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2009-06-23, 18:17
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Can the bass be dropped to C
I have always wondered if bassists drop down to C. If they do wouldn't it sound too floppy the string. It would be like elastic bands.
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2009-06-23, 18:33
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You can but it wouldn't sound very good.
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2009-06-23, 18:47
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They would just have to buy thicker gauge strings, to keep tension and sound right.
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2009-07-03, 15:37
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Let me change my original response. Typically bands that tune in C don't sound very good.
I Wrestled a Bear Once is one example.
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2009-07-03, 16:11
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So this Georgian Olympian runs into a bar
Aosoth - New album III out now on Agonia Recs
Epoch - bass, guitars, drums, MetaStasizing out asap
Asphixa - bass, demo out asap
Adustum - bass, guitars, full length out soon on XXXXXXXXXX recs
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Tetianblood? ... Well, 'Necrosemen' to you too. Twat.
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get a five string and tune up. if you have little strings it doesn't jack with the neck. That's what my old bassist did when we used to tune to C standard. Then we had a guy with a four string that tuned all the strings down...and honestly I don't remember it being too bad.
But now we tune to B and have no bassist....or second guitarist..... 
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2009-07-03, 20:36
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its sounds muddy if you drop it down to a C and bands that use them are the ones that cant play together lol use a stuido and a bass drum for that if you even need it
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2009-07-03, 22:18
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its sounds muddy if you drop it down to a C and bands that use them are the ones that cant play together lol use a stuido and a bass drum for that if you even need it
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So this Georgian Olympian runs into a bar
Aosoth - New album III out now on Agonia Recs
Epoch - bass, guitars, drums, MetaStasizing out asap
Asphixa - bass, demo out asap
Adustum - bass, guitars, full length out soon on XXXXXXXXXX recs
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Tetianblood? ... Well, 'Necrosemen' to you too. Twat.
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2009-07-03, 23:54
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I still don't get what the bass drum is for. 
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2009-07-05, 10:52
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Okay.
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I have always wondered if bassists drop down to C. If they do wouldn't it sound too floppy the string. It would be like elastic bands.
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I'm sure it can be dropped to C... but it would probably sound like an elephant with diarrhea.
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2009-07-05, 13:00
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So this Georgian Olympian runs into a bar
Aosoth - New album III out now on Agonia Recs
Epoch - bass, guitars, drums, MetaStasizing out asap
Asphixa - bass, demo out asap
Adustum - bass, guitars, full length out soon on XXXXXXXXXX recs
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Tetianblood? ... Well, 'Necrosemen' to you too. Twat.
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The Arch-Enemy Fucker tunes down to C am I right?
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2009-07-29, 19:00
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The Arch-Enemy Fucker tunes down to C am I right?
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Okay.
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Arch Enemy's bassist is useless.
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God, the Japanese are so weird. This HAS to be the long term effects of the atom bombs. No one is that weird on purpose.
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The slams in that song always kill me. First time I heard that song I was like "Too much heaviness - brain collapse" but now I could murder my family to that one
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get a five string and tune up. if you have little strings it doesn't jack with the neck. That's what my old bassist did when we used to tune to C standard. Then we had a guy with a four string that tuned all the strings down...and honestly I don't remember it being too bad.
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yep I tune up to a flat on my six string.
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Sabbath tuned in C cuz tonni's missin fingers
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