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01-22-2013, 08:38 PM
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I've been messing around with different tuning's for my 5 string ever since I bought a 6 string (now tuned to ADADGC) to use for the band I'm in.
So far, all I've come up with on the 5 is CFACD#. It's pretty fun to bounce around in clean, as well as blast through w/ distortion.
If anyone else has any other weird/awkward tuning's, please share.
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01-22-2013, 08:46 PM
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01-22-2013, 08:48 PM
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01-22-2013, 09:07 PM
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Me endorsed? | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada | | | BbEbAbDbGb
BEADG
EbAbDbGb
EADGC
So basically standard tuning on all 5ers, but generally 1/2 step down. Mostly with a B string, but increasingly with a C.
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01-22-2013, 09:08 PM
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01-22-2013, 09:21 PM
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01-22-2013, 10:31 PM
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Originally Posted by ffutterman I'm in a death metal band, so I have 5 B strings on my bass and tuned them all down to A. | I may be drunk... but that makes no sense.
I'd love to hear it. 
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01-22-2013, 10:32 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Central Valley | | | on my 4 bangers E Flat on down...
on my fivers B flat on down...
or basically i tune a half step down from standard..lol
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01-22-2013, 10:41 PM
| | | | not bad.
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01-22-2013, 10:47 PM
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C1 G1 D2 A2
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01-22-2013, 10:51 PM
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01-22-2013, 10:59 PM
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01-22-2013, 11:02 PM
| | | | BEADF#
BbEbAbDbF
C#G#C#F#
Basically dropped tuning only on four string basses.
Dropping the "G" string on the 5ers makes things more interesting. |
01-22-2013, 11:13 PM
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One band: BEADG
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01-22-2013, 11:17 PM
| | | | C#G#C#F#
DADG
EADG |
01-22-2013, 11:28 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Belmont County, Ohio - USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by TapyTap C1 G1 D2 A2 | Is that cello tuning, or is it an octave lower. And why?
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01-23-2013, 12:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA | | | My Rickenbacker and my Ibanez 4001 copy are tuned EADG, as is my acoustic fretless.
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01-23-2013, 12:37 AM
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01-23-2013, 12:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Milan, Italy | | | A full step downtunin' with my thrash metal band, standard tunin' with my cover band.
With metal band it's:
A, D, G, C, F on 5er
D, G, C, F on 4er (C, G, C, F: whenever a detuner is on)
With cover band it's:
B, E, A, D, G on 5er
E, A, D, G on 4er (D, A, D, G: whenever a detuner is on)
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01-23-2013, 12:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Portland oregon | | | d a d g 436 hz
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