Korg - TM60-BK Combo Tuner Metronome - Black

Excellent. Good quality & lots of useful features. Works well & very accurate tuner.

I received the TM60 this morning and I am delighted. I am new to learning an instrument and chose a well known brand with good reviews. It is made of plastic but does not feel cheap; I feel those who are criticising the build are being a tad unfair. I checked it against my D'Addario guitar micro tuner and I am pleased to say both tuners concur with the notes I am playing. I don't mind the light on the Tap Tempo button flashing as I don't tend to look at the metronome when I am playing; I just try and follow the sound of the beat, which is more than enough when I am trying to read music and move my fingers accordingly. This is small enough to fit in your pocket. Recommended, certainly for a beginner!

This works so well it even has a metronome function!! It also has a mic so you can tune acoustics too

Great little tuner and metronome, nice and light and easy to use. Unfortunately the beat clicks and pitch sounds are too quiet at maximum - Bluetooth capability for use with portable speakers would have been the icing on the cake.

As a flautist, I've been a devotee of Korg tuners/metronomes for years. I bought a DTM-12 years ago - the size of a brick and relatively expensive at the time, i.e., back in the '80s, as compared with my new on. It was originally demonstrated to me by my flute teacher and I went straight out to get one. I bought the TM60-BK recently because with my old one, the on/off switch failed and the only way of turning it on and off was to take the batteries out. The new one is OK, but I wish, like the old one, I could turn up the volume more on the ticks of the metronome - even at full volume it's not very loud, unlike the older model. The tuner works well, and I like the handy size.

It works every time and is not reliant on my phone

This is my third one - I use two at any one time but they do have a habit of dropping off the music stand which is fine if they land on the carpet but not otherwise. Good piece of kit and invaluable for checking timing and tuning.

My first electronic tuner. Very easy to follow instructions. Volume of tone is ok but not overly loud (it's a small unit) but easy to connect to earphones or external speaker. Very satisfied with this purchase.

Works well

This is a great combination device for the money. Tuner: You can set middle A anywhere you want from 410 to 480 Hz in single steps and it keeps the setting when powered off. I make and play folk instruments so the default 440 is fine for me, but if you play in an orchestra you'll appreciate being able to set middle A to 442 or almost anything else. Tuning is of course standard equal temperament. It responds well to both stringed and wind instruments and I had no trouble getting it to respond correctly to any acoustic instrument, including a cow bell. Resolution is 1 cent which is great at this price range. I make Irish whistles so it's more than I need (a whistle is mostly played by ear at this resolution). I was previously making my instruments with a tuner app but the TM-60 has helped explain some # anomalies I've been having with the bell note. I think the reason is that the tuner handles harmonics much better than phone apps. If you play a major chord on a guitar it will even identify the chord correctly, so really amazing. The one thing I don't like about the tuner is that it does not indicate the octave on the screen, but on the other hand if I can't get the octave right I'm doing something very wrong. In tone generator mode it does indicate the octave (A4, C5 etc) so it does have the display capability for that feature. The tone generator is a square wave, which I don't like much for my application but it keeps the price down, and I don't really need that feature very much. It also has sound back capabilities for electric instruments but I don't need and haven't used that feature. Sound back tone generates the note put into the jack, and does work. It kind of turns the device into an automatic tone generator, but no it does not indicate the octave when you use it that way either (I tried). The tuner always turns on with the tone generator and sound back features turned off. Metronome: When I read other reviews I was concerned that the metronome would not be loud enough. It's fine, I can hear it over a session whistle. It's not going to compete with a 50W guitar amplifier, but if that is your use case you will need to mix the output from the headphone jack into your sound. I think the reason for the strange volume control (from absolutely nothing to full on a log scale) is to match roughly with a wide range of input impedances (mic or line input for example). I will probably try this eventually. The default timing is in steps corresponding to classical music - eg andante is 80 to 108 bpm in steps of 4 bpm. If you want you can change it to single steps if you just have to set 90 bpm or something and the full range is 30 to 252 bpm. There's also a "tap tempo" button which works well, but it's more of a push button than a tap pad as the name would suggest. The tone is electronic (of course) but is more of a "bop" sound rather than the annoying "beep" or "cheep" (I hate those so much) you get with most phone apps. High tone is used for beat 1, low for all other beats. Bar timing is 1 to 9 beats, and rhythm timing is march, triplets, swing(blues), quicktime and swing quicktime. For single timing you can select 1 for high tones or 0 for low tones. The metronome remembers all settings on power off including the setting to adjust for single beats. The metronome has two visual indicators - a sweep needle on the screen with beats on each extreme swing (a mechanical metronome has beat on the centre) and a flashing LED under the tap tempo button which flashes on every beat. Other features: The stated battery life (2 AAA) is 130 hours with carbon zinc batteries, supplied. Using the backlight on low gives you about 55 hours so If you use the backlight a lot you might want to use alkaline batteries. It has an auto off feature when not in use for 20 minutes, which seems reasonable. If you are using it then it won't turn off. The backlight has three settings: off low and high (36 hour carbon battery life on high) but I've found the low setting to be fine in most low light situations. You don't really need the back light in good room lighting. It remembers the backlight setting on power off. The screen has an excellent viewing angle up/down, but a very narrow viewing angle left/right, so wherever you put it should be pointing straight at you if possible. I can see it fine whether it is on the floor or on a music stand. The screen shows all relevant information and settings with the exception of the octave in tuner mode as already stated. Interestingly you can use the tuner and metronome individually or both at the same time. When used together the needle for the metronome splits to have the tuner on the top and the metronome on the bottom. The metronome beat does not interfere with the tuner. Within the limitation of price this is an excellent combo device with great features. Korg did a great job with this and I can recommend it for your gig bag or practice room. If you need a better tuner you would have to pay for a lab grade instrument, and if you want a better metronome you should probably get a drum machine.

