The Rodie 2 can tune your guitar automatically
The Roadie Tuner is one of those feel-good Kickstarter success stories that makes the whole experiment worth it. It’s a quirky solution to a common problem, and it actually shipped to its backers! The tuner works by pairing with a smartphone to listen to the string you’re plucking, and then robotically rotating your instrument’s tuning peg until the string is in tune. It didn’t change the world, but it worked well and removed some of the stress of the tuning process.
Now Roadie is back for round two, and this time it’s leaving the smartphone behind. There’s a built-in screen on the Roadie 2, which lets you select the tuning you’re going for, and there’s also a built-in microphone. Roadie 2 can additionally read the vibrations of your…