Jonesy64 Posted July 19, 2013 Posted July 19, 2013 ......Mŷ GB Contour combo has one....I'm confused by it, how does it work? Do I just run a cable out to a tuner and it becomes part of the circuit sort of like a built in tuner? If that's the case I guess it is using a cleaner signal or something but is it actually that much better than having one between guitar and amp? Quote
icastle Posted July 19, 2013 Posted July 19, 2013 All that socket generally does is split the input signal so that the amp can see it (as normal) and the tuner can as well. The more 'breaks' there are between your bass and the amplifier input, the more chance there is of a single point of failure or noise being induced. If you've been given a tuner socket then it'd be ungrateful not to use it. Quote
flyfisher Posted July 19, 2013 Posted July 19, 2013 Agreed. I don't use pedals and just have a handheld tuner so it's very handy to plug it into the tuner socket on my Ashdown Mag300 amp. My Ampeg SVT-70T combo doesn't have a tuner output so I just plug it into the 'Line Out' socket and it works just as well. Quote
stingrayPete1977 Posted July 19, 2013 Posted July 19, 2013 Even the best true bypass tuners can still alter your signal imo, tuner out for the win Quote
pete.young Posted July 20, 2013 Posted July 20, 2013 Biggest difference is probably that most tuners will mute the signal if placed between the guitar and the amp - using the tuner out won't. Quote
Jonesy64 Posted July 20, 2013 Author Posted July 20, 2013 Ah, ok understood, thanks all for clarifying :-) Quote
SPHDS Posted July 21, 2013 Posted July 21, 2013 The Ashdown I used at the place my band at uni practiced at had a 'tuner mute' button for exactly that reason, can't remember the model of the amp though...! Quote
deepbass5 Posted July 21, 2013 Posted July 21, 2013 I use them for the above reasons you can have your tuner on top of your amp, and if the amp has a mute you can kill your speaker output and tune quiet. one less thing in your signal chain, or on the floor. Quote
philparker Posted July 21, 2013 Posted July 21, 2013 +1 I keep the tuner on my amp, plugged into the tuner socket, a TC Polytune battery operated so that I don't have to look for a power supply, I have a mute switch and can quickly and quietly check tuning every few songs. It also keeps things simple and tidy! Quote
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