Any of you guys got mixes with standard E tuned guitars?

[thefyn]

There are some awesome awesome down-tuned 7 stringery on the AS forum but hands up who has standard clips and let me hear them.

 

[reneisgod]

aye my band is in standard E

www.myspace.com/cnocantursa

we use a 5 string bass though.

 

[Force666]

Not quite, but in this thread

Cold Grave song w/guest solo by Metaltastic

The guitars are tuned a half step down (Eflat Standard)

 

[Nebulous]

When I want some standard tuned awsomeness I usually listen to Evergrey or Mors Principium Est. Between their albums (especially EG's) there's a pretty braod range of tones to reference to.

 

[Nebulous]

Also, for some forum relevant material, do a search for Ermz "In malices wake" clips. They are all in E standard.

 

[Ermz]

Not really a great example of engineering skill, but: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/285689/Music/IMW-Eternal_Nightfall.mp3

 

[PhilR]

Old one now: http://melgimpsuit.stuckonaname.co.uk/Well... Fuck My Old Boots/01 - Lads Are Out.ogg

 

[gabriel g.]

I love the sound of standart E-tuning!!!!!
But nobody in my band

 

[midget donkeys]

My band was just talking about tunings last night. I have a bunch of songs in D standard. The bass player was worried because so much modern metal is tuned lower than that, which makes me feel like an old goat.

To me D standard is tuned real low. I would actually be all about just tuning a half step down and staying out of the way of the bass guitar.

 

[Harry Hughes]

Honestly until you get much below A, there is not really a problem of the guitars fighting with the guitars.
Anyway, bands like Meshuggah that down are F (almost an octave below the normal E standard) they just get the bass player to tune up one semitone.
The problem is even less so in the studio anyway.
There's this nifty thing they call a high pass filter

 

[AdamWathan]

Sylosis - Conclusion of an Age

 

[muckypup1]

When I have a set of heavy strings I will often tune down to F or even lower like Meshuggah but I do think that a stanard tuned guitar has a lot more punch with how it sounds, when it is detuned down to A or F, its just low, not actually bone crushing.

 

[Erik Monsonis]

It's on Eb but anyways:

www.myspace.com/aggressionband

 

[Force666]

Dissection - Storm Of The Lights Bane and The Somberlain are both E standard and are crushing/evil as fuck.

Just goes to show, it's all about the riff not the tuning.

 

[korpse pop]

The fact is, lower you tune, more hollow your sound will be. Some genres benefit from a hollow tone, some not, and unfortunately, low tunings bring tuning and intonation problems with them. This can be of course fixed with a baritone scale guitar, but that sounds like a baritone guitar, a very different tone to a normal scale guitar

 

[TheDriller]

Dissection - Storm Of The Lights Bane and The Somberlain are both E standard and are crushing/evil as fuck.

Just goes to show, it's all about the riff not the tuning.

Agreed,

 

[Line666]

Quite a lot of Opeth albums are either in E standard or Drop D.

 

[joeritson]

Dissection - Storm Of The Lights Bane and The Somberlain are both E standard and are crushing/evil as fuck.

Just goes to show, it's all about the riff not the tuning.

Massive Dissection fan!

 

[Harry Hughes]

Sylosis - Conclusion of an Age

Fantastic album.
I wish Josn from Sylosis posted more around these parts, he's an absolutely incredibly guitarist.

 

[Pot]

Agreed,

+1