It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Subscribe to our Patreon, and get image uploads with no ads on the site!
Base theme by DesignModo & ported to Powered by Vanilla by Chris Ireland, modified by the "theFB" team.
Comments
I owned a Dark Fire (bought from GAK 2009 @MarkGAK) and as the big G left us high and dry due to being wazzocks we began a DF users supprt site and Wiki (now an archive and Ghost town).
Out of the many from all over the world (from actual rocket scientists to other various bainiacs) only a few had problems and the aformentioned heavy handedness and cack handed fitting of the tech was at fault then finger trouble next.
Very rarely it was an actual failure of the tech or related components and Tronical gave way better support ti=o us on the DF support forum and ine to one than Gibson ever did.
My Dark Fire Robo tuners never gave any issues at all and is still going great guns 5 years on, and Tronical have spares should the worst happen. if the whole thing goes nipples up then Tronical (who designed and made the tech) can seel a whole new kit for around £230 ish.
@Handsome_Chris is a robo tuners heretic like me and AFAIK still owns his Dusk Tiger and having no problems, I think.
The Dark Fire and Dusk Tiger are the 2nd gen robo wotsits wheras the newer ones are at least a gen or 2 newer, lighter, lower profile and user fitting is not too difficult.
The act of getting in tune is not the thing people buy these for and it is the changing from standard tuning to various other and alt tunings.
Yes it does tune for you and this is important, if you want it to but it is categorically not in any way like autotune as people holding your point of view. Which may be right for you but at least hate a thing something from a point of factual knowledge and not tired old rants like yours.
Having said that using the robo tuners to actually tune up is handy on the 3 hour gigs I used my Dark Fire at, especially when the condtions change throughout the night and you are trying to get slick transitions to the next song. it worled faultlessly for that so a boon and not at all lazy.
BTW I have been tuning guitars manually since the 70's and still do in the main so they wiil not deskill the act of tuning any more than using an electronic tuner, and not tuning froks and pitch pipes like wot I used.
Fair enough you don't like it and see no benefit but others do and if they beleive your (no offence) lazy assertions based on anecdotal evidence rather than hands on experience.
In 6 years or so of using robo tuners off and on I never had any problems same as the vast majority frequenting the fora that users set up as a community.
http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/57632/