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Hahaha. Just thought this was funny

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Meshuggah downtune to F on their latest album but at least they have the common decency to play 8-string guitars.

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thats ridiculous. they should just capo a bass


even korn doesnt tune that low

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Pantera on Sandblasted skin and Underground in america off of Great Southern Treadkill use drop G tuning strings are like spaghetti

Mortician tune to G also, I believe. Pretty stupid, but hey, it works for 'em.

Christ, 8 string guitars now?!?!?!?!??!
How does its standard tuning go? g-c-e-a-d-g-b-e or f#-b-e-a-d-g-b-e?

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Fuck you pussies I have a 9 string that I keep in Gb so fuck you all

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Lol. Metallife!..heh..
Anyhow, I know most of you guys have never heard my music(with the exception of a few here on the site), but most of my material is tuned anywhere between A and C. I have one tune called "Metamorphasized", where I play in drop G. And that tune is heavy as fuck!.lol.
But I stopped tuning that low for my music cause it just lacks sustain and doesn't sound to hot,etc.. Easy as hell to play fast and whatever , but I'd rather stick to A or B tuning for that matter.
Yeah, most of Mortician's music is G#. Though, some stuff is A flat or Even G on House by the Cemetary(Just checked it recently). Well, now that Mortician has a drummer, I hope that they can make tunes that or more than 1 and 2 minutes long! I know Napalm Death had some fast tunes back in the day(EG:Scum), but afterwards, their tunes got lengthier and more technical somewhat.

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do you have a website i can hear your music at?

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Dime always tunes standard or D. Its sounds like G because he uses his whammy pedal to lower it an octive or 2. Oh and you gusy arent cool unless you have a 9 string 36 fret ummm is it still a guitar?? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...MEBWA%3AIT&rd=1

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All my guitars are either tuned to Eb or E. It still sounds heavy as shit. I've experimented with lower tunings and I didn't like it.

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i keep my parker in standard and my epi in whole step down

the inlay on that guitar looks like the IMMOLATION font

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No he doesn't. I've read in interviews that he tunes down more, cuz he was describing the string gauges that he uses for various tunings.

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did he say what album he was talkin about? All of them are tuned different. Even on the new damageplan he uses at least 2 tunings

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Damageplan is tuned down for sure

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Dying Fetus actually tunes to D flat(C#) on all their songs.

I fucking hate down tuning and my guitar is always in E

same here

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Yeah, they get them custom made but I can't remember by who. I don't think it's a big company, but a guy they know in Sweden who makes guitars.

I think the standard tuning of an 8-string could well be the latter you mention, with Meshuggah then dropping down a further half step. They used to play 7-strings tuned to Bb so this sounds very feasible. There's no way that I'd tune down to F on a 6-string: you'd need steel cables for strings!

I tune to B and drop to A depending on whether I'm playing Nile or not. If a song is in C tuning, I tend to just play it in B anyway.

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yeah, i find d is fine for me, most songs i play (suffocation, malevolent creation) are in d or c#, i dont think half step makes a difference unless you've either got a picky ear or if you're actually playing the song in a band

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I hate having to tune the guitar back up or whatever. When I play in my band i got one extra guitar tuned to B when we play one of our songs and Death In Fire by Amon Amarth

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I dont usually tune below D as i have a floyd and i just cant be arsed to fuck around with the springs and stuff.

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tuning to Eb is heavy enough for me.

Same here bro.

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Hah, I just use my digitech pedal to downtune, works great and faster than anything else. Has great eefects too. The flange on it is sick. Test it out boys.

I tune DCGFAD most of the time, ocassionally C# anything lower and i might as well play bass

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if i tune down it would be drop D

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Me too

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thats sick

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Which one i got the rp200, it is pretty nice but the distortion sucks, and so does the downtune feature. It makes it sound like the guitar just shot up heroin.

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I keep my KH-2 in standard cuz of the floyd, but i tune my warlock from anything to standard to B standard, and drop D to drop A (depending what gauge strings i have on it at the time). Am i the only person here who loves playing in different tunings? Variety in feel and sound is amazing. Plus u get much chunkier sounds on thicker strings, and smoother fatter leads, love it love it.

I don't remember what album it was talking about but it was in the past couple years. I know that his newer pantera stuff could go down as far as C# and his stuff with Damageplan is lower. Save Me is in drop B for example. I remember him saying that for standard he plays .046-.009, and for lower stuff he'd use .050 or .052-.009.

