Gizmodo: guitar tuner

Keep Your Guitar In Tune With LEDs [Vibrations]

Kyle VanHemert — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:00:00 EST

If you're looking for an edgier way to tune your axe—one that uses your sense of sight rather than that of sound—look no further than the Stimmmopped, a device that uses LEDs to keep your licks sounding sweet.

The Stimmmopped, which might be more fun to say than it is to use, bombards your guitar's strings, one at a time, with two LEDs. The lights flash at the exact frequency at which the string should be vibrating, so if it's tuned too flat or too sharp the LEDs will appear to move. When the string's tuned correctly, the lights will look like they're perfectly still.

This is, of course, how all the rowdiest rock stars keep their guitars tuned just right. [Make]

N-Tune Guitar Tuner Offers On-Board Tuning [Gadgets]

Jason Chen — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:50:48 EST

Losing tuners comes more naturally to us than actually playing the guitar, which is why this N-Tune guitar tuner seems so great. It attaches under your guitar's volume knob and lights up to the appropriate key when you're in pitch. At $100 it's also $94 more expensive than the tuner we currently own, so we're going to have to lose a lot more tuners to justify buying one of these when it's available later this month. [N-Tune via BB Gadgets]

Self-Tuning Guitar: Synthax Tronical Powertune [Gadgets]

Charlie White — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:37:07 EST

Add this electromechanical Tronicle PowerTune from Synthax to your Fender Stratocaster or Gibson Les Paul, and all you need to do is press a button to tune up that ax within two seconds. Have a tin ear? Or are you on a stage with 120dB music blasting in your ears? Dial up the tuning you're looking for, and it's done. Imagine that. As soon as its software is ready, this device will even let you go from one tuning to an alternate tuning in the middle of a song.

It works with three components: servo motors on the tuning heads, a bridge which analyzes the pitches and then the TunedControl multi-knob where you can store various tunings and presets. Available in June for the Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster, and the Gibson Les Paul and Flying V, it'll retail for $800.

It works in a similar way to the $3000 self-tuning guitar we reported on a while ago, but lots cheaper and it's a retrofit instead of an entirely new instrument.

You Play. We Tune. (product page) [via Digg]

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