NPD: Korg PB-04 Pitchblack Polyphonic Portable tuner

[Dave Sloven]

I was finally able to set this up on my board today, after receiving it at the end of last week. I had to wait for a new patchbox to arrive and a 1.5' cable.

It might take a while to get used to. When you tell it that you are tuned four half-steps down it then tells you that C is E, F is A, etc. Kind of throws me off, given that I have become used to thinking in terms of the actual notes. Also the extra room enabled me to put my EV-30 expression pedal onto the board.

My board with just the patch cables installed:

With the power cables as well:

From the top:

With everything connected:

 

[TCE63]

Looks great, nice setup

 

[RVA]

Nice board! Tuners have come a long way. Do you use the polyphonic feature, or tune strings individually?

 

[steveb63]

I was finally able to set this up on my board today, after receiving it at the end of last week. I had to wait for a new patchbox to arrive and a 1.5' cable.

It might take a while to get used to. When you tell it that you are tuned four half-steps down it then tells you that C is E, F is A, etc. Kind of throws me off, given that I have become used to thinking in terms of the actual notes. Also the extra room enabled me to put my EV-30 expression pedal onto the board.

My board with just the patch cables installed:

With the power cables as well:

From the top:

With everything connected:

Nice layout.

Looks like you have it all covered, good luck on the adjustment period.

 

[Dave Sloven]

Nice board! Tuners have come a long way. Do you use the polyphonic feature, or tune strings individually?

You can see the polyphonic feature in the photo above.

I used to have a Polytune before and I never relied on the polyphonic feature but it is nice as a rough guide

 

[Session 5]

Nice clean setup.

 

[Dave Sloven]

For those interested this is the signal chain:

guitar > volume > boost > phaser > chorus > amp > send > noise suppressor > line selector [MO-2 > Carbon Copy > RE-20 > Ghost Echo] > return.

The tuner is outside the signal chain, receiving input from the tuner output on the volume pedal.

 

[steveb63]

For those interested this is the signal chain:

guitar > volume > boost > phaser > chorus > amp > send > noise suppressor > line selector [MO-2 > Carbon Copy > RE-20 > Ghost Echo] > return.

The tuner is outside the signal chain, receiving input from the tuner output on the volume pedal.

:dood:

 

[Dave Sloven]

Actually I forgot the DM-2W

guitar > volume > boost > phaser > chorus > amp > send > noise suppressor > line selector [MO-2 > Carbon Copy > RE-20 > DM-2W > Ghost Echo] > return.

 

[Dave Sloven]

Here's a demo (I don't know why he thinks the power out is so special, it's on lots of tuners)

This is the Korg promo video:

 

[Chubbles]

OMG. Tuners have come a long way since my 80s tuning fork. The magic definitely isn't lost on me.

 

[Dave Sloven]

I had the pitch pipes. Never did master them, got some battery powered tuner soon after they first came out

 

[Chubbles]

My first was a Sabine polyphonic.

It felt space age.

 

[Chubbles]

I found my original 1970s pitch pipe. This is how we did it in the before times:

 

[ivan H]

I found my original 1970s pitch pipe. This is how we did it in the before times:
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I still have my pitch pipes (at my mother's place) too. A harmonica was another way we used to tune. Intonation was always by ear & you know, we got by just fine. Cheers

 

[CabanaBoy]

I found my original 1970s pitch pipe. This is how we did it in the before times:
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Good ole Pitch Pipe - I don't think I ever had a tuner until I was in my 20's. I always used a pitch pipe, keyboard, or another guitar/bass - tuned that way for jam'n and gig'n out. I had a pitch fork once too. Since then my favorite is the Sabine 1100 chromatic tuner.

 

[Chubbles]

Good ole Pitch Pipe - I don't think I ever had a tuner until I was in my 20's. I always used a pitch pipe, keyboard, or another guitar/bass - tuned that way for jam'n and gig'n out. I had a pitch fork once too. Since then my favorite is the Sabine 1100 chromatic tuner.

I had a tuning fork and a Sabine 1100. That Sabine was pure magic!

 

[CabanaBoy]

I had a tuning fork and a Sabine 1100. That Sabine was pure magic!

I still have a Sabine 1100 - sits on my bench. For stinker'n around the house I use a vox clip on tuner - seems to work pretty good. Unfortunately, as much as I'd like to be jam'n people and gig'n out with people I'm not...

 

[Chubbles]

I also have a Korg Pitchblack, and a bunch of clip-ons.

 

[Inspector #20]

I found my original 1970s pitch pipe. This is how we did it in the before times:
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Now, you can make it a weed pipe....