Acoustic instruments without pickups are really the only place for those.

Phone apps work too but the free ones are limited/suck. I was willing to pay for one but not $8 goddamn dollars a month. Subscription-based 'gear': now that's a thing worth hating.

They suck! Not only do they never work properly but they break simply by looking at them.

I use a more discrete clip on tuner for couch laziness. Seems like they'd be a nightmare at a real performance.

Garth wrote: Tue Nov 01, 2022 12:22 pm I thought someone made one that 'permanently' affixed to the backs of headstocks and you could just flip it out as needed? Maybe they didn't work well and got discontinued because I cannot seem to find them online. This seemed like the best way to have both the convenience of clip tuner w/out the dopey look. The obv downside is having to buy multiples if you use multiple guitars on stage.

Be careful! You’re one step away from inventing the Gibson Robot.

These Ibanez basses. Hate the headstock, hate the tuners. It looks like someone started to melt a plastic model of a Fender Precision and was inspired to make this monstrosity. Often seen in the hands of terrible bands. I get it, it's cheap, a starter bass for people, but I hate it.

VaticanShotglass wrote: Tue Nov 01, 2022 8:31 pm I use a more discrete clip on tuner for couch laziness. Seems like they'd be a nightmare at a real performance.

They're really handy! Easy to pass around, tune backstage or in a broom closet or whatever, not in your signal chain, don't get kicked around or jumped on by clodhopping band members, cheap and small enough to keep one or two knocking around in your case. Plenty adequate accuracy for stage tuning a guitar that's about to be spanked to death in a hot room full of moist sweaty people.

jirbling rake wrote: Fri Nov 04, 2022 7:47 pm These Ibanez basses. Hate the headstock, hate the tuners. It looks like someone started to melt a plastic model of a Fender Precision and was inspired to make this monstrosity. Often seen in the hands of terrible bands. I get it, it's cheap, a starter bass for people, but I hate it.

We've probably all been in bands with one of these. Technically nothing wrong with them, but yeah look like Homer Simpson's drawing of a P-Bass from memory.

jirbling rake wrote: Fri Nov 04, 2022 7:47 pm These Ibanez basses. Hate the headstock, hate the tuners. It looks like someone started to melt a plastic model of a Fender Precision and was inspired to make this monstrosity. Often seen in the hands of terrible bands. I get it, it's cheap, a starter bass for people, but I hate it.

I feel Attacked! not really. I have one of these that a previous owner hacked an (ugly) custom pickguard and Seymore duncan music man style pickup into. It plays great and I like it. Always had an ibanez bass of some sort around because, yes, they're cheap (also I'm primarily not a bassist)

I will argue, however, that Yamaha's of similar styling are much uglier. I HATE the top horn on these fucking things.

penningtron wrote: We've probably all been in bands with one of these. Technically nothing wrong with them

sure, but as Tyler said at the thread top:

TylerDeadPine wrote: Fri Oct 21, 2022 7:24 pm For a variety of reasons, most of the aesthetic and petty

and those are my reasons entirely. The part about "terrible bands" was just an observation, and I'll take any correction anyone has on that.

I still think they're ugly.

thecr4ne wrote: I feel Attacked! not really

Full disclosure, I've also owned potentially ugly stuff too. But these Ibanez bother me.

As mentioned earlier in the thread, most bass gear is uglier compared to guitar gear. That feels true for basses as well.

jirbling rake wrote: Sat Nov 05, 2022 11:04 am Full disclosure, I've also owned potentially ugly stuff too. But these Ibanez bother me.

Yeah, Same on the ugly stuff. I kinda feel this way about the Ibanez RG guitars. Love the necks, hate the bodies.

...if I'm being perfectly honest I kinda think Tele's are inherently fugly, but I cannot deny that they are legit great guitars.