Korg, the company that invented the first hand-held electronic tuner, has now created the world’s smallest metronome. The Korg MM-1, an on-ear micro metronome, is only slightly larger than an earring, but packs all the functionality you could want for rhythm training.
Price: $19.95 Buy now!
User Reviews:
Feature:
The multiple time signatures and other goodies, such as a built in subdivider make this product very helpful.
Quality:
Only downside is its size. This prduct is very easy to lose on a marching field… trust me. It is a bear trying to find it again.
Value:
For value, this metronome beats out the others I’ve looked at. For the number of options and size, this item is very well priced and worth its cost.
Desirability:
It’s so freaking small! Nobody knows where the heck the little beeping is coming from, all they know is that it’s there!
Sound:
As a Drum Major, who needs his hands free, this product helps more than most people realize. This can give an exact tempo without having to listen to a big bulky metronome, put it back into your pocket, and more than likely forget the tempo in the first place. This one, however, allows you to simply keep the metronome in your ear, allowing for easy access, sure tempo, and free hands for conducting.
Ease of Use:
The lack of buttons makes the mode choice and other options difficult to operate, but after a day of use one gets used to it and the product works very well.
Support:
Haven’t had any trouble with it.
Overall:
I’ll probably keep it until it gets lost or trampled… Both being very possible occurances.
The new DB-60 is a handy timekeeper that can lay down a click in style. Along with the standard functions of a metronome, the DB-60 provides a menu of rhythmic patterns, a note-mixing feature to create rhythms that match the feel and style of your music, and the ability to handle time signatures of up to 17 beats per measure.
Price: $79.00 Buy now!
User Reviews:
Feature:
Quite a few patterns, stand is good. 1/16′s, 1/8′s and triplets are very tight. Although, I couldn’t get the triplets to work in 1/16′s (doubled up from standard 1/8′s), let me know if I am missing something here.
Quality:
Dropped it and it still works, good sign.
Value:
Reasonable price.
Desirability:
Nice colors, stand is very useful.
Sound:
Best when used with Sennheiser HD500 headphones. Tone could use some depth and thickness, but best compared to others I tried.
Support:
Have not used.
Overall:
Improved my guitar shredding within the hour!! Honestly, the triplets setting and 1/16′s was very useful (would like triplets setting to work doubled up from standard 1/8′s, doubling the tempo speed to compensate). I was seeing improvement within the hour. Remeber the best way to use a metronome is to choose a comfortable start tempo where you are playing passages accurately and smoothly and then increase tempo every few minutes until you can’t even keep up, but try to push for a few bars just to get the feel of what it will be like when you get to that stage. Remember accuracy before speed or you will just be a fast sloppy player!
Keep time in more ways than one. The Profile clip on digital metronome provides a convenient way to play along to a metronome. A bright LED light blinks to the beat/tempo and a chirp (with 3 volume settings) gives you audio feedback. Don’t hesitate and clip one on to anything today!
Price: $11.95 Buy now!
It’s portable, reliable, and fun to use — the DB-30 helps musicians take their music to higher levels by offering a set of features that defies its diminutive size. Much more than just a simple timekeeper, this pocket-sized metronome can lay down a variety of rhythm patterns and time feels to practice along with, and it has a few timekeeping tricks up its sleeve as well.
Price: $39.95 Buy now!
User Reviews:
Feature:
You can adjust where the accents go, as well as the subdivision of each beat. It has tap tempo and even a tuner which will play all 12 pitches; you can adjust the reference tone (440 is the default, of course). There’s a volume control which comes in handy, as well as a headphone jack.
Desirability:
I like the digital metronome arm and overall aesthetics, as well as the compact size.
Sound:
Pleasant to listen to for long periods of time.
Ease of Use:
Spend 5 minutes with it, and you’ll figure it out. Pretty straightforward. More features than a typical metronome, maybe, but not hard to figure out how to do everything you want.
Overall:
I’d say this metronome is where it’s at for most people. It does more than just click at a given BPM, having accents and subdivisions such as eighths, sixteenths, triplets, clave patterns, and more. You could go with one of the more elaborate DB models if you are looking for actual beats instead of just a click (I’m not familiar with these models). But for most people, I would venture that you will be satisfied with the features on the DB-30.
Korg’s acclaimed cylindrical speaker has been further enhanced with an improved resonator structure to ensure that it’s easily heard. Even loud instruments won’t overpower its unmistakable, clear sound. And with the KDM2 you have a choice of 3 different PCM sounds (cowbell/agogo/clave) for the beat, so you can choose the sound that compliments the instrument you’re playing. The volume can also be adjusted to the most appropriate level. Since there’s a PHONE jack, you can connect a mini-plug (1/8″) earphone for private practice.
Price: $59.95 Buy now!
The new RW105 now features a backlit display, 30 different memory settings, and up to nine different beat divisions.
Price: $89.95 Buy now!
Qwik Time’s best-selling metronome.
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Taking advantage of the extra large LCD, the LMA-120 provides a unique Korg tempo display method – a newly-developed “Conducting Motion” display in which three bars move in a way similar to a conductor’s baton.
Price: $49.95 Buy now!
The MA-30 is the latest offering from Korg’s innovative line of metronomes, with new features like volume control and sophisticated rhythms such as triplets and quadruplets with inner beats omitted.
Price: $29.95 Buy now!
User Reviews:
Feature:
I wish (and this is really the only feature that this doesn’t have) that this would let me put an accented click on any note I desire.
Quality:
Value:
Hell ya!
Desirability:
This metronome is as long as my middle finger and as wide as my palm (not including fingers). It isn’t thick, either.
Overall:
I think that the next time I would start to look for another metronome is when I am in college or if there is some sweet metronome at the price of this product.
Sabine’s new ZipBeat-6000 Digital Metronome offers you many valuable features previously available only in far more expensive metronomes.
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User Reviews:
Sound:
Here’s what’s WRONG about this metronome. 1) there is no volume control, so you hear a constant LOUD BLIP everytime. So while practicing by yourself, you’ll soon become irritated at listening to the horribly loud sound that you just will simply turn it off. 2) the headset jack is also set on loud, so if you put headsets into the jack, they will be beeping at maximum sound; making it so u can put the headset on the floor and still hear it from 10 feet away. (not lying) 3) It’s bulky and impracticle to carry in a clarinet case or flute case. 4) no volume control 5) Since this is an old model, the newer cheaper models can go in increments of 1 instead of increments of 4′s. Further reason not to buy this bulky product. (go for the cheaper electronic ones) Good things about it 1) multifunction comes in handy, but it doesn’t cover the bases like the 150 dollar metronomes.