Droping all stings instead of just dropped D

[The Artist]

I have been playing in a band for three years now where the guitars are tuned C#G#C#F# (like dropped D and then the whole thing another semitone dropped)
However I just thought of tuning my whole bass down so the intervals are the same as when tuned EADG, but just starting with the E string as C# (C#F#BE)
That way my fingering would be the "normal" way and I would profit from fingering correctly and the intervals being in the right places.

Does any one else do this?

I would probably have to setup my neck again, but it seems more like the "right way" of doing this, and not somuch as cheating just to make the fingering easyer^^ Cos it sometimes really messes with my brain trying to figure out what kind of scale were in when the interval from E sting to A string is a 5th instead of a 4th...

[Nashrakh]

Whatever floats your boat. Personally, I've got a bass strung BEAD, like a 5er without the G.

If it works for you, there's nothing wrong about it. You may consider that some songs are easier to play in drop tunings (seen some deathcore songs that would be really hard in C instead of drop c), but IME, you can most likely play the same stuff either way.

[Let It Fall]

If I were you that's what I do. The oddly tuned d string just throws me off.

[The Artist]

well I've tryed both ideas (BEAD) and (C#F#BE) I used to play a five string, but the missing G string thows me off a litte. Only problem I encountered with the (C#F#BE) was that I needed to play open stings before for one groove and now i have to tap it insted...but thats fun too I'll see which is more practical fingering wise at practice today. thanks for your replys. damn guitars, why cant we just play normal^^. I've tryed so many different ways of tuning today. I'm glad we dont have a keyboard, I'd hate to have to transcribe everything for him. however some keyboards do have a transpose option... well I bet I screw up every song cos I've tryed them so many different ways^^

[Swift713]

I tune my fretless "acoustic" DGCF, my fretted bass is a 5.

[wetzelman1]

luckily i didn't really get serious with my playing until playing things in drop tunings for years. You could tune everything down but some fingerings may not work right, opens now have to be fretted, etc.

[Fendr1320]

some of our guitarist's parts dictate that the riffs be in drop d, and while I don't always follow him I find that it's easier to just tune my bass accordingly for the parts where we're in unison...if it were up to me, i'd have all the strings dropped the same, i.e. DGCF. seems less limiting