HELP - WHICH ETD?

[Jason Kanter]

FWIW, I think TuneLab Pro is a nice advance on TL97 and worth the
investment. During your learning curve use the free demo.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: HELP - WHICH ETD?


> 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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