Originally Posted by: rob14szwed

Hi, just started playing 3 months ago. I have an acoustic guitar with metal strings and tuning with a Snark. When I play the high e string one second will read out as an a and then flash e and it never want to stay on e like the other strings no matter how much I try. [br]Am I doing something wrong?

thanks, Rob

It's like the classic break-up line; it's not you, it's me.

It's not you, it's the Snark. It's one of the downsides of the headstock (vibration) styled tuners. I've had Snarks andFender tuners andthey all seem to do it. I actually find that the Snart Super Tight is the worst for that. I'm getting to the point where I am thinking I'll just go back to a chromatic tuner (where you plug your cord in to the tuner) like I did in the old days. Snark's are handy but they are cheap and it does show in things like this.

I've seen many pro's use headstock tuners but I believe they are using more expensive headstock tuners.

You best bet with a Snark is to get it to where it appears in tune andjust strum the high E and B together and if the ring in consonance (sound nice together), you're probably pretty close.