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drop c tuning
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:46 pm
by mbemg81
Anyone play in this tuning?
I’ve been told i would have to put my pickups higher to the strings and change my guitar strings to fatter ones. To match the drop c tuning. is this true?
thanks
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:47 pm
by Aeon
You are supposed to use thinner strings the lower you tune!
IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:51 pm
by mbemg81
BS!!!!
heaps of people have told me to get a chunky tone you use fatter strings. You dont even know what your going on about do you???
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 10:07 pm
by Aeon
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 10:14 pm
by vulgar_swede
Why ask a question and then bitch about the answer? That must mean that you already knew what answer you wanted.
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 10:32 pm
by Acid Flashbakc
dude id listen to aeon, he used to be dime's guitar tech
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 8:28 am
by Grimlock
mbemg81 wrote:BS!!!!
heaps of people have told me to get a chunky tone you use fatter strings. You dont even know what your going on about do you???
What the fuck? No..It's
thinner strings.
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 8:31 am
by hippy
mehshuggah uses 8 gauge strings
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 9:01 am
by Cheyenne fucking Buffet
hippy wrote:mehshuggah uses 8 gauge strings
2-14
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 7:50 pm
by Pfl?yd
Are you people retarded?
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 7:58 pm
by dan
if you buy strings, starting from .56 for the E, tighten them up to standard tuning, it will within an hour, adjust your neck and detune itslef for C tuning perfectly, there is no better way about it, dime used to do this.
Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 11:05 pm
by hippy
Pflöyd wrote:Are you people retarded?
take a joke, bro.
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 1:26 am
by mbemg81
i am only going on what other guitarists have told me
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 9:02 am
by Pfl?yd
hippy wrote:Pflöyd wrote:Are you people retarded?
take a joke, bro.
Joking around is fine, but it seems every time a new person shows up with a legitimate question about something, all the self-appointed virtuosos on here get all snooty and mocking with people. Newsflash: no one here was born knowing the Phrygian mode or how to sweep-pick scales ad nauseum.
This forum has always been sacred ground on this board where people were actually serious and discussed music like musicians, not like a bunch of Free Zone fuckheads with penis on the brain.
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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 10:03 am
by Splifferoony
Pflöyd wrote:hippy wrote:Pflöyd wrote:Are you people retarded?
take a joke, bro.
Joking around is fine, but it seems every time a new person shows up with a legitimate question about something, all the self-appointed virtuosos on here get all snooty and mocking with people. Newsflash: no one here was born knowing the Phrygian mode or how to sweep-pick scales ad nauseum.
This forum has always been sacred ground on this board where people were actually serious and discussed music like musicians, not like a bunch of Free Zone fuckheads with penis on the brain.
If you aren't going to contribute constructively, keep your cursor away from the submit button.
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 1:15 pm
by insurgent89
from my experience and from being a guitar and bass tech, i would use larger gauge strings for lower tunings. and deffinatly do not move your pickups higher as it will pull on the strings causing them to buzz. but it is totally up to personal taste. and i dont know about that bullshit about tuning to standard and letting your neck adjust itself to a differnet tuning. i hope they were joking, thats just retarded. but as for string guages ive seen tony iommi use 8s and tune down 2 and a half steps so...
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 2:08 pm
by Freak Kitchen Chef
Drop everything down a tone and the drop the D down to a C... Delicious!
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 4:04 pm
by dan
insurgent89 wrote: i dont know about that bullshit about tuning to standard and letting your neck adjust itself to a differnet tuning. i hope they were joking, thats just retarded..
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 4:44 pm
by hippy
Pflöyd wrote:hippy wrote:Pflöyd wrote:Are you people retarded?
take a joke, bro.
Joking around is fine, but it seems every time a new person shows up with a legitimate question about something, all the self-appointed virtuosos on here get all snooty and mocking with people. Newsflash: no one here was born knowing the Phrygian mode or how to sweep-pick scales ad nauseum.
This forum has always been sacred ground on this board where people were actually serious and discussed music like musicians, not like a bunch of Free Zone fuckheads with penis on the brain.
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he knew the answers to his own question in each post, so what did he need help with?
