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  • Benjamin_Dobell 35 minutes

    Thanks. Just tuned my daughter's guitar.

    Obviously a bit more work. But it'd be pretty neat to have live reactions. "So close!", "Nearly there", "You can do it!", "Perfect" etc.

  • behehebd 27 minutes

    This guy tunes!

  • schinken23 2 hours

    Do you guys know this? https://www.thomann.co.uk/stompenberg_devices.html

    You can use real pedals over the internet

    there's a german blog post about this: https://www.amazona.de/thomann-stompenberg-fx/

  • rhaps0dy 9 hours

    Thank you, this was fun, I sang notes for a bit :)

  • anemoknee 11 hours

    this is hilarious. and surprisingly responsive! i used this to tune an acoustic bass guitar i have

  • Havoc 9 hours

    That’s some serious out of the box thinking

  • cluckindan 11 hours

    You keep your tuner in a terrarium?

    ”This appliance must be earthed”?

  • pastorhudson 9 hours

    This is hilarious and fun. Thanks for making it.

  • closetkantian 9 hours

    I love it

  • austinjp 10 hours

    \m/

  • yukapero 4 hours

    Tried it, dope idea. No Pi or tuner req'd really. Why we all love these goofy hacks so bad

  • Forgeties79 10 hours

    I just used it to check my whistle tones. How fun!

  • zoklet-enjoyer 10 hours

    This reminds me of the Internet of my childhood. People just having fun and experimenting with a new medium. Thank you for sharing.

  • koinedad 11 hours

    Pretty wild, nice job

  • CodinM 4 hours

    Tuned my guitar and donated 5$!

  • behnamoh 6 hours

    Guitar tuner as a service was not on my 2026 bingo card but here we are. Creative project!

  • sponno 6 hours

    sooo cool!

  • hunter2_ 9 hours

    On my Pixel 10 using Chrome, it says "Mic needed - refresh to allow" but refreshing doesn't change anything. It's possible that I did something years ago to prevent whatever permission popup might normally be offered?

    smith-kyle 9 hours

    Your browser might have microphone access set to "Deny" by default rather than "Ask". This happened to my friend. He changed the setting and it worked, but maybe there's a way to give a more helpful error in this scenario. Let me see

    nosioptar 9 hours

    Got the same, Firefox on lineageos.

  • dbdr 5 hours

    On Firefox/Linux, after allowing mic access, I get a "Failed to access microphone" above the button, and in the javascript console:

    [ws] Microphone error: DOMException: AudioContext.createMediaStreamSource: Connecting AudioNodes from AudioContexts with different sample-rate is currently not supported.

    cammikebrown 5 hours

    Sounds like normal Linux behavior to me

  • locusofself 5 hours

    I love it.

    But in all seriousness, if you are looking for a good guitar tuner, a lot of the ones on the market are actually not very good.

    I highly recommend TC Electronic for clip-on tuner, or Sonic Research or Peterson for pedal tuners.

    source: playing guitar for 32 years

    dsego 2 hours

    I use a Peterson strobe tuner on my smartphone, it's really good. I've also coded my own strobe tuner to learn more, unfortunately no mobile version yet.

    https://github.com/dsego/strobe-tuner

    bob1029 4 hours

    The oboe playing a concert A is a pretty good one too.

    eternauta3k 5 hours

    Could you go into more detail on why they are bad?

    Humphrey 5 hours

    I love my TC Electronic clip on tuner!

  • redbluething 11 hours

    I am not sure why this exists, but I am glad it does.

    hshdhdhj4444 10 hours

    The website explains why this exists.

    > Real guitarists use real tuners.

  • TrackerFF 11 hours

    Thomann had (still have?) this thing called "stompenberg", where they put up some mechanical switching system so that you could play audio files through the actual pedals in the system, and turn on the knobs / parameters.

    In the recent years some smaller businesses have started to offer outboard gear in this way. You upload some stem, and can process it through their hardware remotely, and get back the results.

    hunter2_ 9 hours

    This is cool except that the only ad for this I've come across so far was for analog summing. Remote or not, that concept (going out of one's way to theoretically have something more pleasing than digital summing) always smelled like a scam to me. Like ok, maybe a sample rate a hair above what Shannon/Nyquist demand can't do digital summing with all the right IM distortion of the missing supersonic content or whatever, but 192kHz ought to solve for that! So is it something else to be gained via analog summing?

    peepee1982 6 hours

    I'm not interested in analog summing myself, but I think you're missing the point. It's not about "better" summing. You want more euphonic summing. Analog audio processing often comes with artefacts that give the signal sent through it a more pleasing character, for whatever reason (phase shift, saturation, channel differences between left and right, transient modulation, slew rate, power sag, etc.).

    I personally think analog summing is a waste of time, because the differences are too subtle to be worth the investment in setting it up. But that's just my opinion. Some people are really into it (Eric Valentine comes to mind).

    Just wanted to point out that in the context of audio equipment (both professional and audiophile) "sounds better" often means "sounds worse but more engaging". Just like a polaroid picture often evokes more emotions than a photo taken with a modern digital camera and a great lens.

    Nition 6 hours

    Oh the options get way better than that. Check these guys out: https://accessanalog.com

    They have 60+ rack units with little robot grabbers physically controlling the knobs.

    Re analogue summing, yeah it does near nothing in reality. What you're missing though is that what people actually want with analogue summing isn't really technically better sound but technically worse sound. Analogue gear might have a little bit of harmonic distortion, a little bit of crosstalk between channels, certain transformer characteristics etc that theoretically make it sound more glued together or warm etc etc. But ultimately summing is summing and those differences vs. digital are very small (and won't always contribute positively either).

    smith-kyle 8 hours

    No way! My friend and I were half joking about building that as a sequel to realtuner. If nothing else, it'd be a great excuse to buy more gear.

    sagacity 2 hours

    Do you really need an excuse to buy more gear? meme-be-honest.jpg

  • copperx 11 hours

    This is awesome, and, at the same time, hilarious. The BOSS tuner is the laggiest thing ever, and we're adding network latency to it!

    Maybe we all can pitch in for a Turbo Tuner. Or some vintage mechanical strobe tuner for hipster points!

    smith-kyle 11 hours

    Let's scale horizontally!

    behehebd 26 minutes

    As the actress said to the bishop

  • eranation 8 hours

    Linking it here since it's easy to miss. It seems he is using the popularity of this to help a friend recovering from brain surgery, I think this makes this project even more awesome in my book.

    https://smith-kyle.github.io/

    999900000999 8 hours

    Donated. I always thought Playboy manbaby was a solo act nerdcore rapper.

    But this is cool.

    eranation 8 hours

    Thanks! Donated as well. When I grow up I want to have friends that will do the same to me...

    stavros 55 minutes

    When you grow up you should want universal healthcare...

    999900000999 26 minutes

    Americans don’t want that.

    We want to live in hell where any serious illness will completely ruin you.

  • Johnny_Bonk 10 hours

    Unbelievable, thank you and can you add open g or drop d tuning pweez?

    post-it 8 hours

    Can't it already do those since it's chromatic?

    LouisLazaris 8 hours

    I guess he would have to add a way to interact with the tuner's UI to switch to a different setting other than standard tuning.

    sunnybeetroot 8 hours

    It’s a chromatic tuner, there is no other setting

    LouisLazaris 8 hours

    Ah yes, my bad!