The Boss TU-80 is a compact Tuner/Metronome from BOSS, built around the company's LCD tuning display and its Accu-Pitch feature, which plays a tone when you're in tune1. Boss describes it as reliable and accurate, and designed to be slim and light enough to fit in your pocket1.
What it does
The TU-80 combines two functions in one small unit: it tunes, and it keeps time as a metronome. On the tuning side, Boss says it offers "reliable and accurate BOSS LCD tuning, along with Accu-Pitch, which plays a tone when you're in tune"1. Accu-Pitch gives you an audible confirmation the moment the note locks in, so you don't have to keep your eyes on the screen.
Thanks to its chromatic and flat tuning capabilities, Boss says the TU-80 can tune just about any instrument, from guitars and basses to strings, brass and woodwinds1. That makes it useful beyond the guitar bench: a flat mode lets you tune down from standard pitch, and the chromatic range covers anything else you point it at.
The enclosure is part of the design brief. Boss describes the TU-80 as "slim and light enough to fit in your pocket"1, which puts it in the handheld tuner category rather than the pedal tuners such as the Boss TU3 Tuner that live on a pedalboard. If you want a tuner that stays on the floor, the BOSS TU-3s Tuner and BOSS TU-3W Tuner Waza Craft are Boss's compact pedal options, and the Tuner Pedals page covers the wider field.
Manual and support
Boss publishes a six-language owner's manual for the TU-80 on its support site, covering setup and operation in full2.
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Questions
What instruments can the Boss TU-80 tune?
Boss says the TU-80's chromatic and flat tuning capabilities let it tune just about any instrument, from guitars and basses to strings, brass and woodwinds. That makes it a general-purpose tuner rather than one limited to electric guitar, and its slim, light body is designed to fit in a pocket so it can travel between instruments.
What is Accu-Pitch on the Boss TU-80?
Accu-Pitch is a Boss feature that plays a tone when you're in tune. Instead of watching the display alone, you hear a confirmation sound as the note reaches pitch, which is handy when tuning by ear or in situations where glancing at the screen is awkward.