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i play in all diiferent tunings as well, though i am starting to lean to more standard tunings. my tele stays in C# for now, until i get 10's to replace the 12's i have on it. my 7-string stays in standar with 10-56. my bari stays in b standard, with 13-18-28-40-50-60. i move all over on my tele though, only from d standard to c standard and drop-Bb because of my strings, but i love changing tunings, hell i have gone as low as F#-B-E-A-D-f#-b on my 7-string, and it stayed in perfect tune, as well, i just couldnt do any chords on the lowest 2 strings.

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downtuning is not necessary in order to be heavy, Martyr is one of the heaviest bands ever, and they just play in standard most of the time, sometimes drop d. Daniel Mongrain is God

i play in Drop C, because im slack

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Psycroptic are also in Drop D. I'm in B, or A most of the time.

All about regular tuning here, though I used to experiement with others, largely to play along with various death metal CDs.
If I really feel the need to have a lower tuning, that's when I break out ye olde 7-string. ^^;;

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Yeah, see, I don't have that luxury. I need a 7-string.

I usually have my guitars at standard tuning, both 6 and 7 string. The lowest I've tuned my 7 sting to was G, out of curiosity and to see what Dueling Banjoes would sound like that downtuned. I think I'll just stick to standard tuning.

Ohh, and 9 strings is nothing.

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Those images are sick! I might have to get me one of those phazebrawide guitars. Might need a strong strap for that one.

On the tuning side, for metal I tune everything down to D then the drop C on some songs (which is what the rest of the band also tune to) however I just got a 7 string which is tuned down a tone with a low G.

Thoes images disgust me

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Who said it was required? But it is a fact that tones are different when downtuned and played on heavier strings, scientifically a fact. I say to hell with staying in the same spot.

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Im scarred for life

Down tuning is a bitch on a floyd.







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Im a supreme metalhead

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Now thats gonna make your friends jealous

Ya it doesnt get any better from there though...its basically just downhill from there

The guy that makes Meshuggah´s 8 string guitars is called Fredrik Nevborn, and his company is called Nevborn Guitars.

The guitar model name is Sleipner XL and cost about $3000 depends on your setup

Messugah suck

...in my opinion

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i agree

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I think Meshuggah could have some decent music. Though, I would never buy any of their cds. Their not bad musicians. Just not my style.

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well i like them and has almost all theire cd´s. I think theire musik takes the use of guitars to the extreme.

But thats just my opinion, and i respect yours

Yeah, their sense of time structure is very unique and one of the reasons as to why I listen to them. Also, Frederick Thordendal is an amazing guitarist - his leads are awesome.

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remember kiddies, low tunings does not repeat does not necessarily equal heavy...

changing tunings for every differennt song pisses me off and makes me not want to play. I just put some new strings on my LP. earnie ball super slinkies 42,32,24,16,11,9 They're so tiny. Amazing sustain in E and drop D.

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meshuggah make my dodgy arthritic knee ache these days. I am serious too.

Soundgarden are one of the worst bands in the world for that, especially on Badmotorfinger and Superunknown.

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Then also remember that because one downtunes, they are not necessarily just trying to be heavy but with a lack of talent.

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Well every body in here will probertley define heavy in his own way, so basicly this is a bullshit conversation.

Fo Shizzle

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heavy is all about the way you play, not your tuning, not what gauge your strings are, and not what kind of distortion you have. tuning down has never sounder any heavier to me than standard does, it sounds different, you can do things while tunedowned that you cant while in standard, esp. if you use very thin strings, you can do like 4 and 5 step bends.

i am leaning more towards using standard now a days, merely for the ease of playing with other people.

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I re-tuned my Ibanez ex last night with 13-56's. Yeah, Floyd roses can be a real pain in the ass. It took me maybe around 15 minutes to string it up alltogether. For this purpose, I'm tabbing out Mortician, Morbid Angel, and anything other thats tuned between B and G.
Fuckin Jazz strings.lol..yeah, I might as well almost play bass...heh..that's ok though, I'll stick to guitar for the time being.
And MoonRaven, I agree with you 100% on the tuning aspect. Look at Dimmu Borgir, standard tuning, with a real nice heavy sound. That's just one example. I like low tuning probably just cause I've been playing it for a long time.

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It depends on how you play your guitar, and witch cords you use.

I have been using 13-56's jazz strings nearley from the day i got my guitar...well ok, the the strings on it was 09, fucking thin hate that shit, but after i broke all the strings i began to use the 13´s.

G tuning I used .13 D'Addarios for that. Sounded decent, and the strings werent too loose. G tuning sounds fuckin sick if you adjust your low and mid ranges right, and the tone on the pedal.

http://www.nevbornguitars.com/ makes meshuggahs guitars, some american guy. F, Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, Gb, Bb and Eb is the tuning, pretty scary lol

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