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Show HN: Remotely use my guitar tuner

Linking 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.

https://smith-kyle.github.io/

36 minutes agoeranation

Donated. I always thought Playboy manbaby was a solo act nerdcore rapper.

But this is cool.

17 minutes ago999900000999

Thanks! Donated as well. When I grow up I want to have friends that will do the same to me...

6 minutes agoeranation

Thomann 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.

4 hours agoTrackerFF

This 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?

an hour agohunter2_

No 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.

37 minutes agosmith-kyle

On 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?

an hour agohunter2_

Your 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

an hour agosmith-kyle

Got the same, Firefox on lineageos.

an hour agonosioptar

This is hilarious and fun. Thanks for making it.

2 hours agopastorhudson

I am not sure why this exists, but I am glad it does.

3 hours agoredbluething

The website explains why this exists.

> Real guitarists use real tuners.

2 hours agohshdhdhj4444

This 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!

4 hours agocopperx

Let's scale horizontally!

3 hours agosmith-kyle

Thank you, this was fun, I sang notes for a bit :)

an hour agorhaps0dy

That’s some serious out of the box thinking

an hour agoHavoc

You keep your tuner in a terrarium?

”This appliance must be earthed”?

4 hours agocluckindan

Unbelievable, thank you and can you add open g or drop d tuning pweez?

3 hours agoJohnny_Bonk

Can't it already do those since it's chromatic?

an hour agopost-it

I 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.

34 minutes agoLouisLazaris

It’s a chromatic tuner, there is no other setting

23 minutes agosunnybeetroot

this is hilarious. and surprisingly responsive! i used this to tune an acoustic bass guitar i have

4 hours agoanemoknee

Pretty wild, nice job

3 hours agokoinedad

This reminds me of the Internet of my childhood. People just having fun and experimenting with a new medium. Thank you for sharing.

2 hours agozoklet-enjoyer

\m/

2 hours agoaustinjp

I love it

an hour agoclosetkantian

I just used it to check my whistle tones. How fun!