Tune Your Guitar Using Your Mac With gTuner
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So I recently purchased a classical guitar with the idea of teaching myself to play. I got home and I had my book, the guitar and two plectrums. Now the book included a track for tuning your guitar so I hadn’t bothered buying a proper tuner - big mistake…
It’s really difficult to tune a guitar by ear!
I was thinking I’d have to go and buy a proper tuner when a friend mentioned there were applications for the mac which did exactly that.
I downloaded a few and settled with a piece of software called gTuner. It’s a real class application. By using your mac’s inbuilt microphone it can pick up the tone of each note and visually show you whether it’s flat or sharp. This is hugely useful. Most of applications I tried just played intune notes to you.
It has two modes, automatic and manual. In automatic mode if you play a note or string it will figure out which string or note it is for you and then let you know whether it’s flat or sharp.
Manual mode is only really needed if a string is so far out of tune that it can’t work out which string is being played.
The software costs $7 which is an absolute bargain! I do sometimes find it hard to tune the odd string, because for some reason the needle will just fly all over the place but even if this does happen you can use relative tuning to tune up the last string!
To download a demo or find out more about gTuner head to iwascoding.
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