need your opinion and advise on PetersonVS-2

Marty Holmes · Post by **Marty Holmes** » 7 Jun 2004 1:59 pm

I am puchaseing one of these tuners,and although quite expensive for a tuner i don't think I am going in the wrong direction.1.Do you have to program this tuner,and how if you do? 2.what to calibrate each note,also considering cabinet drop? 3.what does Peterson mean by "sweetened tuning"?I am sure a lot of the pros on this forum use this tuner considering it is programable for E9,andC6th.Thanks for everyones advise.

Joey Ace · Post by **Joey Ace** » 7 Jun 2004 2:20 pm

You don't have to program it. If you want to, that feature is available.

You get your guitar perfectly in tune by whatever means possible, then you can save those settings.

The steps are not easy to explain, but doing it with the manual in hand is not hard.

If you don't want to program it, you can use the presets it comes with. You can do both.

Their term "sweeten the sound" just refers to the deviations from straight up tuning.

I have choosen a V-SAM over the VS-2. It has a few more features that are well worth the price difference.

C Dixon · Post by **C Dixon** » 7 Jun 2004 3:37 pm

Marty,

If it is not too late, do consiser the V-Sam Peterson over the one you are considering. Joey is correct on this.

carl

Cartwright Thompson · Post by **Cartwright Thompson** » 11 Jun 2004 2:34 am

Aside from the metronome, what advantages does the VSam have over the VS-II?

Joey Ace · Post by **Joey Ace** » 11 Jun 2004 4:36 am

It has audio out, via an internal speaker.

Don't sell the metronome short. I have other metronomes, but found the advanced features or this one very useful.

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 11 Jun 2004 5:32 am

Do I understand correctly that the V-SAM only has an input, while the VS-II has a through-put, so you could leave it in-line and come out of it into your volume pedal?

And if I'm correct about that, can anyone tell us if there is tone distortion passing through the unit?<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Jim Cohen on 11 June 2004 at 06:32 AM.]</p></FONT>

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 11 Jun 2004 6:07 am

I use a Boss tuner. It has the pass through feature but it definitely colors the sound. I used it for a while and wondered what was wrong until I figured out what was causing the problem. I still use the tuner but now have a foot volume with two outputs and one goes to the tuner. I know nothing of the "Peterson" but would suspect encountering the same problem.

Erv

Joey Ace · Post by **Joey Ace** » 11 Jun 2004 6:53 am

Jim,
The V-SAM has no output. I wouldn't use it anyway for the reasons Erv stated.

Peterson has been shipping a new "stomp box" style tuner for about a month.
It's called a "StroboStomp".

They say it has "true bypass".
That should resolve any in-line issues.

It also functions as an Active DI box.

It does not have the PSG presets, but they can be manually programmed. That's what I perfer with the V-SAM anyway.

I like my V-SAM and have no experience with this new device, but it looks interesting.
http://www.StroboStomp.com/

Mark Herrick · Post by **Mark Herrick** » 11 Jun 2004 9:58 am

According to the info at that link, the V-SAM and the StroboStomp do not have the pre-programmed temperaments for steel guitar. The VS-II does. All, however appear to allow user programmable temperaments.

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Jim Florence · Post by **Jim Florence** » 11 Jun 2004 5:46 pm

I've got a ll, and it came with Jeff Newman
programs for E9th and C6th. However I am tuned to D9th, and I had to learn to program it. ,,,It ain't hard.
Jim