TC Electronic PolyTune 3 Noir Mini Tuner Pedal with Polyphonic Tuning, Built-In Buffer, and Bright LED Display

Whenever people ask what the best tuner is, my answer is always polytune. Others have other answers but there is no other pedal that is as accurate, fast and has the polytune feature. To even get close, you need to spend double the money, so nothing else has the value. On top of that, this is a mini pedal so fits on your board without taking up too much room. And it has a nice display that's easy to see even at a murky gig.

Ive had this for 4 weeks now and works super well! Very bright screen and highly accurate for strobe mode. I haven't worked out using the custom tunings yet though... I am using it with an isolated power supply and it adds no noticeable noise to my signal chain Its very small so fits easy on my board and feels like a strong shasis that shoud last at least a few years. Good value for money!

Very cool and very effective. The Polytune feature is perfect for identifying a dodgy string quickly, and the screen is bright enough for any environment. Top quality product

Impressed with this as is easy to use and a nice size that fits my board well and does not take up too much space. Just make sure you put it first in thd chain.

Great! It tunes things!! Solid.

Turned up on time, great little tuner, unfortunately, like other reviews I've seen, this was not a new item and had scuffs and scratches on the screen and no quick start guide in the box, it's a shame on the one hand as it really is a nice bit of kit, but on the other hand having to return it gave me the opportunity to go for it's big brother, the Polytune 3 which wobbles about less on the peddle board and has a couple of extra features and was only £10 more.

My Korg Pitchblack Mini died out of the blue so had to get a new tuner. This one is great. Very accurate and super quick. Totally recommended

Have wanted one of these for ages, and really glad I splurged. The polyphonic tuning is a really nice feature, but - as you'd expect - it's your rough guide and it takes a bit of getting used to. The display is super clear and it's one of those devices that just becomes super intuitive to use very quickly. Be careful you don't put it in Drop D tuning by mistake and then wonder why the bass E readout is wrong!

The way it shows the results is so fast and very responsive and accurate. The buffer in it is very useful.

Accordate preciso e affidabilissimo, lo uso in tutte le situazioni e non perde mai un colpo

Werkt uitstekend. Top pedaal

I was on the fence about whether to choose this unit or the comparable Boss TU-3 unit. They're both the same price, and both get good reviews. I finally decided to go with this unit because it's a newer design and offered both conventional and "strobe" style tuning. The latter appealed to me because I have been using a Peterson Strobo-Clip tuner for some years, and really like the strobe tuning method. I decided I wanted a stomp-box tuner so that I could mute the sound and do quick tune-ups more conveniently than the clip-on tuner permits. I play electric bass. I found that the conventional tuning mode on this Polytune 3 pedal was just fine for my needs, and I have not yet even tried the strobe version. It also revealed that I need to touch up the intonation on my jazz bass -- playing various notes up and down the fretboard showed some deviation from the correct tuning. All the more reason not to need the micro-precise tuning of the "strobe" style display. When I say "conventional" tuning display, I mean a display that shows a needle that is positioned to the left of center if the tuning is flat, or to the riht of center if the tuning is sharp, and dead center when the tuning is correct. Some tuners have arrowheads on either side of center that light up when you are not quite at the correct tune. With this unit, the needle itself changes color, displaying as red when the note is sharp or flat, and green when it is correct. It is very quick to go through the four strings of my bass and tweak it for the needle to be green. This is a chromatic tuner, meaning it listens for the incoming note and displays what it thinks the note is. That works fine for me. It is only necessary to know that the standard 4-string bass tuning is E A D G. There are handheld (not stompbox) tuners, like the Boss TU-12, that have fixed presets for tuning a guitar or bass, but that is not generally available on a stompbox. The Polytune 3 has a "soft" pushbutton that puts it in and out of tuning mode. By "soft" I mean that there is no mechanical ka-chunk as the sawtich is operated. When the unit is tuning, the output is muted. When tuning is finished (by pressing the switch a second time), the output is connected again. There are three modes available, which are selected by internal DIP switches. The first mode provides "true bypass" switching when the tuner is turned on and off, which means that when it is not tuning, there is a direct connection from the input jack to the output jack. The second mode provides "buffered bypass," which means that the incoming signal passes through a "buffer" amplifier when not tuning. (This can be advantageous in a number of situation, especially if long cables are being used.) In both of these first two modes, the tuning display lights up only when the tuner is active and the output is muted. In other words, you can immediately tell whether you are muted or not by looking to see whteher the tuning display is lit up. The third mode is also buffered, but the tuning display remains active all the time. Thus, in theory, you can watch your tuning as you play. I have only used this unit in the second mode (buffered bypass, display on only when tuning) because that best suits my needs. There are many features which I may never use. For example, while the factory setting is A=440 Hz, it is possible to adjust this reference. Also, the unit is advertised as allowing the user to play all the notes on the instrument at once, whereupon it claims to be able to sort out which of the notes are off. I don't see any particular benefit to this for the bass, and I have read that users do not believe the tuning accuracy is quite as good in this "polyphonic" mode. Frankly, it doesn't take very long to tune 4 strings individually, and that's what I do. Since my bass keeps tune pretty well, it only requires minor tweaking to deal with room temperature change, etc. This takes no more than a minute at most. All in all, I'm very happy with my choice of the Polytune 3. It's very easy to use, has quite a readable display, and makes keeping in tune during a show very simple. I suspect the competitive units out there (like the Boss TU-3 or the Korg Pitchblack) are also fine, which may make the choice more difficult in this category. All I can say is that I think people would be happy with this well-made unit, so hopefully that will help with the decision.

Super accordeur, d’une très grande finesse pour guitare électrique et acoustique. Pas de regret sur l’achat.