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5 string tuning (EADGC vc BEADG)

#21
for traditional purposes, BEADG for the five-string will always reign supreme and strike me as more universally useful than the alternative. and thats fantastic in theory, but in reality? my application with five strings' always been EADGC




speaking of which, has anybody ever done a EADGC tuning with a Hipshot on E?
 
#25
Owner's choice! :)

I've tried both, sometimes at the same time w/ a 6-string. For a while, it was handy to have a high C for certain things (particularly chording & shedding the Bach Cello Suites). But on the gig I just don't care for the timbre of the thinner high C string and for most of the stuff I do, frankly it just gets in the way. So for me it's BEADG or bust.

If the low B doesn't speak well on your bass, that's a good excuse to go EADGC (that's how it went w/ my first 5-string :hmm:). And if you dig that more, great!
 
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#26
So I got home tonight and I strung it up EADGC, first thing I noticed is the salesman gave me the wrong strings. I end up with the "bright" roundwounds.

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So I strung the bass up and I was not impressed at all. The strings were way brighter then I like. Through my trial of various strings I really like a warm toned string with real beefy bass, but punch. So far I have used ernie balls and I have been really impressed. The only stainless string that has impressed me have been the fat beams, a little bright, but they hit the lows good and have good mids. These strings were just very bright, almost reminded me of a heavy gauged strings on a fender strat.

Now for the high C I am sure the strings had alot to do with this, but I just in my short playing I didnt find alot of use for the high C as it was too "bright" and "high" pitched for me. Plus with the thinness of the string I was worried I was gonna pull the string right out of the bridge when I was plucking it.

I put the original strings that came with the bass back on (which are little beat up) because the B string with the 6 string set wouldnt fit in the bridge, grrr :rollno:

Anyways, I think I will continue to try to learn the 5 string with the low B setup and get some new strings as these are pretty beat up and grimey from sitting the store. Any strings you guys can recommend? I was going to get a set of ernie ball hybrids as this is what I have on my 4 string corvette and they have been pretty good so far accept they loose their punch pretty quickly but I like they way they sound for slap bass and rock/funk.
 
#27
personaly i like the lower sound
so i do the BEADG
also i like to look for song that have down tunings
n sense i dont have to downtune it makes it faster to go from song to song
it may making playing some tuned down song harder but i just think a chellenge is more fun
 
#28
I played 3 4 stings basses then turner to a 5 strings. I ask the staff of the shop change the nut and set the bridge (height and intonation) for me. It is so good for me. I think the extra sting is low or high depends on which type of music you play. Like metal or rock, you may like low B, if you play fusion and like solo, I think high C is better. But always have excption like Richard Bona on Fusion, etc.... Also, As my 5 has 21 frets, I think I need more high note for I go for high C, if you have 24 frets and think It's high enough on G, then go for low B. It always need some time to find the potential usage of the 'extra' string if you are ued to play 4 strings.....
I have Dr high Beams 6 and got a unused low B strings, so my next target is 24 frets 5 string so I can have BEADG and just get 4 string set........ Good luck,,

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#29
chjohnst said:
So I got home tonight and I strung it up EADGC, first thing I noticed is the salesman gave me the wrong strings. I end up with the "bright" roundwounds.

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So I strung the bass up and I was not impressed at all. The strings were way brighter then I like. Through my trial of various strings I really like a warm toned string with real beefy bass, but punch. So far I have used ernie balls and I have been really impressed. The only stainless string that has impressed me have been the fat beams, a little bright, but they hit the lows good and have good mids. These strings were just very bright, almost reminded me of a heavy gauged strings on a fender strat.

Now for the high C I am sure the strings had alot to do with this, but I just in my short playing I didnt find alot of use for the high C as it was too "bright" and "high" pitched for me. Plus with the thinness of the string I was worried I was gonna pull the string right out of the bridge when I was plucking it.

I put the original strings that came with the bass back on (which are little beat up) because the B string with the 6 string set wouldnt fit in the bridge, grrr :rollno:

Anyways, I think I will continue to try to learn the 5 string with the low B setup and get some new strings as these are pretty beat up and grimey from sitting the store. Any strings you guys can recommend? I was going to get a set of ernie ball hybrids as this is what I have on my 4 string corvette and they have been pretty good so far accept they loose their punch pretty quickly but I like they way they sound for slap bass and rock/funk.
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it's too bad that you didn't like it. i thought about changing my 5 string for about 6 months before i did, and i love it. i had played 4 strings for about 20 years before i bought this bass and have owned it for a little more than 5 years. this was a last chance desperation move, either this worked for me or i was going to sell it. i found it hard to adjust to a low b5 as i had become so used to the 4's and to be honest i never found much use for the low b. however the more i thought about it the more it made sense to me that if i changed to a high c then it would be as if i was playing one of my 4's with another string. and it worked immediately. it was as good as i thought it would be and i adjusted in minutes. it's great for chording as well.
 
#30
My E to C bass has been my main bass for a few years now. I have some other basses that are great but this one is my favorite. It's a 35" scale J bass because of that I can set my action very low even with lighter gauge strings ( 105 80 60 40 30 ) I also have a two stage D tuner so I can go to a low C as well as the low D.
 
#32
I just ordered a 6 string set to try EADGC tuning on my Ibby SR605.

The B has always been too boomy compared to the other strings on this bass, making the Bart preamp almost unusable. It’s also a very petite bass compared to my main bass, which is a Lakland DJ5. It just feels logical to make the Ibby a tenor.
 

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