tc electronic Polytune 3 Ultra Compact Polyphonic Tuner

Was using a small tuner that you clip on to the guitar end and tuned with that for about 2 weeks and the sound just felt off, so after looking at many reviews on reddit (yes there..) people suggested this brand and pretty much any non clip on type tuner, so I gave this a try. It is NIGHT and day difference, the guitar finally sounds like it should and its such a good feature to not have to hear the tuning through the amp every time. Easy to set up, just plug in line with the rest of the pedals you have and press the button and tune away, press again and you are back to playing on the amp. A bit on the pricy side for an item that you use rarely (well depends on how often you play) but I mostly check before every session and all seems to be somewhat still in tune after a day, there is some shift as of course nothing stays in place even if you dont use it. Not too heavy to move about, the plug inserts are snug to the point that you need to put force on it to unplug which is great for places where you might be moving around a lot and definitely dont want it coming loose. Display is super bright, and you can clearly see if you need to adjust anything it will show as red if its wrong (out of tune) or green on a very bright one if its correctly set up. And its big enough to read even from farther than 6 feet. Works well with a boss amp and some yoyo overdrive pedals and a fender electric guitar. Do grab an extender for your current pedals as this does not come with its powersupply.

Fantastic tuner. The pedal the pros use for the price of a round of drinks. The polytune function is a game-changer for playing live, as it takes under a second to check if all strings are in tune. The stroboscopic option is incredibly accurate and is really useful for setting intonation. It feels well made and robust. There's also a drop D function and other tunings. Stop reading this and buy one now.

1st class tuner easy to use, great price.

Top marks for this little beauty! I had previously used a tuner that was built into a multi-effects pedal which was very good, but I sold the pedal. I bought a cheap tuning pedal to replace it, but it was just very slow to respond and seemed to struggle with my basses. I ended up buying this as I know TC Electronic make quality kit, and what a great tuner it is! Instant response to any note I play! It looks good too - metal casing and a very nice bright, easy to read display. The description says 'Ultra Compact', but it's only slightly smaller than a standard Boss pedal. It also has some fancy functionality that I haven't looked at yet, and perhaps will never use. Anyway, if you want something that provides a lightning fast response to any note - especially using a bass, then just buy it!! Don't skimp on a cheap tuner as they just don't 'cut the mustard'.

I use this with my bass. It works great and the display is highly visible. It takes a little while to become familiar with its operating modes. But after a little use it becomes quick to find the mode you need when you need it. Buffered mode is great to have on the occasions it’s needed - just be warned that it will eat batteries if left in buffering mode and you leave the leads plugged in. Generally I don’t use buffering mode so find that battery life is great. By the way it runs on a 9 V PP3 battery (or with a suitable power supply) which are not supplied and is contrary to some indications on Amazon and within its supplied documentation.

This is the best pedal tuner ive ever used. I use it in conjunction with a clip on tuner. This pedal is best used with a power cable and not the battery though, it eats batteries for breakfast.

Love these tuners, I have 2 and one lives on my pedalboard. My octaver tracks much better with this in front of it. Very accurate and reliable 👍

Excellent tuner polyphonic mode is great so Useful

The way it shows the results is so fast and very responsive and accurate. The buffer in it is very useful.

Eccezionale! Precisissimo, veloce e affidabile.

I was on the fence about whether to choose this unit or the comparable Boss TU-3 unit. They're both the same price, and both get good reviews. I finally decided to go with this unit because it's a newer design and offered both conventional and "strobe" style tuning. The latter appealed to me because I have been using a Peterson Strobo-Clip tuner for some years, and really like the strobe tuning method. I decided I wanted a stomp-box tuner so that I could mute the sound and do quick tune-ups more conveniently than the clip-on tuner permits. I play electric bass. I found that the conventional tuning mode on this Polytune 3 pedal was just fine for my needs, and I have not yet even tried the strobe version. It also revealed that I need to touch up the intonation on my jazz bass -- playing various notes up and down the fretboard showed some deviation from the correct tuning. All the more reason not to need the micro-precise tuning of the "strobe" style display. When I say "conventional" tuning display, I mean a display that shows a needle that is positioned to the left of center if the tuning is flat, or to the riht of center if the tuning is sharp, and dead center when the tuning is correct. Some tuners have arrowheads on either side of center that light up when you are not quite at the correct tune. With this unit, the needle itself changes color, displaying as red when the note is sharp or flat, and green when it is correct. It is very quick to go through the four strings of my bass and tweak it for the needle to be green. This is a chromatic tuner, meaning it listens for the incoming note and displays what it thinks the note is. That works fine for me. It is only necessary to know that the standard 4-string bass tuning is E A D G. There are handheld (not stompbox) tuners, like the Boss TU-12, that have fixed presets for tuning a guitar or bass, but that is not generally available on a stompbox. The Polytune 3 has a "soft" pushbutton that puts it in and out of tuning mode. By "soft" I mean that there is no mechanical ka-chunk as the sawtich is operated. When the unit is tuning, the output is muted. When tuning is finished (by pressing the switch a second time), the output is connected again. There are three modes available, which are selected by internal DIP switches. The first mode provides "true bypass" switching when the tuner is turned on and off, which means that when it is not tuning, there is a direct connection from the input jack to the output jack. The second mode provides "buffered bypass," which means that the incoming signal passes through a "buffer" amplifier when not tuning. (This can be advantageous in a number of situation, especially if long cables are being used.) In both of these first two modes, the tuning display lights up only when the tuner is active and the output is muted. In other words, you can immediately tell whether you are muted or not by looking to see whteher the tuning display is lit up. The third mode is also buffered, but the tuning display remains active all the time. Thus, in theory, you can watch your tuning as you play. I have only used this unit in the second mode (buffered bypass, display on only when tuning) because that best suits my needs. There are many features which I may never use. For example, while the factory setting is A=440 Hz, it is possible to adjust this reference. Also, the unit is advertised as allowing the user to play all the notes on the instrument at once, whereupon it claims to be able to sort out which of the notes are off. I don't see any particular benefit to this for the bass, and I have read that users do not believe the tuning accuracy is quite as good in this "polyphonic" mode. Frankly, it doesn't take very long to tune 4 strings individually, and that's what I do. Since my bass keeps tune pretty well, it only requires minor tweaking to deal with room temperature change, etc. This takes no more than a minute at most. All in all, I'm very happy with my choice of the Polytune 3. It's very easy to use, has quite a readable display, and makes keeping in tune during a show very simple. I suspect the competitive units out there (like the Boss TU-3 or the Korg Pitchblack) are also fine, which may make the choice more difficult in this category. All I can say is that I think people would be happy with this well-made unit, so hopefully that will help with the decision.

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ultra précis et efficace et paraît très robuste. je recommande.