036 (threaded through the cut off ball ends of old bass strings, to not fall through the string mounting holes in the bridge). With the higher F# tuning i can actually achieve a tone with a bit of that harmonically rich piano like quality, otherwise impossible to obtain with the kind of string gauge needed on such a short scale length for the low E string in regular E standard tuning.įor this I personally use coated Elixir Nanoweb, relatively low and approximately balanced tension, guitar strings of the gauges. Seems to work really well for my just 28.6" scale Ibanez Mikro Bass, and in my experience F# seems to be just the turning point where it will still very much sound like a bass instrument, whereas as soon as you get to G standard tuning something happens with the character of the instrument that makes it sound more like a 4 string baritone guitar than a bass. Personally I have grown quite fond of the traditional classical upright bass F# standard solo tuning, 2 half steps above regular 4 string bass E standard tuning. I assume named with the instrument tenor guitar, which is a 4 string higher tuned guitar, since a 4 string electrical bass would resemble this, in mind, rather than the actual tuning of it), tuning, one fourth above, F#, traditional classical upright bass solo tuning, two half steps above, standard tuning, G standard tuning, three half steps above, or perhaps some entirely different alternative tuning (same, as far as the intervals, goes for above B standard tuning for 5 or 6 string basses of course)? That be whether it is piccolo bass tuning, one octave above, A standard, tenor bass (I know this sounds like an oxymoron, but it the actual technical term for a bass tuned this way. Anyone else who tune one or more of their bass up, that is higher than E standard tuning (or B standard tuning, if 5 or 6 string bass), perhaps even mainly playing with such tuning?
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