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#13,101
Linnin said:
Unless you really want the Super Bassman front end there is no real reason to change. . . .
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I'm not changing, just continuing to fill my toolbox. :) The right tool for the right job, y'know. ;)

Yes, the Bassman front end, and other extras, appeal to me very much. But, I don't see that replacing the grab-and-go convenience of my Rumble. It may make me rethink keeping my Bassman 250 combo, though. Hmmm, we'll have to see.
 
#13,102
ubernator said:
A Warwick bass player and they tune to 432, I have to check them out sometime. Probably not today, my sleep schedule is all wacked out.
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Screw that! A 440Hz was declared an international standard for a good reason. I can play in any key without drop tuning anything. In fact if you invade my sonic space with drop tuned 8 string Beelzebub g-thing, I will drop kick your Gothic clitoris straight into the upper stratosphere. Cue the bagpipes!
 
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#13,103
Linnin said:
Screw that! A 440Hz was declared an international standard for a good reason. I can play in any key without drop tuning anything. In fact if you invade my sonic space with drop tuned 8 string Beelzebub g-thing, I will drop kick your Gothic clitoris straight into the upper stratosphere.
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432 is not drop tuned cookie monster. It is a subtle change. I have not tried it but have read about it. This is using the same notes, just using a=432 hz.

Don't confuse the 432hz revolution with drop tuned clitoris gothic metal. That is still in 440, just tuning to lower notes than EADGBE. The A is still 440.

This is a natural vibrations thing man! :cool:

It is quite possible that the hippies are right and if we tuned to 432hz there would be world peace and the reptilians would lose control and there would be no longer a caste society. This is entirely possible. The 440 thing could be contributing to mass mind control or something like that.

Like my buddy Neil once said, "everybody got to deviate from the norm"
 
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#13,105
Linnin said:
As much as I am an ancient hippie from the past millennium , this whole 432hz thing is total hogwash. Believe what you will, just yield no quarter to drop tuned brain dead zombie g-wankers. Destroy Them!
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The way you keep wording this shows you are obviously confusing 432hz with drop tuning. The 2 are not related.

Drop tuned g-wankers are playing in 440. Dropping the e to d? The a is still 440. Going double flat and then dropping to c? The a is still 440.

Playing in drop f# on an 8 string guitar? Still in 440.

So all that low tuned music you obviously hate, is all still in 440.
 
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The one guitar player in the band wanted to drop like 2 full steps.. I was like.. do you want me to drop Michael Anthony on ya!
Linnin said:
As much as I am an ancient hippie from the past millennium , this whole 432hz thing is total hogwash. Believe what you will, just yield no quarter to drop tuned brain dead zombie g-wankers. Destroy Them!
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Korn in drop A? Still 440.

The calibration on a tuner (not to be confused with b, bb mode etc) is a feature we don't use because we are always in 440.

432 is not a dropped or alternate tuning, it is changing the whole spectrum of notes entirely. Which is even more wonky than just tuning to lower notes.

And I have never tried it, just read about it.
 
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#13,110
99Z3 said:
I not trying to make that argument.. I was just relating this previous experience that I had just a couple of months ago.. outside of that.. I don't own a dog!
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Gotta roll with the punches to get to whats real. I prefer standard but I have to be flexible depending on the bands available.

Personally, my next audition is in drop c#
Had to put a .115 string so it wouldn't be too floppy. The rest are just a half step down, so no biggie.

Still in 440 though :roflmao:
 
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I have played in 432 lots of times. And 443, and 441 also. We used to tune by ear and I am quite certain we rarely, if ever, were actually tuned to 440. These days are different. Better tuners. We didn't have tuners. We had a tuning fork and ears. It matters very little as long as everyone tunes the same anyway. 44o is just a number picked by some people and it works for us. It could just as easily been 441. And no, 432 is not a drop tuning. It is simply using a lower reference point. There is no 440 on a bass anyway. :) 440 is on the high E string of a guitar.
 
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#13,113
GregT said:
I have played in 432 lots of times. And 443, and 441 also. We used to tune by ear and I am quite certain we rarely, if ever, were actually tuned to 440. These days are different. Better tuners. We didn't have tuners. We had a tuning fork and ears. It matters very little as long as everyone tunes the same anyway. 44o is just a number picked by some people and it works for us. It could just as easily been 441. And no, 432 is not a drop tuning. It is simply using a lower reference point. There is no 440 on a bass anyway. :)
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Not only that, if you had a Fender Rhodes electric piano, you tuned to that. Or Hammond organ B3 or otherwise, you tuned to that. Or any honky-tonk totally out of tune bar piano, you attempted to tune to that. That was bar band life. No one drop tuned anything. You were just happy if the the entire band was in tune with each other. I grow weary of elitist tuning stupidity.
 
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GregT said:
I have played in 432 lots of times. And 443, and 441 also. We used to tune by ear and I am quite certain we rarely, if ever, were actually tuned to 440. These days are different. Better tuners. We didn't have tuners. We had a tuning fork and ears. It matters very little as long as everyone tunes the same anyway. 44o is just a number picked by some people and it works for us. It could just as easily been 441. And no, 432 is not a drop tuning. It is simply using a lower reference point. There is no 440 on a bass anyway. :) 440 is on the high E string of a guitar.
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That's the only point I was arguing, the confusion of drop tuned g wankers (in 440), with the 432hz reference point.

Because of the 440 standard, I think in 440 because all of the music I listen to is in 440 (OK lets call it 110 for bass).

There are holes in what the hippies say the reasons for 432 being some cosmic number are, but I still would want to check out that band Scott likes, and from the looks of it, they would be anything else than the drop tuned G wankers.

I am open minded, but not fooled. I found an article that debunks every claim of the 432 movement. I still would like to sample some 432 music
 
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Linnin said:
Not only that, if you had a Fender Rhodes electric piano, you tuned to that. Or Hammond organ B3 or otherwise, you tuned to that. Or any honky-tonk totally out of tune bar piano, you attempted to tune to that. That was bar band life. No one drop tuned anything. You were just happy if the the entire band was in tune with each other. I grow weary of elitist tuning stupidity.
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Please just stop calling it drop tuned :help:.

That's all I ask :bored::cool:
 
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