Octave4plus Custom .375 gauge string

[Danukenator]

Well durr...I guess I should have seen that.

 

[Sepultorture]

christ it doesn't even fit in the bloody saddle

 

[Hollowway]

I reeeeeallly want the owner of the bass to post here when he gets the real McCoy. I'd love to see it and hear it. And I'd love it even more if this were not just an uber low 4 string, but instead a bass that had >12 strings. But it sounds like that's not the case.

 

[ixlramp]

I had to update my frequency chart, a successful F000 would make a 16 string bass possible.

Octave number follows the convention of 'Scientific pitch notation'.

Frequency (Hz) / octave / note / ERB / ERG

493.88 4 B
466.16 4 A# Bb
440.00 4 A ...................................... A
415.30 4 G# Ab ........ Ab
392.00 4 G
369.99 4 F# Gb
349.23 4 F
329.63 4 E ...................................... E
311.13 4 D# Eb ........ Eb
293.66 4 D
277.18 4 C# Db
261.63 4 C

246.94 3 B ...................................... B
233.08 3 A# Bb ........ Bb
220.00 3 A
207.65 3 G# Ab
196.00 3 G ...................................... G
185.00 3 F# Gb
174.61 3 F ................ F
164.81 3 E
155.56 3 D# Eb
146.83 3 D ...................................... D
138.59 3 C# Db
130.81 3 C ................ C

123.47 2 B
116.54 2 A# Bb
110.00 2 A ...................................... A
103.83 2 G# Ab
098.00 2 G ................ G
092.50 2 F# Gb
087.31 2 F
082.41 2 E ...................................... E
077.78 2 D# Eb
073.42 2 D ................ D
069.30 2 C# Db
065.41 2 C

061.74 1 B ...................................... B
058.27 1 A# Bb
055.00 1 A ................ A
051.91 1 G# Ab
049.00 1 G
046.25 1 F# Gb .............................. F#
043.65 1 F
041.20 1 E ................ E
038.89 1 D# Eb
036.71 1 D
034.65 1 C# Db .............................. C#
032.70 1 C

030.87 0 B ................ B
029.14 0 A# Bb
027.50 0 A
025.96 0 G# Ab .............................. G#
024.50 0 G
023.12 0 F# Gb ........ F#
021.83 0 F
020.60 0 E
019.45 0 D# Eb
018.35 0 D
017.32 0 C# Db ........ C#
016.35 0 C

15.43 00 B
14.57 00 A# Bb
13.75 00 A
12.98 00 G# Ab ........ G#
12.25 00 G
11.56 00 F# Gb
10.91 00 F
10.30 00 E
09.72 00 D# Eb ........ D#
09.18 00 D
08.66 00 C# Db
08.18 00 C

7.72 000 B
7.29 000 A# Bb ........ A#
6.88 000 A
6.49 000 G# Ab
6.13 000 G
5.78 000 F# Gb
5.46 000 F ............... F
5.15 000 E
4.86 000 D# Eb
4.59 000 D
4.33 000 C# Db
4.09 000 C

 

[Shrooms]

So essentially this bass is in Drop Q.

Awesome..

 

[BIG ND SWEATY]

thick as a baby's arm

 

[Kroaton]

http://t.qkme.me/3ocg0g.jpg

 

[Winspear]

Whilst I have nothing but applause for experimentation and pushing the boundaries..looking at Ixlramps chart just makes me wonder what use this string can really have, haha. I play 21Hz F, almost an octave below standard bass. Yves Carbonne strings starting from BEADG an octave down, so 15hz B. The few songs where that string is played open, I do enjoy the sound on a good system. To go MORE THAN AN OCTAVE below that however..

Metal .375 inches of metal.

Next up, we tune to this:
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Black hole hums B flat

I did actually try and calculate the scale length that would be required for this with a .254 gauge string..I ended up just getting annoyed that calculators wouldn't show long enough numbers without going all mathy on my ass

 

[InfinityCollision]

I did actually try and calculate the scale length that would be required for this with a .254 gauge string..I ended up just getting annoyed that calculators wouldn't show long enough numbers without going all mathy on my ass

http://www.ekips.org/tools/guitar/originaltools/dinfterF.html

If I did it right, I get ~9 ft at standard tensions

The tone would be exceptionally clear though

EDIT: Whoops, went down one too many octaves when I was counting Should be right now.

 

[Winspear]

I can assure you it's a LOT more than that, haha. We effectively need to double standard scale 57 times...
I tried it and came up with around 3674937295934324700 inches...

Can it djent?

 

[InfinityCollision]

I can assure you it's a LOT more than that, haha. We effectively need to double standard scale 57 times...
I tried it and came up with around 3674937295934324700 inches...

Oh, you mean the black hole

 

[Sepultorture]

Someone call San Fran, me thinks they have a bridge cable missing

 

[Kroaton]

We could tune the snow/rain cover from a stadium and then crash a few planes into it.

 

[Vinchester]

Next up, we tune to this:
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Black hole hums B flat

So that's the tuning Arcturus use?

 

[Danukenator]

So, here is the real deal. It looks a lot cleaner in terms of its construction and it has a proper taper.

 

[KhzDonut]

I got a chance to try one of Skip's Bass's and it had the Octave-Below-B (B0? or B00? I can never remember... And Google is a whole other tab in my browser... So... Far... Away...) And while my bowels certainly felt the fundamental quite clearly, and it was super sweet to be able to visibly see the string traveling back and forth... I just have to finally admit... There is a "too low to be practical for almost anything." At least for anything I would do...

This .375 string? It's much like sending a millipede to the moon with a slingshot. I fully support NASA doing it. I fully support funding it. I fully support the brave men and women who would spend their long, cold nights sweating furiously over blueprints and $0.25 vending-machine coffee to design the damn thing.

But damnit... Once you've built it, you just have to step back and say... "well, THAT was a big, awesome waste of time."

I totally applaud Mr. Goodman for building it, but... DAMNIT, man, WHHYYY???

 

[CrazyBass]

Really though, why the hell do you need to tune THAT low?

 

[akinari]

5... hz?

I've never seen a thread that told my facial muscles to do that until now. Clips would be cool, but only if I'm able to rent a local theater's sound system.

 

[TemjinStrife]

I'm actually very curious as to HOW he is going to tune that. Most tuners won't pick up the pitch, or the harmonics (which will be out of tune anyway due to its inharmonicity) and there's no way you're going to be able to tune it by ear

 

[Winspear]

I'm actually very curious as to HOW he is going to tune that. Most tuners won't pick up the pitch, or the harmonics (which will be out of tune anyway due to its inharmonicity) and there's no way you're going to be able to tune it by ear

Perhaps a strobe light I remember that awesome thread here where somebody was creating a sub-bass sample instrument to be triggered via a guitar with a MIDI pickup - the samples were made on some absurdly long bench and a strobe light was used for tuning. Same concept as a strobe tuner - it will appear still when in tune.