Your favourite guitar accessories

[Dr Tony Balls]

I view anyone that uses a clip-on tuner in the same way that I view a nonce.

Even at home for an acoustic?

Seems unnecessary given smart phones, no?

[cestlamort]

It’s stupid, but I like switch toppers. It’s the 90’s MTB kid in me, but I love some colorful anodized aluminum. I prefer the real deal Barefoot Buttons ones.

I'd likely benefit from some as there are some switches in tight quarters (and my sz 12 feet in clunky shoes make it tough).

RE: clip on tuners. They're great to have kicking around in guitar cases, for playing on the couch etc. I remember a time before tuner pedals so I'm still thankful to never have to futz with it again. A phone is fine, too, I suppose but never seems as accurate with an unplugged electric.
(I can't imagine using one live though!)
(Clip on tuner, that is. An unplugged electric live is maybe what I deserve sometimes! )
I also firmly believe that any digital pedal with LEDs should also have a tuner function of some kind.

[JSett]

I view anyone that uses a clip-on tuner in the same way that I view a nonce.

Even at home for an acoustic?

Seems unnecessary given smart phones, no?

I guess actually, I always forget I have an app on my phone to be honest (same with using it for contactless card payments).

[LeftyJ]

I'm not ashamed to admit I quite like my clip-on tuners
I have two TC Electronic Unitune Clips, and only use them at home. Smartphones are nice and all, but the clip-on works with a piezo and responds to vibration rather than sound, so it's nice that it can be used in a noisy environment too. At gigs and rehearsals I use the Polytune 3 Noir on my pedalboard, and on the headless Status Graphite bass I use in my doom band there's not much to clip on to anyway

[Jan Deal]

Even at home for an acoustic?

ESPECIALLY at home. No exceptions.

[Firecat]

I like clip on tuners for quickly tuning an acoustic or an unplugged electric at home. I sometimes use the Boss tuner app on my phone, but I think it's a hassle to have to take out my phone and I sometimes get distracted by the stupid phone instead of tuning and playing. I don't really like the Korg clip on tuner I have though, the battery seems to drain pretty fast. I used to have a super cheap one by Boston or whatever that I did like. The rubber eventually became all sticky though, which is the last thing you want to touch before playing a guitar.

[Flurko]

I don't have anything against clip-on tuners but they seem to hate me, the two times I bought one I managed to lose it the second time it got out of the house, even if I usually dont misplace my gear too much !

[JSett]

Even at home for an acoustic?

ESPECIALLY at home. No exceptions.

Meh, oh well. Guess I'm a nonce then. Bit of a weird thing to prescribe to a person based on a guitar tuner but hey, maybe/clearly you've got issues.

[TagoMago]

I always keep a stash of clip-on tuners in the studio, just in case The Nonces book a session again.

Very clean and tidy folk last time, and always in tune, thanks to the clip-on tuners, I guess? Don't know if they have clip-on tuners in prison, though.

[LVC]

Tuners? Yeah, I guess some people use them.
But everybody knows the only real way to get those autenthic vintage tunings is with a set of pre-CBS pitch pipes.

[JSett]

Tuners? Yeah, I guess some people use them.
But everybody knows the only real way to get those autenthic vintage tunings is with a set of pre-CBS pitch pipes.

These, and a tuning key, are part of my first ever guitar memories. I was quite a young child.

[LVC]

The pitch pipes thing was tongue in cheek, but as a teenager, with no tuner or any other instrument in the house to use as a reference, I actually learnt to tune my first guitar to the telephone dial tone, which is very conveniently set at 440 Hz in France.

[BoringPostcards]

I actually learnt to tune my first guitar to the telephone dial tone, which is very conveniently set at 440 Hz in France.

That’s so cool. I wonder if ours (Canada) was as well. I never thought to try it.
I learned to tune my guitars to my grandmother’s piano. I still tune by ear most of the time, except for recording or if playing live.

[BearBoy]

I like clip on tuners for quickly tuning an acoustic or an unplugged electric at home. I sometimes use the Boss tuner app on my phone, but I think it's a hassle to have to take out my phone and I sometimes get distracted by the stupid phone instead of tuning and playing.

Yeah, same. I generally use my Polytune clip round the house rather than either the Polytune or Boss apps on my phone. Just find it quicker/easier (and the clip on works much better when tuning an unplugged electric).