We had to return it, it was giving us headaches. Yet, review after review raves about the tuner. Wonder what we were missing?

What do you mean by "headaches"?

I have a couple of simple Korg chromatic tuners & they've always worked well for me.

I still have one of the very early Korg tuners that I bought about thirty years ago with the mechanical needle dial like a VU meter and a knob you have to turn for each different string that still works like a champ. I still use it when I intonate because it is so accurate.

Hi. We couldn't quite figure it out. The dial was all over the place and did not register correctly. We knew it wasn't correct, because on trial runs (we tried it on three guitars), the guitars were already in tune or extremely close. Is chromatic the way to go?

Bear, which model is that?

The ones that I own are model CA-30. Cost was around $20 apiece. I use them with acoustic & electric 6-string guitars, & acoustic 12-strings.

The one you returned seems to have two modes, one for 4 to 6-string basses & one for 6 or 7-string guitars.

I can imagine it not working very well if the wrong mode was inadvertently selected. Or maybe it was simply defective.

I have a GA-30 and it works well. I use the input jack instead if the mic tho, especially when checking the intonation. Mostly I use my clip on Chreub tuner because of it's convience and usually I like to tune my Falcon to 444Hz + 1b.

Bear, looks like the GT-6.

Bear, which model is that?

GT-6. I bought it thirty years ago and lost the battery cover twenty-nine years ago.

I have the GA-30. Works fine.

I've had the urge to get an inline model, and well as a clip on model...but, I haven't...

Only when the batteries are near their end does it get "flaky" as it rides the threshold voltage for the circuit. Ergo, change the battery before you get to that point!

We tried different batteries, still didn't operate correctly. We would hit a string and the tuner would identify it as the strangest number 7 string or something, etc... Who knows, maybe it was just a bad unit, but I keep thinking it must have been something we were overlooking. Anyway, I like that thirty year old GT-6 as it allows you to manually select the string rather than the tuner identifying it.

Before I moved to Kentucky from California, a friend of mine in CA was a professional piano tuner and accomplished player as well. He used a Peterson Strobe Tuner which has the reputation of being the best and I don't doubt that. Anyway, I wanted to see how accurate my Korg GT-6 was so I tuned a guitar with the Korg and then plugged it into the Peterson. It was dead on. The strobes stood perfectly still. That's why it is the only tuner I use for intonation work.

I found it works best on the neck pickup with the tone completely rolled off and the string plucked lightly with whatever pick you always use or your thumb.

that one Bear has reminds me of my dad's old voltage meter...I remember he used to check the voltage of batteries by placing two wires/diodes/whatever they're called on either end of the battery...I haven't seen something like that in 25 years, although I'm sure they still make them..

I have a couple of Krog Tuner's and have always had good luck with them, I use a Planet Wave floor model that I bought from a memeber here...LOVE it!

Bout the only other thing I can think of is the possibility of back ground noise interference.

I still have one of the very early Korg tuners that I bought about thirty years ago with the mechanical needle dial like a VU meter and a knob you have to turn for each different string that still works like a champ. I still use it when I intonate because it is so accurate.

Agreed. I've never had one, but a buddy I played with used to have one in the 80's. A very accurate and dependable tuner.

I found it works best on the neck pickup with the tone completely rolled off and the string plucked lightly with whatever pick you always use or your thumb

Personally, I always tune with a 12th fret harmonic to get a real pure note.

HA! Bought me a Turbo Tuner. That is a nice quick and accurate one. Only drawback is that the LEDs won't be visible in broad daylight. But is has many programs like open tuning etc.etc. Small and with build-in mike. I like it a lot.