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tom
We have not found anything more accurate or faster than the St-200,300. they do come preprogrammed with the open offsets in the cust 1 setting.
I received my ST-300 3 days after ordering :-) So far I am loving it. You're right, the tuner is FAST. At first, I wasn't sure why that was even important, but now that I am following your advice of tuning to the attack, I get it. This is the first guitar I have had with BFTS, and I will say that my D chords never sounded so in tune
. It's tempting to dwell on the intro to "Free Fallin'" by Tom Petty for way too long.
Regarding the programming, mine did *not* come pre-programmed. Looking at the owner's manual that came with the tuner, that seems to be the norm. CST1 has all offsets set to 0.0, and CST2 has drop-D tuning (also with all offsets at 0.0). There is a method described in the owner's manual to reset the tuner with tempered tunings, but that loads a different set of offsets meant for use with the true temperment necks.
No worries, however, as the ST-300 USB programming was very easy using the ST-300 Editor program from Sonic Research. I found this to be way easier than the long sequence of button presses, although the utility only works on a Windows PC. The Editor lets you download the current settings from the tuner so that you can see everything it has loaded, make edits, then upload back to the tuner. For anyone that wants to load the TAG-recommended BFTS offsets, you can paste the text below into the ST-300 Editor and upload it to the tuner with one click.
Code:
-----SETTINGS-----
A4Default: 440.0000
Transpose: 0
GUIT: OpenTuning
BASS: OpenTuning
CST1: OpenTuning
CST2: OpenTuning
CST3: OpenTuning
PASSTHROUGH_MODE: 0
STAY_ON: 0
--------end--------
--------OpenTuning--------
Mode: GUIT
Name: Guitar
A4: default
Transpose: default
1: E4 +0.0
2: B3 +0.0
3: G3 +0.0
4: D3 +0.0
5: A2 +0.0
6: E2 +0.0
--------end--------
--------OpenTuning--------
Mode: BASS
Name: BASS-5
A4: default
Transpose: default
1: G2 +0.0
2: D2 +0.0
3: A1 +0.0
4: E1 +0.0
5: B0 +0.0
--------end--------
--------OpenTuning--------
Mode: CST1
Name: TAG-Open
A4: default
Transpose: default
1: E4 +0.0
2: B3 +1.0
3: G3 -2.0
4: D3 -2.0
5: A2 -2.0
6: E2 -2.0
7: D1 -4.0
--------end--------
--------OpenTuning--------
Mode: CST2
Name: TAG-12th
A4: default
Transpose: default
1: E5 +0.0
2: B4 +0.0
3: G4 +1.0
4: D4 +1.0
5: A3 +0.0
6: D3 +0.0
--------end--------
--------OpenTuning--------
Mode: CST3
Name: TT For1
A4: default
Transpose: default
1: E4 -1.0
2: B3 -1.0
3: G3 +4.0
4: D3 +2.0
5: A2 +0.0
6: E2 -2.0
--------end--------
--------Temperament--------
Mode: GUIT
Name: JUST INTONATION
A4: default
Transpose: default
C: +15.6
C#: -13.7
D: +19.5
D#: +31.2
E: +1.9
F: +13.6
F#: +5.8
G: +17.6
G#: -11.8
A: +0.0
A#: +33.2
B: +3.9
--------end--------
--------Temperament--------
Mode: BASS
Name: EQUAL
A4: default
Transpose: default
C: +0.0
C#: +0.0
D: +0.0
D#: +0.0
E: +0.0
F: +0.0
F#: +0.0
G: +0.0
G#: +0.0
A: +0.0
A#: +0.0
B: +0.0
--------end--------
--------Temperament--------
Mode: CST1
Name: Thidell
A4: default
Transpose: default
C: +2.0
C#: -4.0
D: +2.0
D#: -4.0
E: -2.0
F: +0.0
F#: -4.0
G: +4.0
G#: -4.0
A: +0.0
A#: -4.0
B: -1.0
--------end--------
--------Temperament--------
Mode: CST2
Name: D.W.G.
A4: default
Transpose: default
C: +5.9
C#: +1.4
D: +2.0
D#: +0.6
E: -2.0
F: +7.8
F#: -1.4
G: +3.9
G#: +0.2
A: +0.0
A#: +3.9
B: +0.0
--------end--------
--------Temperament--------
Mode: CST3
Name: MeanBlu
A4: default
Transpose: default
C: +0.0
C#: +0.0
D: +4.8
D#: +0.0
E: -2.6
F: +0.0
F#: +0.0
G: +7.2
G#: +0.0
A: +0.0
A#: +0.0
B: -4.0
--------end--------