Strings for Drop C 5-String

Are you talking about down-tuning the E-string on a fiver down to C? Or, are you talking about tuning the B-string up to C?

 

Wouldn't you need lighter gauge strings because you're tuning all of them up?

B up to C, E up to F etc

 

Dont drop E to C... use a light gauge B string for that. Check out Circle K strings. They have every gauge imaginable. On there website look for a drop tune 5 string set with the lowest at .120. You should be fine.

 

+1 for circle k / Kalium. Those strings are great and you can exactly what you need to do what you're trying to do. They even have a tension calculator so you can figure out which gauge will work best for your scale length,

 

That would be UP tuning.

 

Are we to take it that you normally use EADGC tuning on your 5-string? I have a friend who does this.

 

Are talking about changing a "standard" 5-string with a low B ( B E A D G) or the lesser used 5-string with a high C (E A D G C)?

Paul beat me to it.

 

Start with the standard E-A-D-G with a high B instead of C (as in guitar tuning).

Bring the whole thing down one whole step, D-G-C-F-A.
Then drop down the low D another whole step, C-G-C-F-A.

 

I'm pretty sure that bass has a 28.6" scale, so this set should do the trick.

 

Just use the factory 5 string set if your tuning CGCFA the shorter scale will keep the tension down. Unless it's some massive .150 or something on it from the factory.

 

Maybe the confusion is that the bass in question is a Mikro. Don't they come as a EADGC fiver as opposed to a regular long-scale five with the low B? I could be wrong.

 

It comes with a low B (as in BEADG) the existing strings will be fine for Drop C (CGCFA)

 

Your bass came from the factory with strings designed to be tuned BEADG.
You want to retune it to CGCFA.

Are you talking about tuning the string closest to your head up one half step, or down 11 half steps?
Are you talking about tuning the rest of the strings up three half steps or down 9 half steps?

If you're tuning all the strings up it isn't a drop tuning. It is a raised tuning.

 

Tuning them down that far would entail them falling off of the tuner posts.

 

It would be beyond ridiculous to try to do on a Mikro. Yep.
But people have tried to do sillier things.