Donner Guitar Tuner Clip on-Accurate Chromatic,Acoustic Guitar Bass Violin Ukulele Tuner DT-2

4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars | 4,541 ratings

Price: 10.99

Last update: 07-19-2024


About this item

BUILT TO LAST - Strong and Resistant for Beginners and Professionals on the Road
SUPER EASY TO USE - One Button Controls Everything. Clip it, Turn it on and You're Ready!
ROTATIONAL BRIGHT DISPLAY - Multi-Angle View with a Rotational Clip Design
ACCURATE - High Precise Detection with a Sensitive vibration Clip, It will Be in Tune Fast
BACKED BY 6 MONTHS GUARANTEE. If it doesn't work just feel free to contact us for a consult.

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Top reviews from the United States

Collin M.
5.0 out of 5 stars Easy To Use, Clips and Holds Well, Super Convenient Settings!
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2024
This tuner is an excellent tool with a nice secure, spring loaded clip-on design, and padded clips to prevent damage to your instrument. Includes a typical CR2032 battery. The bright, light-up display shows when you're near the correct note and when you hit the sweet spot, making tuning easy. It features multiple modes for various instruments like general chromatic, guitar, bass, ukulele, violin, and banjo. As someone who plays both guitar and a little ukulele, I find it particularly helpful for the ukulele, as it has a relatively unique scale on it, so it's definitely a great helper there. All in all, it's a versatile and user-friendly tuner. Would recommend!
Thomas M Hazard
5.0 out of 5 stars Works!
Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2024
Easy to use, not problems at all. Nice price!
Rob
4.0 out of 5 stars I'm happy with it.
Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2021
I've never really needed a tuner. I really and honestly don't use tuners often and I've never had any complaints (only compliments) about being out of tune. Tuning by ear perfectly isn't that difficult to do; rest chin on instrument, match an open note, remove swelling...tuned. Perfect 440 or whatever tuning the song's in I got the open note from.

This tuner is extremely easy to use. Clip it on the headstock or on the key cover of a piano, hold the power button to turn it on, tap the power button to select instruments and/or modes (chromatic, has instruments, C, flat, B, or F) which is great. Hold power button to turn it back off.

One thing it doesn't do positioning wise is swivel rotate. Can't turn it so the letters are upright with an instrument like a guitar on your lap in position to play it or strapped to you standing with it clipped to the headstock. Not an issue for me. It can be clipped to a volume knob or selector switch on electrics or the sound hole in classical wood instruments (like a cello, violin, acoustic guitar). It's a bit in the way to do that on an acoustic guitar. Not so bad on others.

It only folds up and down adjacent with the clip and spins 360°. The top of the digital display doesn't lean, fold, or swivel right or left. It doesn't do that at all. The display is big and bright enough this shouldn't be an issue for most people that have decent vision. My vision isn't great. I didn't have any issues reading it even with a medium upright bass standing with a strap on.

I tested this Donner DT-2 tuner on 20 different guitars including a uke, a steel guitar, a 12 string, a banjo, an acoustic and an electric bass, and a mandolin. I also tested it on a cello, an acoustic upright bass, an electric upright bass, a violin, a baby grand piano, and a drum kit after it arrived. Drum techs do use a tuner. Drums are and should be tuned to notes that match the key the band they're played with uses or they sound weird (because they're not in tune with the band). It didn't work well for the drum kit. I wasn't expecting it to. It worked but not great for that. It seems to get sound from vibration instead of a mic.

It worked on everything I tried it on that I could clamp it to and it worked pretty well except for percussion instruments. I compared it's accuracy with a pocket tuner, 2 different rack mount tuners, and 2 different (a boss and a zoom) tuner modes on FX processors I have. To be honest accuracy wasn't perfect but it's probably good enough for the girls we go out with.

To apply nerd info about it's accuracy the DT-2 was off 20° flat on everything I compared it's accuracy with. That's off, yes, but it's not horrible. That amount is only very slight swelling to extremely sensitive and trained ears on a person that knows the tricks on how to tune perfectly by ear. That ability isn't required to be awesome at playing stringed instruments. I don't know many people besides myself that use that technique to tune stringed instruments other than people that saw me doing it and asked me to share how to do it, amazed at how well it works. I figured out how to do it from music theory books making me curious about how sound works.

Overall this is a good tuner with some cool features not all tuners have. It's extremely easy to use and it's accurate enough it made even my wicked sensitive ears (I gained and trained and honed over 40 years playing music on every instrument I could get my hands or lips on) like mine. As picky as I can be with being perfectly in tune and intonation this tuner has satisfying perfirmance.

The thing I don't know, yet, is how long it and it's accuracy will last. I assume if it was treated nicely protecting it in the plastic packaging it comes in that opens and closes securely and keeping it in a hardshell case accessory compartment it has a good chance of lasting a very long time. I personally have doubts it will work forever and last a very long time if it's kept on a headstock permanently and/or never turned off.

Great tuner for a great price no matter your skill level or abilities. The clip-on festure is really handy!
V
5.0 out of 5 stars Works great
Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2024
Good little tuner especially for the price. Super easy to read which is great because I’m still learning
scat2me
5.0 out of 5 stars No more snarks
Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2024
I've been using Snark tuners for over 15 years. They ALL break at some point because of the ball joint. This Tuner is great. Reasonable and very easy to read. The design is the best I've found. I'll be buying more.
Romanza
3.0 out of 5 stars hit or miss
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2024
Works usually, but not always; even with a fresh battery. Also an annoying attribute when you turn it on, it likes to move to the next setting, so you have to press many times to get it back to Guitar.
Functional but there's got to be better out there...
M. Burnside
5.0 out of 5 stars Guaiter Tuner
Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2024
Work pretty good
Tkphd
5.0 out of 5 stars Easy and accurate
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2024
For the price, this is a tuner that’s accurate and easy to use.

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