A guitar, bass or ukulele voices with a tuner

A tuner is a superbly convenient, almost indispensable accessory when you play guitar. Both for starters and professionals. Almost every guitarist does has a tuner. Beginners often lack the experience of tuning a guitar on a sound basis. And for professionals, it 's a handy tool to quickly tune up your guitar if you're on stage, for example, or when there's sound around you.

So, as I said, a tuner is very useful. But if you have never used one, it may still be quite complicated how it works. Most tuners do not include a clear Dutch or English description, so therefore, this blog is used to explain how it works.

Technique

Different types of tuners

How to use the tuner

Technique

As you may already know, sound consists of vibrations. Also called frequencies or sound waves. The slower the vibration the lower the sound. And the faster the vibration the higher the sound. And so it also works with a string of a guitar, bass or ukulele. The faster the stowards vibrates the higher the sound. So when you turn a string tighter, the sound gets higher. You loosen the string, the sound gets lower.

Voice devices capture sound in different ways. Clip-on tuners attach you to the head of your instrument. This one catches the vibration through a sensor. There are also voice devices that capture the sound from your instrument through a microphone. And in addition, there are tuners that collect an electrical signal through an input. For example, this one is widely used on the stage at electric guitars and basers.

Different types of tuners

A clip on tuner is a tuner which puts you on the headstock (head) of your instrument. Through a sensor it captures the vibration of the sop. Clip-on tuners are often small and have a small display. They are ideal to tune the guitar fast and you can leave them easily sitting during playing. They're not in the way.

A traditional tuner captures the sound of the string via a microphone or by an electrical signal at an electric guitar. These tuners are often a bit bigger and because of the larger display you can vote more accurately. These tuners often have multiple functions as well. For example, voices in a different pitch.

In the case of guitarists on traineeship, the pedaltuner is often a popular choice. These tuners have the same shape as a guitar-effect pedal. Because of this you can easily get rid of them in your pedals box and can operate a guitarist on stage with the tuner with his/her foot.

Important to know at the choice of a tuner is:

• Clip-on tuner: works on all guitars, basins, ukulele's and banjo's, etc.
• Voice tuner with microphone: only works on acoustic instruments
• Tuner with input: works only with electrical instruments that you can connect to the tuner.

Voice devices with a microphone are usually also equipped with input, so that they are used in all situations.

How do you use a Tuner?

When you turn on the tuner machine, you see a number of things on the display. First, you choose the tuner function. It is often shown in single letters which indicate what instrument you are going to vote:

C-Chromatic:These features pick up all the notes that are out there and you can, so you can tune in every note

G-Guitar:When you choose this feature, the tuner only grabs the 6 guitar notes EADGBA

B-Basguitar: Packs only the 4 bass notes EADG

U-Ukulele:Packs only the 4 ukulele notes GCEA

V-Viool:Packs only the 4 notes of a violin GDAE

Number of Hertz

On some tuners you can also see Hz (Hertz). You don't want to get here, because then you change the benchmark. So your voice will be higher or lower, while your tuner will indicate E at the top string. Make sure that Hz is at 440.

In addition, you can see a message which goes from the left to right. This is what you use to vote the guitar. State the pointer to the left of the middle, then the string is too low to vote. State the pointer to law. Then the string is too high. While you're tuning, you can see the note in which you vote. You loosen up the string or tighter to get out right in the middle.

Here's an example.

You tune into the top string of your guitar:

• There's a big E in the picture.
• Leave the dial on the left, then you tighten the string.
• State the wiser to the right then you loosen your string
• Make small movements and turn not whole big pieces in one go. Just as long until the wiser is in the middle. In some tuners, the display is green as soon as the stowards is voted pure.

Staff

Now it can also occur that the string of your guitar does not correspond to the note on your voice device. The stowards is then too dissatisfied. A tuner indicates the note that is the sop at that time. So you have to vote larger pieces up or down. And here it gets a little more complicated. If you have no knowledge of nuts, it is difficult to estimate which side you should turn on. And turn too tight, then the string jumps out.

Therefore, use the following note diagram below, indicated on a piano. Here, too, money that links the low notes and the further to the right, the higher the note. This is how you can see which side you have to turn on when tuning.

When your guitar is missing out, and you don't know exactly which way to turn? Then first set the mode to C (Chromatically) now gives the tuner all notes again. See which note your tuner indicates and uses the schedule below to see which side you should be running on.

One example: You'll vote the second string of your guitar. This is the A string. Your voice machine is giving an F to it. We're looking at the schedule. An A is a lot higher than the F. You are running tighter, just as long until the tuner indicates an A. When the tuner indicates a Bb or a B, you are too high (as you can see on the schedule). So turn the sinto again, loosen up.

It seems complicated when you've never done it before, but tuning with a tuner is really a lot easier than using your hearing. And when you've done this a number of times, you get it under the knee quickly, and it's going to be a lot easier and faster. In any case, it is a good thing to try to remember the plan. Then you can get it all out of your head.

Could you find it difficult, or have any additional questions about the vote of your string instrument? Then you can always be in our music shop in Noordwijk. Our specialists like to do it once for a while and explain it to you.

Video how to voice a guitar

Also sure to check out this video where we show you how to tune a guitar with a voice device.