Thomann CTG-10 Clip Tuner 3-stars Reviews

I bought some of these tuners for my students and one for myself.

Pros:

Price is tempting.

It does the job.

Tuner feels heavy and sturdy.

Cons:

After some time of use some of these tuners just didn't work properly. Screen started to flicker and tuning accuracy was not good.

Worth the price.

Not the best turner available out there in terms of accuracy. However, it gets the job done and for the price I would say it is okay.

Passable but frustrating to use

Pros: Accurate. It will get you in tune.

The light up feature when you are in tune is nice.

Cons: It struggles to find what note you are on. Sometimes it will get lucky and pick out the right note the first time. All too often it will flounder on what note you're playing. For example, I might sit on the B string and it will tell me I'm sharp for the A string, then flat for the D string before telling me how to tune for B, without me changing anything for that string at all.

It doesn't have access to the full chromatic scale. It will only tell you if you are on one of the standard tuning notes. It tries to tell you if it's Bass or Guitar tuning, but does a laughable job at figuring that out.

All in all, it is functional, but frustrating to use,

Has its issues

I've been using this for some time now, and i have two of them. I use it on both nylon acoustic, and my electric guitars. It does it's job.

Main issue with this little tool is that the battery has loose contact with the power pins. I have to put some thick paper in the battery compartment to make it work properly. Also you have to attach it to the instrument really carefully (trial and error) otherwise it fails to detect the sound.

Otherwise, it is cheap and really easy to use. Has auto switch off feature which helps me a lot (I always forget to manually switch off). You can use it as a chromatic tuner or also guides user to do standard tuning.

I'm happy with the device except the battery contact issue.

Tuning not accurate.

Tuning not accurate. But it was what I expected of this cheap product

okay for price but not great on my bass

accuracy is close enough for tuning before practice. not bad for a clip on, but sometimes struggles to pickup the E string on my bass at times

Tuning

when i play a chord it comes up as the wrong chord, its hit or miss if you get it right. I am currently using a mobile tuner instead

Good enough

You get what you pay for :) It is good enough for that price

It's ok

It's an ok tuner. If I had a higher budget I would probably get a better one. It works well with the guitar. It doesn't work at all for ukulele.

Good for its price.

The screen is really nice and the form factor is great BUT it takes a lot of time to find the right note also in resonant guitars/basses it goes crazy. Requires some patience.

bought 2

got 2 due to price, First one not working properly. maybe battery that was included? will try 2nd out and new battery in first one

Cheap tuner

Varies from the tuner on my amplifier. Can't be certain which is incorrect but the amp was rather more expensive!

Maybe mine was faulty

I just added this as it gave me free delivery on purchase of H.B. fretless bass ( superb see my review ). I have a Korg tuner that I usually use, and this just didn't agree with the Korg, that I know is correct. Its also not very sensitive to the low e string of the bass. I may have a lemon, check out other reviews.

Cheap

It's cheap, it feels cheap. It does the job, just handle carefully, feels very fragile and cheap, like it will break if it falls from your headstock.

Definitely not the best, but hey it's a tuner, and it tunes.

very slow

work? yes, but very slow

I use this clip tuner for acoustic guitars. It's really cheap but, at the end of the day, I must say it is not so precise: quite seldom it doesn't recognize wich cord are you playing to tune and you have to manage it going back and forward with the tuning.

But it has several pros: it works with any chords instruments (bass, ukelele, guitar and so on), it is cheap and it is quite a handful: very easy to use. The screen is easily visible and you bet you can easily understand when your cord is tuned.

Does the job, not much else

It's cheap. It works, tunes up the guitar, but the accuracy of the display is iffy at best. I find myself having to be super precise with my tuner to hit perfect pitch vs other tuners that just move smoothly and let you know seamlessly that your tuning is changing. This tuner will get you in tune, but you'll have to stop all sound and re strum a LOT to get it right.

Breakes easily

I don't think that there is a tuner which wouldn't do the job for a guitar or bass. But this one is actually very weak when it comes to built quality. One of them broke like 2 days after purchase. Was just clapped to a guitar and than suddenly broke. Another one is doing quite ok.

Great product for the money

Does the thing it's supposed to do. Still, it has some problems during the practice with the band. It catches vibrations of other instruments so the band should be quiet. In not that loud enviroment it does the job really good.

You suffer for what you save

It works well most of the times, however it does not always recognize the string that you are trying to tune (in my case D string). It is worth investing in something more expensive than this one.