Drop B tuning

[hneaz]

Would a drop B on a 6 string guitar sound good or bad?

 

[Murray_H]

Better have some chunky strings for that!

 

[Tyguy]

it will sound fine if you play the right stuff. Try learning iris, thats a b with the rest of the strings d. Sounds good, might sound a little low at first but when you play the whole song, its cool

 

[hneaz]

Yeah, you'll need some .60 gauge strings or so if you want to tune that low, and you should definitely set your neck and action up properly for it too. I don't think you could go wrong with a set of Ernie Ball Beef Slinkys.

.60 gauge for the 6th string u mean? the problem i have is that i need to play in standard tuning and drop C and B often. right now my strings are the .10 gauge, which is good for drop C and standard E. the reason why i wanna play in drop B so that i can sound like Unearth. ill try it out later.

Edit: doesn sound nice on my guitar....ill stick with Drop C

 

[Korgoth]

are you talking about just dropping the E string down to b or going drop d down two whole steps?

 

[Zeus]

Ya u can tune it that low, if all u wanna hear is the sound of the strings slapping against the fretboard really annoyingly.

 

[sabre0001]

Going to sound like mud really unless it's set up right as others have pointed out - I have only gotten to Drop C and that sounded quite crap...

 

[Korgoth]

I guess a baritone guitar would handle this tuning fairly well wouldn't it? I know that A perfect circle use this tuning (according to guitar world) for a few songs, as do slipknot... I stay in C mostly (deftones and system of a down) deftones self titled uses this tuning, they've dropped on each album!

Adrenaline = Eb
Around the fur = Db
White pony = C
Deftones = B