Tunings and

[Dangling Fury]

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.

[Danny 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

[RacerX]

Too many to list at this point.

[xayk]

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.

[EddieMullet]

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.

[showdown]

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.

[Pissy]

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.

[Danny G]

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

[Fuhgawz]

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

[lordfinesse]

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.

[neighbor664]

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.

[liquidsmoke]

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.

[Pissy]

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.

[RAGER]

I tune my oscillators just barely out of each other sometimes.

[Beta Cloud]

I tune my oscillators just barely out of each other sometimes.

thanks for your two 'cents'.

see what i did there?

[RAGER]

Nyuck nyuck. 

[eoin_not_ian]

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.

[eyeprod]

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.

[Dylan Thomas]

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.

[James1214]

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.