Bass tuning half step up

[EOC]

DILEMA!!!!

In my band we use two diferent tunnings (B and C)and i have 2 5-string basses. (a btb and a spector) What i use right now is the spector on original tuning (B) and tune the btb half step up (all strings) is this crazy?!?!

Thanks in advance!

 

[Audiosprite]

makes sense to me ¯\_(&#12484_/¯

 

[EOC]

makes sense to me ¯_(&#12484_/¯

Yes, but i´m afraid that i am puttin to much tension to the intruments. We are use to tune down, but, i´ve never heard of tuning up

Any second opinion?

 

[Pman]

DILEMA!!!!

In my band we use two diferent tunnings (B and C)and i have 2 5-string basses. (a btb and a spector) What i use right now is the spector on original tuning (B) and tune the btb half step up (all strings) is this crazy?!?!

Thanks in advance!

I think its probably ok but any higher might start to fuck it up.

 

[P-E]

It'll be fine, just use thinner strings if it's too tense.

 

[egan.]

+1. Just string w/ 120's or 125's on the "C" bass. On another note, what's so important about that half step difference that if makes it worth carrying twice as many guitars?

 

[Jaymz]

I tune up from B to C with .130's and never had a problem.

 

[Jordon]

Or, throw a low G on there! GCGCF!

 

[olif8]

what's so important about that half step difference that if makes it worth carrying twice as many guitars?

Exactly.

 

[AudioGeekZine]

ever heard of a capo?

 

[NoSoup4you22]

Never used a capo on a bass, lol. I suppose it should work. I think the difference between C and B is that C sounds swedish and B sounds american. I'd never tune my guitars above standard though.

 

[tempe]

Or, throw a low G on there! GCGCF!

That's what I did when I played a 5 string, the low G is fairly useless for playing lower on the neck though. Basically it sometimes makes playing some things higher up the fretboard easier.

 

[EOC]

. On another note, what's so important about that half step difference that if makes it worth carrying twice as many guitars?

It is kind of a pain in the ass, but the first reason is because "C" was pretty high for our vocalist and second because it gives us more variety of keys using open strings (there are a lot of albums were 90% of the songs are in the same key! and coming from a classical background i like to organize the keys of the different songs in a structural way)

I thought about the capo, but never tried it yet.

Thanks for all the opinions guys!

 

[Severu]

Or, just keep it in B. I saw Jari Kainulainen (ex-Stratovarius) with Evergrey two years ago, the guitarists had 3 or 4 tunings and he just played one bass.

 

[plague_rider]

Or, throw a low G on there! GCGCF!

This... is the most epic thing I've ever tried with my bass....

 

[XnaySaturo]

I think the difference between C and B is that C sounds swedish and B sounds american.

Now that's fucking hilarious.

 

[prowlergrig]

yeah try a capo, or just tune your low string to C for the C songs? shouldn't be too hard to adapt to new fingering positions?

 

[DanLights]

I would do the capo, in fact I do it all the time, in my cover band we have most songs in E and I´m in D, but we have a couple songs in D so I just remove the capo for those songs. Of course if you have two basses more power to you, it even gives you a cooler on stage image as stupid as it sounds. I´ve done the 5 string in C before, it works fine, I would only do the low G if I was actually gonna use it, but I can´t stand the sound of a low A so I doubt I would ever use it even lower.