Just bought my 6th TC Polytune pedal. I have a sickness.

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mmbongo

I have too many basses.
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Polytune #6 is on the way! This is the new Polytune 3 with the built in Bonafide buffer. It's not a mini-pedal but it solves two problems for me. First, I like to tune on the fly which means my tuner stays on all the time. This also means I have to have some sort of splitter pedal or dual output pedal to feed it a constant signal. And it also means I have to have a seperate mute pedal. So the Polytune 3 fixes both of those. I can get rid of my dual output pedal, and get rid of my mute pedal. Nice!

I bought the original Polytune when it first came out. It destroyed every other tuner pedal out there and I fell in love with it.

Bought a Polytune 2 when they came out for the better display.

Bought a Polytune Noir because it's black, and small. I do also have a mini pedalboard :)

Bought a Polytune Pitchblack, because. Its different.

Traded for a Polytune Noir 2 for the better display in a mini pedal.

Bought a Polytune 3 today. Like I said, it will replace 2 pedals (3 if you count the Polytune Noir2 I use now) and I can move that Noir2 to my mini board.

TC should sponsor me!

If they come out with a mini Polytune 3, I'll be first in line for my mini board!
 
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I know this is an old post, hoping to ask a question about these tuners. Between the poly two and the poly three, does the poly three still track for bass even without a dedicated bass mode? I like the poly three for the buffering aspect and I’m looking at a good deal on a mini. Thx!!
 
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cnltb said:
TC tuners come with their buffer. don't they? is that buffer any good?
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3 comes with a buffer which you can turn on of off, earlier models don't.
the buffer adds some highs and hi-mids, to some tastes the hi-mids might sound a bit synthetically, to some just very nice. if you've played a TC BH or BG amp, you're already familiar with this character.
 
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Aloe said:
3 comes with a buffer which you can turn on of off, earlier models don't.
the buffer adds some highs and hi-mids, to some tastes the hi-mids might sound a bit synthetically, to some just very nice. if you've played a TC BH or BG amp, you're already familiar with this character.
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Hoe does the buffer add anything...a buffer should just avoid you losing stuff. No?
If the buffer does stuff beyond being a buffer...not for me.

Thanks fopr the info tho!:)
 
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cnltb said:
Hoe does the buffer add anything...a buffer should just avoid you losing stuff. No?
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not really. two factors here:
1. different buffers have different input impedance and thus can sound very differently
2. some buffers try to compensate for the 'lost' frequencies, amplifying them

I recall using a BonaFide with my archtop guitar and I swear that the sweet hi-mid I got was a TC sound, not the guitar's tone. it's been some years since then and I never heard this tone from this guitar again. in the time that happened though, I didn't mind that tone.
 
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Aloe said:
not really. two factors here:
1. different buffers have different input impedance and thus can sound very differently
2. some buffers try to compensate for the 'lost' frequencies, amplifying them

I recall using a BonaFide with my archtop guitar and I swear that the sweet hi-mid I got was a TC sound, not the guitar's tone. it's been some years since then and I never heard this tone from this guitar again. in the time that happened though, I didn't mind that tone.
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Aahh...I was aware of '1.' and would expect that, hoping for a really high input impedance( I have 3 meg on a preamp i have)and a very low output impedance...(right?)
I was unaware of '2.' and would run from anybuffer doing that. run quick i would( and I have a strict policy of not doing anything remotely resembling sports)...

Thank you for this info!
will write to TC now in the hope to find out for sure. :)
;)
 
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I don't know if a PT will track a low B in guitar mode, but It will do a 4 string bass in non bass mode. I haven't experimented with this heavily. The reason I know is that I got my original PT tuner years and years ago and just plugged it in as started using it. I stumbled upon the setting for bass when I breezed thru the instruction book prior to storing the box and what-not that came with the pedal. - I try to keep all that comes with gear that I buy in case I want to sell it later... I'm not sure if it works better or not in bass mode, but I own a bass and use it for bass, so...

At any rate, PT gets my vote for a great tuner, I own 2 of them.
 
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