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Location: Reno, NV | How accurate is the on-board OP-pro tuner? Can I trust that I getting as good a tune as I would with a seperate tuner or strobe? |
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Location: south east Michigan | Over the years I've developed an ear for even a slightly out of tune note. I just wish my playing level had developed as well.
Anyway....I got no beef with the tuner. |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | Same here Brad. I seem to touch up my tuning after almost every song in the set. The OpPro seems to be just as good as my Yamaha 2000 (I think that's the #). I've owned just about every tuner out there, and the OpPro is on par with any of them.
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Location: Rocky River, Ohio | john, have you tried any of the peterson virtual strobe tuners?
if so, how do you like them?
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Location: NJ | i have a peterson and it is great.
the tuners in the ovations are probably seiko which are excellent |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Yep, the Ovation built in tuners are never going to compete with a Peterson strobe but they are pretty darn accurate and more than sufficient.
When I feel that the tuning is critical, the Peterson is still my "go to" tuner. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by bauerhillboy:
I seem to touch up my tuning after almost every song in the set. Dude! Check your string winding technique.
My Ovation has always stayed in tune for months at a time. Even in winter, going house to house. (okay, it's a tad sharp until it gets back to room temp...and the strings aclimate at different rates...but not many other than me would notice.)
It's the other guitars with their mismatched woods that go out of tune! (including, unfortunately, the T-head)
Or, maybe I'm just showing my punk heritage... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by fillhixx:
Or, maybe I'm just showing my punk heritage... or your tone deaf hearing :rolleyes: |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I have shirts older than Punk heritage! |
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Location: Omaha, NE | The Optima tuner on my Adamas seems dead nuts on the money. I have an intellitouch that I use on my Taylor, and it is distinctly harder to get a good tune than the Optima.
Anyway, there is no such thing as an in-tune guitar, just an in-tune performance. |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | I bring my guitar from home to the car, drive to the church (15 min.), then set up in a room that will later hold 450 people. The temp. is around 60. I tune.
We practice, the guitar goes out of tune in this temp., I tune for the second time. My hands don't feel too good in this cold.
The room gets full of people...the temp starts to rise from body heat, we step onto the platform, I tune again.
By the middle of about an hour of worship, the temp reaches around 80. I tune again.
Transition from worship to the message, all the children leave for classrooms, the teens go to the cafe' for their teaching, now there's about 250 people in the room. The temp drops to 70.
Frequently play at the end of the service. I have to tune again.
On a '79 1115 Pacemaker.
I was thinking of buying one of those robotic tuners. Maybe that would make my life easier. John <>{ |
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Location: south east Michigan | I will say this....
I tune to e-flat and sometimes the tuner has to think a bit before it picks up the low E string. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by MWoody:
I have shirts older than Punk heritage! So do I but you can get the crap beat out of you wearing flowing hippie shirts in a logging town! And verticle striped bell bottoms make me look like a blimp held down by carnival ropes.
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My tuning ear is fine, but my volume is better! |
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Location: NW NJ | On all my guitars with the OP-Pro, when I use the built-in tuner I can never get the B string right when the tuner says it is is tuned. It is always a little high and I have to temper it back a bit. If I plug in a little Korg tuner after tuning with the Pro, it says all the strings are fine except the B string which it shows as sharp. Bring it to pitch with the Korg and it sounds right on.
Now with the VIP, it is spot on. The VIP's sharp/flat arrows fade to black as the string gets closer to in tune, which seems more accurate to me, but seeing the fade in a brightly lit room is a pain. My Pro's arrows are either off or on and there seems to be a little "no man's zone" in between the sharp and flat arrows lighting up. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I just play the one that's in tune. If one is out of tune or needs new strings, I invite someone over or loan it to someone like Waskel, who returns it tuned. You have to be halfway smart to be this lazy. |
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Location: SoCal | Mark, that's how I get it restrung...wait until the strings start to rust, then loan it for 30 days. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Waskel even put a new battery in it. I still had the one Noah put in when I bought it a year earlier. I just don't plug in much. I had to tune enough guitars at GC tonight to last awhile. I was looking for a starter guitar for a friend's wife. They should keep them tuned, but they were really willing to change the strings on a $3000 Taylor for this guy. Some mom bought her kid a $1500 Taylor because it was "pretty". He thought a Martin played better. Frankly, it wasn't that much better than the $150 Ibanez I was trying out for my friend. How'd I get off on this topic? |
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| The OP-Pro tuner on my Legend 2077 LX is accurate enough. At least, it matches the accuracy of my other tuners. The OP-Pro has a problem with the display. Most of the time, when I tune the B string, the display shows E. If I hit B hard enough and often enough, the display will change to B. It doesn't happen with any other string. It's an annoyance for sure. I wrote a note to Ovation to see if they'll swap out the pre-amp under warranty. |
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Location: Arizona | I started out life as a sax and piano player (about 20 year's worth), and only picked up guitar in the last year ('cos people think yer weird if you bring a piano or sax camping).
The OP-Pro in my Elite T seems to be fine. I have a Strat with light strings and couldn't figure out why things often sounded funny, despite it being "in tune". Eventually I sorted out that just the string stretching from putting a finger on a fret can change an in-tune open string to slightly sharp fretted string (or thereabouts).
Given that that seems to be a mechanically unavoidable issue with guitars, I gave up on seeing the point of getting super-accurate tuning on a guitar. Especially with a guitar's sensitivity to environmental conditions I don't think it's worth too much energy to get overly anal with the tuning.
But that's just me and I'm just starting to learn this stuff... ;) |
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How accurate is OP-Pro tuner?