Peterson Strobostomp HD

For over 70 years Peterson Strobe Tuners has been the gold standard that all other tuners are measured by. The unparalleled accuracy, once only found in their mechanical strobe tuning product line, was developed into highly portable, LCD-emulations that offered equal tuning performance and came to be known as the Virtual Series® in the early 2000s. The StroboStomp HD™ is the latest Virtual Series pedal tuner offering, designed for players of all walks and skill levels in mind.

Featuring the largest tuning display Peterson Tuners has ever incorporated into one of their pedal tuners, the StroboStomp HD boasts a high-definition, LCD screen that incorporates a variable colour LED backlight.

The user-selectable colours can be used to personalise the tuner or to increase display viewing quality in different levels of ambient lighting, depending on the usage environment. The vibrant screen colours can also be assigned to stock or user presets to significantly reduce menu navigation time and increase on-stage tuning confidence at the gig.

Featuring over 100 exclusive Sweetened Tunings™, the StroboStomp HD also contains numbered guided tuning presets for a large variety of instruments and playing styles. Sweetened Tunings™ are exclusive to Peterson tuning products and are designed to help correct inherent tuning issues exhibited by many instruments.

For tone purists, the StroboStomp HD provides a 100% silent, true-bypass operation mode to keep precious tone safe, as well as eliminating the often annoying “pop” that can be experienced when engaging such a feature in other competing products. It uses a unique series of timed relays incorporated within the pedal’s circuitry to shunt the signal, draining the cause of the popping sound prior to breaking the connection, effectively shutting the tuner down for direct play through, all without affecting the quality of your tone.

The StroboStomp HD also includes a long-time user-requested buffered output operation mode that can be user engaged. The buffered mode can be used in or out of monitor mode. It is designed to boost instrument drive to overcome potential tone loss in signal chains that incorporate multiple low-impedance guitar pedals or utilize long cable runs. The high-quality buffered output modes preserve sonic quality all through the instrument range and keeps your prized core tone intact.

A Sweetener preset is a set of cent offsets or a deviation from generic Equal Temperament interval spacing traditionally used in tuning, in other words, several presets with differing interval spacing relevant to the instrument being tuned. If you’ve never been happy with how your instrument tunes up with your present tuner, a Sweetener could be just the thing to change that without any modifications whatsoever. This offers unique and very accurate “tweaks” which often make all the difference and also brings life to recordings like stacked guitars etc. Try it – once you’ve done this, you’ll never go back to regular tuning. It just sounds better!