This video will serve both as a tip for beginner guitar players as well as a guitar tuner and metronome buyer’s guide.
What I’m holding here is a 3-in-1 metronome with tuner, or tuner with metronome, plus a tone generator.
I bought this last year. This year I bought a smaller tuner. But it can only do chromatic and guitar, ukulele, bass, and violin. It doesn’t have a built-in metronome. But it can be clipped on your guitar head. For this bigger one, it’s using a clip attached to it through an input jack. It has a mic, volume, and stand.
Long pressing the power button turns on the device. The button below it is the long press switch, to switch between metronome and tuner.
The tuner can switch depending on what instrument you want to tune. It has a ukulele tuner, chromatic tuner, guitar tuner, bass tuner, and violin tuner. It has up and down buttons on the right to adjust the tuning frequency. 440 (hertz) is the standard frequency for the A note. If you Google it, you will see that 432hz is a feel-good frequency, which among the famous bands using it is Metallica. I’ll let you just search that. The smaller guitar tuner cannot adjust its tuning frequency. It’s just 440hz.
So standard tuning…feel-good. It’s still A (note) but it’s flat. But I’ll let you try it if you like.
To switch to metronome, you have an option to slow down the beats per minute. Speed it up, speed it down.
You can also add accents to the metronome clicks. At zero, the clicks are the same tone. But if you press once, you should see one, you’ll hear one accent tone. So, if you choose one accent it’s every click. Two. Every two clicks you hear the accent. Three. Every three clicks. Four. Every four beats. Every five beats and so on. The highest it can go is nine.
You can also set the beats to quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, and combinations.
To power off, long press the power button. So, if you’re tuning, the green LED in the middle will light-up when you’re in tune. The red LED on the right indicates when you’re sharp and LED on the left indicates when you’re flat.