D standard with drop C tuning?

[Triumph_Rock]

Hi guys,

 

I'm talking to a band about potentially becoming there bassist. When I asked what tuning they play in. The answer I got back is D standard with drop C. So D standard is D, G, C, F. I take it D standard with drop C would mean C, G, C, F ?

 

Anybody heard of this before?

[Waddo Soqable]

Coincidentally I've used exactly that tuning in some industrial metally thing years ago.

I just tuned a headless 4string bass with "normal" strings down to this, and it was fine, as far as I was concerned anyway.

I'd just add it wasn't named as above, in fact wasn't given a name at all to my knowledge, I just clumsily described it as "like drop D but all down with the lowest note as C"

Edited August 27, 2021 by Waddo Soqable

[Huw Foster]

Pretty sure Louis Johnson played 'Sunset Driver', an MJ b-side, with this tuning.