Ancient Astronaught wrote:I used to play Drop tunings exclusively but that was mainly from back when i was playing alot of deftones inspired stuff. Now a days I find it easier to write in a standard tuning due to the chord types I'm using now. The Drop f tuning though allows me to basically play like I'm on one of my 6 strings but able to add in a droning octave not below it which can be really cool, plus since theres alot of sustained chords I can hold out 5 string chords alot easier and for alot longer due to being able to bar most of the chord.
I could definitely see that, anything below A without insane string tension like you said loses clarity and the sustain lessens. I don't play much death metal stuff anymore but I do play some black metal influenced riffs which is why I keep somewhere around C, there's more clarity in chords under huge amounts of gain and theres enough tension to keep trem picked chords from turning into much.
Man I haven't thought about Mortician in a long time... I'll have to break out the old high school CD binder and see what I can dig up. Thanks for reminding me!!!
Totally understand using it for those circumstances. Hell in one of my old bands one of the very few I played guitar we did use a drop B tuning. and we utilized it more along the use of odd chords and occassionally doing that bomb tuning like Floor just for fun. So I can totally get and know some good uses for drop tuning but yea like you said it is far easier for me as well to write in standard tuning.
and it's no problem I really just started listening to them again when explaining to some other guy about the tuning cause he had just started up trying some grindcore and wanted to do some ultra low tuning and I had to break them out so he could grasp how awesome it could sound.
