Wanted: Good guitar tuner app for Android

Greger Hoel

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Jun 18, 2013, 9:47:19 PM6/18/13

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Anybody know of a really good one? There are too many to try and test them
all..

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billc...@hotmail.com

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Jun 19, 2013, 1:58:17 AM6/19/13

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Cleartune - this is excellent on iOS and is also available for Android

Carl

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Jun 19, 2013, 12:42:44 PM6/19/13

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Greger Hoel wrote:
> Anybody know of a really good one? There are too many to try and test
> them all..
>

See if the Gibson +StudioShare app is available for Android. It has a very
good tuner, a metronome, chord fingering charts plus some other things.
All free.

Steve Freides

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Jun 20, 2013, 4:10:09 PM6/20/13

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billc...@hotmail.com wrote:
> Cleartune - this is excellent on iOS and is also available for Android

I bought this today - it seems pretty good.

Have you played with the "damping" at all - it seems to default to the
middle of three positions but I couldn't detect much difference between
the three.

Thanks.

-S-

billc...@hotmail.com

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Jun 21, 2013, 1:53:08 AM6/21/13

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The damping effect seems quite subtle - I opted for the middle setting.

Steve Freides

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Jun 21, 2013, 9:41:08 AM6/21/13

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billc...@hotmail.com wrote:
> The damping effect seems quite subtle - I opted for the middle
> setting.

The middle setting is the default so that's what I opted for, too -
would be interesting to know what sort of thing the designers envisioned
the other two settings, e.g., do they work better for old or otherwise
"weird" strings, better for higher or lower pitches, etc.

-S-

rpjazzguitar

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Jun 23, 2013, 5:54:27 AM6/23/13

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I just tried the free version of Gstrings. It seemed to work fine. Gave tenths of an Hz. Guitar sounded fine when I was done.

Does anyone know if that's accurate enough for intonation adjustment? It seemed like it would be.

Greger Hoel

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Jun 26, 2013, 2:31:42 PM6/26/13

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On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:42:44 +0200, Carl <crot...@nospamoptonline.net>
wrote:

When I searched for +Studioshare, the only return was a Gibson app named
Gibson Learn & Master which seems to be more or less the same thing. Very
cool. I downloaded the other tuners suggested here too---both cost merely
a pittance and seem to work better than my Korg tuner. Thanks guys.

Carl

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Jun 29, 2013, 5:43:51 PM6/29/13

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Greger Hoel wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:42:44 +0200, Carl
> <crot...@nospamoptonline.net> wrote:
>
>> Greger Hoel wrote:
>>> Anybody know of a really good one? There are too many to try and
>>> test them all..
>>>
>> See if the Gibson +StudioShare app is available for Android. It has a
>> very
>> good tuner, a metronome, chord fingering charts plus some other
>> things. All free.
>
> When I searched for +Studioshare, the only return was a Gibson app
> named Gibson Learn & Master which seems to be more or less the same
> thing. Very cool. I downloaded the other tuners suggested here
> too---both cost merely a pittance and seem to work better than my
> Korg tuner. Thanks guys.

That's the one. I couldn't figure out which was its best name! :-) I think
the Gibson app is interesting and I find the tuner to be sensitive enough to
the guitar even in somewhat noisy situations.