Studio TBS-001 Digital Drum Tuner - Clip-On Tuner for Acoustic Drum Kits

This item was a Christmas present to my daughter and she absolutely loves it. She is a hard rocking drummer in a band. He would highly recommend it to any drummer. Fast shipping

Finally my drums sound tuned! I'm still learning its features, but what an improvement compared to before. I went on their website and printed out all the literature related to it. There are so many settings from pro drummers you can follow. It's pretty darn handy how it easily clips onto your rims. Be sure to set your drum on a pillow or something to mute random resonance on the head you are NOT tuning or it can influence the head you ARE tuning and get all kinds of wonky readings. I think this Tune Bot is a necessary tool for anybody who wants their drums to sound in tune with each other.

It is not easy to use but tuning drums is an art and does help with the process

This is a gamechanger. I've always considered myself a good, but not great drum tuner. With this device, I'm able to dial in consistently great tuning very quickly. Highly recommend.

I've been playing drums for a long, long time, but I've always struggled with tuning and tuning quickly. The tune bot made this process almost foolproof. It has a lot of features that I haven't even explored yet, so that's why the ease of use is 4 stars--it's not hard to use, but there is a lot that you can do with it, so you do need to sit down and work through the features and use the websites or the app to figure it all out. You also might need to do a little math to dial in your specific setup.BUT, I'm sure this gets easier over time, and the results have been absolutely worth it. I didn't want to admit I needed to spend this much money to make my kit sound good. But, it doesn't just sound good, it sounds great, and I feel confident about the sound. The only hiccup was with tuning the snare, and that was a little odd. It just seemed to have some difficulty with some of the lug resonances on the snare head. I did take the snare off when I tuned it, but my snare has just always been a little hard to tune. That's part of why I wanted to get this gadget. But I've read that some other folks seemed to have a similar issue on the resonant head of the snare--it almost seemed like, on the higher tensions, that there were times when it just read the tension wrong, like 100 off, but I knew it was obviosly not the low reading that came up. I could dial up, and then suddenly, over a certain tension the reading just dipped by, like, 100 points. That didn't make sense. So, I kind of went with it and used my ear a bit, and I got them in line together. Overall the sound is still superior to any tuning I've done in the past. The sound of the bass drum is also much better after applying the tune bot formulas and getting real readings. I love being able to get nice intervals between my toms.The bot can save settings too, and it can adjust for multiple setups. I haven't even gotten into any of that yet. Probably one could get away with the basic bot instead of the studio. But, it didn't seem like the 20 buck different between the two was enough to get the lesser tool. Others may have a better idea of that, since I've never played with the regular tune bot.Great tool, I wish I hadn't waited to get it.

Good

I love it, but the instructions aren’t very good. Very small print.

Tune-bot Gig worked well for me for toms and bass, but I failed to tune a snare with it because it picked lots of overtones. It would show, for example, when the snare reso hit at the very same spot , 350-50-70-90-350-30-and so on. The closer to 400Hz, the worse it gets. Toms tuning had the same issue, but not much. This Tune-bot Studio has a magic button, called Filter. It filters all the overtones out and shows stable 350-350-350. Also, it has a high range option- up to 450Hz. Tune bot Gig does not go above 400.Tune-bot Studio has the ability to store your tuning data (Tune-bot Gig does not). Tune-bot App has a similar function, but App can save only the App generated recommended tuning frequencies . There is no way to manually enter customized frequencies. Tune-bot studio can actually listen to the drum , record and save your custom tuning .