ROADIE 3 | Smart Automatic Guitar Tuner, Metronome & String Winder | For Electric Guitars, Acoustic Guitars, 12-String Guitars, Ukulele, Banjo, Mandolin | 100+ Alternate Tunings

Ok, so this is a sizeable investment for what essentially is 'just' a guitar tuner. I thought long and hard about throwing away my hard-earned on something that for only a few bucks does the same job. But does it? Well, no. Because it does so much for with ease. If you're into repairing or restoring guitars, removing and re fitting or fitting new strings this will be your best friend, because it has in-built 3 speed string winder. It sport a vibrating (ooo-err) metronome, as well as the tuner itself that automatically tunes up your instrument to a high degree of accuracy, with in-built alternative tuning, or, with the app you can create your own. Does it actually work? Yes, although for perfectionist who may have perfect pitch, you may need to fine tune by ear - particularly that pesky G string. Is it good value? If you have one guitar, and are not gigging, just playing for your own enjoyment, then maybe not, but it is fun and cool to show off to your friends. If you are a store owner and have walls of guitars, then yes, its a worthwhile tool. Battery life is excellent, and you recharge it using a standard USB lead. Final thoughts, well made and reliable, making stringing up breeze. Love it.

This Roadie 3 guitar tuner totally delivers on what it promises, so I'm giving it five stars. But it is a luxury, because it costs five times the price of a clip-on tuner that would do the job perfectly well. This tuner turns the tuning pegs for you, which is great - but of course you could easily turn the tuning pegs yourself! A big advantage of this one is that you don't need to remember the tuning EADGBE - this one does it for you. Or you can set alternative tunings and this one will remember it. So if you want standard tuning for one song and Drop-D tuning for another song, this tuner will switch between the two quickly. That is fantastic. But many players may never need that functionality. By the way, you cannot tune bass guitars with this tuner (you need to buy the bass version for that). I love this tuner. It really does achieve what it claims to achieve. I totally recommend it - especially if you like gadgets and can afford an expensive tuner. But if you just want a tuner, I recommend a Snark Supertight clip-on tuner at a fifth of the price.

I have a long term illness and although easy for most folk I find tuning and restringing my guitars exausting and taxing. This automatic tuner has been a God send for me, all I have to do is switch it on, select my tuning and just wack it onto the tuning pegs and let it do it's thing. The build quality is very good, it has a nice, bright, large display and is not too heavy. I have found it to be very accurate (specially on the high accuracy setting in selectable in settings), reliable and consistant. You can also select diferent tunings which is a useful function and the unit also has a memory to memorise diferent tunings that you may have for specific guitars that you may own. I have found the battery life to be very good, I use this tuner at least 4 or 5 times a week and get a good few months between charges. The motorised winding funtion is also a very useful and an essential function for me, saving so much time and energy replacing strings, there are various speed settings for this too. A few years later and this tuner has become an essential bit of kit for me, yes it comes at a price but for me it was worth every penny.

This is an absolutely brilliant piece of kit, especially if you own 10 and 12 string instruments. However, it is not cheap as it can be over 20 fold the price of its manual counterpart. Also it should be noted if one isn't careful in its use the device can snap strings. One of its best features is that you can setup tuning profiles for multiple instruments or even performance profiles for non standard tunings (think Joni Mitchel)

This Roadie is brilliant. I’ve always tuned my guitar with a clip on tuner. When I used the roadie3 the clip on shows different levels but the guitar sounds the best ever. Download the app and it’s so easy to use. It will also restring very quickly and to correct tuning level although I have not tried this yet. The booklet which accompanies the tuner also shows you how to correctly restring your instrument. Love it.

Automatic guitar tuner.one of the best. Tunes my guitar perfectly ,great when restringing winds them on for you.i really recommend this item

So I hung back on giving any reviews because there are already many good reviews up here, and I wanted to spend time going through everything this tool can do. Really anyone who is at the beginning stages of learning to play guitar, please only use this tuner as a reference guide. Its important that you learn to tune your guitar by ear. Use this guage with caution using its string winder function it can wind string pretty quick depending on where you have the speed set and end up snapping the string or further damage to you or the guitar. Should this ever happen pull the tuner off the machine head. Be very careful if re-stringing your hands or fingers are not trapped beneath the string where the winder could wind up fast, damage to hand or worse no fingers. What an excellent tool this is and yes it does tend to get stuck on a G, now and again, but otherwise if that happens I just remove and start again. Love this unit. I charged this 2 weeks ago, play everyday for hours.. Still doesn't need charging, even though i've done three guitar string changes it still doesn't require charging its still 70% charged. Definitely worth the cash. Accuracy I've checked against my Peterson Strobe Tuner.. bang on the button if your not a flea! Yes awesome thus far.Rock N Roll

I was initially quite impressed by the Roadie 3 - it seemed accurate enough and easy to use, however it did seem to struggle with the B string. The deal breaker (literally) was the first time I used it in a live situation. I was stood chatting to an audience of around 500 explaining that I was quickly tuning up, when the Roadie 3 went fubar and snapped the B string. Fortunately I have other guitars on stage but it made me look a proper t*at! This product is far too expensive to fail like this and in my opinion a long way from suitable for professional use. I’d avoid this like the plague!

Realmente es un dispositivo que ayuda a afinar la guitarra de las personas ciegas. Si eres profesor de guitarra te lo recomiendo para que tus estudiantes ciegos puedan tener acceso a este producto que les facilitará su afinación y también para las personas normovisuales.

Eccezionale, uno strumento unico, costa ma vale.

Great device. My son love it so much.

Werkt heel erg goed! Ik gebruik het om mijn ukeleles te stemmen. Batterij gaat heel lang mee. Zou 5 sterren krijgen moest het ook alle vormen van ukelele ondersteunen. Nu is het enkel mogelijk voor gewone of met lage G maar 5- of 8-snarige gaat nog niet. 12-snarige gitaar gaat dan weer wel tot grote vreugde van mijn vriend 😉. Geen spijt van mijn aankoop!

O produto é muito bom. Há algumas questões que precisam ser apontadas: é preciso estar num ambiente silencioso para usar o afinador; regulei a sensibilidade do afinador para alta precisão para obter melhor resultado, mas com isso às vezes o afinador demora muito para chegar à frequência correta de algumas cordas. Por outro lado, é muito bom ter um aparelho que se encarregue da afinação; é ótimo usá-lo quando se troca todo o encordoamento, por causa da função giro rápido tanto para apertar quanto para afrouxar as cordas; a bateria tem ótima durabilidade; dá pra afinar vários instrumentos de cordas; ele muda automaticamente de corda quando se quer afinar todas as cordas do instrumento, mas também dá pra escolher qualquer corda avulsa para afinar sozinha.