Lori Levens wrote: > Hello, > Looking for suggestions and opinions for purchasing an Electronic > Tuning Device. Really appreciate some guidance from those of you who > have experience. SAT's (WHICH model)? Veritune? Peterson? What > about buying used? Where might I find a good deal on a great > condition used ETD? Thank you in advance for helping me narrow my > choices! Lori Depends on what you want to use them for. Verituner will do everything outside of turning the pins for you. SAT and CyberTuner are a rats hair behind, and have a couple features of their own. Tunelab will require more from you, especially Tunelabe 97. The Peterson out and out requires you to know a fair amount of tuning theory in order to put it to real good use... but really... its just a step behind Tunelab 97 in this regard. All of them do as good a job as you could ever need at referencing any particular frequency. The real difference in these is how each of them arrives at the frequencies for each note of the piano. If you want to use an ETD to simply make sure that your tunings match the partials you want them to ahead of time... then I'd suggest Tunelab 97 or the Peterson.... Tunelab is cheaper but requires a PC. If you want an ETD to calculate all those frequencies for you as well... then these first two wont do at all.... and you need to choose either the SAT, Verituner, or Cyber Ear. The SAT is the lightest, longest battery life and all around easiest to deal with in most regards. Cyber Ear has the advantage of being software based... which means you can port it to new hardware as time goes by... but upgrades to the software are expensive and the software protection is not at all user freindly IMHO... tho it does come with a few goodies that are nice to have and instructional to be sure. Verituner has the most sophisticated tuning curve algorithm, tho it is heavier then the SAT, a bit larger and not nearly the same battery life. My suggestion is Tunelab 97. Use it to learn how to make your own tuning curves... to learn the underlying reasoning for single partial curves, and to gain deeper understanding into tuning theory. It is by far the least expensive, and has the potential for doing just as good a job in the end as any of its more sophisticated cousins. Cheers RicB
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