oh man come on

[Reigninblood]

So I got a sweet Thunderbird at a pawn shop. Ordered black beauties, they are just not working out. To thin. I tune to bead. What's a good heavy string that can take this tuning? My t bird sits til I can find a string that fits it right. All my dean V basses accept this tuning w no prob but this t bird is very picky. What do you recommend without having to make truss n bridge adjustments?

 

[spaz21387]

did you buy a 5 string set and get rid of the g? or are you tuning down to b on a standard set ment for a 4 string?

 

[Reigninblood]

No its a 4 string but the band I'm with is tuned to bead, and this Thunderbird frets out like crazy in this tuning. But my 2 dean flying v basses seem to adapt quite well.

 

[SwamiRob]

Circkle K do some pretty heavy windings that are good for low tunings and have a really nice even response too.

 

[darkstorm]

Use regular five string sets BEAD strings instead. You may need to have nut slots widened a little but will sound better with that tuner imo.

 

[carl h.]

You want the bottom 4 strings from a 5 string set.

A standard 4 string set of strings is much too light to detune that much. It will act exactly as you have described. Get a set of 5 and discard the skinny one (G string) And use the remaining 4 strings - B, E, A, D.

And if it wasn't tuned this way before, you will need work done on the nut to fit the strings on it this way successfully. Take it to the local shop and tell them what you are doing, they can get this done easily.

 

[mmbongo]

Yeah as was mentioned, you should have gotten the 5 string set since you're tuning BEAD. But since you have the 4 string set already, just get B string singles from here:
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[carl h.]

Yeah as was mentioned, you should have gotten the 5 string set since you're tuning BEAD. But since you have the 4 string set already, just get B string singles from here:
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Unless you cut them too short to move over one tuner.