Available cheaply second-hand and does what you need a pedal tuner to do

I got this together with my DS-1 for a really low price (what I was willing to spend to get just a DS-1) but didn't really have plans to use it as I already had a Boss tuner on my board - just with no pedal.

When I started messing around with it I realised it was a lot easier to read than the other tuner and that I might as well swap the old one out and have the option of using the mute function. Easy to read from standing position. Reliable. And white looks great next to my Plethora X5

OG Tuner

The best tuner in my opinion, it fulfills its function very well, pretty acurrated

my first pedal tuner

For years I would tune with a boss needle tuner and then go by ear between songs, but my most professional band demanded silent tuning so the signer could attempt to banter with the audience once in a while... so I bought the ubiquitous TU2. It worked fine I guess. Didn't like the buffer in it (which soudned brittle and played hell with fuzzfaces and tonebenders), but since I was using a radial switchbone to fuel my multi-amp rig I just used the tuner out and assigned my 3rd footwitch on the switchbone to mute. I guess I could've hooked the needle tuner to the board but it woulda been impossible to see on a lot of stages. The TU2 is a but hard to see as well. I later added a rack into my rig and ran the tuner out to my korg rack tuner which was very visible although it required an extra 20' cable rune very night. When I was doing sideman work alter I went to a 1 amp rig with no rack for most gigs and dumped the TU2 in favor of a pitch black because it was true bypass and SUPER bright. I never looked back. The boss pedal tuners are dinosaurs. They were at one time a must have, but these days they're pointless. Frankly I don't know why anyone would sue this when Peterson makes the strobostomp, korg has the pitchblacks and TC offers the mighty polytune. All 3 have different pros and cons but one is bound to suit you whereas the TU2 and 3 are a joke comparatively.

From Gear Setup

Does all the things a good tuner should....as long as it stays in the mode I want.....

So this story starts while I was in Zombie Jihad. I bought this thing off the other guitarist for $50.00 when he basically wanted us all to have the same tuner - and me, for over 20 years, had used my own ears to tune my guitar, and it always worked great, never a tuning issue in any of the previous bands....but this one, we relied on BOSS TU-2s for everything.

So I wound up adding it to my board for $50 and it's been well worth it and become a handy tool for intonating my guitars. I usually just keep it in the chromatic mode because not everything I use is in EADGBE - as I use Drop-D, Drop CG, Ricky Wilson (B-52's) tunings, and tune a Bass VI and regular basses and build/setup my own and friend's guitars and do the intonation with this as well.

My only problem is I've found with my big clodhopper feet is I can have a tendency to knock it into the wrong mode when playing live if I get a bit uh.....wild on stage. It's happened a few times, currently I'm not as reliant on it because most bands I use my ears to so I can compensate a few strings for specific songs using my ears and my touch. Something a lot of guitarists don't realize is a guitar is not a perfect instrument and no guitar is 100% perfectly in tune, you have flat and sharp spots all over the fingerboard - unless you buy one of those $500 compensated fretboards - even an Earvana Nut or Buzz Feiten system won't give you 100% accuracy on a guitar as the nature of it's design lends to sharp/flat notes. Also, like all BOSS pedals, it has a Buffer in it so it comes AFTER my custom-built FazzFuzz prototype pedal on my board to prevent dynamics/input issues.

So yeah, handy tool, just remember it does not fix the limitations of guitars and always put a Fuzz BEFORE it or you might have some problems with the behavior of your fuzz devices.

From Gear Setup

A Standard for a Reason

What can I say? This is pretty much the standard tuner for most boards. It just works, and it has either live or muted options so you can cut out your sound so you don't annoy your bandmates, or leave it on to hear as you tune. A must-have on any pedal board.

Fantastic tuner with handy extra features.

Let's face it. Boss tuners are an industry standard and do exactly what they are supposed to do in a solid robust metal box. The mute option is great for quietly tuning guitars or muting the sound when you swap guitars. Another great feature is that you can power up another pedal from its own outlet. This is the second pedal in my signal chain (folowing the volume pedal).

Solid industry standard tuner & BOSS reliability

This is one of those pedals that kind of magically makes its way into your shopping cart and says, "Look, everyone else uses me, I'm relatively inexpensive, why would you buy any other tuner?" ... and it's kind of right. My buying decision was pretty much based on how popular the TU-2 is.

You get the Boss build quality and reliability, no issue there. Virtually indestructible. Nice display, easy to read in the dark. Another thing that's cool about it is if you have other Boss pedals, you can use this one to chain them all together and power them all. Oh and it tunes well, too :)

If I needed a new tuner today, maybe I'd get the TU-3 just because it's newer.

IT'S A TUNER, GET IT

Here's a somewhat long review. Fact is, It's a very accurate tuner housed in metal armour. The output acts like a killswitch, and the bypass makes it a regular tuner with no killings. You can do a few other settings, but I just use the chromatic tuner. Solid piece, and definitely worth your money, especially for newer guitarists. The clip-on's and box tuners are nice, but this one does it's job perfectly.

From Gear Setup

Great for tuning and muting

This pedal paid for itself in just 1 gig. When you step on the pedal to turn it on it serves to must have functions. 1: obviously its a great tuner. 2: it mutes your signal so nobody has to hear you tune. When you tune when everyone can hear you, it's really unprofessional. Also, the muting is a must have for anyone switching instruments. Nobody wants to here that loud buzz when plugging and unplugging, plus it's not good for your amp. Must have pedal.

Boss TU-2 any day!

It doesn't have true bypass, fancy led lights or screen or poly-tuning, but it's so damn accurate, reliable and durable that I will never get rid of it. Boss TU-2 is a life-time tuner.