Thread: Setting intonation with non-strobo tuner
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Old 05-31-2016, 05:11 AM
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Greetings,

I have a very basic tuner (Snark SN-1) and am wondering if it can be used to set intonation or I need to buy a strobo tuner (Peterson, etc.). Also, there is at least one strobo tuner for Android, but I tested it with a tuning fork and found to be not very precise.

Thanks
The short answer is no ... using a Snark to set intonation will not give satisfactory results. You need a strobe tuner, ideally an analog model, although a digital model will suffice at a pinch.
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