I’m haven’t seen a Kluson bass tuners but have/had a few on my 6 string acoustics. They are great looking and feeling tuners buttery smooth @John_E do you have pictures of the bass tuners on your Rickie?
@mgoldst the vintage style tuners is going to take a few moments to find for 2+2 setup because I don’t think they are reversible. If it’s 4 in-line then Squier replacement are pretty cheap and works surprisingly well. If you like the look a closed gears usually last longer and smoother too.
If you are looking for pure performance it’s very hard to beat the GraphTech Ratio tuner.
I have a 5 string set(not yet installed and a 4 string installed on one of my Fender. At 48:1 ratio for E string even the most OCD pitch police will be happy to see their strobe tuner is at a dead stop. The B string is at 76:1 mind blown! Only one problem, it comes in “everybody else has one” Chrome. No gold no black.
Their Y keys are just as high performance and comes in at almost half the price of the clovers. This one you can also have them in black.
Here are a couple pics of my original black Yamaha rbx200 & the Yamaha rbx200 I pimped with gotoh tuners and bridge, all electronics are original,
Cheers Brian
Not that I play either of them,
I only bought the one I pimped for 1 original tuner for the black one.
I wanted to keep my first bass(the black one) original and tried to buy original tuner directly from Yamaha who advised they no longer have spares due to the age of the bass, so I bought the other one from a pawn shop.
So I pimped the other one with new tuners,bridge etc and had a friend vinyl wrap it with the bassbuzz logo, thanks Josh @JoshFossgreen for the idea:joy:
Cheers Brian
Does anyone know what the usual common tuner ratio(s) are?
Does anyone else ever hear slight tuning changes that their Petersen LCD strobe tuner doesn’t see? It seems to me like there is a little wiggle room on dead stop. Maybe there’s an OCD dead stop window size setting I’m missing.
Most are 18:1 ish Hipshot’s are 20-27:1. Don’t get me wrong you can get in a pitch perfect tune with a 10:1 tuner on a B string but at 76:1 it’s just easier, lol.
I find that some strings (plus tuner and bridge/saddle as a system) tune to a dead stop and some tune to a “wiggle”. Although the tuner is important, string quality/construction and bridge/saddle play a role, at least that’s my story and I am sticking to it.
I have some E strings that seem to ‘pop’ up an octave and right back down every now and again on the Peterson as well.
This is completely blowing my mind. On my standard tuners I could swear that I have no problem tuning the E string but I have to micro turn to get the G string without going too far. It seems to me the higher strings are more sensitive to turns. Am I imagining that? Maybe it’s because there’s more tension it requires more pressure to get it to start to move?
I’ve assumed that that is simply poorer tuner sensitivity in that frequency range; the harmonic is dominating the fundamental due to the tuner sensitivity being higher at B1 than B0. I even see this on E1 sometimes.
