SlipknotKoRnfan
Burn Jet Fuel
So my bass player just acquired an SR 506 6 string bass, which is beautiful, but our band has now come to a roadblock. Originally we played 5 string basses and 7 string guitars tuned to drop A flat, now our guitar player just bought an 8 string guitar, tuned to F, and our bass player got the 6 string bass. half of our band wants to keep the bass in the same tuning and have the guitar tuned F Ab Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb, and the other half wants the bass tuned an octave LOWER than the 8 string to a low F, just like how After the Burial does it. The bass player is leaning towards keeping it in A flat.
Anyone have experience with this? Ive hear that having a super low F on your bass is hard to get to sound clear and also requires modification of the bass, as well as crazy tweaking of your equipment to get it to sound right. Lee Foral from After the Burial said himself in this interview that it was an "interesting experience" trying to get his bass setup for the tuning and finding strings that worked, as well as playing the damn thing haha.
What do you guys think we should do? Have the bass play the low F stuff in the same octave as the guitars? Or an octave below? THANKS!!
**Equipment: Ampeg SVT 3 Pro bass head, Ibanez SR 506 bass, BOSS ODB-3 Bass Overdrive pedal, BOSS NS-2 noise gate.
Anyone have experience with this? Ive hear that having a super low F on your bass is hard to get to sound clear and also requires modification of the bass, as well as crazy tweaking of your equipment to get it to sound right. Lee Foral from After the Burial said himself in this interview that it was an "interesting experience" trying to get his bass setup for the tuning and finding strings that worked, as well as playing the damn thing haha.
What do you guys think we should do? Have the bass play the low F stuff in the same octave as the guitars? Or an octave below? THANKS!!
**Equipment: Ampeg SVT 3 Pro bass head, Ibanez SR 506 bass, BOSS ODB-3 Bass Overdrive pedal, BOSS NS-2 noise gate.