Thus, if you strike the E string and it is, in fact, an E (whether flat, sharp or dead on) its blue light will show. The top edge of the pickup-up ring/E-Tuner has a series of small LED lights that range from A to G# each note is defined by a blue light that aluminates above the note. The E-Tuner, with a +/- 2 cent accuracy, is very sensitive chromatic tuner (you can tune without plugging it into anything) that has a frequency range of 66Hz to 3322Hz (C to Ab), which makes it ideal for drop tuning to a low C and is ideal for any tuning combination, whether standard, open, etc. never rarely has this been done for an electric guitar. Built-in tuners have been around for some time, but on acoustic guitars. Shadow Electronics took the tuner concept one step further by eliminating pedal board clutter or having to be near a rack-mount system by engineering a unique chromatic tuner that replaces a basic humbucker pickup ring whose function is accessible at the touch of a finger. Today, tuning devices are extremely diverse, from rack-mount units to the more common pedals (that take up room on one’s pedal board) that range from large LED indicators to strobes that can be spotted easily one-hundred feet away. And then into my twenties I bought an electronic tuner that required me to plug into the small unit and then I proceeded to tune each string while I watched a frequency-sensitive needle waiver back and forth between flat and sharp until pointing directly straight to the heavens. Eventually I purchased an E tuning fork, and once the bottom string was tuned I could proceed with the remainder. Initially, tuning a guitar required that I do it by ear, since personal computers did not exist to access sound bites, nor did guitar tuners for that fact! I may not have been tuned properly, but that each string merely was in tune with the other. I have been messing around with instruments, mostly with the electric guitar,for the past 30+ years.
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