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Re: Google adds a guitar tuner to Search

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Post by Joeboy »

stephen_g wrote: post #53
titzer wrote: post #42

About 20 years ago I bought my first digital guitar tuner, a Korg, that is about the size of a deck of cards. It had a monochrome LCD screen that mimicked an analog dial with a needle that moved to indicate flat or sharp. Years passed. Guitar tuning apps became a thing. I downloaded a few over the years. Then the one (free) one I had started showing ads. Little by little, update by update, the ads became more annoyin…

Yeah, the Snark is good, I usually use that with my acoustic guitars. I also use a Polytune 3 which is the first thing in my signal chain for electric or bass. I've never had good results with tuning apps on my phone. Usually because of background noise - which is where the Snark shines, working through vibration!

I like my Snark, but I'm a bit troubled by the instructions saying not to leave it on any instrument with a polyurethane finish, which I think is most guitars. Not sure how much I should worry about that.

Re: Google adds a guitar tuner to Search

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Post by matheusmoreira »

Kaibeezy wrote: post #92
sriram_malhar wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OP is dissing one app, but making a generalised comment on all software apps in the tuner/metronome category. There is no shortage of well done apps that cost very little (most of them cheaper than the cheapest korg tuner) and packing in way more functionality. If OP's comment was something to the tune (heh) of "I tried a bunch of paid top-rated apps and I prefer my hardware tuner", I'd consider it a fair comparison.

I read it as dissing all free/crap/adware. Which is like dissing TV adverts or billboards or, I dunno, stickers on racing cars. So, cough up for Netflix, or move to an area where people have expended effort to make sure billboards are not permitted, or, I dunno, go watch the ponies. It’s all out there, just got to pay one of the prices. If you don’t want ads, you pay, or pick up one of dozens of perfectly serviceable…

> If you don’t want ads

You block them.

Re: Google adds a guitar tuner to Search

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Post by wohfab »

amelius wrote: post #86

How is this not abuse of power to get into the guitar tuner market? I hope they get sued by the tuner companies. And before you respond, think how you would feel if your service was "front-run" by Google upon a user search.

I obviously do not know their plans, but you (for now) have to search for "google tuner". So there's no "abuse of power" at all and nothing is "front-run" here.

Re: Google adds a guitar tuner to Search

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Post by ratww »

sriram_malhar wrote: post #74
titzer wrote: post #42

About 20 years ago I bought my first digital guitar tuner, a Korg, that is about the size of a deck of cards. It had a monochrome LCD screen that mimicked an analog dial with a needle that moved to indicate flat or sharp. Years passed. Guitar tuning apps became a thing. I downloaded a few over the years. Then the one (free) one I had started showing ads. Little by little, update by update, the ads became more annoyin…

You are dissing a product that you didn't pay money for, and comparing it unfavorably to one that you did. How is that fair. There are metronome and tuner apps that are way more pleasant and functional than any hardware product, if you could shell out just a few bucks (< $10). You also have fewer batteries to manage.

Just searching for tuner apps, in the first 10 or so results there were no options for me without ads or without "upgrade to pro" or "subscribe to us" or "3 days trial".

The first three had an ad-free option around 10-15 dollars to unlock, which is fair but the price of a good hardware tuner that will certainly last WAY longer than any of those apps and will operate 10x better.

The first one without the subscription is the Boss tuner, which is free, but has spammy notifications for Boss advertisements.

The first one that isn't complete crap is in position 30 or so.

So yeah, I'm gonna diss something I didn't pay for, and I didn't even download. Simply because those products are better off not existing for me as a consumer, since they lead to confusion and redundancy and prevent me from finding truly quality things.

Re: Google adds a guitar tuner to Search

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Post by forgotpwd16 »

maxmcd wrote: post #2

Should the link be: https://www.google.com/search?q=google+tuner

It seems they've have a few tools such as a metronome, a roll a die with multiple dies of different size, a coin flip. Even games:

https://www.google.com/search?q=play%20snake

https://www.google.com/search?q=play%20minesweeper (this seems to work only when visited via one from the other links)

https://www.google.com/search?q=play%20solitaire

Re: Google adds a guitar tuner to Search

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Post by analog31 »

YZF wrote: post #49
asdff wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh yeah, my chromatic tuner is set to 440 hz. My guitar stays in pretty good tune to my ears at least but I would retune it with the tuner if playing with other instruments for sure or if it were to get out of tune (never seems to). When I change strings I do check my intonation too. Pretty easy to set on stratocasters. I think a lot of guitars especially are not set up well and intonation is probably off even if the…

fun fact: it's impossible to get perfect intonation across the scale length on your standard fretboard guitar (like a Strat). The intonation adjustments (like checking the 12th fret) are a compromise. Of course, that's better than just having it wrong all over ;) A lot of people (myself included) just don't notice these small "errors" and sometimes it actually makes for a better sound...

Indeed, likewise on all wind instruments. Perfect tuning is a niche feature in music.

Re: Google adds a guitar tuner to Search

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Post by tantalor »

chinaev wrote: post #114

I believe it's a bit of a disservice. People should develop a musical ear to tune their own instruments. Haven't been using tuners for about past five years. However my guitar does drift off a bit sometimes

Can anybody learn it? I thought many people were just tone deaf. Is it a myth?
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