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Pitchblack, the High-Tech Chromatic Pedal Tuner from Korg

An elegant and pro-grade floor solution in tuning

By Florin Tibu, Audio Editor

4th of April 2008, 09:33 GMT

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For all those electric instruments players out there, here goes a nifty piece of technology from Korg: the very cool and professional pedal tuner codenamed Pitchblack. If you've worked before with serious Korg tuners, then you know true meaning of the word "quality"; and Pitchblack is nothing different as it embeds the award-winning technology but has everything especially engineered for the most unwelcoming and hostile usage conditions.

The Korg Pitchblack is one high-tech solution allowing you to instantly check the tuning of your electric stringed instrument while in the studio and especially while on stage: everything about this nifty pedal has been designed for ruggedness and convenience, while leaving your guitar's sound completely unscathed. The Korg Pitchblack comes with a very durable die cast aluminium case, letting you stomp on it without fear it would crash; and even more, all the LED indicators are super-bright and most visible on any stage, and in any lighting conditions, from any angle.

The true bypass circuitry ensures that your precious tone will not be affected whether the Korg Pitchblack is on or off, embedded in a pedal chain, and this is a very strong mark in the world of tuners. This one comes with a neat and very broad detection range, from E0 (20.60 Hz) up to C8 (4186 Hz), suitable for a huge selection of instruments and tunings. This tuner can also be calibrated from 436 to 445 Hz, while it can operate with both battery or DC power and has a 9V outlet for cascade-powering other pedals in the chain.

One of the coolest things about the Korg Pitchblack is its four-mode operation: you can freely choose between meter, full strobe, half strobe or the mirror mode. The meter mode uses LED indicators which simulate the classic needle-operation, lighting up in the left or right side of the center position as your instrument is flat or sharp, respectively. The full strobe has the green LEDs streaming from left to right in vice-versa according to the flat or sharp tuning, while the dual yellow indicator arrow LEDs are lit when your tuning is right; then the streaming stops.

The half strobe mode involves that you tune your instrument so that the LEDs stop streaming and the center green one is lit, as the yellow indicator are. Finally, the mirror mode has green meter LEDs apart on either side of the center guide, according to how much you are out of tune; tune in correctly and they will meet in the center and both yellow indicators are lit.

And if this was not enough, the note with either flat or sharp symbols is displayed on a separate display in bright red color for the ultimate visibility on dark stages. The Korg Pitchblack is available for around $150 MSRP and comes with extended 3-year warranty.

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