Aroma AMT-530 Tuner/Metronome Review

          Staying in tune is important to sounding good - fortunately, there are a plethora of tuners out there to help with that.  One of these is by Aroma and additionally has a metronome to keep time.

          Build quality - overall pretty good.  It's almost entirely plastic, but sturdy and the rubber grip is good quality.  For 10 bucks its plenty good durability wise.

          Usability - This is one area the Aroma AMT-530 doesn't do so hot in.  Mainly, it tries to do too much in too small a package and is pretty damn complicated.  Usually you can guess well enough to get it to what you want, and just using it as a chromatic tuner is simple enough for me.

          Other - Battery life is surprisingly good, as my brother takes it from time to time and it hasn't shown any signs of running down after around 2 years of running.  Tuning accuracy seems good too, as it's within a few cents of the tuner built into my Mustang amp and does the job well.

Overall I give it a 4 out of 5 stars because it's good for the price, if a bit difficult to use.

Printable Graphing Paper Sheet

So maybe it's not about guitars.  Not even a little.  But someone will find this on Google Images and it will help their life, so it's going up.  Because I do what I want.

Printable Graphing Paper Sheet

The lines (from top to bottom) label:

Name
Date
Title
Dependent Variable
Independent Variable

Basically everything you need in a ~high school level graph.  Made extra nice looking for bonus points!

More Great Backing Tracks

Some more good tracks for you to jam out on, all conveniently in one place.

Five more after the break.