Curious to know what y'all are tuned to? I'm in C standard and will routinely tune the e sting down to A#
13-56 gauge wound G.
My own music (guitar) is in E standard or D standard. 11-50's in both cases.
Other bands are E std, E flat. 11-50s
Bass is 45-105 in E std, E flat, drop D, and D std/drop C
Too many to list at this point.
C standard, occasionally drop A#, 12-56 or 12-60 depending on the set/brand.
I got away with 10-52 "heavy top/light bottom" for a few months, but I've found my intonation is much better with the 12-60 set, particularly on the lighter strings.
E standard Eb standard and occasional drop D. Too lazy to re-set up for deeper tunings, as the Floyd Rose on my 80's Kramer makes that too much of a pain in the ass.
C standard, Ernie Ball 11-54. The 54 feels a little loose sometimes and the plain 22 is way too stiff, so I'd like to try a Rotosound 11-60 set sometime.
Our stuff for the most part is E standard. A few songs are in dropped D, but only a couple. Speaking from a bass point of view, I'm E standard though. Lordfinesse has about 4 differently tuned guitars for his parts though depending on what our set is. I have no idea how he sets them up, but they're kinda wacky and whenever I pick one of those guitars up, I promptly put it back down.
Heh
That's gotta be hell on you as a bass player, you can't always look at his fret hand to see what chord he's hitting \m/,
The first band I played bass for, the rhythm guitar player used the Keith Richards tuning or something (DGDGBA). Fucked up my world to look at his fret hand if I got lost haha
Drop B with d'Addario 12-60. Perfect set for low tunings!
http://www.daddario.com/DADProductDetail.Page?ActiveID=3769&productid=31&productname=EXL148_Nickel_Wound__Extra_Heavy__12_60&sid=2579ba89-9043-460d-8462-df72607d8a82
Most of my guitars are tuned weird. The one I'm favoring now is top string tuned down to low A, then the other strings are normal E std (A-D-G-B-E). The song Malamute on our last album has this tuning. The song Icewater Mansions from the same album uses a really strange tuning.. I can't even remember what it is. Weird tunings usually produce song ideas for me.
Edit: After thinking about it, only 2 songs (of 7) on our last album are in E std. I'd never thought about it before.
These days I keep most of my guitars in E standard with 11s. I always keep at least one guitar in Open G.
I still have my 'weevil Ibanez in drop C with 13-56.
My bass is in E standard or drop D with flatwounds, I forget the gauge.
B standard 25&1/2" scale 13-56(want to switch to 14-60 or so)
F# standard 27" scale 17-68
My B standard 4 string P bass has the low 4 from a 5 string set although I swapped out the 125 for a 130 which is a little better for B.
Quote from: Danny G on February 08, 2015, 12:08:15 PM
Heh
That's gotta be hell on you as a bass player, you can't always look at his fret hand to see what chord he's hitting \m/,
The first band I played bass for, the rhythm guitar player used the Keith Richards tuning or something (DGDGBA). Fucked up my world to look at his fret hand if I got lost haha
we work a little different. Since me and Nate are the dummies, he's the one that has to 'correct' for our brief tangents.
I tune my oscillators just barely out of each other sometimes.
Quote from: RAGER on February 08, 2015, 11:45:37 PM
I tune my oscillators just barely out of each other sometimes.
thanks for your two 'cents'.
see what i did there?
Nyuck nyuck. :D
11-56 for D Standard/C sharp standard and drop C/B.
For same tunings on bass I use 50-120. Sometimes use a 145 for a low A on a five string.
These days I tune standard so I can play nicely with synths.
I also slightly detune my oscillators, as well as tuning one to 5ths, or both to the same note, and other variations depending on what sounds good at the moment.
Mostly tuned down one step with the low string down to C. Dropped C. 11-49, would G. I always like a wound G for better intonation and such. Never liked using overly thick strings.
Basses in C standard, D# A# D# G# (dropped D and half a step down..... weird one) and E. All have Rotosound 45-105 roundwounds. The guitars are tuned to C standard and dropped C all use the Ernie Ball Skinny Top Heavy Bottom 10-52 set.