Product: Sabine Zip-700 Tuner
Price Paid: US $19.99
Submitted
04/02/2000
at
05:23pm
by
Chris Roddy
Email: croddy at emory<dot>edu
Ease of Use
:
7
The tuner is pretty easy to use... plug your electric into either of the two jacks (you can pass through, but on a tuner without a footswitch the passthrough is of no use) or hold the little piezo mic up to your acoustic. Turn it on and hit each string, it picks up the note and tells you how sharp or flat it is. I have difficulty getting the mic to pick up my B and E strings in my dorm which is next to the railroad tracks, but if you hold the tuner against the body of the guitar that's not a problem. Caveat Emptor: It only tunes EADGBE, but it seems to do it in any octave: I tuned a bass with it once, and I tuned a ukelele with it as well.
Sound Quality
:
9
I use this with a Yamaha FG-3xx acoustic, a Danelectro DC-3, a Mosrite hollow-body, and a Les Paul copy, and it works fine with all of them. The guitar is perfectly in tune as far as I can tell.
Reliability
:
8
I can depend on it. I would gig without a backup, no question. The only problem is that if you drop it the housing comes apart and then the buttons fall off, but my cat (who is a metally retarded cat, at that) could reassemble it.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Overall Rating
:
No Opinion
Bought it on a whim at the only guitar shop in Morro Bay, CA. Chose this model because it was their cheapest tuner. Probably the best guitar accessory I've ever owned, but then again, that's because I didn't have a tuner before this. If it were lost, I'd probably buy a chromatic tuner with a footswitch.
