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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | The BOSS TU-80 brings super-accurate LCD tuning to a very affordable price, while adding unique 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. It even tunes 7-string guitars and 6-string basses putting the TU-80 in a class all its own. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 6.0 inches | | Product Width: | 6.0 inches | | Product Height: | 6.0 inches | | Product Weight: | 5.0 pounds | | Package Length: | 7.0 inches | | Package Width: | 3.0 inches | | Package Height: | 1.0 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.31 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 24 reviews |
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| | Features | Affordable and reliable LCD tuner with handy, built-in metronomeSupports chromatic tuning, plus 7-string guitars and 6-string bassesAccu-Pitch function sounds a tone when pitch is correctTunes down to 5 flatsMetronome has 7 rhythms, 10 beats and cool animated LCD display
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20 of 20 found the following review helpful:
Good as a tuner, but not as a metronome Jun 23, 2006
By John
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).
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
Average tuner, useless metronome Mar 15, 2007
By Paul Weiss
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.
9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 A Tuner That Gets It Done Aug 07, 2010
By Tom Poore
Reading through the reviews for the TU-80, it seems there's a lot of grumbling that misses the point of what a tuner should do. Above all, it should be accurate and clear in the readings it gives. Too often tuners fail to do this. The reading wanders back and forth, never quite settling on whether the note is flat, sharp, or dead on. For a tuner, this is entirely unacceptable. A tuner's job is to tell us whether or not the note is in tune. If the tuner can't make up its mind, then what's the point of having it?
While I can't say I've tried every tuner on the market, I've tried many. Most recently I auditioned the Guitar Research JC 200, Sabine MT 9000, Korg TM-40, Fishman FT-1, Korg MA-30, and the Korg GT-3. With the exception of the Sabine, all of them more or less display the problem I described above. (The Sabine MT 9000 has a different problem: it takes too long to give a reading after you play a string.) For my taste, the Boss TU-80 was superior to all the tuners listed here. It was quick to give a reading, and the reading didn't waver about.
Currently, these are my standard tuner recommendations to my guitar students:
* For a cheap tuner, the Korg GA-1.
* For a mid-priced tuner, the Boss TU-80.
* For a higher priced tuner, the Boss TU-12.
* For gigging players, the Intellitouch PT30, or the Snark Clip-On Chromatic Guitar Tuner
Regarding the complaints that the TU-80 has trouble hearing a note: All tuners have this problem to some degree, depending on the player, the instrument, and how far away the tuner is placed from the instrument. For acoustic guitarists, I suggest laying the guitar on your lap (soundboard side up) and setting the tuner directly on the soundboard. You needn't bang out the note, as doing this on the bass strings will cause the tuner to rattle against the soundboard. Just pluck the string at a medium volume, and the tuner usually will have no trouble sensing the vibration of the soundboard. Bear in mind also that some tuners have trouble hearing the bass strings. (The original Intellitouch tuner is notorious for this.) If your tuner doesn't hear the bass strings well, play the string at the 12th fret harmonic.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 Doesn't work with background noise. Jun 08, 2006
By Mick McNeela
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.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Not a useful metronome Jan 07, 2010
By Robert A. Shelton
"Robert Shelton"
Since it bills itself as a tuner AND metronome, I can't fault it completely. I can't hear the metronome if I'm playing (which is when I'd need the metronome in the first place). I find the tuner to be quite accurate, but my amp, my effects processor, and two of my guitars have built-in tuners, it just takes up space for me. I'm giving it to my daughter because she doesn't have a tuner of her own.
Tuner - pass
Metronome - FAIL
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