PolyTune Clip Tuner Review by Carl Brown - TC Electronic

I am sure many of you guys have tried the now large number of clip-on tuners available on the market. It seems that there has been a flood of them in the past few years and you will see many well known guitar players with a clip-on tuner attached to their guitar headstock. TC Electronic sent my their latest tuner to try out, the PolyTune Clip. It is modeled after their very popular PolyTune pedal which enables you to strum all of the strings on your guitar at once and quickly see a digital rendering of all the strings telling you which ones are flat or sharp. It worked remarkably well with the pedal but I was curious as to whether they could fit all of that technology into a clip-on tuner. As I was unboxing the tuner the first thing that struck me was how solid it felt. Extremely high quality housing without the typical flimsy plastic feel. I secured it to my guitar&headstock and I was once again surprised at how well the tuner&clip mechanism was built. I would have no worries taking it out on stage. Now for the tuning, which is what we are here for. There are a few different tuning modes. The first mode is just the basic digital tuner where you pick each string one at a time. The PolyTune Clip tracks very fast making fast accurate tuning a breeze. I then clicked on one of the bottom buttons to throw the tuner into strobe tuner mode. As you may know, strobe tuning is probably the most accurate way of tuning a guitar with an electric tuner. I couldn&believe they were able...