Oh, and there’s a bass version of the SOS tuner too. I’ve got about ten year’s supply of them for a few bucks. You can usually get them in tens, shipped from Hong Kong, for the same price (or less) than you can buy one for in your local shop. Incidentally, these use those little coin-cell battery things. In my case at least, but this has worked for me on a half-dozen occasions now.
If one LED remains working as brightly as normal, a battery isn’t the first thing to leap to mind. It seems a bit of an odd system to have a single LED fail while the other one works as the battery is drained but that’s what happens. If you’ve got a Planet Waves SOS tuner and one of the LED’s fails, don’t chuck it in the bin. I even threw out my first tuner because only one little red light remained. Planet Waves Strobe Tuner Used Good 47.79 + 37. It’s not possible to use it with only one LED working and, after this happened to the second tuner, I cursed Planet Waves and assumed some sort of manufacturing defect. I found this a couple of times and it was annoying. That said, sometimes, one of the LEDs stops working. Off you go to Amazon and get yourself one: Planet Waves S.O.S. The workshop can be a noisy place with extractors, dehumidifiers and music so it’s easier to use one of these SOS tuners than it is to turn off the noisy things to allow me to hear the correct tuning. I’ve got a couple of these in my workshop as I frequently need to tune guitars (or even necks mounted on temporary-surrogate-bodies for refrets) with no pickups to plug into an external tuner. When the string is in tune, the pattern becomes stable. If it’s out of tune, the pattern made by the light wobbles about.
You pluck a string and shine the light on it. They call them SOS: Strobe On String and they work by pulsing two little LEDs at a particular frequency.
I love these little Planet Waves SOS tuners.
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