Show HN: Remotely use my guitar tuner(realtuner.online)
217 points by smith-kyle 4 days ago | 48 comments
- eranation 9 hours agoLinking it here since it's easy to miss. It seems he is using the popularity of this to help a friend recovering from brain surgery, I think this makes this project even more awesome in my book.[-]
- 999900000999 9 hours agoDonated. I always thought Playboy manbaby was a solo act nerdcore rapper.
But this is cool.
[-]- eranation 9 hours agoThanks! Donated as well. When I grow up I want to have friends that will do the same to me...[-]
- stavros 1 hour agoWhen you grow up you should want universal healthcare...[-]
- 999900000999 59 minutes agoAmericans don’t want that.
We want to live in hell where any serious illness will completely ruin you.
- schinken23 3 hours agoDo you guys know this? https://www.thomann.co.uk/stompenberg_devices.html
You can use real pedals over the internet
there's a german blog post about this: https://www.amazona.de/thomann-stompenberg-fx/
- TrackerFF 13 hours agoThomann had (still have?) this thing called "stompenberg", where they put up some mechanical switching system so that you could play audio files through the actual pedals in the system, and turn on the knobs / parameters.
In the recent years some smaller businesses have started to offer outboard gear in this way. You upload some stem, and can process it through their hardware remotely, and get back the results.
[-]- hunter2_ 10 hours agoThis is cool except that the only ad for this I've come across so far was for analog summing. Remote or not, that concept (going out of one's way to theoretically have something more pleasing than digital summing) always smelled like a scam to me. Like ok, maybe a sample rate a hair above what Shannon/Nyquist demand can't do digital summing with all the right IM distortion of the missing supersonic content or whatever, but 192kHz ought to solve for that! So is it something else to be gained via analog summing?[-]
- Nition 7 hours agoOh the options get way better than that. Check these guys out: https://accessanalog.com
They have 60+ rack units with little robot grabbers physically controlling the knobs.
Re analogue summing, yeah it does near nothing in reality. What you're missing though is that what people actually want with analogue summing isn't really technically better sound but technically worse sound. Analogue gear might have a little bit of harmonic distortion, a little bit of crosstalk between channels, certain transformer characteristics etc that theoretically make it sound more glued together or warm etc etc. But ultimately summing is summing and those differences vs. digital are very small (and won't always contribute positively either).
- peepee1982 7 hours agoI'm not interested in analog summing myself, but I think you're missing the point. It's not about "better" summing. You want more euphonic summing. Analog audio processing often comes with artefacts that give the signal sent through it a more pleasing character, for whatever reason (phase shift, saturation, channel differences between left and right, transient modulation, slew rate, power sag, etc.).
I personally think analog summing is a waste of time, because the differences are too subtle to be worth the investment in setting it up. But that's just my opinion. Some people are really into it (Eric Valentine comes to mind).
Just wanted to point out that in the context of audio equipment (both professional and audiophile) "sounds better" often means "sounds worse but more engaging". Just like a polaroid picture often evokes more emotions than a photo taken with a modern digital camera and a great lens.
- smith-kyle 9 hours agoNo way! My friend and I were half joking about building that as a sequel to realtuner. If nothing else, it'd be a great excuse to buy more gear.[-]
- sagacity 3 hours agoDo you really need an excuse to buy more gear? meme-be-honest.jpg
- copperx 12 hours agoThis is awesome, and, at the same time, hilarious. The BOSS tuner is the laggiest thing ever, and we're adding network latency to it!
Maybe we all can pitch in for a Turbo Tuner. Or some vintage mechanical strobe tuner for hipster points!
[-]- smith-kyle 12 hours agoLet's scale horizontally![-]
- behehebd 59 minutes agoAs the actress said to the bishop
- Benjamin_Dobell 1 hour agoThanks. Just tuned my daughter's guitar.
Obviously a bit more work. But it'd be pretty neat to have live reactions. "So close!", "Nearly there", "You can do it!", "Perfect" etc.
- dbdr 6 hours agoOn Firefox/Linux, after allowing mic access, I get a "Failed to access microphone" above the button, and in the javascript console:
[ws] Microphone error: DOMException: AudioContext.createMediaStreamSource: Connecting AudioNodes from AudioContexts with different sample-rate is currently not supported.
[-]- cammikebrown 6 hours agoSounds like normal Linux behavior to me
- redbluething 12 hours agoI am not sure why this exists, but I am glad it does.[-]
- hshdhdhj4444 11 hours agoThe website explains why this exists.
> Real guitarists use real tuners.
- locusofself 7 hours agoI love it.
But in all seriousness, if you are looking for a good guitar tuner, a lot of the ones on the market are actually not very good.
I highly recommend TC Electronic for clip-on tuner, or Sonic Research or Peterson for pedal tuners.
source: playing guitar for 32 years
[-]- dsego 3 hours agoI use a Peterson strobe tuner on my smartphone, it's really good. I've also coded my own strobe tuner to learn more, unfortunately no mobile version yet.
- eternauta3k 6 hours agoCould you go into more detail on why they are bad?
- bob1029 5 hours agoThe oboe playing a concert A is a pretty good one too.
- Humphrey 6 hours agoI love my TC Electronic clip on tuner!
- hunter2_ 10 hours agoOn my Pixel 10 using Chrome, it says "Mic needed - refresh to allow" but refreshing doesn't change anything. It's possible that I did something years ago to prevent whatever permission popup might normally be offered?[-]
- smith-kyle 10 hours agoYour browser might have microphone access set to "Deny" by default rather than "Ask". This happened to my friend. He changed the setting and it worked, but maybe there's a way to give a more helpful error in this scenario. Let me see
- nosioptar 10 hours agoGot the same, Firefox on lineageos.
- pastorhudson 10 hours agoThis is hilarious and fun. Thanks for making it.
- cluckindan 13 hours agoYou keep your tuner in a terrarium?
”This appliance must be earthed”?
- behehebd 60 minutes agoThis guy tunes!
- Havoc 10 hours agoThat’s some serious out of the box thinking
- anemoknee 12 hours agothis is hilarious. and surprisingly responsive! i used this to tune an acoustic bass guitar i have
- Johnny_Bonk 11 hours agoUnbelievable, thank you and can you add open g or drop d tuning pweez?[-]
- post-it 9 hours agoCan't it already do those since it's chromatic?[-]
- LouisLazaris 9 hours agoI guess he would have to add a way to interact with the tuner's UI to switch to a different setting other than standard tuning.[-]
- sunnybeetroot 9 hours agoIt’s a chromatic tuner, there is no other setting[-]
- LouisLazaris 9 hours agoAh yes, my bad!
- rhaps0dy 10 hours agoThank you, this was fun, I sang notes for a bit :)
- zoklet-enjoyer 11 hours agoThis reminds me of the Internet of my childhood. People just having fun and experimenting with a new medium. Thank you for sharing.
- koinedad 12 hours agoPretty wild, nice job
- CodinM 5 hours agoTuned my guitar and donated 5$!
- yukapero 5 hours agoTried it, dope idea. No Pi or tuner req'd really. Why we all love these goofy hacks so bad
- austinjp 11 hours ago\m/
- behnamoh 7 hours agoGuitar tuner as a service was not on my 2026 bingo card but here we are. Creative project!
- closetkantian 10 hours agoI love it
- Forgeties79 11 hours agoI just used it to check my whistle tones. How fun!
- sponno 7 hours agosooo cool!