SABINE ZIP-700 Operating Manual

ZIP-700 GUITAR & BASS TUNER

Operating Guide

Operating Guide

Operating Guide

Operating Guide

Operating Guide

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Your Sabine ZIP-700 Six-Note Guitar & Bass

Tuner provides an easy-to-use tuning display and

advanced tuning algorithm.  It automatically senses

and displays the pitch of the string you are tuning,

providing hands-free operation.  The ZIP-700 tunes

all guitars and basses.

ZIP-700 FEATURES

• Easy-to-read LED display.  Your ZIP Tuner re-

places the delicate meter and needle display

found on most six-note tuners with a rugged solid-

state LED array.  The LED display provides the

same continuous indication of tuning error by

varying the LED blink rate.  LEDs are much

easier to read than meters, especially in the dark

and from a distance.

• Grabs note fast, holds it longer.  Your ZIP

Tuner automatically senses the note you are play-

ing and indicates if it is closest to an E, A, D, G,

B, or high E.

• Calibrate to other pitches.  This feature is use-

ful for tuning your guitar or bass to instruments

that tune to pitches other than A=440, and for

tuning to alternate scales.

• Use the built-in mic or the 1/4" jacks.

• 9-volt battery included.

• Two-year warranty.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR TUNING

1. PRESS THE POWER BUTTON TO TURN ON

YOUR TUNER.  Acoustic instrument tones are

detected by a very sensitive internal microphone.

Do not pluck loudly to tune, except  in very noisy

rooms.  Plucking the string once per second with

medium loudness usually gives the best results.

Electronic instruments should be plugged into the

tuner's input jack labeled "INST" with a standard

guitar cord.  The internal mic automatically discon-

nects so the tuner will not pick up extraneous back-

ground noise.  You may connect your tuner's AMP

jack to any amplifier's or P.A. system's input so

you can tune as you play.

2. PLUCK THE STRING YOU WISH TO TUNE.

Adjust the instrument's pitch until the desired

NOTE INDICATOR light is lit.  For example, if you

wish to tune your D string, pluck the string and

tune it until the D indicator light is lit.  Pluck the

string every second or so to keep the note fresh

and to prevent it from fading flat.  To eliminate ex-

traneous overtones, mute the other strings after

each pluck.

3. SLOWLY ADJUST THE INSTRUMENT'S

PITCH UNTIL THE "IN TUNE" LIGHT IS LIT.

Note that the SHARP and FLAT indicators blink

rapidly when the note is far from being in tune and

blink slower as the note approaches being in tune.

Repeat steps 2 and 3 for the other notes until the

entire instrument is tuned.

HOW TO RECALIBRATE YOUR ZIP-700: Use

the CALIBRATE function if you want to tune your

guitar to an instrument that tunes to pitches other

than A=440, or if you want to use alternate scales.

For example, if you wish to recalibrate  the tuner

from standard A=440 Hz. to A=438 Hz., press the

CALIBRATE button until the note indicator LED

lights under 438.  The tuner's scale is now shifted

to that pitch.  To return the tuner to standard A=440

Hz., turn the tuner off and then back on.