The Boss has the annoying characteristic of sometimes reading about a half second behind whatever you are doing. The Strobostomp tunes noticeably more accurately than the TU-2, and it gets your guitar in tune more quickly (though there is a little bit of a learning curve with the Strobostomp - for the first week or two it might actually take you longer). Now when you actually do go to tune, again, the TU-2 works, but the StroboStomp works better. With the Strobostomp in line but not in use, your signal will be noticeably (not earthshakingly, but slightly) better than if you had the TU-2 in line. The TU-2 does effect your bypassed sound - it's not bad, but there is some noticeable change compared to guitar to amp. The TU-2 is a good product, but the Peterson is superior. that's probably why someone would prefer to leave the pedal always running.I have both - get the Strobo if you can afford it. The only downside (but it's a very, very relative one) is that it doesn't engage instantly, like most pedals, but after a "booting time" slightly longer than half a second, like a small digital processor. The strobostomp has a very elegant and classy look and feel, with lots of options (some of them are purely cosmetic, like screen colour, but there's a whole lot of "sweetened" tuning systems for all kinds of different instruments, the option to keep the stroboscopic meter always on, to mute audio, to bypass the signal and so on), all within a comfortable interface. I already had the peterson in plugin and clip form, and a sonic research st 200 pedal, that looks and feels much more utilitarian and basic. i always tune my stringed instruments slightly ahead of that zero point, so for my taste strobos are the most intuitive tools. Stroboscopic tuners can be frustrating for many users - they are almost always in movement, with no reassuring green zero point. and let me repeat myself: if you want to set up your intonation, you need only a hardware strobe tuner, accept no substitutes! It might have too many features, I'm actually using very few of them, but very happy of everything I use. want it to display Bb instead of A#? again not a problem want it to display string numbers, not notes? not a problem. want your reference A to be 432Hz? no problem, it will save it upon power off (Korg, I'm looking at you!) want it to be 400 or 490Hz? or 444.4? again no problemĨ. USB connectivity: update firmware and set some custom settings I never yet usedħ. I don't use this, but big chassis allows it. power doubler, so you can daisy-chain another pedal. true bypass is totally pop-less on engaging or disengagingĥ. I didn't have good luck with the buffer, but the true bypass is nice enough (like better than on Pitchblack Advance). I sometimes use the GTR, but that's it (I prefer equal temperament on well set-up instruments)Ĥ. a color display with user-changable color, visible in direct light as monochromeģ. it's extremely accurate and can confuse new users for a while. I chose the former, as I prefer the display.ġ. currently two pedal tuners on the market provide a real strobe: Peterson StroboStomp HD and the Sonic Research Turbo Tuner. Polytune, Pitchblack or anything digital is not enough accurate for this. when you need enough accuracy to set up your instruments, I just need a hardware strobe. I can say that this is one of the best pedal tuners on market. first was an early one, second one is slightly revised hardware, most notably they now include a velcro pad.
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