Stomp Classic

Pedal Tuner / Active DI

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$199.00

The Peterson VSS-C StroboStomp Classic Tuner pedal with DI is THE ONLY true bypass, active DI-equipped tuning pedal with computer connectivity. All of this is housed in a small package that is an apt heir to the throne of the now world-famous Conn ST-11 analog tuner!

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DEAD ON TUNING!

The Stomp Classic tunes my guitar DEAD ON. Aside from the original Conn Strobe Tuner I owned in the 70's, this is the best tuner I have ever owned, bar none. Definitely worth every penny.

- Lee

Overview

The Peterson VSS-C StroboStomp Classic Tuner is the most fully-featured pedal tuner made by anyone to date. A high-contrast LCD screen makes this tuner the perfect choice for both indoor and outdoor use as well as for anywhere that lighting conditions are less than ideal. Integrated, fold out, steel mounting lugs at the unit’s bottom rubberized plate keep it in place on your pedal board without unsightly tape or messy adhesives. Its ultra-robust die-cast chassis and Switchcraft brand input/output jacks assure a quality tuning even after the roughest of voyages. Also, its unique quick- release battery-access door steers you far away from having to deal with delicate, easily broken, battery lead wires. Battery changes are a breeze!

The professional-quality active DI on board is mutable and lets you select one of three stages of signal attenuation—all while remaining 100% true bypass. Finally, the tuner’s side mounted USB jack makes your unit future-proof and custom tailored to be exactly what you need it to be by allowing Mac or PC connectivity for updates and unit user programming/modifications.

TRUE STROBE TUNING IN A PEDAL

Building off the success of the legendary StroboStomp pedal, the Stomp Classic is a workhorse that will enhance any pedalboard. From the true-bypass signal flow to the active, on-board direct box. We have redefined the standard and created the ultimate pedal tuner.

HIGH DEFINITION TUNING

All Peterson products provide guaranteed tuning results to within +/-0.1 cent. That is 1/1000th of a fret! The large 2.25" , high-contrast screen is easy to see on your pedalboard amongst stage lights or out in the sun.

Tuning with the Stomp Classic allows your instrument to sound its best and helps ensure its tuning stays true during playing.

This level of accuracy is the highest in the industry and what has made Peterson the choice of professionals around the globe for over 65 years.

STUDIO QUALITY ACTIVE DI

High-impedance signals get balanced and matched with ultra-transparency, extreme detail and sparkle. Perfect for use with acoustic or bass guitars, electric pianos and synthesizers. Fully mute-able for private tuning at the gig between songs.

Three step attenuation pad reduces the incoming signal level from loud sources that could overload the circuit and cause distortion. Selectable ground lift reduces noise and helps prevent ground loop hum in your rig.

High-quality Neutrik® XLR jack for optimum reliability and roll cage bar to protect your XLR cable on stage from accidents.

IT'S YOUR SOUND

Enjoy transparent operation no matter its location in your signal chain.

LET'S CONNECT

Connect the Stomp Classic to your Mac or PC to customize the included tunings or load in the tunings you've created with our Peterson Connect online utility.

RUGGED. RELIABLE. ROADWORTHY.

The Stomp Classic is built like a tank and capable of taking the most grueling punishment.

We have designed this to be the most roadworthy tuner you can place on your pedalboard.

BUILT TO LAST

A heavy duty, die-cast chassis with a 3PDT stomp switch makes the Stomp Classic road-worthy and reliable. The 9V battery drop is located under the pedal and is easily accessed with one finger for quick loading before the gig.

No more thumbscrews to remove or battery doors to lose.

The thick rubber matting securely grips even the most abused of stages. For those looking to permanently mount the Stomp Classic, flip-out mounting tabs are located on the bottom of the unit.

Available Sweetened Tunings ( 25 )

Default

EQU

Standard chromatic tuning/Equal temperament suitable for regular or alternate tuning, 100 cent intervals - no Sweetening.

Guitar & Bass

GTR

Designed for use with guitars tuned to standard EADGBE.

ACU

Designed for use with acoustic guitars tuned to standard EADGBE.

dAd

Peterson Sweetened tuning for acoustic guitar

G12

Peterson Sweetened tuning for 12 string guitars with regard to the string courses.

