Korg Pitchblack Chromatic Pedal Tuner

In [this Rig Rundown feature for *Premier Guitar* magazine](https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/27653-rig-rundown-u2s-the-edge), longtime U2 guitar tech Dallas Schoo shows off Edge's 2018 touring rig, which includes a Korg Pitchblack tuner.

This photo of Gary Clark Jr's pedalboard shows he uses the Korg Pitchblack Chromatic Pedal Tuner (this photo is his pedalboard circa 2014).

Guitar icon Steve Vai had this to say about the Korg Pitchblack Poly pedal tuner: "The Pitchblack Poly tuner by Korg is a great example of how Korg is always looking around the corner to create gear that is practical, user friendly, and almost magic. I had to scratch my head and think, ‘How did they do this?’ Tuning on the fly has never been easier."

This photo of Nick Valensi's pedalboard shows he uses the Korg Pitchblack Chromatic Pedal Tuner (upper-right corner).

In an interview from Jan 2011, Paul Gilbert is asked: > "If you had to give up all your pedals but three, what would they be?" In his reply he praises the Korg Pitchblack pedal tuner: > PG: That is a painful question. I cannot give up my pedals. I suppose my most stomped-on pedals at the moment are a HomeBrew Electronics CPR Compressor, a Fulltone Soul Bender, and a Korg Pitchblack tuner. > The CPR makes the guitar more sensitive, so I can play lightly and still have the notes come out loud, even with a clean sound. The Soul Bender has the most unique character of any distortion box I've tried. And the Korg tuner is the easiest to read and most accurate tuner I've used. Original interview on MusicRadar [here](http://www.musicradar.com/guitartechniques/what-strings-do-you-use-paul-gilbert-360391).

At 10:50 in this Rig Rundown for Troy Van Leeuwen of [The Wongergirls](https://equipboard.com/band/the-wondergirls), [Queens of the Stone Age](https://equipboard.com/band/queens-of-the-stone-age), [Enemy](https://equipboard.com/band/enemy), [Failure](https://equipboard.com/band/failure), [A Perfect Circle](https://equipboard.com/band/a-perfect-circle), [Sweathead](https://equipboard.com/band/sweethead), and [The Desert Sessions](https://equipboard.com/band/the-desert-sessions), his gear is displayed, showing a Korg Pitchblack Chromatic Pedal Tuner.

St. Vincent uses a Korg Pitchblack Chromatic Pedal Tuner in her two part [custom built](http://nicerackcanada.com/st-vincent-2014-annie-clark/) pedalboard.

A Korg Pitchblack Chromatic pedal tuner is one of *many* pedals Ed uses per [this article](http://acltv.com/2012/10/10/gear-blog-radiohead/) from *Austin City Limits*.

You can see in Rob's rig video that he uses the Korg Pitchblack Chromatic Tuner pedal.

Alex Trimble uses the Korg Pitchblack Chromatic Pedal Tuner in his pedalboard for Two Door Cinema Club (bottom row, right).

In this photo uploaded to Lucas' Instagram story, a Korg Pitchblack can be seen on his board.

The Korg Pitchblack Pedal Tuner can be seen in Sam Halliday's pedal board.

Facebook photo of Julien Baker's live pedalboard.

I took this photo at a concert in August of 2015. On the far edge of the bottom row of pedals you can just make out his tuner, the Korg Pitchfork. A very commonly used pedal among professionals.

In this photo, the reference laboratory show Nile's pedal setup

Seen here in the provided link

James uses a Korg Pitchblack pedal tuner in his live rig as seen at 18.37 in this video. You can't see the pedal but you can see the flashing lights unique to this pedal. (To the right of the Mastermind).

You can see her using the Korg Pitchblack Tuner.

This photo of Cook's pedalboard on-stage has a Korg tuner on the far left side.

jomal linao of kamikazee

this alt press article from 2015 list this pedal as a curent part of lynn's gear.

Igor's pedalboard at National Sawdust in Brooklyn NY on 4/4/2016

According to [this](http://www.guitargeek.com/jim-adkins-jimmy-eat-world-2012-guitar-rig-and-gear-setup-diagram/) detailed gear diagram of Jim Adkins' 2012 Jimmy Eat World stage setup, he uses a Korg Chromatic tuner.

