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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | I've been doing a bit of on-line research on clip-on tuners and got down to a choice between the Gogo and Snark. I first bought the Gogo because its clip had a bigger 'bite' for an Ovation snowplough, and i liked the big screen. Wasn't quite accurate enough for my OCD ears. This morning my black Snark arrived from the States. One word... recommended! Not easy to find a sweet spot for a clip-on tuner on an O, but I found one. |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | I love my Snark.
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| I use a Snark. Where do you clip it? |
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Location: Fort Worth, TX | I'm awaiting arrival of one now. Some online music place I've never ordered from emails me special offers all the time. They sent me a notice that as a valued customer I had a ten dollar credit on my next order. In next email up pops a Snark on sale for $8.00. With $3.00 shipping my card was billed a whole buck. Hope it's more user friendly than the clip on I currently use. It want to bury the needle on every note to the sharp side immediately after every attempt to center the dots on pitch. Frustrating to use! I figure for a buck I couldn't go wrong trying a Snark. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Mine isn't that great |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Mine's the SN8 - the new model (In flat black!) I'm loving it, and my OCD ears are loving it. I've only got one 'O' now, and it's a slothead. I clip it on the side of the headstock, just in front of the 'G' tuning peg and it still allows easy access to the 'G' tuner. |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | I don't know the model of mine right off but it was the better one and is red in colour. It works great; no having to plug in and no worries when trying to tune on a noisy stage... love it!
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Location: Tennessee | I've got a few Snarks. They're good but they eat batteries. I tend to use the PolyTune app on my magic phone most of the time these days when I'm not playing out. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I have never been a fan of tuners in general. I'd rather tune by ear. But, I have a new banjo and it doesn't have geared tuners. If you breath on it it gets out of tune. I opened up one of my red Snarks and I absolutely love it! No needle jumping around - it stops dead, and it is very accurate. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | will - 2013-04-13 3:52 AM
I use a Snark. Where do you clip it?
There is a Street Musician in PDX David Amir, who showed me this trick.
He clips his to the handle on his CubeStreet. He just started doing this.
He claims that it works well, gets a truer sound, and no worries about it falling-off like on the headstock.
(but you may notice the blue Snark on the headstock in his video)
(No that is not dust... That is sunlight on the textured tolex) 
Most of my Ovation have tuners in the Preamp anyway... But I have a Snark also.
Edited by Old Man Arthur 2013-04-13 2:11 PM
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Snarks are excellent but they do tend to eat batteries . I just bought a 10 pack of the CR2032's through Amazon for a ridicules price. They are good till 2022 so I should be good for the next couple years. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I've had two snarks for what... a year and a half now???
Never had to change a battery. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Well Slip,
Maybe that is why you always sound out of tune!  |
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Location: south east Michigan | Oh, you mean the thing is supposed to light up or something?
I'll have to look into that. |
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Location: New Bern, NC | I have several students with clip on tuners. So far I haven't found a single one that's as accurate as my stand alone Korg chromatic tuner with a contact condenser microphone clipped to the headstock. |
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Location: Cork, Ireland | Red snark. Just about clips to pacemaker headstock, works well, yes it seems to go through batteries. And I also clip it to handle of amp when playing my lap steel but never use an amp with the Pacemaker
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Location: Fort Worth, TX | My new FREE Snark arrived today. It's a blue one. I immediately liked it better than the other clip on I have that cost more than twice as much (if I had paid for this one). Only slight problem is the shallow bite of the clip on area is kinda hard to get over the lip on an O headstock but I have a small area it fits on the side. No more battling the old tuner trying to dial it in when it always wants to bury the needle to the sharp side first. I'm a believer. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Dave, on my slothead (my only O now) I clip it on the side between the 'ear' and just in front of the 'G' tuning peg. Not ideal, but it works for me. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | My friend Bonnie clips hers right onto the tuning peg of her violin or her cello. I would imagine it would work on a guitar too. |
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Location: Michigan | Never had good luck with snarks. Even my tone deaf ears can tune my guitar better. I only use intellitouchPT10. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | I have several Snarks: a red and a blue...I like them a lot...very useful and accurate...thanks for the tip on batteries Stephen! |
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Location: Nashville TN. | I have 10 blue snarks |
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Location: sitting at my computer | In this Top Ten Review... http://guitar-tuner-review.toptenreviews.com/ ...the SNARK SN-1 was their #2 guitar tuner Their #1 was the KORG AW2G (No Gogo among this top ten) |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Gogo didn't do it for me.
The Snark, however, does. |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | I like'em. They're plenty affordable and accurate enough that I don't notice a problem. (Admittedly, that's a relative measure but it works for me. Which is also relative...........which is redundant, but oh well.)
One big point in their favor though: I bought five of them over a year ago, and a couple of months back, I managed to break the head off of two of them! I let Snark know about it, and they replaced both of them promptly and without a receipt. They did ask that I send them the broken ones, but I received the replacements in less than two weeks. I like customer service like that. I've since bought several more. |
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Snark clip-ons.
