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Show HN: Remotely use my guitar tuner
- zoklet-enjoyer 7mo agoThis reminds me of the Internet of my childhood. People just having fun and experimenting with a new medium. Thank you for sharing.
- TrackerFF 7mo agoThomann had (still have?) this thing called "stompenberg", where they put up some mechanical switching system so that you could play audio files through the actual pedals in the system, and turn on the knobs / parameters. In the recent years some smaller businesses have started to offer outboard gear in this way. You upload some stem, and can process it through their hardware remotely, and get back the results.
- hunter2_ 7mo agoThis is cool except that the only ad for this I've come across so far was for analog summing. Remote or not, that concept (going out of one's way to theoretically have something more pleasing than digital summing) always smelled like a scam to me. Like ok, maybe a sample rate a hair above what Shannon/Nyquist demand can't do digital summing with all the right IM distortion of the missing supersonic content or whatever, but 192kHz ought to solve for that! So is it something else to be gained via analog summing?
- Nition 7mo agoOh the options get way better than that. Check these guys out: https://accessanalog.com https://accessanalog.com They have 60+ rack units with little robot grabbers physically controlling the knobs. Re analogue summing, yeah it does near nothing in reality. What you're missing though is that what people actually want with analogue summing isn't really technically better sound but technically worse sound. Analogue gear might have a little bit of harmonic distortion, a little bit of crosstalk between channels, certain transformer characteristics etc that theoretically make it sound more glued together or warm etc etc. But ultimately summing is summing and those differences vs. digital are very small (and won't always contribute positively either).
- peepee1982 7mo agoI'm not interested in analog summing myself, but I think you're missing the point. It's not about "better" summing. You want more euphonic summing. Analog audio processing often comes with artefacts that give the signal sent through it a more pleasing character, for whatever reason (phase shift, saturation, channel differences between left and right, transient modulation, slew rate, power sag, etc.). I personally think analog summing is a waste of time, because the differences are too subtle to be worth the investment in setting it up. But that's just my opinion. Some people are really into it (Eric Valentine comes to mind). Just wanted to point out that in the context of audio equipment (both professional and audiophile) "sounds better" often means "sounds worse but more engaging". Just like a polaroid picture often evokes more emotions than a photo taken with a modern digital camera and a great lens.
- smith-kyle 7mo agoNo way! My friend and I were half joking about building that as a sequel to realtuner. If nothing else, it'd be a great excuse to buy more gear.
- sagacity 7mo agoDo you really need an excuse to buy more gear? meme-be-honest.jpg
- cluckindan 7mo agoYou keep your tuner in a terrarium? ”This appliance must be earthed”?
- smith-kyle 7mo agoWow deep cut <3
- copperx 7mo agoThis is awesome, and, at the same time, hilarious. The BOSS tuner is the laggiest thing ever, and we're adding network latency to it! Maybe we all can pitch in for a Turbo Tuner. Or some vintage mechanical strobe tuner for hipster points!
- smith-kyle 7mo agoLet's scale horizontally!
- behehebd 7mo agoAs the actress said to the bishop
- anemoknee 7mo agothis is hilarious. and surprisingly responsive! i used this to tune an acoustic bass guitar i have
- redbluething 7mo agoI am not sure why this exists, but I am glad it does.
- hshdhdhj4444 7mo agoThe website explains why this exists. > Real guitarists use real tuners.
- koinedad 7mo agoPretty wild, nice job
- Johnny_Bonk 7mo agoUnbelievable, thank you and can you add open g or drop d tuning pweez?
- post-it 7mo agoCan't it already do those since it's chromatic?
- LouisLazaris 7mo agoI guess he would have to add a way to interact with the tuner's UI to switch to a different setting other than standard tuning.
- sunnybeetroot 7mo agoIt’s a chromatic tuner, there is no other setting
- LouisLazaris 7mo agoAh yes, my bad!
- austinjp 7mo ago\m/
- Forgeties79 7mo agoI just used it to check my whistle tones. How fun!
- pastorhudson 7mo agoThis is hilarious and fun. Thanks for making it.
- Havoc 7mo agoThat’s some serious out of the box thinking
- hunter2_ 7mo agoOn my Pixel 10 using Chrome, it says "Mic needed - refresh to allow" but refreshing doesn't change anything. It's possible that I did something years ago to prevent whatever permission popup might normally be offered?
- nosioptar 7mo agoGot the same, Firefox on lineageos.
