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PG's Jordan Wagner walks us through his latest review for the TC Electronic PolyTune pedal--featured in the 2010 issue of Premier Guitar.

The PolyTune is the world's first polyphonic tuner. You simply strum all strings on your guitar or bass at once, and it will immediately tell you which strings need tuning. This new tuning technology changes the way players can tune by enabling the tuning feature to apply to all the strings at once. The reference pitch can be set to your preference and ranges from 435Hz to 445Hz. If you are a guitarist that likes to play at a different pitch than standard, this is your go-to pedal, allowing for dropped tunings from E-flat all the way down to B. The tune works in two modes. First, Needle mode is for those that are used to the classic view on a tuner. The other option is for the people that want a little more real-time information, stream-mode measures even the slightest pitch variation and instantly feeds the info back to you via a rotating motion on the display. The PolyTune is also a true bypass pedal.




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Ian
on 05/28/2010
It is a great tuner. Very quick and easy to tune on the fly when you want to keep them on the dance floor. Alternate tunings would be good, but even more for me would be a bit bigger LED readout. It certain lighting it can be hard to see the reds..out of tune sharp or flat?? But overall worth every penny.
Tony Shaw
on 05/28/2010
This is 1 Great Tuner..............
james sabella
on 05/14/2010
very cool would love to win this and advertise this at my studio www.sabellastudios.com
RickinSF
on 05/08/2010
What they need is your drop D AND my Buzz Feiten tuning then i'm there...so i can tune my Anderson!
DC
on 05/06/2010
I've had mine for about a month also. So far it's been great both on stage and in the studio. I agree with what Scott said above - it may be a little more accurate in single note mode, but overall it's an excellent tuner. Bonus - once you get one you can tease all your other guitar player buddies - "Aw, still tuning one note at a time?" ;-)
DC
on 05/06/2010
I've had mine for about a month also. So far it's been great both on stage and in the studio. I agree with what Scott said above - it may be a little more accurate in single note mode, but overall it's an excellent tuner. Bonus - once you get one you can tease all your other guitar player buddies - "Aw, still tuning one note at a time?" ;-)
Scott
on 04/23/2010
I've been using this on stage for the last month. It's very quick to check/correct tuning, easy to read under different lighting,VERY USABLE!The single note mode might be SLIGHTLY more acurate (for recording).As for drop tuning, it's chromatic and follows your notes,no problem (ex. drop D). Open tunings in poly mode would be a big + . Great tuner!!
Sharpy
on 03/17/2010
OK.you have my attention.:-P
Regan
on 03/17/2010
I agree... I'll wait for an updated version. I like DADGAD. I also play 7 string and 12 guitars...so would like to see settings for these as well.
Rory O'Donnell
on 03/16/2010
That is AWESOME!!! I'm waiting for the 2.0 version though - hopefully they'll throw in more tunings, I use open D, Dadgad and drop D a lot - most of the time in fact, so this is no good to me at the moment.. Insanely rad idea though!!!



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