a deal when you want to buy both ;)

[AntonioCavicchioni]

I just returned the Peterson back to GC and bought this tuner, and this is the TUNER. Just the best, simpler and more accurate tuner that I tried. I bought the floor version and it fits right in my pedalboard. Very happy with it and congratulations to the designers of this masterpiece...!