tc electronic PolyTune Clip Tuner Reviews

Very Precices Clip Tuner

The TC PolyTune Clip is a very precise Clip Tuner.

It makes tuning your acoustic, electric and bass guitar very easy and quick. The polyphonic mode allows you to get a quick overview and "pre"tune your instrument. The tuning of your individual stings is very accurate. The PloyTune Clip is built well, the clip is tight and stays at your headstock without damaging it, due to its good rubber cover. The Display is very bright an readable, it turns around, depending on how you attached it.

I bought it because a wanted a good and trustworthy tuner, with the flexibility to use it on different guitars on stage, but also at home without a pedal board.

Great tuner

I bought this Polytune Clip Tuner because I was dissatisfied with my old (cheap) clip tuner which was not too accurate and also quite slow. So I thought I'd give something more professional a try and must say that my expectations were surpassed. The accuracy is excellent and the tone recognition is very quick. I like the regular "needle" mode the most, it is very clear to read with green leds in the center and red ones on each side. The Polytune mode is nice for quickly checking thee intonation but the single note mode is more accurate. It switches automatically between the two modes, depending on how many strings you play - great.

The mechanical quality is also great, metal clamp, mounts to the front or the back and switches the display orientation automatically. And also works well on electric guitars. Overall a great device, only downside is the price which is a bit on the high side for a clip tuner but it's worth it.

Very happy with the PolyTune Clip

I prefer to give a final tune-up before going on stage and was looking for a clip-on tuner that was small and accurate (and that I could easily put in my pocket). As I already am very happy with a PolyTune mini pedal, I opted for the same brand.

Since I play bass and Chapman Stick, I don't use and can't comment on the polyphonic mode, but I find this tuner very fast and accurate, down to low B. Also it is very easy to read, even in complete darkness.

Quality tuner

Excellent tuner, makes tuning quick and easy, easy to use, and looks cool as hell.

Very fast and accurate

I really love this tuner,compared to the snark and planet waves clip on tuner i have owened so far. Tested 3 of them together and the poly tune clip just beat them with fast note recognition and the bright display.. Also the strobe mode on the tc is just super awesome. Only down side is that, since the market for 7 & 8 string guitars has come up high, i really would like to see Tc put out a tuner which can show upto 8 string of multiple string tunning mode tuner.which will help a lot of the new age musicians.. But for this tuner, you just cant beat Tc..

Cheers.

Fast and very accurate

I used to have a Snark tuner but decided to step up to TC Electronic quality and I don't regret it.

The PolyTune Clip Tuner is very fast and accurate and easy to use.

The PolyTune Clip features an adaptive readout that automatically flips to the proper orientation no matter where you decide to attach its padded, stainless-steel clip. Very convenient.

And that?s not enough, it also has a strobe tuner with +/- 0.02 cent accuracy, flat tunings and capo modes, along with MonoPoly technology that detects whether you play one or more strings and responds with the proper polyphonic or monophonic tuning mode.

The only down side as I see it is that I can't use it on stage when there is other people playing because of interfering and will then not show the otherwise accurate readout.

Apart from that it is great for intonation of all your string instruments.

Definitely recommend the TC Electronic PolyTune Clip Tuner it's a great product in true TC Electronic tradition.

Fast and accurate tuner

It is nice to see all the strings at one glance. After getting used to this fine gadget, one doesn't want to use any older tuners. The accuracy is better than in many other models, you can lower or sharpen the key easily, the display is clear.

TC Electronic PolyTune Clip Tuner is so far the best I have had.

Still, I don't know how long time the battery operates.

I can recommend this to serious players or to anyone, who wants to stay in tune with a minimum effort.

Just awesome

The strobe mode is really accurate.

Overall the tuner is much more responsive than the average. Responds to the slightest vibration as opposed to more cheap units.

With this tuner you can clearly see how your strings go from high to low pitch as you pluck so you can also tune accordingly.

The software plugin is really a good gift also.

Slick look.

It works!

What can I say, great little tuner! Great price, much more convenient than plugging in my Gibson J45 and running it through a digital tuner. Tracks well and the polyphonic feature is quite handy for checking quickly whether you're in tune; would imagine this is a godsend live but not something I do. I had the iPhone app version of the tuner but this works better and looks cool!

Epic

Best Clip tuner in the world, Very fast. Well done TC, Great product.

Top satisfaction!

Very tiny, but really simple and useful! Pretty accurate, and support polyphonic function! easy to read, and the display move anywhere just as we position the tuner. some of my friends who looked at this tuner were interested to buy the same tuner as well. For the price it worth a lot even for home use

Excellent tuner, great visibility and accuracy

Using it on both guitar and mandolin. Seems very precise. Visibility is superb, much better than most LCD based tuners. Construction quality is very solid, and it is nice to have some metal fixtures instead of the usual plastic. I like it.

Probably the best clip-on tuner on the market

Excellent tuner. Compact, easy to use, fact, accurate, it tracks electric bass and violin.

The only negative remark is that the actual clip is postioned in a way that makes the tuner stick out too much from the guitar neck.

Fast and precise tuner.. but not so much for double bass

I bought this tuner on July 1st 2015. It arrived amazingly fast, in less than 24 hours from Germany to the Netherlands!!

I bought the tuner to use for (intonation) practice on double bass (bowed). I also have a Korg CA1 tuner that is very good and reliable but this has not illuminated display which can be hard to read sometimes. It also is not the fastest tuner and not a clip-on (mic).

The Polytune clip does have very good visible LEDs. It also appeared to be very fast looking at the video's online. It tried it on one of my guitars and it works just fine in all modes. And yes, it is very fast.

But... on double bass not so much luck... The tuner has some difficulty picking up the signal from the E string. It does seem to work when plucked but when bowing it just does not work very well. On all other strings it works fine (in both guitar as well as bass mode).

I use the tuner on the bridge of the double bass so I can look at it when practicing scales etc. Being almost horizontal the tuner cannot decide its position so it frequently switches orientation. Of course this will not happen on (bass) guitar but it would have been nice if the gyro could be disabled.

And the final thing.. I read in the manual that the Polytune switches off automatically after 3 minutes to save the battery. I, mistakenly, thought that would be after the tuner had not been USED for 3 minutes. But this is not the case so it shuts off in the middle of a scale.

The build quality is OK. The plastic looks a bit flimsy, it would have looked so much better in stainless steel. The clip works fine and the display is very bright.

All in all the Polytune clip on is not exactly what I expected from it. Of course this is mainly due to the way I want to use it (not just tuning). I will give it another chance during a longer practice session to decide whether I'll keep it or maybe return it

EDIT: after just two days of careful use at home the rubber of the moving part of the steel clap came off. When I finally found it again on the other side of the room I noticed the rubber being split in two on one side. This should not happen!!