If you add a detuner to your Rickenbacker it will decrease its resale value. Why not try fatter strings and tuning it DGCF? You could have 2 Rics one tuned normal and one tuned DGCF.
I used to have a 73 4001 tuned EADG and a p-bass tuned E flat and a jazz bass tuned DGCF. Then I needed a low D flat for a song so I got a Rickenbacker 5 string bass (4003s5). Then I learned to convert 4 string Rics into 5 string Rics. Then I learned how to make my own 5 string basses. Now I only play 5 string basses.
If you add a detuner to your Rickenbacker it will decrease its resale value. Why not try fatter strings and tuning it DGCF? You could have 2 Rics one tuned normal and one tuned DGCF.
I used to have a 73 4001 tuned EADG and a p-bass tuned E flat and a jazz bass tuned DGCF. Then I needed a low D flat for a song so I got a Rickenbacker 5 string bass (4003s5). Then I learned to convert 4 string Rics into 5 string Rics. Then I learned how to make my own 5 string basses. Now I only play 5 string basses.
This would be your best choice for a detuner on a Ric bass ... this would actually be a reversable modification since the tuner shaft is the same size.
Never really saw what the big deal with just detuning the string manually was. Instead of some needlessly complicated and overpriced tuner.
Going from standard to drop tuning is ridiculously easy to accomplish.
Hell ever listen to Botch? Those dudes would detune the low string massively while playing...play a super heavy part...then retune it back up to finish the song.
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