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Posted: Mar 09, 2008 - 01:34 PM
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Ego Brain
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Location: Riga, Latvia.
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hey, what stirng size is the best for drop c ?
i have been using baritone and almost baritone strings , but they hit the fretboard and screw the sound...
Drop tunings need thick or thin strings?
or is it juts my crap guitar? (i guess some guitars are not good for drop tunings..)
in standart everything is ok (except the fact that it`s standart tunings ^ )
012 .016 .022 .038 .048 .060
too thick?
i`ll try some thin strings tomorrow , but i`m not sure.. |
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Posted: Mar 09, 2008 - 01:47 PM
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| the thicker the better for low tunings. plain and simple |
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Posted: Mar 09, 2008 - 01:50 PM
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Ego Brain
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but thick strings hits the frets all the time and makes that unnesecery sound..
Crutchy wrote:
And I'd also like a guitar that can tune down without "hurting the guitar."
What I mean is like, when you tune down (lets say, to Drop C), your guitar sounds like total shit when you play it, and it seems like when you strum, the guitar is having a hard time handling how loose the strings are. I tried it on my cousin's Epiphone Les Paul and that's what happened.
oh, i see. some shitguitars (like mine) are not good for drop tunings... ;/ |
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Posted: Mar 09, 2008 - 03:04 PM
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Posted: Mar 09, 2008 - 03:15 PM
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Location: Toronto, Canada
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| I know 2 easy ways of getting down to drop c. the first step is to get youe guitar in standard tuning. once thats done, match the 12th fret of your A sting to your open g. now just move down the strings, matching the 5th fret of your A (which you just tuned downed to G) to the next open string. remember that on the third thinnest string you match the 4th fret, not the fifth. once all of those strings are tuned, match the 12th fret of your thickest string to the open third string....................if thats too hard, heres a good site that allows you to change the not for each string, and it then plays it back. http://www.chordbook.com/guitartuner.php |
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Posted: Mar 09, 2008 - 06:28 PM
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Tune to D, then drop the low D a full step.
What guitar do you have chop-suey?
BTW. The string size's good. And if you think about it, Daron had been using a Stratocaster, and it was good for drop tunings. If you have tremolo bar, maybe that's the problem. Guitars with whammys are not really good for drop tunings. Maybe it can be done with hybrid strings (like .09, .011, .016, .026, .036, .046, the standard would be the same but the last three would be thinner) but I'm not sure... I've never tried it. |
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Posted: Mar 09, 2008 - 06:40 PM
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Ego Brain
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XSider1 wrote:
Tune to D, then drop the low D a full step.
What guitar do you have chop-suey?
BTW. The string size's good. And if you think about it, Daron had been using a Stratocaster, and it was good for drop tunings. If you have tremolo bar, maybe that's the problem. Guitars with whammys are not really good for drop tunings. Maybe it can be done with hybrid strings (like .09, .011, .016, .026, .036, .046, the standard would be the same but the last three would be thinner) but I'm not sure... I've never tried it.
a shit-guitar. it`s a tupid copy of SG which i hate, but i`m really money-les at the moment |
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Posted: Mar 09, 2008 - 07:09 PM
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Posted: Mar 09, 2008 - 07:23 PM
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Ego Brain
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| how to do that? |
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Posted: Mar 09, 2008 - 07:58 PM
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| I have a SG knock-off and I use the Skinny Top and Heavy Bottom strings on drop c and it sounds just fine. I think it may just be your action. I think you can change the action from the bridge of the guitar. |
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Posted: Mar 10, 2008 - 03:44 AM
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Skit wrote:
How low is your action?
Its probably set really low for standard tuning but when loosening the strings for dropped tunings its too low and the strings just buzz
That's what I think.
The guitar isn't set up correctly.. Do you know anyone who is good at working with them? |
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