Different tuning??

[skins345669]

Standard, drop-D and E flat (which can easily be dropped to C#)

Does the lot really

[j.t..i.]

Originally Posted by Shredragrammaton

all my guitars are strung with slinky 10s , tuned DGCFAD , cant beat it !

same, but addarios

[Brambram]

Originally Posted by callen3615

Hey guys. So, how many guitars do you have tuned to something besides A440?

Originally Posted by callen3615

I have 2. A Les Paul a full step down, and a SG a 1/2 step down. Besides my fixed bridge guitars my floyds are in standard. I have a JS in standard, and a RFR RG550 both in standard.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that if you tune your guitar half step down (or DADGAD or Drop-C or whatever) doesn't mean your guitar isn't in A440. A440 means that one of the A's on your guitar is a 440 Hz tone (and with that, all other notes relative to that one). If you tune your guitar half step down you simply change the position of that standard A, you don't actually change it to, for instance, A435 or something, so I wouldn't call the 'standard tuning' A440.

To answer the question: all my guitars are tuned A440 and usually EADGBE and sometimes standard C-tuning.

[skins345669]

Recently changed to A440 as it were, 1/2 step down and B standard

[MarkE]

Zakk Wylde LP down to Eb

Jim Root Tele in drop C

Hello Kitty Strat in Nashville tuning

One of the RGTs is going to end up in Eb shortly as well

[D.Vial]

all my guitars (2X S540 and a Les paul goldtop) are tuned 1 step down, with 0.11 - 0.54 ernie ball strings.

[Magical Muffin]

Originally Posted by Brambram

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that if you tune your guitar half step down (or DADGAD or Drop-C or whatever) doesn't mean your guitar isn't in A440. A440 means that one of the A's on your guitar is a 440 Hz tone (and with that, all other notes relative to that one). If you tune your guitar half step down you simply change the position of that standard A, you don't actually change it to, for instance, A435 or something, so I wouldn't call the 'standard tuning' A440.

Most people seem think of the 8th fret on the e string to be C, even if you're in e flat, so in that sense your system of notation wouldn't be A440. That's how I personally see it. A440 is mainly a way of saying "I actually tune to standard"

I have a guitar with 10s tuned to e that goes everywhere from standard to and d standard, maybe c# or drop c, one strung with 9's that stays in e (mabye drop d), and one strung with 12-52 that is in C/ drop b, and handles anything below as well.

I also like tuning to tritones (6 half step intervals on all strings, but g and b are still tuned 4 half steps with in each other) and open tunings occasionally, but I don't have a thousand guitars

[IbanezDaemon]

None, used to tune down a half step but switched back to standard a few years back.

[gaspoweredteeth]

I have 7 guitars, all tuned and setup different.

[PSM113]

We play in mostly Drop C, so I currently have four tuned down.

[MacMusica]

All mine tuned to standard (B)EADGBE but to A=442

This is because most modern recorded music is and has been this way since synths. It makes the sound more happier, lighter and very very nice.
A=440 is very hard depressive sounding. It goes against the grain of a good vibration. However, I do use A=440 for my Classical as it gives it more a sense of senserity and difines its character best towards that era.
I'm not trying to be clever about this but most pro orchestras now tune to either 442,443,444, or 445: -

A SHORT HISTORY OF PITCH:
1859 - French law set A435
1885 - Vienna conference set A440
USA before 1917 used A435
1917 - American Federation of Musicians A440
1920 - US government set A440 as legal pitch
1939 - International acceptance of A440
1989 - European Common Market selected A435 as
the standard for all Europe.
Note: All of these laws have always been ignored by professional orchestras throughout the world.

Live with A=442 for a while and feel the difference.
(As long as you tune to the repeated attacked notes)

I have very acute hearing and can (as I did yesterday) re-string a guitar and tune/stretch to 442 and then check with a tuner to find I don't need to change it. I've done this on 2 floyd rose guitars too. On my rack Korg Tuner I can choose it to make the tone sound. Try for yourself adjusting this tone between 440 & 442. You will hear a 440 has a courseness that 442 does not. It is more pure in resonance. Likewise, try to hum a note and go flat/sharp until you feel it sounds most natural. Then check what it is.

[racerevlon]

Use the right tool for the job. Most of my guitars are tuned to "concert pitch" or "standard tuning" EADGBE, but I have an Epi LP tuned to Eb, a Squier Bullet Strat tuned to drop C, a Tele tuned to open G, and an acoustic tuned to Gsus4 (makes playing "Rain Song" a LOT easier). The things that keep me from going Eb across the board are re-floating all the trems, and re-learning where all the notes are.

Call me crazy, but I hate when I'm playing with someone tuned to Eb, they play X-0-2-2-2-0 and say "this is an 'A' (A, C#, E)" because they don't realize that in the real world, when you tune down 1/2 step, THAT chord becomes Ab (Ab, C, Eb).

Note: it's been a long time since 'theory' for me so someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

"There are two types of people that wield guitars: guitar players and musicians" -- Race

[Bonehead]

rg1570 standard
rg7620 standard
ec1000-standard or drop d
fx260sm-standard for now
ec100-down a whole step or drop c
viper-e flat or drop c#
acoustic e flat

[jono]

Originally Posted by MacMusica

A=440 is very hard depressive sounding. It goes against the grain of a good vibration.

You will hear a 440 has a courseness that 442 does not. It is more pure in resonance.

From a "physics" point of view, because string oscillation and vibration and resonance are all just physics, could you explain how a difference of 2Hz makes an instrument resonate more purely? Is this on the open strings or on fretted notes as well, how does this work with the incorrectly intonated division of an octave that most of us have as our fretboards?

More particularly, how is 440Hz a "bad" vibration and 442 a "good" vibration, or do I need to stand on a mountain top in my pyjamas for a while to "get" this?

[DEADTUNES666]

My 777vbk is tuned 2 whole steps down to C (12-56), and two 12 strings (electric and acoustic) tuned down 1/2 step and then capo'd. That doesn't really count though I don't think...