Metronome recommendations?

[PallasAthena]

I have a DB-12 Dr. Beat. I don't know how much it costs, as it was a gift, but it's probably reasonably priced. You can set it to different time signatures and the first downbeat of each measure is marked by a differently pitched click. You can set it on quarter notes, eith notes, triplets, sixteenth notes, a rest-eith note rest-eithnote pattern, and a triplet pattern in wich the middle note is a rest. It has a tuning note and a timer/stopwatch. There is a mute option in wich only the two lights flash to denote the beats. Most useful is the headphone jack, which helps if you're playing louder than the metranome.

[Jack]

Only 400+ to choose from out there on eBAY:
http://instruments.search.ebay.com/metr ... QsacatZ619

I had one of those:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 7412839567

...except that mine was a different color. I bought it used on eBay for $5, and it still lasted me 4 years. I liked it.

I've also always wanted one of those old-fashioned wooden pyramid-shaped ones. They seem so cool, because you can watch the beat as well as hear it.

[Roger O'Keeffe]

i'm still looking for a metronome that doesn't slow down during the easy bits and speed up during the hard bits of tunes .

[Chief Wanganui]

i'm still looking for a metronome that doesn't slow down :o during the easy bits and speed up :swear: during the hard bits of tunes :lol: .

Curiously enough, these "variable-speed" metronomes seem to be very popular amongst classical violinists of my acquaintance.