E.T.D.

[Richard Brekne]

> Brian Doepke wrote:
> 
> From the responses I have received, is it true that the
> Yamaha PT100 is on the low end of the electronic tuner
> range in price and quality...and the Verituner is on the
> other end?
> 
> If so, what brands should I consider for a quality used
> unit?
> 

I dont know if I would put it that way.  But the Yamaha
tuner has some limitations that make it perhaps less then
the optimum choice.

What to buy depends on what you want to use it for. If you
just want a little box that tells you what to do then I
suppose the SAT has the best track record for overall
performance. RCT will do as good a job and offers lots of
other goodies, but you have to have a portable PC and deal
with limited batterys. Upgrades in either case are not
included in the origional price.

Vertituner has gotten rave reviews, and the basic
multipartial approach it employs (at least what I know of
it) appeals greatly to me. I have yet to try it but I
imagine it does a fine job of determining a tuning for you.
What extras it has I will leave to others to tell about.

I personally keep going back to Tunelab 97 as it is actually
very versitile and it doesnt try and tell me a friggen thing
except whether the note/partial I am looking at on the
display matches the frequency of the note I am
playing/tuning. And as I am trying to develope a way of
combining some aspects of a tuning calculator with as much
direct referencing of already tuned notes/partials as I can,
Tunelab 97 fits my purposes best. Tho I would love for
Robert to add one phase display so that I could essentially
run two Tunelabs at once on the same PC.

For many tho... the main concerns are price, battery life,
portability and upgrades. 

RicB