Share your tips...

**Colin** · 04-26-2008, 06:16 PM

Here's a tip I'd never heard of till recently. Since everyone seems to have a cell phone these days, why not use it as a tuner? All you have to do is record a tone for each string onto your phone, Some tuners provide this tone already. Or many instruction Cd's have it already for you to record. Now you'll have a tuner with you at all times. Any other helpful tips you like to share?

**TNT** · 04-26-2008, 07:40 PM

Colin, awesome!!

Now I can convince others that I really do have "perfect pitch"!!

". . . .just hang on, I need to make a quick call."

A little tip: Sometimes when I tune up before a gig (from my house), and I know it's going to get cold, I tune up a few cents flat.

That way when I'm ready to play at the gig, it typically is right on target when I take it out of the case.

**MrMusashi** · 04-27-2008, 09:05 AM

if you have a sony ericsson you might have music mate on it.. chord dictionary, metronome and tone generator

MrM

edit:

read more here:
music mate : Themes, ringtones, screensavers, games, video clips : Sony Ericsson @ Esato

**Rod Trussbroken** · 04-28-2008, 03:18 AM

Originally Posted by Colin

Here's a tip I'd never heard of till recently. Since everyone seems to have a cell phone these days, why not use it as a tuner? All you have to do is record a tone for each string onto your phone, Some tuners provide this tone already. Or many instruction Cd's have it already for you to record. Now you'll have a tuner with you at all times. Any other helpful tips you like to share?

Good one Col

**Jack FFR1846** · 04-28-2008, 05:01 AM

Along the tuner lines.....I wanted to expand my amp to take more than one guitar input. I was put off by $50 for 2, $100 for 3 at GC for their A/B, A/B/C boxes. I bought 5 1/4" connectors at You Do It Electronics, found a 1/4" jack in my stuff and salvaged a couple small normal headphone jacks from some equipment being scrapped at work. I put in all this stuff and ran a cap and 847 ohm resistor from each. It's now a universal, everything in, everything out box. When I'm playing myself, I run the jack into my amp headphone output. I'll then take my tuner and hook it to one of the outputs with an instrument cord and the headphones into the jack. I can then tune even though I don't have the handy amp tuner.

When my son and I play, I reverse things. Plug the box into the amp instrument input, plug in the 2 guitars and I'm all set. I may build another of these and maybe vary it a bit. I can also plug a CD player or laptop into it at one end at work, along with the guitar, then output to my battery amp with headphone jack and practice at work.

jack