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 5:09 pm
by vulgar_swede
hippy wrote:Pflöyd wrote:hippy wrote:Pflöyd wrote:Are you people retarded?
take a joke, bro.
Joking around is fine, but it seems every time a new person shows up with a legitimate question about something, all the self-appointed virtuosos on here get all snooty and mocking with people. Newsflash: no one here was born knowing the Phrygian mode or how to sweep-pick scales ad nauseum.
This forum has always been sacred ground on this board where people were actually serious and discussed music like musicians, not like a bunch of Free Zone fuckheads with penis on the brain.
If you aren't going to contribute constructively, keep your cursor away from the submit button.
he knew the answers to his own question in each post, so what did he need help with?
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 5:39 pm
by mbemg81
he knew the answers to his own question in each post, so what did he need help with?
i was looking for other peoples opinion and what they thought about drop c tuning........is that so bad?
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 7:39 pm
by scrotal_tug
Pflöyd wrote:hippy wrote:Pflöyd wrote:Are you people retarded?
take a joke, bro.
Joking around is fine, but it seems every time a new person shows up with a legitimate question about something, all the self-appointed virtuosos on here get all snooty and mocking with people. Newsflash: no one here was born knowing the Phrygian mode or how to sweep-pick scales ad nauseum.
This forum has always been sacred ground on this board where people were actually serious and discussed music like musicians, not like a bunch of Free Zone fuckheads with penis on the brain.
If you aren't going to contribute constructively, keep your cursor away from the submit button.
Couldn't agree more
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 8:17 pm
by Aeon
mbemg81 wrote:he knew the answers to his own question in each post, so what did he need help with?
i was looking for other peoples opinion and what they thought about drop c tuning........is that so bad?
I think you should tune your damn guitar to E.
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 12:34 pm
by Cemetery Floods
Pflöyd wrote:hippy wrote:Pflöyd wrote:Are you people retarded?
take a joke, bro.
Joking around is fine, but it seems every time a new person shows up with a legitimate question about something, all the self-appointed virtuosos on here get all snooty and mocking with people. Newsflash: no one here was born knowing the Phrygian mode or how to sweep-pick scales ad nauseum.
This forum has always been sacred ground on this board where people were actually serious and discussed music like musicians, not like a bunch of Free Zone fuckheads with penis on the brain.
If you aren't going to contribute constructively, keep your cursor away from the submit button.
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 3:41 am
by socialparasite
First you must tell us what gutiar you are playing? Scale length 22 frets? 24? I think a 11 or above is a good choice. I tried C with 10's but they feel to loose like debbie diamond. I would go with 11's but its your choice. On my guitars i could never get a 9 or 10 to work well
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 8:54 am
by Splifferoony
I have used all kind of different tunings over the years and sometimes tune as low as A. I always go up a string gauge for each semitone I detune, that usually gives me the same string tension and requres no neck adjustment.
If you plan to have your guitar tuned to drop-C permanently and can buy single strings, get a slightly thicker one for your C string, as this will be tuned a step lower than the rest, it won't have the same tension making power chords sound messy
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:04 am
by mbemg81
I’ve got a ltd mh-50, 24 frets. I went to a music shop a few days ago and the guy there reckons i should just put regulars on my guitar because i change my tunings a lot. he talked about changing the adjustment of the neck but i dont wont to muck around with that. And at the moment i just use light strings.
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 1:56 am
by Fuckall
i use GHS TnT's but I like the tension tight.. I play mostly in standard, but they handle detuning to C pretty well.. they are a little on the loose side, but its not crazy loose.. thats on a strat scale w/ 22 frets not that I think it would make a huge difference on something else. You'll probably have to play around with different string guages until you figure out what works for you and what you play most. But generally speaking as its been said already.. use heavier strings if downtuning.
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 8:38 pm
by anty
I used to go into drop c alot but now i work in c#. Ive grown tired of the one finger bar chords
Its ok but now it just doesnt seem heavy enough. Only reason people should tune to drop c is to cover Rammstein
Beyond that, use Zakk Wylde Boomers Lo (.70's)
really good for the drop tunings
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 12:47 am
by Balls On Parade
I use GHS TNT's when playing in D and dropped C tunings, my old band wrote a bunch of tunes in dropped C...
