Flat Sided Tuners
Can I tune a bass guitar with a guitar tuner?
So, I bought a bass, I've never really had a 'Bass' tuner, so I used my Korg Guitar tuner. It's really old, it has a needle instead of LED's to show me if it's in tune or not. I know with more modern equipment you can choose bass tuning. Makes me wonder if by tuning my bass in standard guitar it will mess up the neck. So at the moment I have it in Flat, just to be on the safe side.
Help?
Tuners don't care what octave a note is in. To them, an E is an E. It's not going to tell you to tune your bass up to guitar register (and even if it tried to, you couldn't do it).
Your tuner may not be able to detect the low tones of a bass though. You shouldn't have a problem with the D and G strings, but the E and A strings move prove problematic. In which case, you can easily just tune to the 12th fret harmonic instead. That's how I tune my 5-string.
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