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[Deleted member 268085]

Get a detuner for your E string. Best investment you'll ever make.

I have a couple of honest question re E-string detuners.

1) How much weight does one add to the headstock? Any noticeable increase in neck dive?

2) How much does it mess up the chord shapes you have ingrained in your finger memory?

I have enough basses that I could tune one down a semitone to Eb and another down two semitones to D. Same shapes, just up one or two frets. I'm not saying that's a gigging solution, just odds thoughts floating around in this aging brain.

 

[tubedude]

Just get a 6 string fretless. Then tell the band you can effortlessly play any key and will randomly and frequently try out microtonal harmonies.

 

[buldog5151bass]

I have a couple of honest question re E-string detuners.

1) How much weight does one add to the headstock? Any noticeable increase in neck dive?

2) How much does it mess up the chord shapes you have ingrained in your finger memory?

I have enough basses that I could tune one down a semitone to Eb and another down two semitones to D. Same shapes, just up one or two frets. I'm not saying that's a gigging solution, just odds thoughts floating around in this aging brain.

1. Nothing noticeable.

2. Obviously you have to remember that you are in drop D. But if you only need it for a few notes, you can re-engage it mid song.

 

[seanm]

I have a couple of honest question re E-string detuners.

1) How much weight does one add to the headstock? Any noticeable increase in neck dive?

2) How much does it mess up the chord shapes you have ingrained in your finger memory?

I have enough basses that I could tune one down a semitone to Eb and another down two semitones to D. Same shapes, just up one or two frets. I'm not saying that's a gigging solution, just odds thoughts floating around in this aging brain.

1) Not a problem.

2) I only used the detuner for a few songs in drop-d. I just had to learn to play those specific songs. I would never try to play by ear with the detuner on.

 

[Eli_Kyiv]

 

[gtlover]

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I don’t know about making your bass sound like a kazoo, but if you take a Boss BF-2 Flanger, dime the regen, and put everything else at zero, it sounds kinda like a steel drum.

 

[dadglasser]

I don’t know about making your bass sound like a kazoo, but if you take a Boss BF-2 Flanger, dime the regen, and put everything else at zero, it sounds kinda like a steel drum.

(Not for the faint of heart. Too long as well. I shut it off less than half way through), kazoo bass synth:

 

[Scottgun]

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The 400-page Ibanez Gear Guide gets me every time.

 

[NZBassman]

Get a detuner for your E string. Best investment you'll ever make.

yes - i had considered that too

 

[Gopherbassist]

I also have this pipe tuner.
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I actually saw one of these at Guitar Center the other day.

 

[SharpCat]

 

[Eli_Kyiv]

 

[Eli_Kyiv]

 

[Eli_Kyiv]

 

[EddiePlaysBass]

 

[Supadope]

 

[Supadope]

 

[Eli_Kyiv]

 

[tubedude]

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The drummer wrote this.

 

[dave64o]

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You got that write!