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| Roland Chromatic Tuner & Metronome | 
 enlarge | Brand: Roland
Category: Musical Instruments
List Price: $39.50
Buy New: $19.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (5 reviews)
Sales Rank: 790
Color: black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7 x 1 x 3
MPN: TU-80
Model: TU-80C
UPC: 761294083833
EAN: 0761294083833
ASIN: B0002D00BE
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Supports chromatic tuning, plus 7-string guitars and 6-string basses | | • | Accu-Pitch function sounds a tone when pitch is correct | | • | Reference Tone Play function makes it easy to verify tuning by ear | | • | Memory function stores your favorite tuner setting | | • | Metronome has 7 rhythms, 10 beats and cool animated LCD display |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
The BOSS TU-80 brings super-accurate LCD tuning to musicians at a very affordable price, while adding unique high-end features like a built-in metronome and Accu-Pitch. The pocket-sized TU-80 runs on batteries and can tune almost any instrument, thanks to a chromatic tuning mode and ultra wide tuning range. It even tunes 7-string guitars and 6-string basses, putting the TU-80 in a class all its own.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Not so good... August 16, 2008
This unit is a servicable tuner, and metronome, but you can do better in both departments for sure.
I find it useless for acoustic guitars if there is any background noise. Even just a TV on with normal volume nearby seems to prevent it from getting a clean read.
The metronome is annoying because of the lack of volume, and the fact that it's plays an electronic tone instead of clicks. Not a good idea.
Metronomes should click..
click click click click....
 No volume controller July 27, 2007
This would be a great product if there was some way to increase the volume. It's very hard to hear which makes it not very useful for the purpose intended. Next time I will do more research before I purchase.
Average tuner, useless metronome March 15, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The tuning capability is only mediocre; the "Accu-Pitch" function might better be sold as "Approxi-Pitch." When I check my 2 TU-80 tuners against a high-end one, I find that the Accu-Pitch beep can sound as much as 5 cents out of tune, which is bad enough so that I have to retune.
As far as the metronome goes, as other reviewers have noted, it's just not loud enough to be anything but a toy. Too bad, too - there was an opportunity to send the metronome signal out of the output jack, so that it could have driven an earphone, or could have been fed into a mixer, which was a choice that Boss itself made in its much-superior DB-12 metronome, but absent that feature, this metronome can't be used as an aid for practicing any real-world instrument.
Good as a tuner, but not as a metronome June 23, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I like the accuracy of the tuner, and it "hears" my acoustic guitar quite well if I put it on the music stand so that it's angled toward me. As a metronome, however, it leaves much to be desired: (1) the volume is not adjustable and I consider it not loud enough, (2) it makes a cheesy electronic chirp instead of a mechanical-sounding knock as some of the electronic metronomes can, and (3) the rhythm is "dotted," i.e., it puts a milder electronic chirp in between the "main chirps" and there's no way to turn it off (but this can be somewhat remedied by setting it to 1-4 time).
Doesn't work with background noise. June 8, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Works great in a quiet room. When I used it at a performance at a pub the ambient noise renders the tuner useless. Even with a plug-in clip-on mic on the instrument it did not register the note reliably. When this happened I would borrow a Yamaha TD-10 from my guitarist which worked great w/o a plug-in mic. I've since sold the TD-10 and bought a new Yamaha TD-10, which is sadly discontinued.
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