I can't begin to say how much I adore all stuff guitar related & when new products come on the market, I dig into the various review sites & compare to similar products, etc & get those endorphins racing around my veins.

Planet Waves & Line 6 (one & the same company) have come up with some of the best products over the last few years & have listened to what players actually want, whilst also thinking of things that we didn't actually know we needed but now rely upon. Sometimes, it's the simplest of items which makes all the difference, such as a string winder with integrated wire cutter, pure genius! It may have been thought of before, but never executed as brilliantly or their cables which eliminates the need for a soldiering iron to fix a busted wire! All cables should be made this way!!

Anyway, I have been searching for a replacement to my little hand held tuner which required unplugging, plugging, tuning, unplugging & replugging, all whilst balancing the tuner on my knee. Professional strobe tuners normally come in a rack format at extreme cost & a few of the pedal tuners I have seen in use, I haven't been impressed with for various reasons. Planet Waves heard my telepathy & their strobe tuner pedal was born.



It's been out a while in America & I've kept an eye on the pricing on Ebay, but eventually stumbled across "Nepean Music" who seem to be the only place in Australia to stock them & for reasonable prices! Kudos to them!

It's smaller than expected, which is good & in a glossy black/dark brown it looks dead sexy too. The "mode" button on top switches between the Strobe (the lights chase each other around until the string is in tune), Sweep (the lights move left or right until in tune) & User Calibration (allowing the tuner to be altered to compensate for the tuning of... let's say, a harp).

So far it isn't as accurate as my handheld tuner which used an analogue needle, but I'm getting used to it & I'm finding that I'm adjusting to it along the way. It sure beats the hell of getting down & unplugging stuff!

But what next? What else can this Company produce that I need but haven't wanted up to this point? I suppose if I work that out they would have to sue me for stealing their ideas!

Meanwhile, Strobey gets to line up alongside it's fellow pedal cohorts, Ed (the compressor), Dan Echo (Danelectro delay), Greeny (Ibanez Tube Screamer) & a Dunlop Wah (as yet unnamed).