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In the world of electric guitar, there’s always room for another tuning system –
especially when it’s as neat and practical an idea as the N-Tune system; just
‘pull to tune – push to play’!
N-Tune, says the manufacturing company, is a ‘..breakthrough in onboard guitar and bass guitar tuning,
which installs in minutes under your guitar’s volume knob’. Okay so far, plus no permanent guitar modification
required, and the system installs into almost any electric guitar or bass too, if they’ve got passive pickups so it’s
all looking very positive.
"Is this possible? Why can't somebody
make a tuner built in to a guitar?"
N-Tune
The N-Tune Onboard True Bypass Chromatic Tuner is heralded as the world’s
most convenient solution for fast, accurate guitar tuning. Whether you’re in the
studio or on stage, simply pull your guitar volume rotary up to activate and use
N-Tune’s super-bright display to silently tune up in seconds. Then push it
back down to play – with perfect tone, thanks to N-Tune’s true bypass
design which removes all tuning circuitry from your guitar’s signal path.
N-Tune is an easy install, using standard soldering tools and requires no
NT250CR3 £69.99rrp
irreversible modification of your guitar. Just think, it wouldn’t matter if the
for single coil guitar
stage was in pitch darkness, you could still use the N-Tune
system and get in tune in complete silence (and
complete darkness as long as you could find
your volume control!). No more hunching
down onto your pedal board to activate a
floor tuner or, worse still, having to unplug
your guitar or bass, then plug in a tuner,
tune up under pressure while the band is waiting to start the next song, then unplug
the tuner and plug your signal lead back in, as it clatters, pops and bangs noisily.
Not a good scenario you’ll agree, but onstage, hey, we’ve all been there...
The (even more) good news is that there are two main types of N-Tune systems available – which
will fit many types of guitar, thus –
Single Coil Guitar Package.
For guitars which use, frankly, single coil pickups (of course, hence the designation) and 250k ohm type
potentiometers; that would include electrics such as the Vintage V6, Fret-King’s Super 60, Super S and Super T,
Country Squire and so on. White, Black, Parchment and Cream N-Tune base ring sections, which fit under the
control knob as you’ll see in the image, are available for the best match with your control knobs and scratchplate.
Humbucker Guitar
Package.
Fits guitars with humbucking pickups which use
500k ohm potentiometers, and that category
includes electric guitars such as the Vintage V100
and VS6, Fret-King Eclat Standard and Esprit 5 (twin
humbucker layout), etc. Loads, in fact! Black and Cream
N-tune control knob
base ring sections are the
available options for this style of guitar.
Well, Gear thinks the N-Tune system looks
pretty damn trick and we can’t wait to get
this fitted to our guitars – anything that
takes the pain out of a quick tune-up is
absolutely fine by us – sorted!
NT500CR3 £69.99rrp
for humbucker guitar
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