I need a new tuner

[James Freeman]

If I’m looking at the tu-3 is the Waza worth it for the buffer/bypass?

First review here complains about super bright LEDs. That's an instant nope for me.

Boss TU-3W Waza Floor Tuner

Ground Pedal A TU-3 in WAZA version with perfect pitch recognition and a high-quality signal buffer, Optimized audio circuits for an uncoloured signal propagation, The buffer can be disabled, LED meter with 21 segments and adjustable brightness,...

www.thomannmusic.com

After using this tuner for some time in real life situations (gigs, studio, rehearsals) I've decided to lower my ratings considerably. The green middle LED is so much brighter than the adjacent blue LEDS that it completely overpowers them, It's very difficult to see the innermost blue LEDS when the green LEDS lights up because you are practically blinded by the extremely bright green LED. It's therefore difficult to see if you are in tune or slightly out of tune. This is a VERY flawed design. The regular (much cheaper) non-Waza model with the red LEDS is a lot better. Don't waste your money on this one!

I like the classic white TU design with nice red leds just fine.

 

[MixMinisterMike]

Turbo Tuner

 

[Chocol8]

I rolled the dice. Order placed with Sonic Research for a full-size ST-300

If you hate it, I will happily buy it off you for a modest discount...and then recommend therapy and medication!

 

[DrewJD82]

Look for the positives...

You will now look forward to adjusting intonation.

You can easily explore multiple custom tunings.

Enjoy all the accumulated time saved due to instant note tracking.

Join the club and become one of the cool kids.

Did any of that help?

Hahahah nope, but I appreciate the effort!

 

[Eagle]

Turbo is the ONLY tuner to go to 1/50 cent and you can tell. It’s also the only tuner that I don’t feel the need to tweak the tuning after.
Nothing compares. The other “ strobe “ tuners are just fake displays with the exception of the big old Peterson. Don’t mistake their new crap.

 

[James Freeman]

Turbo is the ONLY tuner to go to 1/50 cent

As soon as you start playing, none of the marketing bull matters.

 

[Eagle]

As soon as you start playing, none of the marketing bull matters.

You still need to tune before you start playing with that. I don’t care about marketing . Either you have never used one or you can’t hear it.

 

[James Freeman]

You still need to tune before you start playing with that. I don’t care about marketing . Either you have never used one or you can’t hear it.

So you're saying you can hear a pitch difference of 1/50 of a cent, which is 1/5000 (0.02%) of a semitone?

I don't envy people with that kind of pitch hearing the intro of "Glory Days" by Springsteen when it comes up randomly on spotify .