new cab for down tuning

[sinbad7]

Brown note territory.

We like to say we achieved this! We had a girl crap her pants in one of our pits!!!

 

[Nephilymbass]

If you want to hear examples of different low tunings look up the following videos on YouTube.

Low f# Mnemic - Diesel Uterus
Low g Valdhjarta - Dagger
Low g# aside from all the newer bands like after the burial, periphery, and volumes how about some more common bands like "Deftones - bloody cape", or "staind mud shovel"
Low A i could say Korn but everyone's heard Korn, have you heard "suicide silence - you only live once"?
low A#/Bb ever hear of meshuggah (drop Bb bass) or inflames?

Then you get up to b and c which include practically every modern rock band on the planet.

Oddly the only 440 tuned rock/ metal band i can think of off the top of my head that i listen to is Dillinger escape plan and they are so weird they could put a capo on the 12th fret and still sound interesting.

 

[sinbad7]

I love suicide silence and I actually thought they were lower than A but they are still awesome! Most of the super heavy "breakdown metal" like oceano and the acacia strain and similar bands tune to G and F# if not F. Which is just so damn low it just sounds super sloppy and muddy. And good ol dillinger...great stuff but I can't listen to it for more than a few songs because its all just too crazy!

 

[Nephilymbass]

Yeah really for me g# is about the limit. Even when tuning to f# for me its more about being able to fret notes two frets up from where i do tuned to g#. My guitar players actually tune to c# standard and drop B so i don't do the redundant low as you can go all of the time type of playing. But for example they'll go from c# up to A an i go from c# down to A and so on. Just gives me more options. Check out Job for a cowboy song tarnished gluttony and you'll get the vibe. Right off the bat you can here how the guitar riff repeats over and over but the bass part switches octaves. It's just more interesting to me. Its allows you to play more without it sounding so progressive you lose the groove.

 

[sinbad7]

I totally agree with you on that. It can get really boring playing the same thing over and over so I often switch octaves. I also harmonize and sometimes actually do the leads because we only have 1 guitarist.

 

[monsterthompson]

i used to be in an indy rock band where the guitarist was tuned to standard. i ran a 5-string tuned down a whole step. we had several songs in A, so having a low A and hitting it with the 4th string octave made for some great rumbly punctuations at the breakdowns and/or endings; crowd was not expecting that from us we also did several songs in D & G, so having open strings an octave down for those roots made for some simple fingering patterns and helped keep the bottom big.

i also found i liked the tone of the fretted E and A on 4 & 3 better than standard tuning open notes. it gave me the added ease of hitting pickup notes from a whole-step below before landing on the E or A as a root.

btw - the singer hated this, because the extra low notes threw his ear off. i think he picked this as an issue to latch on as an excuse for having the occasional off night. he once told me it was giving him trouble. making it hard for him to stay in key, and asked me to tune to standard. i told him it shouldn't be an issue if he learned how to sing