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Boss TU-80C Chromatic Tuner & Metronome

Posted on | September 29, 2009 | 3 Comments

Boss TU-80C Chromatic Tuner & Metronome

The BOSS TU-80 brings super-accurate LCD tuning to musicians at a very affordable price, while adding unique high-end features like a built-in metronome and Accu-Pitch�. The pocket-sized TU-80 runs on batteries and can tune almost any instrument, thanks to a chromatic tuning mode and ultra wide tuning range. It even tunes 7-string guitars and 6-string basses–putting the TU-80 in a class all its own.

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3 Responses to “Boss TU-80C Chromatic Tuner & Metronome”

  1. Umberto
    September 29th, 2009 @ 8:43 pm

    I like the accuracy of the tuner, and it “hears” my acoustic guitar quite well if I put it on the music stand so that it’s angled toward me. As a metronome, however, it leaves much to be desired: (1) the volume is not adjustable and I consider it not loud enough, (2) it makes a cheesy electronic chirp instead of a mechanical-sounding knock as some of the electronic metronomes can, and (3) the rhythm is “dotted,” i.e., it puts a milder electronic chirp in between the “main chirps” and there’s no way to turn it off (but this can be somewhat remedied by setting it to 1-4 time).

  2. Gurnam
    September 30th, 2009 @ 3:53 am

    The tuning capability is only mediocre; the “Accu-Pitch” function might better be sold as “Approxi-Pitch.” When I check my 2 TU-80 tuners against a high-end one, I find that the Accu-Pitch beep can sound as much as 5 cents out of tune, which is bad enough so that I have to retune.

    As far as the metronome goes, as other reviewers have noted, it’s just not loud enough to be anything but a toy. Too bad, too – there was an opportunity to send the metronome signal out of the output jack, so that it could have driven an earphone, or could have been fed into a mixer, which was a choice that Boss itself made in its much-superior DB-12 metronome, but absent that feature, this metronome can’t be used as an aid for practicing any real-world instrument.

  3. Dallon
    September 30th, 2009 @ 4:19 am

    Works great in a quiet room. When I used it at a performance at a pub the ambient noise renders the tuner useless. Even with a plug-in clip-on mic on the instrument it did not register the note reliably. When this happened I would borrow a Yamaha TD-10 from my guitarist which worked great w/o a plug-in mic. I’ve since sold the TD-10 and bought a new Yamaha TD-10, which is sadly discontinued.

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