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Built in tuners for the tone deaf

Not sure how many people this will apply to, but Im tone deaf. Its a bit of a problem when ya play guitar, especially when trying to tune the damn things in a room full of other 'tuner uppers'....
so's I had this idea.

Iv got a few of those little Korg tuners. Im going to take all the bits out, and remount it in a CBG... my only slight confusion is with the wiring. Il have to have a wire from pup to tuner, but Il also need a wire from it to the jack. Can I take an extra pair from the tuner jack socket, in essence running through the tuner all the time, just switching it on and off with the button?

I figure I can, as the socket and take off will be before the tuner gizmo, so it should have a constant supply.

Feel free to try it - it might take me a while to fit it in with everything else I got on, but it was on my mind so had to let it out!!

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Permalink Reply by Doc Oakroot on June 7, 2009 at 7:55am

Some of those tuners are designed to have the signal pass through if the unit is off. If that's the case, just wire the piezo to the tuner's input and the tuner's output to the jack.

A cleaner solution, which does not depending on the tuner's characteristics, is to mount a separate piezo to drive the tuner. Piezos are cheap - you can use as many as you want.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Werner on June 7, 2009 at 9:12am

I'm going to buy one of those little clip-on tuners. Almost all the "pro" guitar pickers around here seem to be using them; and since I have so many different instruments I'm going to need a chromatic model.
Have you seen the "self-tuning" system Gibson is selling? Expensive....

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Permalink Reply by Doc Oakroot on June 7, 2009 at 9:51am

I bought one of the clip-on tuners to use at blues jams where I'm tuning up in a noisy room and can't hear my guitar at all. Works fine on the CBG, but not so well on the bass. Not very responsive at the low freqs.

Mark Werner said:

I'm going to buy one of those little clip-on tuners. Almost all the "pro" guitar pickers around here seem to be using them; and since I have so many different instruments I'm going to need a chromatic model.
Have you seen the "self-tuning" system Gibson is selling? Expensive....

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Permalink Reply by Delta Blues Classics - JStoltz on June 7, 2009 at 10:48am

I don't know how much they are, but a company, called N-Tune, sells a volume pot with a digital chromatic tuner built in. You pull the knob out a click, to go into tuning mode. It looks pretty interesting. Just thought I'd mention it, but I like the fact that you're figuring out how to do it with what you have on hand.

Jeff

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Permalink Reply by Roosterman on June 7, 2009 at 9:25pm

Sounds like a cool gizmo Delta... Il have a look at them.
Im going to try a test wire on the tuner as is first but failing that, Il try Docs suggestion. Id not considered running a piezo solely for tuning purposes 10 out of 10 again Doc!