Partiamo dall’unica cosa che potrebbe essere migliore: il volume del suono come metronomo. Il volume come metronomo non è altissimo, ma non ne esiste un altro di dimensioni simili che suoni più forte e ne ho provati molti in vendita su amazon. Se cerchi un metronomo con un volume di suono altissimo l’unico è il Tama RW200 che è più grosso di tre volte e costa a memoria più del doppio di questo (ed è solo metronomo). Anche i Tama più piccoli suonano come questo. Come ACCORDATORE (tuner) non ha invece concorrenti per completezza e livello di funzionamento. - Rileva TUTTE le note che sente. In altri accordatori va impostato il tipo di strumento (chitarra, ukulele, ecc) e vengono mostrate solo le note delle corde dello strumento scelto. Questo Korg invece lo puoi tenere acceso mentre canti o suoni (ad esempio un violino) e ti mostrerà ogni nota che produci e ovviamente se è calante o crescente. Non indica la ottava della nota rilevata, ma personalmente la ritengo una funzione che non serve, lo segnalo soltanto. - funzione “Sound Back”. Scoperta per caso dopo tanto tempo dall’acquisto, ma è geniale. Se colleghi le cuffie viene generata e ti fa sentire la nota (intonata ! ) che stai suonando o cantando. Ottimo strumento di training o controllo se canti o suoni uno strumento ad arco. - Volume regolabile con “rotella” per i suoni generati di riferimento, facile e immediato. Vuoi accordare il La ad orecchio ? Fai suonare in un attimo il La (o qualunque altra nota) e accordi. - LCD con retroilluminazione regolabile su due livelli o spento. È un LCD che se c’è luce si vede benissimo anche senza retroilluminazione. - Ingresso Jack per strumenti “elettrici” o microfono. Attenzione che l’uscita cuffia non replica l’ingresso Jack. - Pulsanti fusici SU e GIU dedicati e sempre attivi per scegliere velocemente la nota generata (da C3 a C6) e per scegliere gli Hz di riferimento del LA 440Hz ( “range” da 410 a 480 Hz). - Metronomo e Tuner possono funzionare contemporaneamente. Sono indipendenti uno dall'altro e ognuno con i suoi tasti. Tuner a sinistra e metronomo a destra. - Robusto. Anche se lo tengo in una custodia per portarlo i giro, mi è caduto a terra qualche volta e non ha riportato danni. Certo, mi è andata bene ed è meglio stare attenti, però robusto lo è. In conclusione uno strumento da consigliare assolutamente. Brava Korg !

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Small portable You can tune alot of instrument using it it's priced cheep but great quality for a small tuner it's pretty straight foward to use and really acurate function as is should it even has a metronome and headphone jack it has good quality coming out it too