Qwik Tune QT-15 Guitar & Bass Tuner

by bestguitartuner.co.uk

Not a lot to say about this one. It’s simple, it’s cheap, and apparently it tunes guitars. Qwik Tune like to claim their tuners are great for severely out of tune guitars. You should probably ignore this if you are thinking of buying this tuner for that reason. If a guitar is severely out of tune, the inexperienced are always in danger of snapping a string, regardless of the tuner.

Even a chromatic tuner can’t be completely trusted to track a strings pitch with guaranteed accuracy, besides, if you are completely inexperienced then you’d still need to understand what the chromatic tuner was telling you. If on the other hand you are experienced enough to know when a string is too tight, you don’t need some electronic device to give you a second opinion – you know, just in case you got it wrong! :)

Okay, with that little mini rant out of the way, what about this tuner? Well, I guess I said it all in the first sentence. The only complaint I could find is a few users have said the mic is not very sensitive so the tuner needs to be placed very close to the guitar. Other than that, it’s very cheap!

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Qwik Tune QTGP1 Guitar Professor Tuner/Chord Finder

by bestguitartuner.co.uk

 This is a cool little gadget – a guitar tuner and chord book all in one. The reviews are mostly quite good. Watch out though, on the Amazon UK site it describes this as a chromatic tuner – I’ve dug around trying to find a definite answer to this but I’m reasonably certain this is not a chromatic tuner, it only recognises standard guitar tuning. With that aside, what about the product itself?

The complaints that you do find are the same old gripes you hear about most low cost tuners… it doesn’t work with the low E string, the needle jumps about etc.. I’m starting to sound like a broken record but I’ll say it again – to some extent you need to expect this with most low to mid priced guitar tuners, even more so with ones that use the internal mic. I own one of the Qwik Tune standard guitar tuners (one without the chords) and it’s accuracy is about as good as I expect from tuners of this kind, in this price range. It’s still usable and does a pretty good job. I would suspect that the same technology is used for the Qwik Tune Guitar Professor.

The guitar can be tuned via the internal mic or by plugging a cable into the input socket. There is no output socket so the tuner cannot be used inline. The tuner can also produce tones for the standard guitar notes, basically an electronic pitch pipe. I personally like this function on any guitar tuner, although there are quite a few reports of it being too loud. How loud, I can’t tell you because I haven’t heard it.

The chord book can display something like 200+ chords. These consist of all of the twelve notes/keys and each chord can be minor, major, diminished, augmented and sus. Major chords can be 5th, 6th, 6 add 9, maj7, 7th, 9th, add 9, add 11, add 13. Minor chords can be 6th, 7th, 9th, 6add9 and 7-5 (half diminished). The sus chords can be sus2, sus4 and sus7.

That’s quite a lot of chords. Bear in mind that each chord diagram will only show one fingering for each chord so it’s not going to be as exhaustive as a decent (real) chord book. Also bear in mind that the further you dig down into the extended chords, the more button pushes you will have to put up with. But hey, it’s a gadget!

Would I buy one? Yeah maybe just for the curiosity factor and simply because it’s another gadget. Truth is, I have no need for one but that might not stop me.

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Acoustic Guitar Tuners | Qwik Tune Q12E Chromatic Guitar Tuner

by bestguitartuner.co.uk

I love marketing! According to Qwik Tune, the Q12E is not only the pros choice, but get this – it uses Exogenic™ Technology … WOW! Me’s gotta get one! What’s even better is they don’t attempt to tell you what this exermy-thingamajig actually does. So I didz’ me sum searching. Well, Exogenic technology is apparently some clever sh*t that enables the tuner to pick out the guitar strings, while rejecting all other room noise allowing you to tune the guitar in a noisy environment. Hmm, really? Can’t say I’m quite convinced about that one.

Considering that this is the “pros choice” I can only assume that pros choose this low priced tuner because of the amazing Exogenic™ stuff. Yeah, I can just imagine any self-respecting professional guitarist relying on something like that when you can get a perfectly functioning clip on, that pretty much guarantees rejection of external noise. Besides that, the word exogenic is a word that can be found in any decent dictionary, it means something along the lines of “derived or originating externally.” I’m not altogether sure how they managed to get a dictionary word trademarked.

I’m not even going to bother looking any further into this tuner. I can forgive Qwik Tune for the silly exogenic nonsense, but “the pros choice?” Nah, I’d give this one a miss for the sheer insult. But that’s just me of course. If you fancy your chances with this one then you can take a look at it here at Amazon.

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