|
|
The Online Guitar Store - Boss TU-80C Chromatic Tuner & Metronome
|
List Price: $39.50
Our Price: $29.00
Your Save: $ 10.50 ( 27% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Roland
|
Average Customer Rating:   
|
|
Binding: Electronics
Brand: Boss
Color: black
EAN: 0761294083833
Feature: Supports chromatic tuning, plus 7-string guitars and 6-string basses
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Roland
Manufacturer: Roland
Model: TU-80C
Publisher: Roland
Studio: Roland
|
|
|
Features
|
Supports chromatic tuning, plus 7-string guitars and 6-string basses
Accu-Pitch function sounds a tone when pitch is correct
Reference Tone Play function makes it easy to verify tuning by ear
Memory function stores your favorite tuner setting
Metronome has 7 rhythms, 10 beats and cool animated LCD display
|
|
|
|
|
|
Editorial Reviews:
|
The BOSS TU-80 brings super-accurate LCD tuning to musicians at a very affordable price, while adding unique high-end features like a built-in metronome and Accu-Pitch. The pocket-sized TU-80 runs on batteries and can tune almost any instrument, thanks to a chromatic tuning mode and ultra wide tuning range. It even tunes 7-string guitars and 6-string basses, putting the TU-80 in a class all its own.
|
|
|
Spotlight customer reviews:
|
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not so good...
Comment: This unit is a servicable tuner, and metronome, but you can do better in both departments for sure.
I find it useless for acoustic guitars if there is any background noise. Even just a TV on with normal volume nearby seems to prevent it from getting a clean read.
The metronome is annoying because of the lack of volume, and the fact that it's plays an electronic tone instead of clicks. Not a good idea.
Metronomes should click..
click click click click....
Customer Rating:
Summary: No volume controller
Comment: This would be a great product if there was some way to increase the volume. It's very hard to hear which makes it not very useful for the purpose intended. Next time I will do more research before I purchase.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Average tuner, useless metronome
Comment: The tuning capability is only mediocre; the "Accu-Pitch" function might better be sold as "Approxi-Pitch." When I check my 2 TU-80 tuners against a high-end one, I find that the Accu-Pitch beep can sound as much as 5 cents out of tune, which is bad enough so that I have to retune.
As far as the metronome goes, as other reviewers have noted, it's just not loud enough to be anything but a toy. Too bad, too - there was an opportunity to send the metronome signal out of the output jack, so that it could have driven an earphone, or could have been fed into a mixer, which was a choice that Boss itself made in its much-superior DB-12 metronome, but absent that feature, this metronome can't be used as an aid for practicing any real-world instrument.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good as a tuner, but not as a metronome
Comment: I like the accuracy of the tuner, and it "hears" my acoustic guitar quite well if I put it on the music stand so that it's angled toward me. As a metronome, however, it leaves much to be desired: (1) the volume is not adjustable and I consider it not loud enough, (2) it makes a cheesy electronic chirp instead of a mechanical-sounding knock as some of the electronic metronomes can, and (3) the rhythm is "dotted," i.e., it puts a milder electronic chirp in between the "main chirps" and there's no way to turn it off (but this can be somewhat remedied by setting it to 1-4 time).
Customer Rating:
Summary: Doesn't work with background noise.
Comment: Works great in a quiet room. When I used it at a performance at a pub the ambient noise renders the tuner useless. Even with a plug-in clip-on mic on the instrument it did not register the note reliably. When this happened I would borrow a Yamaha TD-10 from my guitarist which worked great w/o a plug-in mic. I've since sold the TD-10 and bought a new Yamaha TD-10, which is sadly discontinued.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
