Monoprice Chromatic Pedal Tuner - Black, Normal & True-Bypass Outputs, Easy to Tune Your Bass & Guitars - Stage Right Series

When turned on in tune mode goes silent like its supposed to do.So far so good. For the price just buy it. It is made of plastic so there is that.Compared to a few other tuners i have it is accurate to them. The same.

I was absolutely BLOWN AWAY by the quality of this pedal. It’s sized right for my pedalboard, and works well with my power supply. The design has bright colors that are easy to see from the stage. I cannot speak to sound quality or volume control as I have this pedal coming out of yThe “tuner pedal” output on my volume pedal, so it’s not in the signal train.

I'll start with the quirks because these could make or break this purchase for you even at the price of this:1) Activating the tuner induces a slight pop. It's not extremely loud and with enough effects and pedal it'd probably be buried in the other noise on stage, but it is audible like if you used this to mute yourself without messing with the instrument volume during a quiet time when you're not playing and want to be silent people might hear that, so take it into account. I will say it shouldn't be enough to distract from anything else going on and it really is quiet enough to be buried under any other sound in most situations.2) If you power this with battery, when the battery gets low it WILL suck gain away from your instrument. I figured this out during practice within the first week of owning and using this. I'd only had the included battery in and it hadn't even died yet, but as this had been the second time I'd used it long term, our sound guy noticed I was getting quieter and we'd already messed with the bass amp, and gain on the soundboard earlier and after pulling this out of the chain, I was back to being loud and he had to turn me down as when I played out everything vibrated. Basically, you NEED to power this thing with a 9v AC adapter and not a battery otherwise you'll regret it in the long term.Besides those quirks, this is actually a great pedal tuner. I will say it's not quite as accurate as a BOSS chromatic tuner or even my Fender clip-on chromatic tuner (when I compared they said I needed minor tweaks to some strings, but very minimal at all), however, you're talking about a difference that I, a violinist of 15 years who can tune 440hz A by ear alone can't hear the difference. I have only used this for my bass though, so maybe after I use this for my electric violin I'll have a different opinion, but I somewhat doubt that.It's also really responsive so I can use this to play along with and make sure as I'm practicing shifts and note positions I working towards as I'm learning the fretboard which is nice. I will say that anything that isn't an open string will almost always say you're flat or sharp (which on guitars isn't really possible), but it's great for figuring out the note of a specific fret as I'm learning.Overall, for the price, I don't think you can beat this pedal tuner. It does have true bypass as I use that feature for my in-ear monitors so we don't have to add the bass into the main mix, and it doesn't suck any tone as long as the battery isn't dying, so it's really a great little tuner. I don't think the pedal will hold up forever especially since there's already a click, but the metal construction means it'll probably last quite a while and for 1/3 of the price of a Boss tuner even if I had to replace these once every 5-10 years, I'd still be well under what a far more expensive tuner would cost. I do know I will eventually replace this as there are WAY high-quality options out there, but for someone just starting out and building up a basic pedalboard to play bass for my worship band before I start shelling out for the good stuff, this will get me started at a price point I can be comfortable with!

The media could not be loaded. I made a video comparing the Monoprice Tuner to the Boss TU. They are approximately equal in all categories with the exception of Boss has a long standings well-known reputation while Monoprice is newer and lesser known.The Boss TU is not worth the extra money compared to the Monoprice.

I bought a cheap tuner on here to get my pedalboard going, but it was slow, like painfully slow. This unit has a large, bright display that's easy to see in any light. It's very easy to use and it's super fast and very responsive. It doesn't hesitate when transitioning from string to string like many tuners do. The dual output is nice as well as an actual battery (Included!!!) for use on the bench without a power cord. I can't recommend this enough. I even bought my friend one for Christmas.

I bought one. didn't work. i called the recommended "Customer Service" I don't think they work for Monoprice, the guy didn't understand a lot of what I was asking. I said it doesn't turn on. I put in the battery... press button once, nothing. I thought maybe it's a bad battery. So I opened a brand new Duracel... Same thing. Maybe it needs a guitar plugged in... Didn't work. Maybe it needs the amp too... nope. "Customer Service says; "Have you tried using a 9v transformer?" It didn't come with a 110/9v converter. So they get the supervisor (Ben) who says;" I'm a musician and I have a few 9v converters." (Maybe he was suggesting he would give me one of his?) I said It's supposed to work on the 9v battery... that's the way i want to use it. Finally i gave up and took the Amazon refund. They suggested "We will send you another one and you return the defective one within a month" I accepted that offer and returned BOTH in one day. The second one, the replacement didn't turn on either. Except when you plugged in a guitar or the amp I got a flash of two red lights on either side. Then nothing. I also noticed the plastic screen protector wasn't on the second one. My guess; "B Stock" someone returned it broken and they just sent it out again.I notice "Monoprice" sells a complete line of cheap guitars, amps, pedals and accessories. There's a name to remember!