What are the different types of strobe tuners?
There are three types of strobe tuners: The rotating disk strobe tuner, the Turbo tuner which uses an LED array in place of the rotating disk, and “virtual” tuners. There are also a lot of tuners with LEDs that claim to have a strobe mode. These in fact are not strobe tuners, but a simulation. The accuracy of these tuners when used in strobe mode is no better than when in the standard mode because it uses the same technique as a needle tuner to measure the frequency of the note. It then uses this to set the speed of the pattern in the LEDs instead of driving a needle. The TurboTuner is all solid state so there are no moving parts to wear out or slow down the action. The input signal, be it from an electric guitar or the built in microphone, is amplified and used to directly drive the LED strobe display. A precision electronic timing system generates electronic strobe signals to the LEDs to enable them in a sequential manner. The Turbo Tuner gives you the instant response that can only
