warm or cold?

[Gene Leone]

Anyone ever notice that when your strings are cool like from transporting your bass, club temperatures, etc. that the strings tend to be slightly sharp?

Of course if you detune a bit, then play, they will be slightly flat after warming up.

(Certainly because metal contracts and expands)

SO the silly question of the week (requiring all sorts of silly answers) is.........how do you tune? Warm or cold?

let' em fly

 

[Modern Growl]

i tend to tune warm, and spread some peanut butter on my flats to get em' really fat n' greasy sounding

 

[Gene Leone]

Smooth or chunky peanut butter?

 

[Modern Growl]

smooth Jifi!

 

[FoHBass]

I always let it warm up and then tune it, and tune it again just before I start playing.

 

[Shoewreck]

Warm up and then check the tuning. Tuning cold is useless untill you're in a hurry to play.