Korg PC1 Pitchclip Low-Profile Tuner

If the old saying the guitarists spend half their time tuning their guitar and the other half playing an out-of-tune guitar is true, then this unit will be used 100 percent of the time! Seriously they are well built little units and always work in all lighting conditions. No scratches on my guitar and it works either front facing or back facing by pressing a button to invert the letters (notes) right side up. I always have one in my case and one in my practice area. If you like simple and to the point then this is a good value. Battery life is very good too.

Consigue la afinación que esperaba y es muy fácil de operar ya que no recae en el sin fin de pasos y comandos para conocer la afinación en que estás y lo más importante no daña el brazo del instrumento si lo dejas fijo para continuar tu afinación

Lightweight, very small, yet very easy to read clip-on tuner, battery included but easy to miss – it’s packed inside one of the folds where you open the box 🙂

Purchased for my 19 yr. old granddaughter as she had lost her other tuner. She loves how easy and accurate this tuner is. She loves how it clips on as well and how fast it is to tune her guitar anywhere she may be playing it. Highly recommend!

I’m a bit of a tuner addict. I have many different tuners, and this simple model is actually my favorite of them all. Here’s why:

– It folds up small and is durable. It won’t break in your pocket or bag, like some other tuners have (for me)

– Very easy to read display at night. It’s better than backlit displays, because it doesn’t draw as much attention to your tuner in a dark room, but still very clear to read in light or dark rooms.

– It does NOT have adjustments to change the tuning away from 440. If you want that feature, then buy another tuner. But I never use that feature on my other tuners, and it often gets in the way if I accidentally hit the wrong button (usually on stage during a gig when I don’t have time to be messing with fixing my tuner). This tuner has no wrong buttons to hit, only a simple On/Off button that is easy to press when the tuner is open, but protected when the tuner is folded closed.

– Works well on a range of instruments. Most tuners work well with guitars, but not as many are good at tuning the higher strings on a mandolin. This tuner is good with the higher strings too.

I’ve got 2 of these, and I’ve used them on 4 different guitars, 3 of which were/are acoustic that have the typical standard acoustic non-slotted headstock and one which is a Fender Telecaster. These tuners work, but they are somewhat frustrating too.

On all the guitars I’ve tried this on, this tuner has trouble with the 5th and particularly the 6th string. It is somehow not tuned for quite the right frequency ranges. On the low E and A string it jumps around a lot, making it tricky to be precise. It will also start picking up the wrong note and flash back and forth between notes. I typically start tuning on the 6th string and move towards the treble string, and what I see is that this tuner improves in performance as you move towards the Treble strings. I find it very important to mute the other 5 strings while tuning with this tuner. This issue is probably worst on my Telecaster, but has been present on all the guitars I’ve tried it on. This has generally been so annoying that I now only use these Korg tuners when I have to. I ended up getting a TC Polytune 3 pedal for my pedal board and it is 100x better than this thing, and I now have a Taylor acoustic with a built-in tuner and that tuner is also much easier to use than this thing. Neither of those jump around at all and generally don’t require muting the other strings. I have also seen that if you are in a quiet room, and you’re tuning an acoustic guitar, that some of the iPhone/Android apps like the Peterson strobe tuner app will outperform this device.

I also find battery life to be fairly poor for such a simple device with a CR2032 battery. I only turn this tuner on while I tune, and I end up having to replace the battery every 2-3 months if I use it every day. I’ve used other devices powered by a CR2032 battery such as wireless bicycle computers which will last for about a year, and those devices run the entire time you’re cycling while seemingly having larger power draw, so they are lasting hundreds of hours versus this thing burning it’s battery out in probably less than 5 hours of use if you have to replace the battery every 8 weeks or so with one tuning per day.

On the plus side the display on this is easy to see, it’s a pretty simple device, and it takes up next to no room in your bag/case. So I am always still carrying one of these with each guitar if I go anywhere so I have a safe backup.