Comparison of Clip-on Tuners 

I just bought a Snark. For $7 it's one of my favorite purchases in recent memory. Absolutely LOVE it. And it doesn't dance around like a lot of tuners. Play the note, straight to the point.

Glad to hear that you like it. I just ordered the original black snark for the same (6.99 online). I wanted the smaller black one, but they cost 35 bucks! They so make many different ones, it took a lot of research to figure out which one I wanted. The snark web site shows a few with no prices, youtube videos show others, and the retailers show different models as well. The red one has a metronome, but the metronome has no sound. lol Just a flashing light. Don't want that, especially when people say the batteries don't last long. They make a smaller white one for 15 bucks and a smaller black one 35 bucks. They appear identical in every way except color. Why the black one costs over twice the price as the white one is a mystery to me. I almost bought a different brand because of all the confusion. One is even the same as the guitar one I bought, but labeled "Ukulele" for some strange reason. I will be extremely careful with mine as they are prone to break easily I've read. The display (shown here in this video) sold me on the snark.

I have several different clip tuners. Most are in the drawer & the snark is my go-to tuner.

@@autocrow Snark does break easily. I've had 3 of them. Guess I'm kinda rough on tools. Now I got a Kliq Uber and its great. So much so I bought a Kliq mini tune for my pedalboard. Just a fancy on/off switch. Cause I'm still using the clip-on a lot of the time. I also noticed the pedalboard tuner feels like it's sharp goin through the board. It's not but it just feels that way. That's where I would like a strobe tuner, to really scope these two out for sure. Even if it's only 2 cents off, it's still OFF

Yes the Snark is a great tuner but very fragile. The rubber foot on the bottom keeps coming off and the ball joints loosen up. They need to address these issues and it will be right up at the top.

I had the same problem and chose to never buy Snark again despite simplicity and accuracy.

At first, I tried them individually at the same clip location at centre top. That’s when I noticed a difference between how they each responded (and readability of display) and prompted me to make the video highlighting this. I probably should have mentioned this originally.

Here's a tip: Grab a sharpie and put the date you installed it on the battery, then check how long it takes before you have to replace it. You'll be able to see if it is an economical unit or not. The red ones, as I said above, eat batteries -- every 24 days on average. I love the tuner, but its eating me alive keeping it juiced up. Snark needs to make a rechargable one.

Oh, to add.. The blue Snarks are really good, long lasting, bright display, fairly accurate, built in metronome, like the one in the video.

I just got one at Amazon for $10.00.

Zito Sonic no amazon in vietnam, though the korg pc1 was made in here

The PC1 is still produced and Amazon is global... I check on the Korg store at Amazon and they does ship to Vietman.

it says to me it does not ship this item to vn. I ordered another one from alie www.amazon.com/Korg-PITCHCLIP-Low-Profile-Clip-On-Tuner/dp/B004VVFZHW

Content Updating I haven’t any experience with that instrument. However, from what I have noticed with all the clip-on tuners I have tried, the response time between changing notes and showing up on the tuner is not that good. Sorry, I can’t be more helpful.

You're review is very helpful. The Snark looks like it responds pretty quickly.

I do not use my Korg as much as the Snark but it is still working. For what it's worth, the physical construction does not feel cheap out of the bunch. A little above average.

These work but not as well as for acoustic instruments. If the electric is very loud unplugged, it works better. Inline plug in tuners are definitely better for electrics.

MrDordeEl Thanks for the feedback. Speaking is not my strength and that is the first recording of anything recorded for public. If I were to do another in the future, I will keep that in mind.

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I have read other people say good things about the Peterson tuners too.

@@da1510 - They are really pricey, but worth it.

@@da1510 I loved my Peterson Strobo Clip, (1st version,) but the damned thing broke after about 2 years of light usage. I put it in a box and recently took it out again after about 10 years. I can get a few minutes use out of it, but I have to take the battery out and put it back in again to get it to work each time I use it. I've broken 3 Snarks at the ball joint. I just can't bear the thought of dropping another $60+ on a strobo after the last one broke on me. The TC Poly Clip will be my next clip on tuner.

Most of them do, Snarks and Peterson (which I misspelled in former posts, sigh) for sure.

I’ve heard this is common. It’s surprisingly that after all these years, they still haven’t fixed the problem.

deYjaVu Gaming Yes it should work fine. In fact, I was using mine for my guitar until my wife complained I took it away from her ukulele. I bought the Snark HZ-1 as a replacement. Snark says the SN-6 is “optimized for Ukulele tuning range. If you look at the chart showing “range of notes of standard ukulele types” and a classical guitar listed here, there is more than enough overlap. Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukulele

Ronald van Hoove I agree. When I tried all of these with my electric guitar, all perform mediocre in terms of detecting the note.

The clip tuners’ advantage is the ability to work in a noisy environment. For example, if other musical instruments are being played while you are trying to tune. The tuner apps can have advantages such as being able to plot a line graph of the picked up note. I use an app on the iPhone called Elegantune.

Jordy Christo I’m not an expert on how to test this. However, when compared to a tuner app on my phone which claims 0.1c accuracy, from what I could tell with all these clip on ones, they were all about the same.

What app is that if you don't mind me asking?

Surely it's GuitarTuna. There you can check an option called Professional Mode, which lets you fine tune any instrument (only guitar in free mode).

Nick Urech Not the best but from this test, I certainly wouldn’t say they are the worst. In this price range is good for a simple and quick clip tuner.

boilingaction I have no experience with a violin but for the least hassle, I would choose a Snark.

Thank you very much

kentuckymandolin I would like to but it would be too expensive for me. I. I had most of these initially because they were cheap or came with something else. I thought it would be interesting to compare what I had. I tried monetizing the video with RU-vid but that was a failure :) I haven’t even reached the point where they will pay anything (at which point it would be about $20). Now with their new higher limit of view hours, there will be no chance.

You didn't say that, the title leads one to think that the video is a review of clip on tuners in general.

kentuckymandolin Sorry, I should have been more clear. I’ll see if I can update the description. I was and still am very amateur at posting things.