Bass Guitar Tuner

A bass guitar tuner captures the low frequencies of your bass through the microphone and shows each string's pitch to the cent: flat, in tune or sharp. To read those low notes accurately it analyses the signal over a wider window, so the thick E and even the 5-string B lock in steadily. Allow the microphone, play an open string and turn the peg until the needle centers.

Because it is chromatic there is no mode to pick for the number of strings: a standard 4-string and the extra low string on a 5-string are read exactly the same way — look up the target notes in the table below. Readings settle a little slower down low than they do on guitar; let the string ring longer, pluck nearer the middle of it and work in a quiet room. When the bass sits right on the kick drum the rhythm section locks together and the whole band sounds like one thing.