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By: Tadas Drungilas
One day the trial of my used guitar tuner software ended and I
decided to search for another, but a free one. And I downloaded
some freeware tuners which I have found and decided to review
them a bit. So I have made all the work for you, and all you
have to do is just to choose the best one :) Tuner - quite unoriginal name of the program, at first glance
you even can't say what instrument is this tuner for, but the
program arhive is called guitar.zip and the program name is
"Tuner", so you can guess it's a thing which you are looking
for... However, I would say it's not worth downloading because
sound quality is very bad and there is no feature to use
microphone, so you must have an ear for music, but if you can
tune by ear, why should you need tuner? One more thing, all the
program is the main form and about window, so why the hell it
weights 1,4 mb. This simple program even needs installation, but
there is no shorcut to uninstall it. All in all, this is not a
real guitar tuner, maybe a student's try to check his
programming skills. Rating: 4/10 Download link:
http://www.dreadscott.com/download/guitar.zip Guitar Tuner - the design of the program is not so poor as the
previous and sound quality is a lot better, you can choose
between acoustic guitar sounds and electric guitar, but there is
only one, standard E A D G B E tuning and again, no microphone
feature. The same problem is in program size: 3,2 mb - I thought
this software will have more features. In conclusion, Guitar
Tuner is better than the previous application, but not a one I
would use. Rating: 6/10 Download link:
http://www.gch-guitaracademy.co.uk/freeware/GuitarTuner.zip Audio Phonics Guitar Tuner - Audio Phonics made a good job and
created simple, full of features and the most important - free
guitar tuner to meet all your needs. AP Guitar Tuner (only 1mb
size) has got microphone feature, so you can plug-in your guitar
directly to computer microphone or line-in port, or if you have
acoustic, place the plugged in microphone near your guitar, and
start the application. When you hit a string, program shows
percents away from the root note, for example +15% means that
your string is tuned too high. Moreover, there is over 40
tunings not counting a standard one and you even can create your
own. The only minus I have found was not working "Help" button,
but AP Guitar Tuner is too simple that you would need help,
though it's included in installation dir, called APGTHelp.htm.
To sum up, this is a best choice out of three and I will use it
myself. Rating: 10/10 Download link:
http://rhythm.harmony-central.com/~ftp/software/windows/guitar-ba
ss/apguitargsetup.exe About the author:
I am 18 year old guy from Lithuania. Feel free to visit my
website where you can find more guitar-related software reviews:
http://www.guitarrig2.com
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