Jumble Jumble
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Cagey, StubHead - yeah, your worries are moot. You tune your guitar how you like it, then you press a button on the doohickey and save it as a preset (obviously they give you several presets to play with, 6 I think).
Stubhead, your flat E string and big plain G string - yeah, you just tune them where you want them, and save it. Then when you next ask it to tune the guitar, that's where it'll tune it to.
Cagey, your big frets thing. You give your buddy your guitar, he screws with the tuning. He gives it back to you, you strum the guitar and press a button, and hey presto, it's back where you want it. And if your buddy plays your guitar a lot, you can save his preferred tuning as a preset too. So the two of you can pass it back and forth all night, and each time you do, the guitar tunes itself to how you need it in between 3 and 10 seconds.
My very first tuner was "calibratable" - you could say to it, "no, this is an E". And then you could tune your guitar to that, with the little green "in tune" light lighting up when each string was in tune with that original E (or whatever) you played. It's not particularly surprising to discover that 25 years later they've not forgotten that things like that happen, and indeed evolved the idea a bit. You can tune one string to what you want it to call "E" (or whatever - any string), press a button, and it tunes the rest of the guitar to be in tune with that one note - using your desired tuning, of course, whether it be DADGAD or just one with a 15-cent-flat bottom E.
Sure, maybe the tech is a solution in search of a problem, but you guys are in search of a problem with the solution. In your desire to think of drawbacks with it, you've forgotten to find out if, just maybe, these guys have thought of those drawbacks too, and solved them.
Stubhead, your flat E string and big plain G string - yeah, you just tune them where you want them, and save it. Then when you next ask it to tune the guitar, that's where it'll tune it to.
Cagey, your big frets thing. You give your buddy your guitar, he screws with the tuning. He gives it back to you, you strum the guitar and press a button, and hey presto, it's back where you want it. And if your buddy plays your guitar a lot, you can save his preferred tuning as a preset too. So the two of you can pass it back and forth all night, and each time you do, the guitar tunes itself to how you need it in between 3 and 10 seconds.
My very first tuner was "calibratable" - you could say to it, "no, this is an E". And then you could tune your guitar to that, with the little green "in tune" light lighting up when each string was in tune with that original E (or whatever) you played. It's not particularly surprising to discover that 25 years later they've not forgotten that things like that happen, and indeed evolved the idea a bit. You can tune one string to what you want it to call "E" (or whatever - any string), press a button, and it tunes the rest of the guitar to be in tune with that one note - using your desired tuning, of course, whether it be DADGAD or just one with a 15-cent-flat bottom E.
Sure, maybe the tech is a solution in search of a problem, but you guys are in search of a problem with the solution. In your desire to think of drawbacks with it, you've forgotten to find out if, just maybe, these guys have thought of those drawbacks too, and solved them.
