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Got the guitar volume turned up?

Maybe the jack isn't making good contact with the plug?

I have a Korg GA-30, it cost me like 15 bucks and works great to tune my acoustic or electric. the only thing is when i plug my electric into the tuner i dont get a reponse. So i just tune through my amp. Anyone know why that doesn't work?

Hi James, make sure that the volume knob on your guitar is turned all the way up whenever you try to tune with your KORG. If that doesnt work, then im clueless.

If you don't mind spending a little extra money, get an Intellitouch tuner by Onboard Research. Works solely off the vibration of the strings and is completely unaffected by ambient noise. I replaced my Korg tuner with it and have never looked back. Best $50 I've spent on gear, ever.

If you don't mind spending a little extra money, get an Intellitouch tuner by Onboard Research. Works solely off the vibration of the strings and is completely unaffected by ambient noise. I replaced my Korg tuner with it and have never looked back. Best $50 I've spent on gear, ever.Is that the kind that clips to the headstock, like Greybeard mentioned? One of the guys in my intermediate class had one, and he loved it. Anything not affected by ambient noise is good, because there's always that one goober who starts making random plunking sounds with his guitar while others are trying to tune. (Does mentioning that make me sound cranky? :evil: )
BTW, Pilot, good tagline. My instructor will love that. :lol:
I have a Korg GA-30, it cost me like 15 bucks and works great to tune my acoustic or electric. the only thing is when i plug my electric into the tuner i dont get a reponse. So i just tune through my amp. Anyone know why that doesn't work?This may sound kinda stoopid, but check the tuner's batteries. I've had times when one of mine (an Ibanez, I think) looked okay on its display, but wouldn't sense any sound until I changed the batteries.

As kind of a side note: tune at least twice. You tune from low e to high e. Then do it again. You'll see that often by adjusting some strings you create different tensions for others. Maybe that's not it at all but I've found tuning twice is better.

I'll give that a try, though i think i had the volume up. Thanks :)

Is that the kind that clips to the headstock, like Greybeard mentioned?

Yup, it sure is...they have two models, the PT1 and the PT2. I have the PT1, which was $50, and the PT2 runs about $30 with a few less features. You can compare them here to see the differences. :)

As kind of a side note: tune at least twice. You tune from low e to high e. Then do it again. You'll see that often by adjusting some strings you create different tensions for others. Maybe that's not it at all but I've found tuning twice is better.That's exactly what happens. The changing tension of one string as you tune it affects the tension on all the other strings. It's especially noticeable on a floating tremolo bridge, where the string tension is balanced by spring tension, but it occurs also with hardtails (where the guitar neck flexes more or less according to string tension) and is quite noticeable on resonator guitars, where the cone(s) vertical flexion is a function of the string tension.

As another side note, I find it a lot more obvious when a string's a bit out of tune in an open tuning, where all the strings ring together as a chord, than in standard tuning where the all-strings-open chord is a highly dissonant one.

I've got it now. I guess the volume was down. Thanks!