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If you play bass or have friends that do please tell them about the new bass guitar tuner. I don’t play bass myself but everything is functional and it works.

If you come across any problems or there is some alternative tuning that should be added as default please let me know by posting a comment below. You can also download a free mini bass widget to put on your website, profile page or blog.

After alot of blood, sweat and tears, I’ve finally finished a new guitar tuner.

Here are the improvements I’ve made on the old one:

• 8x higher quality sound files
• mutiple guitar sounds including Clean Electric, Classical Acoustic, Distorted Electice and Steel String Accoustic
• still has custom mode and some default tunings – you can use all the new sounds with these modes
• you can customize the settings including:
  • auto advance – you need 2 hands to tune a guitar so this will automatically advance through the notes without having to click buttons each time
  • note delay – the time between the sounds
  • note repeat – how many times you’d like the note to repeat before it plays the next one or if your not in auto advance mode the sound will stop after this many times
  • default tuning mode – this will load your favorite tuning when you visit howtotuneaguitar.org
  • default sound – this will load your favorite guitar sound when you visiit howtotuneaguitar.org

I hope that this tuner will work for everyone. You can check it out here.

If you have problems with it or feedback please leave me a message below.

SAN FRANCISCO/LOS ANGELES, March 12 (Reuters) – Gibson Guitar Inc has told Activision Inc that its wildly popular “Guitar Hero” video games infringe one of Gibson’s patents, and Activision has asked a U.S. court to find the claim invalid.

Gibson said the games, in which players press buttons on a guitar-shaped controller in time with notes on a TV screen, violates a 1999 patent for technology to simulate a musical performance.

Read the full article at Reuters.com

Gibson actually released their self-tuning guitar a few months ago, though I was too busy to notice, but I did come across this video tonight which shows you how the Robot Guitar works. It kind of looks like a ghost is tuning the guitar. I wonder why there are still tuning machine heads if the guitar is self tuning – is their really any need to have thumb pegs? They probably just left them in so the guitar would still look normal.

If your still “old skool” like myself you can still use a web based tuner. ;)

Here is an interesting post I came across today, if your into the copyright debate about music and the internet you might like to read. Sometimes I wonder how YouTube is going to stay in business, everytime you turn around they are getting sued or someone is getting them to take down the videos.

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This guitar video game for the Nintendo DS has already seen the light of day in Japan’s market place as “Hiite Utaeru DS Guitar M-06″. Jam Sessions is slated for release in the US in September. If you look around YouTube a little you will already see alot of videos on this little gadget. I think this actually has some use, as a portable tuner or ear training device.

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After reading this article on Yahoo about ‘Guitar Hero II’, I couldn’t help but snicker a little especially after this:

In reality, all you’re doing is pressing a combination of buttons at just the right moment. But the fact that you’re standing up, wailing away on a toy guitar adds to the immersive quality.

And I thought to myself, the only thing better would be to actually sit and play a real guitar! Made of wood!

I am not an avid video game player. On the rare occasion I have been known to sit around a friend’s house on a saturday night playing video games, but most of the time it was just because we were to hung over to do anything else…

Ever played this?