- smith-kyle 7mo agoYour browser might have microphone access set to "Deny" by default rather than "Ask". This happened to my friend. He changed the setting and it worked, but maybe there's a way to give a more helpful error in this scenario. Let me see
- closetkantian 7mo agoI love it
- rhaps0dy 7mo agoThank you, this was fun, I sang notes for a bit :)
- eranation 7mo agoLinking it here since it's easy to miss. It seems he is using the popularity of this to help a friend recovering from brain surgery, I think this makes this project even more awesome in my book. https://smith-kyle.github.io/ https://smith-kyle.github.io/
- 999900000999 7mo agoDonated. I always thought Playboy manbaby was a solo act nerdcore rapper. But this is cool.
- eranation 7mo agoThanks! Donated as well. When I grow up I want to have friends that will do the same to me...
- stavros 7mo agoWhen you grow up you should want universal healthcare...
- 999900000999 7mo agoAmericans don’t want that. We want to live in hell where any serious illness will completely ruin you.
- behnamoh 7mo agoGuitar tuner as a service was not on my 2026 bingo card but here we are. Creative project!
- sponno 7mo agosooo cool!
- locusofself 7mo agoI love it. But in all seriousness, if you are looking for a good guitar tuner, a lot of the ones on the market are actually not very good. I highly recommend TC Electronic for clip-on tuner, or Sonic Research or Peterson for pedal tuners. source: playing guitar for 32 years
- eternauta3k 7mo agoCould you go into more detail on why they are bad?
- nosioptar 7mo agoIn my experience, electronic tuners suck at accurately detecting the note played.They often pick up harmonics as the note. The low b on my 5 string bass is often identified as an f by electric tuners. They also just aren't very accurate when they do detect the right note. I've never used a tuner where my cello is actually in tune when it says it is, always requires tweaking.
- locusofself 7mo agoInnacarute, jumpy, slow response. The most popular tuner of all time is the BOSS pedal, and the LED lights are too far part from eachother, it's simply not granular enough to really get in tune to my ears. Stroboscopic tuners are the way to go
- Humphrey 7mo agoI love my TC Electronic clip on tuner!
- locusofself 7mo agoFor $49 it's very, very good
- bob1029 7mo agoThe oboe playing a concert A is a pretty good one too.
- dbdr 7mo agoOn Firefox/Linux, after allowing mic access, I get a "Failed to access microphone" above the button, and in the javascript console: [ws] Microphone error: DOMException: AudioContext.createMediaStreamSource: Connecting AudioNodes from AudioContexts with different sample-rate is currently not supported.
- cammikebrown 7mo agoSounds like normal Linux behavior to me
- yukapero 7mo agoTried it, dope idea. No Pi or tuner req'd really. Why we all love these goofy hacks so bad
- CodinM 7mo agoTuned my guitar and donated 5$!
- schinken23 7mo agoDo you guys know this? https://www.thomann.co.uk/stompenberg_devices.html https://www.thomann.co.uk/stompenberg_devices.html You can use real pedals over the internet there's a german blog post about this: https://www.amazona.de/thomann-stompenberg-fx/ https://www.amazona.de/thomann-stompenberg-fx/
- Benjamin_Dobell 7mo agoThanks. Just tuned my daughter's guitar. Obviously a bit more work. But it'd be pretty neat to have live reactions. "So close!", "Nearly there", "You can do it!", "Perfect" etc.
- behehebd 7mo agoThis guy tunes!
- pcdoodle 7mo ago[dead]
- sealthedeal 7mo agolove this, just tuned up a guitar.
- jsd1982 7mo agoVery cool idea, but unfortunately the browser doesn't allow users to select which channel of their audio interface to use as input. So unless you're plugging your guitar into input 1 this doesn't work out. I have my microphone in input 1 and my guitar in input 2.
- wr639 7mo agoI have a tuner that attaches to the head of my guitar. I am not sure when I would need something like this.
- coldcity_again 7mo agoThis is fantastic. I have a TUF-3 but to use one to tune an acoustic was a real trip :)
- kaan_keskin 7mo agoLove this. Very creative. I just tuned my guitar and it worked fine
- gus_massa 7mo agoIt looks like during the night all the light are off and in the webpage you only can see a led. But if you press "Star Tuning" most of the device illuminates and it's possible to use it. (An alternative is to wait 12 hours and see all the device.)
- smith-kyle 6mo agoYou're right! Terrarium LED incoming..
- martinvalchev 6mo agoThe latency question is the interesting one here. Guitar tuning needs to be accurate to within a cent or two, and network jitter can easily throw that off. Curious how you handle it - are you compensating for round-trip delay on the server side, or is the assumption that the user is close enough to the server that it doesn't matter in practice?