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drummerdoug86
New member
Do any of you guys know how to tune a bass a half step higher or even higher than that?
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sjjohnston
New member
Turn the tuners until it's a half step higher?
If you want to go higher at some point (preferably before delaminate the fingerboard from the neck) you'd want to go to lighter gauge strings.
If you want to go higher at some point (preferably before delaminate the fingerboard from the neck) you'd want to go to lighter gauge strings.
Toki987
Rock Steady
using a tuner to raise the pitch of each string a 1/2 step is not a hard task. Using a chromatic tuner, with the open string tunings of B E A D G, raise the pitch to C F A# D# G#. I record with a guitar player occasionaly that detunes everything a 1/2 step to make it fatter.
You do need to realize that 4 or 5 strings tightened by the individual machine heads equates to a single steel cable as big as your finger being tightened by a winch, and it does have enough winching effect to pick up a motorcycle. So like sjjohnston was saying'"go to a lighter gauge string"... if this is gonna be a regular type deal, or all kinds of exciting events could take place. Like making the neck look like a banana, pulling the bridge off, getting cut by a flying steel cable, or the laminate popping loose in the neck.
You do need to realize that 4 or 5 strings tightened by the individual machine heads equates to a single steel cable as big as your finger being tightened by a winch, and it does have enough winching effect to pick up a motorcycle. So like sjjohnston was saying'"go to a lighter gauge string"... if this is gonna be a regular type deal, or all kinds of exciting events could take place. Like making the neck look like a banana, pulling the bridge off, getting cut by a flying steel cable, or the laminate popping loose in the neck.
