Been using this Air tuner more, and it’s pretty good. Easy to read, rechargeable, and picks up E and B well. Using it more than my Peterson now
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Dang! That is surprising. I think I’m going to have to give the Snark Air a try.
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Definitely on my GAS list once they’re available here. If I had to buy from the USA postage doubles the price!
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I saw some reviews at Sweetwater for this Snark Air tuner. One person said it can be off slightly. Another reviewer pointed out that the rotation doesn’t work for left handed players. The other two reviews liked it.
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I’m not left handed, so maybe there’s something I’m missing, but it rotates 360 degrees so I don’t see how right or left handedness matters. Stumped on that one
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Interesting. Maybe that reviewer missed something, or forgot to push the button to try in the other direction? Thanks for checking that out.
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Nope, I’m lookin at it in all directions on the website, I can’t see how it would work one way, but not the other 
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Nope, I tried mine, it swivels completely around. There’s no stop.
I’ll test mine after work against the Peterson. Mine seems accurate, I don’t have perfect pitch like my sister, but I know when a note is off. Just can’t name them.
Well if I have time after I install pickups that is. Doing a swap in preparation to sell
I don’t tune my basses when I play. I’ll start warming up and if it’s out of tune I’ll tune it. If not I’ll just play. Learn a lot of stuff by ear
My dad was very musically gifted. seems to be in the genes
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Since my early acoustic guitar days, I’ve used a reference pitch, then tuned by ear.
Recently, I bought a Petersen StroboStomp for bullet-proof convenience and intonation accuracy. It’s the only pedal I own.
Even after a string change, re-tuning is only a very minor, incremental tweak - and not even for all strings. And it takes a few seconds to do.
I’ve had various clip-ons in the past, but no more. No need for any. For acoustics, yes. Electrics, no.
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Had to send my Peterson Stroboclip back, kept reading my E string as a B, haven’t bought the strings for BEAD yet, most definitely was not 
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It’s easy to read in person, not a good camera angle
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I recognize that headstock.
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My eyes teared up just a bit. The thing is so pretty
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@Wombat-metal @DeadPixels
I understand things better with pictures. I made a series of quick images so I could envision the Snark Air for left handed use:
RH or LH view attached at top, back of bass/guitar head and neck facing up, with the original display:
Guitar/bass rotated into RH playing position (Snark Air on rear, back of neck facing left), after double-clicking:
The first view (back of neck facing up) looks the same for left or right handed.
It’s just that the vertical view after double-clicking looks like this for left handed playing (Snark Air on rear, back of neck facing right for LH playing - ignore the finger):
You can leave it without double-clicking and view it this way for LH:
But is there a way to get it to look as below for a left handed player (the equivalent orientation for the letter as the RH after double clicking to move it vertically):
Does further double-clicking continue to rotate the display? Is that what you fellows mean by it turns 360 degrees? Wombat-metal, can you turn your neck the opposite way with this tuner on, and see if the display looks like my images (perhaps I got confused)?
I’ve searched online, and found no mentions or images of how the Snark Air tuner looks or can be rotated to show that last view. Maybe I’m just missing something - wouldn’t be the first time! 
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Here’s my out of tune bass played lefthanded
Here’s it’s flipped over and played righthanded
To me, it’s the same. Just spun the air around. The readout spins 360 degrees on its access. Like an office chair
The left handed is a very good picture of how the air functions - gets lost in the hardware right handed
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@Wombat-metal Thanks! I think I misunderstood that the actual round part could turn. I did not see that ability shown in the Snark Air video on their website. I appreciate you straightening out this for me. I was making it too complicated, as I thought the display housing was immovable, and only the display part could be changed.
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This is rechargeable. I started using this early Feb and the charge ran out today. Not bad
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Whenever possible I’d clip on a few of my tuners including the Peterson clip on and plug in the strobostomp and the strobeHd, the. I use my Roadie bass to tune. The peterson perform about the same 100% of the time.
Roadie and a few are just off by a few cents. It’s not bad how far we’ve come.
I love the roadie it’s very convenient works surprisingly well on 5 strings.
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