{"id":2424,"date":"2023-02-17T00:27:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T05:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/?page_id=2424"},"modified":"2025-09-06T08:24:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:24:26","slug":"snark-clip-on-versus-tc-electronic-polytune-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/?page_id=2424","title":{"rendered":"Snark clip on\/TC Electronic Polytune 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Snark clip-on vs TC Electronic Polytune 3<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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I have read on the internet, multiple times of setting your intonation with a strobe tuner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I assume that most likely this would be a tuner that would be suited for an electric guitar that you plug into. I personally have 2 TC Electronic Polytune 3’s and 3 or 4 Snark clip on tuners – the red one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I personally haven’t heard of Snark until 2 years ago. They seem to be very popular but like cell phones, there seems to be a new one every year. I have tried a few of them and I personally find the red one to be the better one. It has no problems picking up 6 string electric guitars and 4 string basses but starts getting unreliable if you have a 7 string guitar or a 5 string bass. Barely picks up a reading on the dial when you drop or down tune those low strings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After I put strings on a guitar, I use the Snark to quickly dial in the strings and then stretch them. When I intonate a guitar, I go with the Snark first and if it’s an electric guitar, I will then plug into a Polytune 3. I do keep the Snark on just to compare how the two read from each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can say that the two read the same most of the time, but when they are reading different, it’s usually 2 sticks off. I’ve had a few times where the difference is 4 sticks – which is a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know the Polytune isn’t the best tuner out there but I think it’s good for the price. It was rated pretty high amongst what is available on the market when I purchased them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Snark clip-on vs TC Electronic Polytune 3 I have read on the internet, multiple times of setting your intonation with a strobe tuner. I assume that most likely this would be a tuner that would be suited for an electric guitar that you plug into. I personally have 2 TC Electronic Polytune 3’s and 3 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2424","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}