Just Strung BEAD

*furby voice on*
biiiiiiiiiiiiiiig sound!
*furby voice off*

 

I'm confused. Are you now tuned ADGC or BEAD?

FF

 

Cool. It ws a bit unclear in your initial post. I bet there's some serious thunder. I myself have been seriously toying with CGDA tuning, which is also providing some amazing tone.

I think CGDA is it for me. I like the 5ths tuning far more than the 4ths.

FF

 

Man, what am I going to do with those tenor strings I got you for Christmas?

 

What about that single ten inch speaker I got you for Christmas!?

 

mind if i ask why you string low and tune lower?

 

first off -- you've got the transposition right.

now, my two cents... being a five-string user, i don't see much sense in tuning the bass lower than, say b-flat (if the band is playing a half-step down). to me, lower than that sounds like, well, sludge. i read in a recent bass player that the guy in mudvanye (who, IMO, have to be one of the _worst_ groups ever signed to any label) tunes down even lower than you, to g-c-f-b-flat. (having heard some of their alleged music, i think it's safe to say that it's _really_ sludge.)

having said that... i have dropped the e on my five down to d when the song called for it... but never the b to a. there really isn't a song in the world that i would ever play that would call for that.

also having said that... sometimes i mess with alternate tunings when i write songs on guitar... as a matter of fact, the last two riffs that i came up with in my head recently, ended up being written in dropped-d. i blame my sonic youth influence... which admittedly calls for the bass to stay in standard tuning

i can see dropping the e string to d on a four-string

 

i think you just defined mud yourself, b.

drop-d or even dgdg on the bass would probably work the same way as the tuning you currently are using. probably offer more variations for you to use as well, considering all adgc is, is the same hand positions as eadg, only a fifth lower. (i put it that way only because you're using a four string. if you were using a fiver i'd have said you'd only be going a second lower).

on crack? try more like weed dusted with acid, angel dust, and elephant tranquilizer. i heard one song from them and a certain lenny kravitz quote came to mind.

heh. my idea of big bass sounds is jah wobble on the first two public image ltd. albums, "first issue" and "second edition"... standard tuning, but deep booming tone coming from (i found out much later) flatwound strings, picked only with his index finger like james jamerson... i go with half-rounds myself, best of both worlds there.

 

Personally, i think Tool is creative as hell, but Mudvayne is utter crap. I don't get the comparison, but, then again, it's an opinion issue.

 

I think that mudvayne is actually pretty talented, even though I hate their style of music. Theres just something wrong with a bunch of guys screaming at the top of their lungs. It just doesnt sound good to me.

But from a technical standpoint, their music is very well made.

 

and how about tuning a 5 F#-B-E-A-D ,of course you'd need really thick strings

 

at that point, only worms would be able to hear the low F#. you wouldn't even hear it on a subwoofer.

 

Sure you can hear the low F#.

Low E's 44.5 Hz.
44.5 / 2 is 22.25 Hz, that's an octave lower.
22.25 / 12 (The chromatic scale) is 1.85 Hz.
So 22.25 + 2 x 1.85 is 25.95 Hz which is the F#.

Mathematically we should be able to hear it.

Some useless information:

22.25 / 2 is 11.125 Hz
11.125 / 12 is 0.927 Hz
22.25 - 2 x 0.927 is 20.396 Hz

So the lowest note the human ear can hear is D. So if you take your six stringer and tune the F# to C (3 steps down), no one can hear what you're playing. Wouldn't that be great?

Please note that my mathematical knowledge is not the subject here, and if these results are found to be horribly wrong I will deny all responcebility and blame everything on Bob.

 

I don't know if your values are correct, but something around 20 is right. And Humans stop hearing at 16 Hz and that is a lot lower than F# so everyone should be able to hear a F# and if they can't hear they'll FEEL it if you have a good subwoofer