Best place to mount a Peterson Strobo Clip HD on a steel guitar.

[Tom Rhodes]

Hello everyone:
Wanted to get some opinions on where a good place to "mount" a Peterson Strobo Clip tuner. Have been utilizing the left leg at the top. Not really sure it's reading good from that position, but wanted to get some other opinions on it.
Thanks!
Tom Rhodes
Jackson, MO

[Paul Tobey]

Hello Tom, I use this tuner but didn't get good results clipping it to a leg. I get good results clipping to the end plates or body. On my Emmons I clip it to the the key heads on the opposite side from the strings I'm tuning. Just experiment to what is best on your guitar.
This is a great tuner for the money.

[Tom Rhodes]

Thanks for the reply Paul. I moved it from the left leg to the changer mount making sure that it does not interfere with the B string. It seems to work a whole lot better there. Believe I'll leave it there and see wha happens. Thanks again for the reply!

Tom

[Stew Crookes]

I've been clamping it to the right leg, pressed up tight against the end plate on my Excel and have found it works great at home BUT tuning mid-song on a loud stage, it only wants to tune the bass and everything else but the steel

In preparation for the next gig, I've just figured a good way to clamp it to the end plate where it will be much closer to the changer - hopefully this will help!

[Jack Hanson]

I mount my Strobo Clip to the back apron on the left side. Works great.

[Ian Worley]

...tuning mid-song on a loud stage, it only wants to tune the bass and everything else but the steel...

This was going to be my comment too. These are great little units and excellent to have as a backup on gigs, but pretty useless on a loud stage. An inline tuner is a much more sensible choice for live performance. I use mine for bass on gigs, but only at home or on my workbench for steel. Clipping it to the back apron just behind the tuners works well for me.

[Stew Crookes]

...tuning mid-song on a loud stage, it only wants to tune the bass and everything else but the steel...

This was going to be my comment too. These are great little units and excellent to have as a backup on gigs, but pretty useless on a loud stage. An inline tuner is a much more sensible choice for live performance. I use mine for bass on gigs, but only at home or on my workbench for steel. Clipping it to the back apron just behind the tuners works well for me.

A trick I had previously found when I had it on the leg is to slightly tip the guitar forward while tuning (how easy this is probably depends a lot on the guitar, but it's not difficult on my Excel) so the leg with the tuner isn't touching the stage and this helped quite a bit.

I've gotten in the habit of also bringing my Stobostomp for important gigs but would love to be able to get down to just the Stoboclip, as they agree with each other 100% when I have them both active so clearly the accuracy of the clip is just as good and it's muuuuch lighter.

On the apron of my particular guitar, I would find that there would always be one string that it just didn't want to find (it would read it as a 5th away), and which string it was varied depending where precisely on the apron I clipped it! Must be something to do with the way the harmonics ring in the aluminum body