According to an article on Guitarthai, in addition to his own signature ESP Eclipse lineup, Sugizo also used an ESP Horizon, Fender Jaguars, Fender Stratocasters, Fender Telecasters, Gibson ES175, a Gibson Les Paul Custom, a Richenbacker 330, and electric violins made by Kranz. He also used Diezel VH4 head, a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier head, a Mesa Boogie 4x12 cabinet, a TC Electronic TC 2290 Rackmount Dynamic Digital Delay, Decimator ProRack G power conditioner, a script Phase 90, a Boss CE-2 Chorus pedal, a Boss OD-1 pedal, a Providence Final Booster, a Digitech Whammy II, an Eventide Pitchfactor, an Eventide TimeFactor, an Eventide ModFactor, a TC Electronic G System, a Boss PS-5 Super Shifter, a Blackstar HT-DIST Distortion pedal, and a Providence Stampede Overdrive. In addition, he also uses a Korg Pitchblack tuner pedal, an ISP Decimator noise gate, Fender Super-Sonic 4x12 cabinets, a TC Electronic Nova Modulator and a Boss PW-10 Wah pedal.

According to his Instagram photo, Carlson uses the Korg Pitchblack Tuner as his main tuning pedal.

You can see the Pitchblack Chromatic tuner in this photo of Alain Johannes's pedalboard

As seen on the photo

On Mattson's [rig rundown](https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/28955-rig-rundown-the-tallest-man-on-earth), Korg Pitchblack can be seen in the lower right corner of pedalboard.

Minute 1:15: we can see the Korg Pitchblack Chromatic Pedal Tuner in Rena's Pedalboard.

Visible in this Instagram post by Davids.

The Pitchblack can be seen on Takeshi's pedalboard.

According to Guitar Geek's rig diagram, Wade uses the Korg Pitchblack Chromatic Tuner.

Matt's tuner is a Korg Pitchblack Chromatic according to this image from his official Instagram account.

We see some of Bernhoft's pedal chain for looping...

Vertex, the company that [custom built](https://www.vertexeffects.com/blog/vertex_kirk_fletcher_pedalboard) Kirk's board outlines the signal path of his board where a Korg Pitchblack Chromatic Pedal Tuner can be seen.

Ian Robertson of Chromaticism blog took a picture of Thomas Gabriel Fischer's pedalboard during Triptykon's 2016 Zürich gig. The pedalboard contained a Ibanez TS-Mini, a Boss OC-3 Super Octave Pedal, an Ibanez WD7JR Weeping Demon Junior wah, and a Korg PitchBlack Chromatic tuner. Since the Korg PitchBlack chromatic tuner pedal was released in 2008 it obvisouly wasn't a part of his Hellhammer and Celtic Frost era pedalboard.

In this photo uploaded to Lucas' Instagram story, a Korg Pitchblack Tuner can be seen on his board.

we can see a korg pitchblack tuner at Tommy pedalboards

Motifour's board, taken from a show.

At 3:05 in this Rig Rundown for G.E. Smith of [Moonalice](https://equipboard.com/band/moonalice), [Saturday Night Live Band](https://equipboard.com/band/saturday-night-live-band), [Hot Tuna](https://equipboard.com/band/hot-tuna), and [Hall& Oates](https://equipboard.com/band/hall-oates), displayed is a Korg Pitchblack Chromatic Pedal Tuner.

at 6:25 you can se the pedal

As seen in this photo of his pedalboard : https://i.imgur.com/T4d4kNp.jpg

This video of Digital Tour Bus', "Gear Masters Ep. 74" features touring bassist Acey Slade and his musical equipment. At 9:15 of this video, Acey begins showing the gear he uses when he tours with Dope. He shows us his Darkglass Electronics Vintage Deluxe pedal, his Korg Pitchblack Tuner, a Line 6 Relay G30 Wireless Receiver RXS06, and his Digitech Whammy DT. He states that this latest Dope tour, the band is going all Direct In.

Em 7:57 Benke usa um korg Pitchblack. (At 7:57 Benke uses a korg Pitchblack).

According to Premier Guitar's 2017 Rig Rundown with Young the Giant, Eric's pedalboard included a Korg Pitchblack Tuner.

"Henriksen plugs his SGs into a Shure UR4D+ wireless unit before going into an ISO/Buffer box from L.A. Sound Design. His compact, but powerful, board contains a Korg Pitchblack tuner, MXR ZW90 Zakk Wylde Phaser, MXR ZW38 Black Label Chorus, Boss FV-500L volume pedal, Strymon El Capistan dTape Echo, Analogman King of Tone, Boss FA-1 (which is controlled by a custom footswitch), and a EBS Dynaverb. A Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 Plus powers the entire board."

A Korg Pitchblack chromatic tuner pedal can be seen in this picture of James Petralli's pedalboard.

A Korg Pitchblack Tuner can be seen on Jonathan's board at 2:28 on this video.

