KORG TM60-BK Combo Tuner Metronome - Black

Works well

Everything about this gadget is as expected. Easy to use, looks good as well.

This is a great combination device for the money. Tuner: You can set middle A anywhere you want from 410 to 480 Hz in single steps and it keeps the setting when powered off. I make and play folk instruments so the default 440 is fine for me, but if you play in an orchestra you'll appreciate being able to set middle A to 442 or almost anything else. Tuning is of course standard equal temperament. It responds well to both stringed and wind instruments and I had no trouble getting it to respond correctly to any acoustic instrument, including a cow bell. Resolution is 1 cent which is great at this price range. I make Irish whistles so it's more than I need (a whistle is mostly played by ear at this resolution). I was previously making my instruments with a tuner app but the TM-60 has helped explain some # anomalies I've been having with the bell note. I think the reason is that the tuner handles harmonics much better than phone apps. If you play a major chord on a guitar it will even identify the chord correctly, so really amazing. The one thing I don't like about the tuner is that it does not indicate the octave on the screen, but on the other hand if I can't get the octave right I'm doing something very wrong. In tone generator mode it does indicate the octave (A4, C5 etc) so it does have the display capability for that feature. The tone generator is a square wave, which I don't like much for my application but it keeps the price down, and I don't really need that feature very much. It also has sound back capabilities for electric instruments but I don't need and haven't used that feature. Sound back tone generates the note put into the jack, and does work. It kind of turns the device into an automatic tone generator, but no it does not indicate the octave when you use it that way either (I tried). The tuner always turns on with the tone generator and sound back features turned off. Metronome: When I read other reviews I was concerned that the metronome would not be loud enough. It's fine, I can hear it over a session whistle. It's not going to compete with a 50W guitar amplifier, but if that is your use case you will need to mix the output from the headphone jack into your sound. I think the reason for the strange volume control (from absolutely nothing to full on a log scale) is to match roughly with a wide range of input impedances (mic or line input for example). I will probably try this eventually. The default timing is in steps corresponding to classical music - eg andante is 80 to 108 bpm in steps of 4 bpm. If you want you can change it to single steps if you just have to set 90 bpm or something and the full range is 30 to 252 bpm. There's also a "tap tempo" button which works well, but it's more of a push button than a tap pad as the name would suggest. The tone is electronic (of course) but is more of a "bop" sound rather than the annoying "beep" or "cheep" (I hate those so much) you get with most phone apps. High tone is used for beat 1, low for all other beats. Bar timing is 1 to 9 beats, and rhythm timing is march, triplets, swing(blues), quicktime and swing quicktime. For single timing you can select 1 for high tones or 0 for low tones. The metronome remembers all settings on power off including the setting to adjust for single beats. The metronome has two visual indicators - a sweep needle on the screen with beats on each extreme swing (a mechanical metronome has beat on the centre) and a flashing LED under the tap tempo button which flashes on every beat. Other features: The stated battery life (2 AAA) is 130 hours with carbon zinc batteries, supplied. Using the backlight on low gives you about 55 hours so If you use the backlight a lot you might want to use alkaline batteries. It has an auto off feature when not in use for 20 minutes, which seems reasonable. If you are using it then it won't turn off. The backlight has three settings: off low and high (36 hour carbon battery life on high) but I've found the low setting to be fine in most low light situations. You don't really need the back light in good room lighting. It remembers the backlight setting on power off. The screen has an excellent viewing angle up/down, but a very narrow viewing angle left/right, so wherever you put it should be pointing straight at you if possible. I can see it fine whether it is on the floor or on a music stand. The screen shows all relevant information and settings with the exception of the octave in tuner mode as already stated. Interestingly you can use the tuner and metronome individually or both at the same time. When used together the needle for the metronome splits to have the tuner on the top and the metronome on the bottom. The metronome beat does not interfere with the tuner. Within the limitation of price this is an excellent combo device with great features. Korg did a great job with this and I can recommend it for your gig bag or practice room. If you need a better tuner you would have to pay for a lab grade instrument, and if you want a better metronome you should probably get a drum machine.

Easy to use

bought it for a son who plays in the jazz band (tenor sax). He was using his iPhone to tune the instrument, but it became difficult when there were many instruments playing around him as well as not as convenient (cell phone use in class is not allowed, so he felt a bit weird pulling out his phone too). So he asked for a tuner keep in his instrument case. We decided on the Korg models for good reviews and reasonable price and compact enough to easily fit in his case. And on a whim bought the one that came with the microphone. Didn't realize that the microphone is a vibration sensor and not "sound" sensor, which took us a while to understand (hmm. it's not detecting the piano sound. ohhh. it has to clip on and sense vibration! duh!).. Which works great on a horn, but not sure if it's useful for piano, or other smaller instruments that the clip will not have a good place to attach to. Now even with multiple instruments playing around, he can now tune without problems. He also now uses the metronome too since it's right there (he was too lazy to grab the mechanical pendulum type from other room in the house). Metronome isn't too loud, but it's audible enough to be useful. Backlight is also appreciated. I wish it came with a user manual though. had to download that from the Korg web site. But otherwise a great buy for us.

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Small portable You can tune alot of instrument using it it's priced cheep but great quality for a small tuner it's pretty straight foward to use and really acurate function as is should it even has a metronome and headphone jack it has good quality coming out it too