Which tuner is right?

[Bakerman]

It will, only because there's no margin for error built in...so unless your a is exactly 440 and not 440.001 etc...it will continue to strobe, even slowly.

Not quite. There are two different tuner algorithms, so stopping the strobe doesn't mean the cent/bar display will always be at exactly 0 cents.

https://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/which-tuner-is-right.150396/post-1787988

 

[ModelGuitarist]

A great tip I picked up is to turn guitar volume down to 6 or 7 and drop the Tone a few notches too.
Especially when doing your first initial tune.

It supposedly cuts some of the overtones, makes tuning easier, more accurate. FASTER.
Been working for me quite well.
You get less spinning, seems way more accurate to me.

Also FWIW consider every time you pluck a string, depending on the power behind it, you can get a slightly different reading. Probably a significant factor when trying to read multiple displays.

 

[Entasis]

A great tip I picked up is to turn guitar volume down to 6 or 7 and drop the Tone a few notches too.

And use the neck pick up!

 

[painkiller]

• E1 = -2.3 cent
• B2 = 0
• G3 = 0
• D4 = -0.4 Cent
• A5 = -2.1 Cent
• E6 = -2.3 Cent

I made a few experiments with these settings and I'm 100% sure that these are wrong. Not necessarily the values, because I can't measure better that 0,5 cent, but the string order is definitely wrong. It must be

• E6 = -2.3 cent
• A5 = 0
• D4 = 0
• G3 = -0.4 Cent
• B2 = -2.1 Cent
• E1 = -2.3 Cent

Peterson doesn't tell what the real offsets are, but they mention in their manuals that the offsets make the interval between G and B more consonant. How can this be the case if the offsets on G and B are zero? It doesn't make sense!

@yek
I would change or remove this entry in the Axe-Fx Wiki: https://wiki.fractalaudio.com/wiki/index.php?title=Tuner#Sweetened_tunings
This is definitely wrong.

 

[sean.e]

The wiki points to a forum thread as the source of the sweetened tuning, but the thread has two different sets of tuning offsets. The second tuning does modify the b string offset (with the original string order): https://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/sweetened-tunings.54891/post-1140499

 

[painkiller]

In the meantime I found the source for the values in the Wiki. It's a Gearpage-Thread from 2007:
https://www.thegearpage.net/board/i...-or-gtr-sweetened-tuning.230560/#post-2298559

The values are the same, but not the strings. It proves that the strings were mixed up over the years.