| | |  | Accessories | | Home » » | | | | | | | Description: | | The BOSS TU-80 brings super-accurate LCD tuning to musicians at a very affordable price, while adding unique high-end features like a built-in metronome and Accu-Pitch�. The pocket-sized TU-80 runs on batteries and can tune almost any instrument, thanks to a chromatic tuning mode and ultra wide tuning range. It even tunes 7-string guitars and 6-string basses--putting the TU-80 in a class all its own. | | | Features: | |
• Supports chromatic tuning, plus 7-string guitars and 6-string basses
• Accu-Pitch function sounds a tone when pitch is correct
• Reference Tone Play function makes it easy to verify tuning by ear
• Memory function stores your favorite tuner setting
• Metronome has 7 rhythms, 10 beats and cool animated LCD display
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Weight:
| 0.5 pounds | | Package Length:
| 6.9 inches | | Package Width:
| 2.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.35 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 5 reviews |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
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 Not so good...Aug 16, 2008
This unit is a servicable tuner, and metronome, but you can do better in both departments for sure.
I find it useless for acoustic guitars if there is any background noise. Even just a TV on with normal volume nearby seems to prevent it from getting a clean read.
The metronome is annoying because of the lack of volume, and the fact that it's plays an electronic tone instead of clicks. Not a good idea.
Metronomes should click..
click click click click....
 No volume controllerJul 27, 2007
This would be a great product if there was some way to increase the volume. It's very hard to hear which makes it not very useful for the purpose intended. Next time I will do more research before I purchase.
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Average tuner, useless metronomeMar 16, 2007
The tuning capability is only mediocre; the "Accu-Pitch" function might better be sold as "Approxi-Pitch." When I check my 2 TU-80 tuners against a high-end one, I find that the Accu-Pitch beep can sound as much as 5 cents out of tune, which is bad enough so that I have to retune.
As far as the metronome goes, as other reviewers have noted, it's just not loud enough to be anything but a toy. Too bad, too - there was an opportunity to send the metronome signal out of the output jack, so that it could have driven an earphone, or could have been fed into a mixer, which was a choice that Boss itself made in its much-superior DB-12 metronome, but absent that feature, this metronome can't be used as an aid for practicing any real-world instrument.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Good as a tuner, but not as a metronomeJun 24, 2006
I like the accuracy of the tuner, and it "hears" my acoustic guitar quite well if I put it on the music stand so that it's angled toward me. As a metronome, however, it leaves much to be desired: (1) the volume is not adjustable and I consider it not loud enough, (2) it makes a cheesy electronic chirp instead of a mechanical-sounding knock as some of the electronic metronomes can, and (3) the rhythm is "dotted," i.e., it puts a milder electronic chirp in between the "main chirps" and there's no way to turn it off (but this can be somewhat remedied by setting it to 1-4 time).
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Doesn't work with background noise.Jun 09, 2006
Works great in a quiet room. When I used it at a performance at a pub the ambient noise renders the tuner useless. Even with a plug-in clip-on mic on the instrument it did not register the note reliably. When this happened I would borrow a Yamaha TD-10 from my guitarist which worked great w/o a plug-in mic. I've since sold the TD-10 and bought a new Yamaha TD-10, which is sadly discontinued.
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