BRT

Peterson Sweetened tuning for baritone guitars.

7ST

Peterson Sweetened tuning for seven string guitars.

bAS

Designed for use with basses tuned to standard EADG and BEADG.

BSn

Guided Tuning for Bass

GTn

Guided Tuning for 6 & 7 string guitars

Buzz Feiten

bFE

Buzz Feiten Tuning System for electric guitar

bFb

Buzz Feiten Tuning System for electric bass guitar

bFA

Buzz Feiten Tuning System for acoustic guitar

BF12

Buzz Feiten Tuning System for 12 String Guitar

Steel Guitar

SE9

Peterson Pedal Steel Guitar Sweetened Tuning for 10 string pedal steel in E9 tuning.

SC6

Peterson Pedal Steel Guitar Sweetened Tuning for 10 string pedal steel in C6 tuning.

OE9

Peterson E9 Pedal Steel Guitar Sweetened Tuning for the Open Strings

U12

Peterson Pedal Steel Guitar Sweetened Tuning for 12 string universal pedal steel guitar in E9/B6 tuning.

LA6

Peterson A6 Sweetener for Lap Steel Guitar.

LC6

Peterson C6 Sweetener for Lap Steel Guitar.

Bluegrass

dBO

Peterson Combination Sweetened Tuning for Dobro

dBH

Peterson Combination Sweetened Tuning for Dobro

bJO

Peterson Sweetened Tuning for 5 String Banjo

MAN

Peterson Mandolin Family Sweetener

Orchestral

VLN

Peterson Violin Sweetener

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Specifications

Power Supply: Optional (9VDC Negative Center Pin)

DI: Active/Mutable/3-Stage Attenuable

Peterson Connect Compatible: Yes

Note Range: C0 - A#8

Note Selection: Automatic

Firmware Updateable: Yes

True Bypass: Yes

Buffered Mode: No

Form Factor: Pedal / Floor

Accuracy: 0.1 Cents

Display Type: LCD

Display Resolution: 256 Segments (128 per row )

Construction: Die Cast

Product Dimensions LxWxH: 6" x 3.25" x 2.75"

Product Weight: 1.7lbs

USB Port: Yes

USB Type: Mini

Rechargeable: No

Battery Type: 9V (Included)

Power: 9VDC 80mA (Nominal)

Built-In Microphone: No

Built-In Speaker: No

Headphone Jack: No

Inputs: 1/4" Mono

Outputs: 1/4" Mono ( through ), Balanced XLR Output

Mute-able Output: Yes

Concert A Range: 390Hz to 490Hz

Transposition Range: -6 to +5

Frequency Response Range: 16.35Hz - 7302Hz

Warranty: 3 years

Sweetened Tunings: 25

User Presets: 10 Locations

Historic Temperaments: Equal Only

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Stomp Classic

Five Stars!

By Francisco Castillo on Friday, March 5, 2021

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Plays 6-String Electric Guitar, 6-String Acoustic Guitar, 4 String Bass

Stomp Classic

Five Stars!

By Gereon Stefer on Sunday, January 3, 2021

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Nice one.

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Stomp Classic

Five Stars!

By Daniel Rheault on Friday, July 10, 2020

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Stomp Classic

Unquestionable Peterson Quality

By David Luther on Wednesday, May 20, 2020

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Plays 6-String Electric Guitar, 4 String Bass, 6-String Acoustic Guitar

The features that are on this tuner can't be matched by any other tuner on the market in it's range. Period. The build quality is extremely rugged. I like the fact that is has mounting lugs so that you can screw it down to your pedalboard if you choose to do so. Peterson has the finest tuners available. You can't go wrong with a Peterson.

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By Michael Haring on Sunday, May 10, 2020

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Peterson Stomp Classic.
Genialer Tuner mit unendlich viel Möglichkeiten im Custom Mode.
Aber auch in der Standardkonfiguration ist er ein absoluter Meilenstein, der sich - nicht nur optisch - zu Recht am legendären CONN ST-11 anlehnt.
In die Konfiguration des Custom Mode gelangt man über die Internetseite von petersontuners.com und wenn man da nicht weiterkommt, hilft einem der Peterson Support mit unendlicher Geduld. Ich habe nie länger als 24 Stunden auf die Beantwortung einer Frage gewartet.
Gleichzeitig kann man den Tuner als aktive DI-Box benutzen. Was will man mehr?
5 stars - no... 6 stars (!) - from Berlin (Germany). Thanks a lot.

