german H is B, german B is B flat. it's a fucked up world we live in.

I was never much for crazy tunings. My old band (still) plays in CGCFAD. We started playing this way because when I started the band 3 or 4 years ago, I was also in a metal band, and did not own a tuner. So I'd come back from metal-band practice and tune up a whole-step thinking I was in C, when I was actually in drop B flat. When we finally bought tuners (hush) and noticed how we were tuned, and tried normal drop D, our voices couldn't take it. So C it is.

My new band Brickmason plays in Neurosis's tuning (low)A A D G B E

I also like DADGAD. I think. Can't remember unless there's a guitar around me.

kerble wrote:

lemur68 wrote:Dropping the low E to B is fun. Soundgarden did that a lot, such as on "Rusty Cage". (Or you could be like Korn and buy a 7-string.) There is a song on Badmotorfinger, "Mind Riot" I believe it is, where every string is tuned to E.

A-B-B-A is way better than the Soundgarden tuning.

Ohhh, I get it now.

I wish I had more strings so I could tune to FAGABEEFE.

scott wrote:I wish I had more strings so I could tune to FAGABEEFE.

:(

For Yowie, I remember the following:

Jim, the real guitarist dude, would bring in some old Tesco/Apollo/whatever thing with 6-E strings on it.

"Brangggg"

"Oh, OK, we're going there."

...sound of my low E string being tuned to 'spackflapper' status...sort of close to 'brangggg'

then I would tune the A string to somewhere within a span of the upper octave of the 'special effect' low E, than the D goes to a fifth above that...

The high E went to about a quarter step above the B string, and the G was randomly twanged to my emotional state at the time. Super-low for goofy plangbrough, near the B for extra shing.

Lotsa fun, tuning in that band.

My two main tunings from way back when I had six guitars at my disposal to fuck around with as I pleased:

B
B
F#
F# octave up
A
B

and

C
C
C octave up
F
Bb
B

Kind of fucked up. Low tunings thanks to .60+ strings. Mainly used for creating a thick sound with plenty of overtones in a two-piece band.

I use EEAE, EEGE and EEGA# a lot, and sometimes I tune each string down a whole note at those intervals, seems to sound nicer. (I take two strings off). The E's are all different octaves in the usual progression.

My acoustic spends most of its life in open D (DADF#AD). My electric's often tuned down half a step (Eb etc), but that hardly counts...