Anyone use a Hipshot Grover D Tuner ?

[JohnnyGoo]

I ordered this for my Christmas present for my Epi JJN Gold Glory Les Paul. I put locking Grovers on it and these are not locking but thats ok.Will look good if nothing else.

 

[gball]

Not even sure what this is. Is it to go back and forth from standard to drop d?

If so, just an honest question: It takes just a few seconds to retune from standard to drop d and back if you have a decent tuner on your board...what is the benefit of something like this?

 

[JohnnyGoo]

Yep a D tuner. No benifit at all . Just something to monkey with about the size of it.

 

[Thatbastarddon]

Not even sure what this is. Is it to go back and forth from standard to drop d?

If so, just an honest question: It takes just a few seconds to retune from standard to drop d and back if you have a decent tuner on your board...what is the benefit of something like this?

They are supposed to be engineered and manufactured well enough, once dialed in and set up, to drop tune and back during a song…with reckless abandon…while blindfolded….
I’ve thought about one for bass, but now have a couple of basses with low B strings, sooooo…..
If I was playing live still…I might have entertained the idea for a favorite guitar.

 

[JohnnyGoo]

Ya they make alot of them for Bass.

 

[Thatbastarddon]

Ya they make alot of them for Bass.

Bass is way more fidgety, for me, to drop tune and back live…tuners(my pedal tuners) sometimes flake on the readout enough to be annoying, and feel like an eternity passes as I find pitch silently.

 

[DirtySteve]

I can only see this a benefit if you have to switch back and forth in the same song on the fly. Is that a thing?

 

[Thatbastarddon]

I can only see this a benefit if you have to switch back and forth in the same song on the fly. Is that a thing?

Not really…not for me…I guess if I wanted to cover Goodbye Blue Sky by Floyd…maybe.
But for a quick switch, while working the room, this would have helped…I usually just switched guitars…arranged the set lists to have the drop tunings together(our drummer hated that…always wanted them peppered throughout).

 

[smitty_p]

In my old band, we had an arrangement of songs which began with a drop-D song and then went swiftly into another song with the guitar in standard tuning.

We didn't banter a lot and our thing was to move quickly from song to song with very little talking.

I did sometimes contemplate getting something like this to make that tuning change nearly instantaneous.