Keeping a guitar in tune is not easy, especially when your ears aren’t good enough to perfectly match the pitch between strings. Luckily, there are a lot of budget-friendly tuners out there capable of ...

Makers and musicians looking for a new project to keep them busy this weekend may be interested in the PyPortal Guitar Tuner project published to the Adafruit learning resources, complete with a 3D ...

If you’re like me, you probably don’t have perfect pitch hearing. Sure, we’re good enough to play and sing the tunes we do but getting a guitar in tune perfectly isn’t one of our talents. That’s where ...

No matter how dextrous your fingers might be, if your best guitar is out of tune, you won’t sound great. Experienced musicians can often tune by ear, but even with years of experience under your belt, ...

A guitar tuner is a tool most guitar players will need at some point in their playing life. Unless you’re blessed with a perfect ear and can tune simply by listening, you’re gonna need a guitar tuner.

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. I took ...

If you're a guitar player who likes to experiment with alternative tunings, you know what a hassle it can be to retune your guitar every time you switch from one tuning to another, especially if ...

When I reviewed the original Roadie Guitar Tuner back in 2016, I loved that it was easy to use and offered a database of alternate tunings, but wished it supported bass guitars. With the Roadie 2 ...

Just for a second, let’s perform a little engineering-based thought experiment. Let’s design a guitar tuner. First up, you’ll need a 1/4″ input, and some op-amps to get that signal into a ...