If you dig into my music drawers for a tuning device, you’ll find everything: tuning forks and pitch pipes, as well as every rack, pedal, and headstock tuner imaginable. But, if you ask me, the best tuner I’ve ever had was my ears.
That doesn’t stop me from looking for the latest and greatest tuning gadgetry, and every now and then, I’ll come across a new tuner that I think is a must-have – whether I need it or not.
So imagine my existential crisis after getting acquainted with the Roadie 3 Automatic Guitar Tuner– not because it’s the most exciting technological tuning tool I’ve come across, but because I’m going to have to try to persuade you why you might need this innovatively handy Automatic Guitar Tuner despite its hefty price tag.
What makes Roadie 3 Automatic Guitar Tuner so remarkable?
The Roadie 3 Automatic Guitar Tuner is their most advanced version yet, with a motor speed of 110 RPM, which is twice as fast as their other Roadie tuners. It has increased tuning precision (27.5 Hz to 668.84 Hz) and can tune a variety of multi-stringed instruments with geared tuning pegs in seconds (save for bass) and can tune in a noisy environment thanks to its next-generation vibration sensing.
The Roadie 3 Automatic Guitar Tuner is roughly the size of a small bar of soap and fits snugly in the palm of your hand thanks to its grippy-material surface; it’s rechargeable via its USB-C interface. Its controls include a power button and a 4-way D-pad to move with your thumb via its full-color hi-resolution LCD display screen to access more than 150 built-in tunings (as well as build and store your own custom and alternate tunings).
Roadie 3 has a metronome and string winder for restringing your guitar. The Roadie 3 Automatic Guitar Tuner comes with a free companion app for downloads and updates, and it gives you more options for creating, managing, and storing your customizations.
What I like best about the Roadie 3 Automatic Guitar Tuner is that you never have to wind your instrument up and down since the Roadie 3 spins its magic in one continuous motion till it stops and replies with a brief vibration (or beep) to indicate a string is precisely in tune.
The tuning is razor-sharp exact, and you won’t need to fine-tune it again. Also, if you have more than one 12-string guitar (guilty! ), I’d grab it just for the speed with which it tunes.
The built-in winder is useful for restringing and quickly tuning to pitch without having to remove the Roadie 3 from your tuning gear, but you must switch from “Winder” to “Tuner” with your thumb to complete the process.
It’s expensive, but I consider it vital as a maintenance tool if you have a growing collection of instruments, or even a collection of guitars in various tunings. Even more crucially, the Roadie 3 saves you time by spinning quickly when you need to be perfectly in tune for a performance.
Because your hearing don’t always cut it, I wholeheartedly recommend having the Roadie 3 on hand as a portable no-nonsense tuner to maintain your instruments pitch-perfect. It’s that good.
Our Verdict For Roadie 3 Automatic Guitar Tuner
Because our hearing aren’t always up to the task, a tuner is a guitar case need, and the Roadie 3 is as excellent as they come, with its straightforward design and high-speed performance.
