99mustang Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Hope this is in the right section, I decided to learn to play "We will rise" by Arch Enemy. The songs calls for drop C tuning. Well the strings were so loose and floppy it was hard to play without loads of clangs and bangs as the strings hit the frets. To combat this, would I have to goto heavier guage strings? I looked on the Ibanez website at the bassist signature model and it comes with factory drop C tuning. But no mention of string guage. Thoughts anyone? Cheers, John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charic Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Newtone strings will make you a standard set for drop c (im using them and they're great) you would be able to tune up though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
99mustang Posted February 3, 2012 Author Share Posted February 3, 2012 [quote name='charic' timestamp='1328293962' post='1525185'] Newtone strings will make you a standard set for drop c (im using them and they're great) you would be able to tune up though [/quote] Hmmm, very interesting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charic Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Sorry I mean won't be able to tune up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thepurpleblob Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 (edited) Who? Anyway, get a 5 string?? EDIT: Youtube... is that a GIRL??? Dear me Edited February 3, 2012 by thepurpleblob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jam Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 My band plays in drop tuning (Csharp), and I use DR DDT strings. They feel pretty much like normal strings. I had some rotosounds on my old bass and when I downtuned it felt like I was playing spaghetti. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
99mustang Posted February 4, 2012 Author Share Posted February 4, 2012 Yeah thanks Jam, I looked around fo rthe Newtones, but could not find any, but the DR DDT strings seem fairly reasonable. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
99mustang Posted February 4, 2012 Author Share Posted February 4, 2012 [quote name='thepurpleblob' timestamp='1328311502' post='1525543'] Who? Anyway, get a 5 string?? EDIT: Youtube... is that a GIRL??? Dear me [/quote] Arch Enemy dear boy and yes she is a girl, and a rather hot one too IMO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charic Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Newtones are made to order :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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