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Location: On The Fringe Of Ground Zero | I replaced the batteries in the 6751LX but as I tuned the guitar up the tuner kept going off. Is this normal? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | How fast were you? They turn off after a couple minutes, so the battery doesn't wear down. If I'm a little slow (which is normal for me) mine will go off before I get the last string. |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | OP-PRO: I can get all 6 before it shuts off.
Optima: I can get 3 or 4 before it shuts off or just the E & A pair on the 12 strings. |
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Location: On The Fringe Of Ground Zero | I was tuning the 12 string which took longer and I was getting crossed eyed using the built in tuner and frustrated because it kept shutting down. I really thought I damaged the OP-PRO unit while replacing it back in the slot. I didn't seat it right and I gently coaxed it back out and reseated it properly. As always you fellas come through for me. Thanks! |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | I didn't seat it right and I gently coaxed it...  |
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Location: On The Fringe Of Ground Zero | Hmmmmmmm.............. ;) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | There's no way I could tune a 12 before the onboard tuner shut off. I don't have one on my 12, though, and the Korg stays on a long time. |
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Location: SoCal | Tuning a 12 is soooo difficult. You gotta find the string that's outta tune, then tune the other 11 strings to it. Takes forever........ |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | moody ,
Now that's funny! And probably all too true... |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I find that almost all of the guitars stay in tune well enough for me to practice in my bandroom, and when playing out, I always use the tuner on the pedal board. Besides the convenience of the pedal, as my eyesight continues to deteriorate from presbytopia (my new word, just learned yesterday from the eye doctor, means old folks' eyes), I can't see the dinky tuner markings on the control panel of the guitar without glasses, which I don't otherwise need to play. Am I the only one who rarely uses any of the built-in tuners? |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I use the ones with OP-Pros. I like the nice big letters and arrows. Before those, I could never see what those tuners said without getting out the reading glasses, and I rarely took reading glasses to the guitar store.
The large print tuners and contour bowls are signs of the aging of the Ovation buyers. |
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| If you're using several guitars you're better off with a pedal tuner - the onboard ones are not all exactly calibrated. If you multitrack 2 or 3 different guitars you can hear it (leastways you can with mine). The OP Pros are easier to read but I like the old Optima for accuracy - it's almost exact against a strobe tuner.
If you're just sitting playing at home the onboards are fine.
The hard part of tuning a 12 is making sure you're playing the same string as you're turning the machine for. Get thru a lot of strings if you're not careful. Or so I've been told. |
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Location: NJ | When I'm home playing/recording, I tune to my piano.
At gigs, Boss TU2 pedal. |
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Location: SoCal | I'm with MIB (Men In Black?) on this one. The older tuners Ovation used were difficult to see (bad focal range for me). The OP Pro tuners, I can see just fine.
If I was doing a lot of gigging with a group, I'd go with a pedal tuner. Small built in or clip on tuners work great about 95% of the time, but every once in a while, I still hear a string just slightly off that the tuner tells me is right.... |
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