Speed and Note transition knobs work in tandem to optimally detect and correct errant notes. Across the top of the window, from left to right, are the key settings. The new plug-in has many familiar features and controls, if you’ve ever worked with pitch correction software. So for all those singers who really do need the help, for recording or in live performance in concert or theater situations, Waves Tune Real Time seems to fit the bill. I’ve worked with quite a few, and pitch correction can mean the difference between a successful session/recording and a bust. We’ve all had sessions with less-experienced singers, or worked with songwriters who probably shouldn’t sing, but for one (legitimate) reason or another (funds, logistics) are pressed into service doing their own vocals. If you’d like to get one of these for yourself, they’re available for a good price at Amazon.įull disclosure: Planet Waves / D’Addario was kind enough to send me one of these capo tuners for review purposes.Now, I’m not going to get into the whole argument about whether pitch correction should be used at all, or issues of its overuse among some artists and producers-even if you’re one of those people (like me) who generally feels the less processing the better, there are many situations where these tools can really be life-savers. Whenever you use a capo, there’s going to be a bit of adjusting to get it to work well with the curvature of your guitar neck, but I quickly discovered that if I put it on a slight angle compared to the frets it works best for me. I found the capo tuner comfortable and quick to use one-handed.
It is advertised to work well on 12 strings as well, but I haven’t had a chance to test that yet. I’ve used this capo tuner on acoustic and electric 6 string guitars, and it worked fine on both. However, as you can see from the picture, this capo tuner does have a tension adjustment, which works quite well. My main complaint against these spring loaded capos is that they normally don’t have any sort of tension adjustment, which reduces their ability to perfectly adjust to different instruments. We’ve talked about the “tuner” part of this – but this capo tuner is exactly that – a capo AND a tuner.Īs a capo, the Planet Waves unit works nicely. This means you can use this as a tuner either on the fretboard, while capo’d, or just clamped onto the headstock as a tuner. Because it works off the vibrations in your guitar, you can literally have it clamped onto any part of your guitar and it will work. So how does the tuner work if it doesn’t have a readout? Simple – it uses a three light system, with a few different colors of lights.
It is for these types of tweaks that this capo tuner works just great – in fact, most of the time having a note displayed at me is a waste of time anyways, except for the situations I mentioned already. Unless you’re de-tuning to some other tuning entirely, or re-stringing your guitar, then I find that most times my guitar is pretty close to standard tuning when I pick it up.
I say (most of) because this tuner doesn’t have any way of indicating which note you are on, but only whether or not the note you are playing is on pitch or not.įunctionally speaking, I didn’t find this was a problem. The Planet Waves Capo Tuner is an ingenious gadget that has rolled (most of) the functionality of a tuner and a capo into one unit.
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