Recently some gadgets have been released concerning the tuning of the guitar. It seems like companies are trying to make it easy with new technology.
Tune guitar using the pick
Strobotron released the most weird gadget. Strobopick is a special pick that can tune the guitar only plucking the pick on the string. The pick size is 1 1/4″ x 1 1/4″ and weight is under 1 oz. Using two LED’s you can adjust the correct tune of the guitar string-by-string. It has a button that sets the pick in tune mode and initializes in E string and every push sets to next string.
In the pick’s site they recommend to pluck the pick somewhere near the 12th fret, and don’t recommend to play with it. (Ed: what’s the use of it being a pick, then?)
It doesn’t seem really practical because if you are playing live you can have a tuner always connected to the guitar and activate it whenever you want, and if you are playing at home, you don’t need to tune at a high speed.
The self-tuning guitars
TransPerformance has a system that assures automatic accurate tuning on your guitars. In about 3–5 seconds the small computer tunes the six guitar strings adjusting the changes that may have happened from temperature, humidity, etc. even while you are playing, only by pushing a button or stepping a foot-switch.
It also has tuning presets, allows you to make 240 new one’s, possibility of adjusting the speed of tuning, works with capo’s, protected stage mode for involuntary pushed buttons, …
That system seems to be more practical than the previous one, but looking at customer list you can imagine the cost of the Performer system, it begins at $3,399.
- From Gizmodo
- Official site
Automatic built-in tuner
Very similar to the self-tune guitar, Tronical has released a mechanism that when plugged into the tuning heads allows you to tune the guitar with only a push of a button. With a multi-knob for select your favorite tuning, or that kind of strange tune of Black Sabbath, and it’s done. The mechanism transmits the correct position to the tuning heads.
You can have the PowerTune for $800, you know, precision is expensive.
- From Gizmodo, Xataka (in spanish)
- Official site
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