Guitar —> Xotic EP Booster (always ON, DOD knob) —> Ibanez WH-10 —> Pigtronix Envelope Phaser (with Xotic Voltage Doubler) —> Korg Pitchblack —> Xotic SP Compressor (Boss knobs) —> Truetone VS-XO Dual Overdrive (sends to Fulltone Octafuzz—> Jimi Hendrix System Octave Fuzz, and returns) —> MXR Six Band Equalizer (mod TBP) —> Hartman Analog Flanger —> TC Electronic Nova Repeater —> AMP

Shout out to @Fender @Fishmanmusic @Line6 @DigiTech & @shure for the new set up ????????????????Now I'm ready to leave for tour tomorrow!

"...The item can be seen 8:52 into this video..."

A Korg Pitchblack can be seen at the beginning of Hisako's pedal chain.

In this picture (from RJM official website http://www.rjmmusic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=803 ), of Toko's pedalboard bild as well as St. Vincent by Nice Race, we can spot a Korg Pitchblack Chromatic Pedal Tuner.

The Korg tuner is seen here on Black Marble's pedalboard.

Concert Photo from the Worcester Palladium.

In this photo, Korg Pitchblack is visible in Skjelset's pedalboard.

we can see in the minute 3.20 the pony korg tuner

According to Premier Guitar, Vaden uses this pedal as his tuner.

in this picture posted by Jason of his pedal board, the korg tuner can be seen.

[This interview](https://jhubner73.com/2014/12/08/no-secrets-brad-laner-talks-home-everywhere-medicine-and-film-scores/) was accompanied by the image above, which showed Laner's pedalboard as of 2014. It included a Pitchblack tuner.

In an image accompanying [this interview with Reverb.com](https://reverb.com/news/drab-majesty-talks-chorus-pedals-casio-synths-and-the-selfless-act-of-songwriting), Andrew Clinco's pedalboard includes a Pitchblack tuner.

Ryan also uses a Korg Pitchblack Chromatic Tuner along with his PolyTune Noir. It can be seen at the top of his board in a picture on this blog.

At 10:03 of this performance you have a clear shot of Eddie's pedalboard, featuring the Korg Pitchblack

At 2:50 he shows it.

Chuck needs to be in tune, so he use the Korg Pitchblack Tuner

The miniature tuner is shown as the first pedal in line of Becky's pedalboard.

The item can be seen 0:08 into this video.

afinador korg pitchblack chromatic en bj's

Josh has a korg pitchblack on his pedal board

" The best pedal tuner I have ever used, perfect for standard tuning, super low tunings, and built like a tank."

The pedal furthest on the right is a Korg Pitchblack tuner.

Jacob Moon's Photos

You can see a Korg Pitchblack Tuner on this picture of Chiaki Sato's pedalboard.

"Es un pedal clásico. Puedo afinar tranquilo con la guitarra apagada para no molestar a la gente del público"

"Chris uses a fairly simple live set up. Using the following: Korg Pitch Black Tuner, Trex Fuel Tank, Boss Rv-5, Trex Tonebug Reverb, Line 6 DL4, MXR ten band EQ. All of this is attched to a Trex pedal board/tone trunk."

His main tuner in 2014

http://www.pedal-of-the-day.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Jesse_Miller_Lotus_Pedal_Board.jpg

In Pedals Fusion's 2015 interview with Atsuko Chiba, Karim showed off his pedalboard, which included a Korg Pitchblack Tuner.

The Korg Pitchblack Chromatic Pedal Tuner is seen as part of Chris' set up in this Instagram picture he posts.

Under his bass cables you can see Daniel's Korg Pitchblack Chromatic Pedal Tuner.

Pedal can be seen at 15:10

The item can be seen in various photos

As seen in Magnus' Facebook artist page photo.

David uses a Korg Pitch-black Chromatic tuner, according to [Paste Magazine](http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2012/05/14-guitarists-talk-about-their-pedal-boards.html?a=1).

seen in his equipboard

"My board is still pretty simple, mind you: Fulltone OCD, Keeley 4 Knob Compressor, Boss DD-20 Delay, Diamond Tremolo, and a Korg Pitchblack tuner, powered by the Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 Plus."

Afinador, primer pedal de la cadena

Photo taken at the Astoria in Vancouver, BC, Canada. June 12 2018

"I re-arrange my board before each tour, depending on what set we’re playing... Powered by a Decibel Eleven Hot Rod Deluxe and a few One Spots. I use each of these pedals through out our set, but the main ones in use are definitely my delays, reverbs, and the Whammy."

On the Duesenberg Guitar [website](http://blog.duesenberg.de/?p=480) (blog) shows Revolverhead's lead man, Johannes Strate's pedal set up at the 2014 Deichbrand Festival that includes two Korg Pitchblack Chromatic Pedal Tuners.

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