Hi, Did you try plucking the string? Also moving the position of the unit, just a few inches, often helps. If the mic works fine in tune mode, it is the upper harmonic that the tuner is listening to that the unit can not read. Sometimes a voicing problem. Also if your muting strip is too thick it may cause unlevel strings making for hard readings. Sometimes just loosening the split rubber mute that I use, clears up the reading for my SAT Joe Goss RPT Mother Goose Tools imatunr@srvinet.com www.mothergoosetools.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "gary" <gmcc@charter.net> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 11:40 AM Subject: mic for laptop + RCT > Recently bought my third laptop (Dell Latitude 505) and was rather > distressed to discover it does not have a built-in mic.I've bought a > couple of cheap ones from RadioShack under the impression that surely > they're not worse than than a bog standard built-in. Well, they're not > working good at all; get a poor reading frequently on sampling A4 and A5. > Does anyone use RCT with an external mic they could recommend? > thanks! > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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