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Stomp Classic

Five Stars!

By Donald Ducharme on Monday, January 20, 2020

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Plays 6-String Electric Guitar, 6-String Acoustic Guitar, 4 String Bass, 5 String Bass

Simple to use, precise, rugged, has a handy DI out and is easy to see in many conditions.

1 person found this review helpful.

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Stomp Classic

I Love it !

By Alan Brandle on Thursday, May 23, 2019

Edited on Thursday, May 23, 2019

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Plays 6-String Acoustic Guitar, 6-String Electric Guitar, Mandolin, 4 String Bass

I love it. It's tons more accurate than my Polytune stomp and it's built like a brick outhouse. I mean it's SOLID. I wish I'd decided to take the plunge years ago, but, as the old saying goes, better late than never. I highly recommend this tuner.

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Stomp Classic

Amazing tuner

By Morgan on Thursday, May 9, 2019

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Plays 6-String Electric Guitar, 6-String Acoustic Guitar, 5 String Bass, Classical Violin, 6 String Bass, Buzz Feiten Electric Guitar, Classical Viola, Buzz Feiten Acoustic Guitar, Buzz Feiten Bass, Buzz Feiten 12-String Guitar

Is a amazing tuner, fast, accurate, work perfectly on bass and guitar.

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It's a Peterson! Need I Say More?

By Rande Holder on Wednesday, April 24, 2019

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Plays 6-String Electric Guitar, 5 String Bass, 6 String Lap Steel, 4 String Bass

The best stomp box style tuner hands down. I wish I had tried this year's ago. I've been suffering with a TU-2 and it's imperfections for years. I recently built a home studio and while purchasing new gear I knew that I definitely needed a more accurate tuner and of course Peterson was the first and only name I thought of. Like they say, the rest is history. The Stomp Classic works exactly as described. Couldn't be more happy with it! I chose the Stomp Classic for the ease of being able to pass it around to other players and to carry it around the studio anywhere it may be needed with ease. Just pop a battery in it and go.

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Stomp Classic

Five Stars!

By Gary Willmott on Thursday, April 18, 2019

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Plays 6-String Electric Guitar

For me there’s no going back having tried the accuracy and “Sweet Tuning” guitar presets of the Peterson Strobe tuner, the Stomp Classic looks and feels extremely robust and unusually has an active DI XLR output, this is a great choice for the studio, stage and luthier, as well as the more demanding enthusiast!

The design and connectivity will no doubt appeal to audio professionals and performers, for me even at an enthusiast level it was quite a revelation being able to achieve those elusive pro tunings, a very satisfying game changer!

Having personally experienced Peterson’s reputation for customer satisfaction and support recently, they really excelled and I would like to thank John and all at Peterson for their help and kindness!

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Frequently Asked Questions

What power supplies can be used with my Peterson Pedal Tuner? ( StroboStomp 1 & 2, Stomp Classic & StroboStomp HD )

9VDC - Regulated - Center negative - At least 85mA

Partial list of regulated power supplies:

Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2 (Eight isolated 9VDC 100mA regulated outputs)
Dunlop DCB-10 DC Brick (10 outputs)
Visual Sound 1-Spot (9V fully regulated output)
Carl Martin Big John 9v Power Supply (Seven 9VDC outputs 600mA total)
Sanyo Pedal Juice
T-Rex Fuel Tank
Godlyke PA9 Power All (9V 800mA regulated output)
Boss PSA120 adapter (9V 200mA regulated)

DO NOT use the Boss ACA120 Unregulated power supply! Boss ACA, Danelectro DA1, RadioShack, etc., do not have a voltage regulator and are not suitable.

As always with any pedal, be careful - check voltage ( 9V regulated ) & polarity (positive barrel-negative inner sleeve) first and don't overload the power supply's ampere rating by daisy chaining too many pedals from a single supply.

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How do I read a strobe display?

Basically, the strobe image appears to travel to the left if your instrument is flat of the desired pitch and to the right if it is sharp. On earlier models such as the StroboStomp 1, StroboStomp 2, VS-1, VS-II and V-SAM, the strobe image travels upward if your instrument is sharp and downward if your instrument is flat of the desired pitch.

