KLIQ MetroPitch - Metronome Tuner for All Instruments - with Guitar, Bass, Violin, Ukulele, and Chromatic Tuning Modes (MetroPitch, Blue)

Not only am I an absolute beginner acoustic ukulele player, but I know almost nothing about music, having never studied it or played another instrument. Choosing to remedy that, I ordered a Pono tenor ukulele from TheUkuleleSite.com. Having read dozens of ukulele articles, books, and blogs, I knew I’d also need a metronome and digital tuner. So, after a bit of online research, and after reading the Amazon reviews, I ordered the black Kliq Metropitch Digital Tuner Metronome from Amazon.com It arrived about a week before my ukulele arrived, so I first tested it against the Online Ukulele Tuner at Get-Tuned.com. Based on that test, the Kliq Metropitch tuner is dead on.I’ve now had both my ukulele and the Kliq Metropitch for several days. As a beginning ukulele player, I’m learning the basics at my computer via the wealth of free online ukulele lessons. To begin, I place the Metropitch on my mouse pad within easy reach. It lies back on its wire kickstand, facing me and the ukulele. I first use it to tune the ukulele (using the Metropitch’s built-in mic), and then I switch to metronome mode when practicing strumming.The Metropitch has several nice or useful features that may not be evident from the online reviews. For example, all of its edges are nicely rounded, so there are no sharp edges. The Metropitch also has a sturdy, wire kickstand. When not being used, the kickstand folds into a U-shaped groove on the back of the Metropitch. This allows the Metropitch to lie flat, without wobble.But....what about that kickstand? Is it really useful? Honestly, when I first saw it, I thought it would be useless. Not so! I don’t use a ukulele strap, so at least one of my hands is holding the ukelele. And that makes doing smartphone thumb gymnastics on the Metropitch a bit clumsy. This is when the kickstand shines. With the kickstand extended, the Metropitch reclines at a fixed angle that is ideal both for viewing the LCD readout and for one-handed operation of any of the five rubberized buttons [Power, Mode, Function, Tap In, and Mute].With the kickstand extended, the back of the Metropitch also is raised just enough to permit single-handed [right hand] operation of the Jog Dial. Placing your right middle finger on the back of the Metropitch in the upper right corner, and placing your right index finger along the upper right top edge allows you to place your right thumb in the concave circle of the Jog Dial and then securely hold the Metropitch while your thumb easily and quickly turns the Jog Dial in either direction to make a selection, such as increasing or decreasing the tempo in Metronome mode or running through the various pitch selections in the Tone Generator mode.In use, the kickstand also is stable. For example, with the Metropitch on my mouse pad with the kickstand extended, pressing the Power button on the far left does not send the Metropitch flying across the room. The Kliq development team designed the kickstand so that it is offset to the left of center, nicely accommodating one-handed, off-center button presses.From online reviews, it was not clear to me that the digital LCD screen was high resolution. In some of the videos it seemed slightly fuzzy. In person, however, the LCD screen is bright and very easy to read. The numbers, letters, words and graphs are all sharp and perfectly legible—no fuzziness at all.A nice feature of the digital tuner is that not only does the needle-type display turn from red to green when a string is in tune, but the entire face of the LCD display turns green and holds for a few seconds. That’s a nice feature for those who misplace their reading glasses—you don’t have to be able to see that the “G,” “C,” “E,” or “A” center needle is green because the entire screen tells you that.If you don’t input anything or use the metronome, tuner, or tone generator for about 3 minutes, to save the lives of its two AAA batteries, the Metropitch turns itself off. But, it has a memory, and when you turn it back on, it will be in the same mode and have the same settings you were using when you turned it off, or it turned itself off.Although my ukulele didn’t come with a mute button, the Kliq Metropitch has one. Also, using headphones via the 1/8 inch mini-headphone jack serves to mute the metronome and tone generator from other people while you continue to enjoy them.On the left side, next to the headphone input jack, is a small thumbwheel that controls the Metropitch’s sound volume. With the thumbwheel, you can decrease the volume almost to a mute, and you can increase it to as loud as a person with normal hearing should need—even while playing. If you need it louder, using headphones should work.For those with either extremely good eyesight or a magnifying glass, embossed into the back of the Metropitch is the following Tempo Range chart:LARGO----------------40-----60LARGHETTO--------60-----66ADAGIO--------------66-----76ANDANTE-----------76-----108MODERATO--------108----120ALLEGRO-----------120----168PRESTO-------------168-----200PRESTISSIMO-----200-----208For a good hands-on video review that allows you to see the Kliq Metropitch close up and in good lighting, see guitarlancer’s “Kliq Metronome Tuner Review and demonstration” on youtube.After you order the Metropitch, you may receive an email from Kliq Music Gear with an attached pdf file of the User’s Manual. This is a nice touch. Having the User’s Manual available on the computer during its first few uses was quite helpful.Because I’m just beginning, and because my ukulele is acoustic only, I did not use the electric input and output jacks, or the advanced features such as transposition settings. For my needs, the Kliq Metropitch is perfect. I can think of nothing I would recommend changing.

Purchased my 1st Metropitch 8 years ago to check tuning on Saxophones and to utilize the metronome. After 8 years of sustained use it gave up and I purchased my 2nd. I use this one to tune Bass Guitars for late night playing. I tried other tuners before I reupped the Metropitch but they were "jumpy" and hard to use quickly and easily. Not every instrument is a Stradivarius. The use of color, red to green, and the sweep rate of the needle are perfect for electric stringed instruments, and the Metropitch still works extremely well in determining a saxophone's pitch.

Great little tuner. Display is nice and clear and bright but the battery still lasts plenty long. The calibration is also surprisingly precise. My only complaint is that the onboard mic is very directional, so it doesn’t pickup sound very easily unless you are at a specific angle. Still probably my favorite tuner unit of all I’ve owned.

I've been looking for a good tuner forever and I finally found one. It comes with batteries and has 3 different modes: tuning, metronome, and it will also play the note for you. It doesn't come with an attachment to hook to your instrument so you'll have to buy that separately. But this is a very high quality tuner and it's relatively cheap compared to others I've bought that didn't have the same quality.

Does everything it is supposed to do, and well.

Clever useful product with smart design. Wheel to find tempo much easier than a linear display, small size useful to carry and use at a gig or rehearsal

Came with misprinted instructions, making it difficult to work, hit or miss.

This little tuner worked out way better than I had even hoped. So, I've got an in-line tuner on my pedal board. It's one of those tried-and-true industry standards that everyone has. It has served me well for over a decade. But ... it doesn't handle low notes very well. For down tuning, it has always been slow about reading lower notes. And, now I have a 7 string. The old tuner was not designed for bass, it just couldn't keep up. So after a week or so of searching for tuners that could read guitar AND bass (I still wanted an in-line tuner that could sit on my board), I eventually decided on this one. Even though it was strictly battery operated and designed as a handheld, it had all the other important stuff I needed. The in-line setup works great, no signal loss at all - and I really like that it is always on, as long as it continuesto get a signal. I hadn't expected that. It reads the low end notes just as fast and well as the high notes, so I'm very happy about that. The biggest thing that shocked me though was the level of accuracy. The Donner is historically accurate, but the Kliq has an extended ability to read when a note is really close, but not quite there. The Donner reads green, but the Kliq reads just off by a little. That, I wasn't expecting. This tuner is way better than I expected, and I am exceedingly happy I chose it.Oh, and as an added bonus - if I place it in line after the drop pedal, it reads the drop notes. Very cool.