Korg OT-120 Orchestral Tuner

My Boss TU 12 tuner started to fail and this Korg OT 120 is a fantastic replacement. The tunings are very precise, and the tuner is easy to use. I do studio recording and precision tuning is essential. I love the analog meter. The digital display is a bit hard to read with the tuner standing, but very easy with it laying flat. Both mic and input tunings work well that way so the display is not an issue for me. I highly recommend this tuner. Follow up to this review. I am so impressed with this tuner that I bought a backup for my recording studio. This is precision tuning.

The Korg OT-120 is the perfect tuner and everyone should have one. The tuner comes with its own case that can be fastened to a belt--Ha-ha I will not be using that belt strap feature! Furthermore, the tuner is large compared to digital models, but the experience this product provides makes up for its size. The display is very easy to read with a white and orange panel. Like most tuners, one can set the caliper and also it has a note playback feature. It plays a concert pitch and one can play along and hear the waves. This helps build listening skills and intonation. Finally, a nice feature of this product, though I have not used this feature much, is that it has a transposition button. One can set the tuner to the key of their instrument and the tuner will read in that key. This will be helpful to those younger musicians not familiar with concert pitch. The Korg OT-120 is highly recommended by me and many musicians.

This is a fantastic tuner for the cello and practicing your intonation. If you buy it, I would also recommend buying the optional Korg CM-100L Clip On Contact Microphone For Tuners since it will allow you to use the sound-back feature, which is very useful for practicing intonation. This is how it works: You plug the clip on mic into the tuner and then clip it to your bridge. You then play a note, any note, and it plays back the "correct" pitch and you can move your finger a little bit until you match it perfectly and the needle is right in the middle. You practice both with your ear (move your finger until it sounds right) and with your eyes (once it sounds right, verify that the needle is in the middle). NOTE: The clip on mic is required because the built in mic in the tuner would just pick up the pitch that it is playing, and not your note. Also note, the feature works best if used with a practice mute on the instrument, since the sound the tuner makes is not very loud and can be hard to hear otherwise. I've used the sound-back feature for about a year and my intonation has improved a lot.

I had a cheaper model tuner for tuning my guitar but it was always a struggle to get it to "hear" the note and the results were spotty. Not so with this tuner, it works great, picks up the note much better than my cheaper unit and allows me to tune my guitars quickly and easily. Plus it looks much cooler than my old tuner so I can leave it out on the desk. Definitely recommended!

I had an older Korg chromatic tuner that I used for years, which was made right on the cusp of the great change from analog to digital devices. I still do use it, despite a couple of broken switches, but it is kind of bulky, so I found myself shopping around for a new one. I had pretty specific requirements: I wanted both digital readout and an analog meter. I needed to be able to "tweak" the pitch reference by cents, since I sometimes work with microtonal systems and temperments other than 12-tone equal temperment. I wanted something with an internal mike and speaker, for portability, but also with input so that I could attach an external clip-on mike. The OT-120 pretty much fit the bill on all of these points. It includes a number of stock tuning systems built-in (12tet; meantone; Werkmeister etc.), but also allows you to create your own, as well as to alter any reference pitch by +/- 50-cents on the fly. There is a digital readout that supplies both the pitch in scientific notation (C4 = middle C), and the deviation, if any, in cents. There is also an analog meter that allows for some pretty fine gradations of pitch, and which centers when your pitch matches the reference pitch. The accuracy is quite good: in comparing results on this tuner to a strobe tuner, it seems to get within +/- 1 cent, on average; for a non-strobe tuner this is close to phenomenal. There is also a sensitivity control which adjusts the response time to an external signal to one of three levels: fast, medium, or slow. This is very handy if you have a source that takes a while to "settle in" to its fundamental pitch, such as a long string with a low pitch. The "fast" mode is good for sounds that lock-in fairly quickly, such as wind instruments. My one caveat with this tuner is that the case is far less well made than that of my old Korg tuner, which has seen a lot of hard use (and abuse) and is still in one piece and working. Although the OT-120 looks in some pictures as though it has a metal case, it's really silver-grey plastic, with a thin aluminum front panel. And the plastic isn't all that heavy-duty -- a moderate squeeze with the fingers easily opens up the seam in the side, and I get the feeling that I could probably do permanent damage to the case simply by crushing it in my hand. This is unfortunate given the circumstances in which this device is most likely to be used. One could easily imagine that a few falls from a music stand to the stage floor might kill this tuner -- and I seriously doubt it will last as long as my old one. This is the only thing that cost the tuner a star. Would have been nice if an AC power supply and external mike were included, but these were easily obtained as add-on accessories. That said, these tuners have come down considerably in price -- almost 50% from what they were selling for a year or two ago, so the cost savings does mitigate the flimsy case construction, somewhat. Still, I'd have happily paid $20 more to get an actual metal case, our at least double thickness on the current plastic case. There are a lot of instrument-specific tuners, with far fewer features out there, which may be more durable. But if you need to tune a lot of different kinds of instrument (as I do), or if you need to be able to design your own tuning tweaks (A=445, instead of 440, for example), Then this is definitely the most versatile tuner available for the price. Even with the light-weight case, I'd certainly buy another of these.

I have used a Korg orchestral tuner that I bought over forty years ago. It still works but the lettering on some of the dials is getting a little hard to read. Sometimes the light doesn’t want to work unless I cycle the switch. Mostly it still works perfectly. What a great investment. The new one has a different footprint but has all the same features. I expect this one to work just as well. Thank you Korg.

Muy buena herramienta. He leído mucho a cerca de este aparato, e incluso me he documentado entorno a la marca, y creo que hoy por hoy en cuanto a profesionalidad, es uno de los mejores y más fieles afinadores que hoy en el mercado actualmente. Para mucho tipos y modelos de instrumentos, tanto de cuerda, como de viento. A pesar de todos los demás que hay en el mercado actual, que no son pocos. Saludos.

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Product is as described. This is one of the more advanced tuner that allows tuning to different temperaments.

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Un exelente producto en mi caso lo uso para mis guitarras electricas y la verdad es muy util para afinar y para octavar la guitarra por locque es muy bueno que tenga una aguja analogica. En cuanto a su construccion es de plastico y solo la caratula de alumunio pero se ve de buena calidad y viene con un estuche muy bonito para guardarlo el cual lo protege muy bienaparte de la señalizacion por aguja tiene su pantalla digital y la cual puedes encender en luz naranja pars una mejor visibilidad con poca luz. En cuestion de alimentacion lo puedes hacer con un eliminador de 9 volts o con pilas AAA , NO VIENE CON ELIMINADOR SOLO TRAE BATERIAS. Yo lo uso con baterias recargables y funciona bien. Lo unico pari mi que no me gusto fue el boton de encendido el cual es de plastico pero se ve muy sencillo y no se sinte de muy buen calidad. POR ULTIMO YO SIN DUDAR RECOMIENDO QUE LO COMPREN CREO QUE VALE LA PENA. ESTOY MUY AGUSTO CON EL AFINADOR