TUNER- ROADIE 3 ...yes the maker of the robot tuner that was F. ing awful is back!!!

ROADIE 3 

AUTOMATIC INSTRUMENT TUNER

Early generations of the Roadie were flimsy too expensive and unreliable.

Too bad because it was designed by some fairly decent nerdie guys who new nothing about business 

and were given a lot of bad advise. The first smart decision was to give them all the finger and start over. 

The new tuner is twice as fast, 10 times more accurate and built with a powerful motor and mechanism. 

It allows for any custom tuning and can literally memorize the stiffness of your guitars tuners and get 

more accurate and faster at tuning it. 

It is not bothered by a noisy environment which made the old ones useless live.

It has a memory for 100 patches. So you save both tunings and alternative tunings for 

all your guitars. This includes any drop tunings and custom tunings for slide guitar etc. 

It takes maybe 30 seconds to tune a guitar.

Last but not least there are no middlemen to take a cut. You just buy direct.  $130.00 USD

CONCLUSION

Well I have 9 reasons to get one. Yes 9 guitars and I use every one at rehearsal every day!. What got me to go for it, is the Tone Kings highly polished video with Steve from Boston. It has not jet been released for download yet. LOL 

So go to You Tube and check out the Dec 26 video then click on at 23:00 

HANDS ON

A lot of the updates etc. are a pain to sort out online if you a luddite. In this day and age you should be able to go to the site of a maker and without a word of computerese press a button the uploads and whatever are done. There should also be an online Youtube manual. I mange to make my Chromebook take a f_ck off pill as a Windows file managed to get in and blow it to pieces. I only wanted to use the conventional A440/ electric guitar app. The unit should have 3 words to click. Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar and Other. The first two should already be set to A

440 with no way to get out of it other than hitting 'Other'. 'Other' should live in it's own universe. Once I got what I wanted from logic, trial and error but often by dumb luck ...or really by magic I got rockin.

OK...once you do get it rockin it is easy to use. Just stick it over the low E ...twang the string until the buzzer goes off than stick it over the next and repeat. Once you got your buzzes on the high E you are done. Well no ...to make it a no brainer you want a second shot as you will need it. I am sure you know what I mean. As you pull each string in tune the ones above it go out as physics dictates. You have change the tension on the lower strings by tightening the high ones. If when the last buzzer goes off it reset to the low E again a second shot would be a no brainer. But you have to reset it. One final thing. It is easy to do 6 tuners in a row ...Fender style but with 3 aside is awkward to get at the D, G and high E when wearing the guitar. Having the guitar on live is a given. Tuning the guitar in a guitar stand is the easiest and best. If use several guitars live it can save time later. Once thru with a good tweak every time you use or reuse each one. 

Bottom line ....once you have passed the hurdles like everything you simple become more nimble with it.  In short. I quite like it. My only real beef out of all mt whining is I would like that once I tune the high E for it really need to recycle back to the low E for the next tune up.