Top 5 Online Guitar Tuners
1. Howtotuneaguitar.org
Pro : Perfect user interface. Lots of custom options.Con : Samples don't ring out long enough.
2. Gieson.com
Pro : Straight forward and easy.Con : Samples are very tinny and harsh sounding.
3. Guitarforbeginners.com
Pro : This one has the best audio samples because they ring out and are very clear.Con : User interface is ugly and not so user friendly.
4. Get-Tuned.com
Pro : Tons of tuning options.Con : No really… TONS of tuning options. It's pretty confusing and overwhelming.
5. Proguitartuner.com
Pro : Chromatic tuner that will actually use your microphone to tell you what note your playing.Con : If you're new to tuning a guitar, you have no clue what your strings are supposed to sound like, so this one isn't ...
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Ticktockman Gear Review
What are your main guitars?
Andy Lum (guitar) : I pretty much play one guitar, a Mexican made Telecaster Deluxe. I changed out the neck pickup to a Seymour Duncan SH-4 to make it tad warmer and crunchier. The Fender wide range pickups can get a little brittle. On our full length I switched between my Tele and an 80’s SG Junior. Great guitar, only a bridge P90 - the neck felt like a yardstick though. For some of the solo work I used a Gretch G5120 - really awesome guitar with that big hollow body sound. It was nice to experiment with that guitar in the studio since it’s a bit impractical on stage with our type of music. On our new EP which comes out later this year, I only used my Telecaster. By any geek standard it’s really not a nice guitar at all, but I’m comfortable with it and it’s a part of me now.What amp/cab are you playing through currently? Any custom mods done to it?
Andy : I play out of an Orange AD30 into an Avatar 4x12 cab, no custom mods to any of it. There are two sets (top and bottom) and different Celestion speakers in my cab. The top half focuses on m...Read the full Ticktockman Gear Review article
Talk Normal Concert Review
Friday 2012-02-10 : Let me give you a little prologue: You know how you go to a concert expecting to sort of sift through the opening bands, saying to yourself, “Oh hurry up, and get off the stage, let me see the headliner.” I found myself leaning over at lunch today, to a stranger sitting diagonal to me in a restaurant saying, "Oh I’m not going to see Zola Jesus (the headlining band), I’m going to see Talk Normal. They will scare you, just wait…”
Talk Normal is one of the opening bands for Zola Jesus tomorrow night at Webster Hall. I went to see the band Weekend at Glasslands Gallery this summer, and found myself stepping back… literally. Two women blasted that space, Andrya Ambro and Sarah Register, one with a chunk of her high hat cymbal broken off and the other with her slide guitar. Jaws dropped, my companion Jen and I ―we found ourselves slightly frightened of this duo that was one of the opening bands. I gleefully described them to people later: “It’s like they are witches with those instruments.” This was Talk Normal. My first time, it was intense.
I prepare myself to once again witness the sacrifice of silence tomorrow night.
Sunday 2012-02-19 : There is something to be said about translations―how do sounds and performance translate from a small neighborhood venue to a very large theater. I was delighted to find the vixens of Talk Normal to exhibit a taste of their ultimate potential as a music force. Previously, it’s as if they were talking to each individual in Glasslands, an intimate conversation. Then above the audience with deep red light above them―they showed themselves and tore into the space of a...