• Peterson VS-R StroboRack is rock solid

  
  As reviewed by David Jordan on 6/7/2010

  I purchased the Peterson Stroborack at my local Guitar Center. They did not have one in stock so they shipped it to me. The Stroborack tuner arrived packed inside the manufacturer's box which was placed inside a much larger carton by Guitar Center. I was a little concerned when I picked up the package from my front porch and things were rattling around. Opening the shipping box revealed that Guitar Center had placed a minimum of packing inside the shipping box which allowed the factory carton to slide freely around inside the shipping box. Further examination showed that one end of the factory carton had opened and allowed the Stroborack to slide around inside the shipping container. The factory carton is not strong enough to keep the product in the box and the tuner got bounced around during shipping. All I can say is poor job Guitar Center. Your shipping department people need training. Fortunately there is no apparent damage to the unit. Now for the good stuff. To say the Stroborack is built like a tank is an understatement. I think you could run over this thing with a tank and not hurt it! It is the heaviest built piece of rack mount equipment I have ever seen. If the insides of this thing are as good as the outside it will hold up to a ton of abuse. (In this case it did) Peterson gets an A+ for mechanical construction and design. As for tuning, I tuned several guitars and a bass with no problem at all. The tuner is extremely sensitive and it takes a light touch on the tuning keys to do the final tuning. Normally after I tune a guitar with my old tuner, I go back, play a few chords and fine tune by ear just to get things to sound the way they should. I didn't need to do that with this tuner. If you take the little bit of extra time required to fine tune your instrument additional "tweaking" isn't needed. It is obviously sensitive enough to set the intonation of your instruments although I have not done this yet. If you are in to drop and alternate tunings don't worry. There are a number of presets (called sweeteners) that have some of these predefined. Don't see what you want? There's room for to store 8 alternate tunings of your own. There is a test tone output that will give you any a properly pitched tone based on a note you play on your guitar or you can manually dial in any note you like to get the tone. The LCD display is large enough so that you can tune from across an average size room without having the walk over to the tuner. The message display function allows you to scroll or flash your own messages across the screen when you are not tuning. Seems a bit extravagant but it looks cool to have your band name or message scrolling across the screen. The only minor complain that I have is that there is no way to adjust the display's contrast. All in all this is a fine piece of equipment that I expect will last many years. I don't cover all of the features here. For more information go to Peterson's website and download the user manual. It is a little on the expensive side but is well worth the price.

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• Best tuner made!

  
  As reviewed by Tom Schupbach on 12/14/2011

  I installed this tuner in my rack which also includes a Rocktron Prophesy that has a built in tuner. When using both at the same time (easy to do, I also have a Line 6 G90 wireless that outputs to both at the same time, or mutes the Prophesy remotely for silent tuning) the Rocktron tuner shows that I'm in tune while the Stroborack is still calling for tighter tuning. The Rocktron was just as accurate as the Boss TU-1000 Stage tuner that I previously used, so that is an improvement on both of them! There are many more features in the Stroborack than just tuning, it is a great piece of gear for a professional. It's a bit much both in cost and functionality for beginners, but when you are serious about your music, you can't go wrong with this tuner! The quality of this tuner is excellent, I think you could run over it and not hurt it one bit! It will live in my rack setup (which gets moved a lot!) and give trouble free service for years to come. This is a tool, not a gadget and is priced accordingly. I would never go back to any other tuner!

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• Best tuner made!

  
  As reviewed by Tom Schupbach on 12/14/2011

  I installed this tuner in my rack which also includes a Rocktron Prophesy that has a built in tuner. When using both at the same time (easy to do, I also have a Line 6 G90 wireless that outputs to both at the same time, or mutes the Prophesy remotely for silent tuning) the Rocktron tuner shows that I'm in tune while the Stroborack is still calling for tighter tuning. The Rocktron was just as accurate as the Boss TU-1000 Stage tuner that I previously used, so that is an improvement on both of them! There are many more features in the Stroborack than just tuning, it is a great piece of gear for a professional. It's a bit much both in cost and functionality for beginners, but when you are serious about your music, you can't go wrong with this tuner! The quality of this tuner is excellent, I think you could run over it and not hurt it one bit! It will live in my rack setup (which gets moved a lot!) and give trouble free service for years to come. This is a tool, not a gadget and is priced accordingly. I would never go back to any other tuner!

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