Just curious, I myself have embraced the FM9's tuner but I see lots of pic's with people using their dedicated h/w tuners so just wondering on why/general conversation.
Cheers,
I have Peterson tuners, one on my desk, and two of their “clips” tucked away in my gig-bags as spares. I also have several TC Polytune-Clip tuners on my guitars on the stand and that are my primary tuners when playing, and one of their regular Polytune on my board, because I can turn on the tuner, roll off the guitar’s volume, hit the open strings and see if something is out and get a rough idea how much and tweak it, then roll up the volume and keep playing. They’re all extremely accurate and convenient.
I decided to run some tests on the accuracy of Fractal’s built-in tuners, on all three platforms, and ran the Synth block set to a 440 Hz sine wave into the other units and measured them, and they’re spot on, equally as good as Peterson or TC.
There are some terrible tuners out there, that are so bad I won’t try to give them away, even though I never will use them again because they’re obviously off even when they say they’re in tune. But Fractal’s tuner is very good, good enough to intonate a guitar, because I’ve checked it against my Petersons and TCs, and have intonated my guitars with it.
There are things that can be wrong with our guitars that affect the tuner’s ability to find the pitch, such as intonation, old strings, fret buzz, EMI, pickups that are too low or too high, etc., but given a guitar that is set up and maintained, any of the above tuners should work really well.
Don’t tune with the time-based effects on and the sound audible. Time-based effects can change the pitch and throw off the tuner.