BOSSDB-30 Digital Metronome, Portable, Ruggedly Built, and Packed with fun Play-Along patterns

The instructions aren't very clear but if you just have a go it's easy to work it out even for someone reasonably new to music like me. Really helpful piece of kit, I wonder how I managed without it. I have an old wooden one but it doesn't keep good time anymore, especially at slower speeds. This makes everything more precise. Love it!

I wanted a metronome with a speaker that would allow me to play along with an acoustic and still hear the metronome. It's not loud enough for that. This being said, it is still a great a versatile metronome. I can play an unplugged semi hollow body electric and hear it fine.

This was bought for my son to help with his grade 2 drumming examination, as he struggles with his time-keeping. He tells me it is 'wicked'! I looked at a few different metronomes, but all of the reviews were by guitarists and I was concerned that my son would not hear the beat over his drums. After reading the positive reviews about this particular model and researching it further, I am pleased with my purchase. It can be heard clearly over my son's drumming (his teacher tells me my son is a particularly loud drummer!). He has spent time just going through his grade 2 music whilst listening to the metronome on the correct beat, without actually playing, which has helped him further with his timing. A great purchase, which I am sure will continue to be of benefit to my son for many years to come.

Has triplets, syncopated, and Latin clave rhythms as well as the usual common time, waltz time etc.You can have two bars at different time signatures.You can also tune the beep.So worth the upgrade from a bog standard metronome.

Good value electronic metronome

Is this worth the extra cost over the £7-8 metronomes? Yes, definitely. Ignore the cost and instead revel in how much easier it is to use than those! (naturally you won't be able to appreciate this until you've tried both as i have!). It's more rugged, has a volume dial (so you don't have to go through the menus to change volume AND you can change it to whatever level you like, unlike the cheaper ones), a metal clip a tap-to-find-the-bpm button. It's just so much better thought out. I am a drummer and this is the perfect little device for me.

This is the second Boss Dr Beat I've had - it's very good when it works.The six stars is for the excellent customer service that comes with it when you purchase from Fair Deal Music.I purchased one of these for my son who is preparing for his Grade 4 piano exam and it stopped working.I got in contact with FDM, explained what was wrong and they dispatched another one straight away.No hassles or excuses, no complicated time consuming returns procedure - they just fixed my problemstraight away, bam!If only all Amazon sellers were like this, well done Fair Deal Music - you guys rock!

Maybe I am just unlucky, but I have had a problem with the last 2 DB-30 metronomes that I have bought. They will randomly turn off, and decide to reset if you put headphones in sometimes. It is really frustrating because it's not a product that I can take with me anywhere and know it will be functional and working. I am very disappointed about how in under a couple of months for the first metronome it stopped working, and the second just a couple of weeks!It is a good metronome when it works, just not worth the risk.I've stuck with the tempo advance app now, I would highly recommend it