N-Tune On-Board chromatic guitar tuner mod

N-Tune by Zero Crossing Inc, integrates accurate, chromatic tuning into the volume knob of your electric guitar or bass'. Hmm what about a violin? I'm thinking..


Zero Crossing Inc promised to send my friend George Wharmby (Guitarist / Writer The Systematics) a replacement pot for this tuner, but never came good! So he just wanted me to remove the thing and put the Telecaster back to standard wiring. Well, standardish! It has a Bare Knuckle Humbucker fitted in the neck position, wired with a coil Tap switch. After uninstalling the faulty tuner from the Telecaster My pal kindly said I could keep it. I'm going to try to fit this tuner (Assuming that I can repair the thing first!) into my custom electric violin. The tuner is chromatic and according to the spec, will tune an instrument from 27Hz to 520Hz (notes A0–A7) so I don't see why it shouldn't work just fine. The only real issue is that my fiddle has a home design Piezo preamp and I would suspect that this little tuner might well be quite noisy electronically however, I will make the mod true bypass so there should be no problems..



Prising the pot apart



Fitting the new wafer



All done!