D’Addario’s latest clip-on tuner is well-designed, has a nice, bright display, a solid-looking clip and can be calibrated across a 20 Hz range. But its ±3.0 cent accuracy and minimal documentation is disappointing.
D’Addario’s NS Micro is a well-designed and solidly built low-profile clip-on tuner. But poor detection accuracy and unspecified detection range leave us unimpressed.
The UberTuner offers a large crisp, colorful display along with robust calibration and transposition options and instrument-specific tunings. Kliq also provides a three-year warranty.
The Korg GA Custom is the company’s latest upgrade to its GA line of pocket-sized tuners, offering improved detection accuracy and Korg’s eye-catching 3D Visual display — all for a modest price.
Korg’s GA-1 is a basic, inexpensive and pocket-sized tuner specially designed for guitar and bass. It’s a great, sturdy, no-frills tuner well-suited to beginners.
The GripTune is one of our favorite clip-ons for guitar. It’s incredibly small and lightweight, fits almost invisibly on your headstock, and provides respectable ±1.0 cent detection accuracy.
The Magnetune is a small, lightweight and super-simple tuner especially for guitarists. It attaches to your guitar’s strap button or tuning peg enclosure by means of a magnet embedded in the tuner.
Korg’s newest guitar tuner, issued in late 2016, features very good ±0.1 cent accuracy and a new circuit designed to reduce signal noise when the pedal is connected to a power supply cable.