Adjust your instrument until the pattern is as close to still as possible. Strobe displays are 'real-time' and extremely high definition. They require very precise tuning adjustments to stop the display because the frequency/pitch of any instrument is never totally stable.

You'll quickly learn to read the display, make the most precise adjustments and appreciate the high resolution that only a Peterson provides.

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Peterson Connect does not detect my Stomp Classic in Linux environment.

Chrome needs access to /dev/hidraw*, so either set "chmod a+rw /dev/hidraw*" or start chrome as root with the --no-sandbox option

*Some Ubuntu based distros do not allow running Chrome as root with the --no-sandbox option enabled. -Running as root without --no-sandbox is not supported. See https://crbug.com/638180. You can however run Chromium as a normal user and invoke that option.

Some users have reprted a fix by adding a new udev rule as follows: KERNEL=="hidraw*", SUBSYSTEM=="hidraw", MODE="0664", GROUP="plugdev", ATTRS{idVendor}=="2368", ATTRS{idProduct}=="*SEE BELOW"

* Some Peterson products operate in two different modes with individual product id's for firmware update operations. Multiple rules may need to be created. Here is the list of Peterson USB product ID's

idProduct =

Stomp Classic = 8002
StroboPLUS HD = 0003
StroboPLUS HD Firmware Mode = 8003
StroboClip HD = 8004
StroboStomp HD = 8005
StroboPLUS HDC = 0006
StroboPLUS HDC Firmware Mode = 8006

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Is the accuracy the same for all Peterson tuners?

Yes, the accuracy is within 0.1 cents (1/1000 of one semitone) as with all Peterson Strobe Tuners. An important thing to note is that Peterson Strobe Tuners have ultra high definition displays, so not only are they highly accurate in detecting a note but they have the ability to display that accuracy. Other products claim accuracy but do not have the high definition screen to display the level of accuracy in which they claim. If you cannot see the accuracy, it is of little value. Only Peterson provides High Definition Strobe Tuning.

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What is my Stomp Classic’s Sweetened Tunings feature all about?

A Sweetener is a set of cent offsets or a deviation from generic Equal Temperament interval spacing traditionally used in tuning. Tuners made by Peterson, including the Stomp Classic, contain many choices of “Sweetness“, in other words, several presets with differing interval spacing relevant to the instrument being tuned. If you’ve never been happy with how your instrument tunes up with your present tuner, a Sweetener could be just the thing to change that without any modifications whatsoever. The Stomp Classic offers 25 unique and very accurate “tweaks” which often make all the difference, try it!

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Firmware Revision History

Stomp Classic Version 1.0.06

Thursday, May 4, 2017 3:01:00 PM EDT

Various bug fixes and performace improvements.

Stomp Classic Version 1.0.05

Tuesday, September 24, 2013 9:40:00 AM EDT

Various Bug Fixes

Stomp Classic Version 1.0.04

Wednesday, August 7, 2013 10:37:00 AM EDT

Note display default is now the sharp ( # ) version of en-harmonic equivalents. Previously a combination of sharps and flats ( #/b ) were used.
Peterson Connect now supports characters P and L for custom octave names ( Pedal and Lever indicator for Steel ).

Stomp Classic Version 1.0.02

Sunday, January 1, 2012 2:01:30 PM EST

Enables Peterson Connect functionality
Various Bug Fixes.

Stomp Classic

TRUE STROBE TUNING IN A PEDAL

HIGH DEFINITION TUNING

STUDIO QUALITY ACTIVE DI

IT'S YOUR SOUND

LET'S CONNECT

RUGGED. RELIABLE. ROADWORTHY.

BUILT TO LAST

Default

Guitar & Bass

Buzz Feiten

Steel Guitar

Bluegrass

Orchestral

Compare to Sweetened Tunings offered in other products.

What power supplies can be used with my Peterson Pedal Tuner? ( StroboStomp 1 & 2, Stomp Classic & StroboStomp HD )

How do I read a strobe display?

Peterson Connect does not detect my Stomp Classic in Linux environment.

Is the accuracy the same for all Peterson tuners?

What is my Stomp Classic’s Sweetened Tunings feature all about?

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