Guitar strings are prone to going out of tune very easily, particularly with environmental factors such as a change in temperature or even after playing the instrument for a certain amount of time. It can be difficult to tune your guitar with accuracy, particularly if you are a beginner or happen to be in a noisy environment such as a band practice or music lesson. A useful gadget to have in times of need for a pitch perfect guitar, is a guitar tuner. The model I purchased from my local music shop where I took my guitar lessons, was the Qwik Tune Automatic guitar & bass tuner. I have both electric and acoustic guitars at home, and this tuner is ...  Read the complete review

I have my own home studio and work with a lot of guitarists, and I'm also one myself, so a good quality guitar tuner is highly essential in my studio as it's used on a daily basis. Great tuning is paramount if your want good sounding recordings. My studio gets hot very quickly and the strings often detune themselves after about 30 minutes, which drives me crazy. I've had various guitar tuners over the years and this one is my latest purchase. This particular device is suitable for acoustics guitars, electric, classical and bass guitars. Before you start to tune away, grab yourself a couple of AA batteries and insert them into the back of the Qwik tune, if ...  Read the complete review

One of the most important parts of owning or using a musical instrument is keeping it in tune - a problem with cheaper guitars especially is the fact that they can wander out of key with the smallest knock. Similarly, even quality guitars need frequent checking - especially when the strings have just been replaced. It's very important then that every serious guitarist should have a tuner close at hand, especially if the guitarist in question is performing to an audience and doesn't want to have a plethora of fruit thrown at him / her. One of the most popular tuners available is the 'Qwik Tune QT11' - firstly because of its low price, and secondly due to the ...  Read the complete review

I'm not a great guitarist - I play for my own amusement and probably prefer when nobody else is listening. Although I don't sound great, I sound much better when I'm in tune, and because guitar strings can very easily go out of tune, I need a quick and easy way of correcting this. I chose the "Qwik Tune" for about a tenner, as one of my friends also had the same model and thought it was great. It's a relatively simple and compact device, which works in several different ways. Firstly you can press a small button and hear the notes (E, A, D, G, B, E) and then tune your strings to match those notes by ear. Now, if you're a relative novice or don't ...  Read the complete review

This small device is the life blood of my guitar and without it I wouldn't be able to play a thing that sounded good due to the guitar being out of tune! I am a pretty beginner guitarist so having an auto tuner is essential for me as I am unable to tune by ear (not really tried). Playing an out of tune guitar is like watching a TV with pixels missing or playing a piano with missing keys... its just not the whole package and it would sound terrible. This tuner can be used for electric or acoustic guitars. If it is an electric guitar you are tuning you simply plug one end of your amp cable into the guitar and the other end into the tuner. Once this is done you ...  Read the complete review