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View Poll Results: What tuning do you use the most?(4-string based) | |
Standard
|    | 103 | 76.30% | |
Dropped D
|    | 9 | 6.67% | |
Down 1/2 Step
|    | 12 | 8.89% | |
Down 1 step
|    | 8 | 5.93% | |
Down 1/2 step
|    | 0 | 0% | |
Down 2 steps
|    | 3 | 2.22% |
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06-12-2007, 01:49 PM
| | | | What tuning do you use the most(4-string based)
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06-12-2007, 01:50 PM
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06-12-2007, 02:04 PM
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06-12-2007, 02:05 PM
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06-12-2007, 02:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Jackson, MO | | | I tune half step down when I practice with the band, but when I am home, my basses are tuned to whatever I am listening to.
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06-12-2007, 02:47 PM
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06-12-2007, 03:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Kent, England | | | Standard, dont need to drop tune with my 5 string and the songs we cover.
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06-13-2007, 11:59 AM
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Sometimes BEADGB as you've got the EADGB from a guitar, makes for easier strumming.
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06-13-2007, 06:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Madrid, Spain | | | DGCF or CGCF in my band, or standard (or whatever tuning they use) when playing along with cd´s.
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06-13-2007, 07:07 PM
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Looks like the 2nd most popular tunning (not counting the non-4 string replies) is not listed in the poll, and ˝ step down is listed twice.
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06-13-2007, 07:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Gladstone, QLD, Australia | | | I play standard EADG 95% of the time...
have one bass tuned BEAD
also occassionally play drop D (DADG)...
My wishbass strung with D'Addario Nylon Tape wraps can handle a gazillion different tunings using the same strings (neck is a veritable baseball bat)...
I can tune it EADG, BEAD, using the same strings...I've even messed with tuning it in 5ths (like a cello), except I tuned it B F# C# G# |
05-18-2011, 06:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2011 Location: Colorado Springs, CO. | | | I tune to BEAD, then I drop the B down to an A, I use rotosound swing 66 roundwounds on it, so I gots great clarity. |
05-18-2011, 07:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Northwest Indiana | | | Drop B (BF#BE) on my T-40 and Thunderbird. And low F# (F#BEA) on my P-bass. I have a short scale Aria that doesn't get used in my band, so it gets tuned to whatever I feel like, usually between drop C and standard EADG.
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05-18-2011, 08:06 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Cleveland, OH | | | My favorite is Eb. Similar to standard but has a unique darkness to it that I like. Also eases up the tension a hair. Not too loose just comfortable.
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05-18-2011, 08:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Buckley AFB, CO. | | | QOTSA and Kyuss got me downtuning everything two steps and I haven't gone back since 2005. I don't have a 4-string right now and rather than dropping the entire tuning of by 5-string I just raise it 1/2 step, B>C. And yeah, I don't offset what would normally be the G a half-step like the guitar would - I just leave it.
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05-19-2011, 06:44 PM
| | | | Standard, EADG. Did tune down a half step once upon a time when was in a band that did that cause it helped the singer better.
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05-19-2011, 09:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Dallas FtWorth Texas | | | EADG unless the song i'd in D... But that dont happen much
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05-19-2011, 11:26 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Nashville, TN | | | D,G,C,F or C#,F#,B, E |
05-19-2011, 11:38 PM
| | | I went into the dropped-D tuning kicking and screaming. The band I'm uses it all the time (and I still go standard on a few songs even when they don't!  ). I'm actually getting used to it. |
05-20-2011, 08:43 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Boston, MA | | | Currently standard, but I was in drop C when I played the heavy stuff for a long time. Now I'm in the process of converting my bass to BEAD tuning. Just have to put the new nut on and I will be there!
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