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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.

AxAxSxS wrote:I'm thinking I should run the tuner out from my bigshot into tony's, and slave to PA from one of the heads. Just for "science"

My Doom Dick would be enormous.

you know what to do. . .

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.

Two of my three guitars are in drop tunings right now. I learned to play along to all the worst numetal the late 90s/early 2000s had to offer, so I became so accustomed to it that I never changed I've developed some really strange ways of playing big chords because of it.

dude, i loved mortician back in the day. i bet i haven't heard them in 15 years probably. i was way more into death metal then, although i do still like a fair bit of death metal selectively. if it sounds like a dude is wearing a track suit, i'm out, which is where a lot of death metal was headed when i started getting away from it. mortician ruled though.

as far as drop tunings, it's funny, i could never write in drop tuning very comfortably until about four or five years ago. maybe six or seven, but i'm old. i was in this band for a while that had some songs in drop tuning that had been written before i joined. it kind of broke through the wall for me and opened a bunch of doors. i learned their songs and was like, this is awesome, this is how you play in drop tuning that doesn't suck. since then, i've been totally into it. my current band has one song that's in a standard tuning, and i've recently been messing around with a friend maybe starting a new project that is so far all standard, but in a lot of ways i'm a convert. i love drop tunings. mostly for stuff that doesn't utilize the low string all that much though, just sometimes for the lower harmonies and big open chords.

misterstomach wrote:if it sounds like a dude is wearing a track suit

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orD3zvZsarU[/youtube]
You cannot deny how awesome that riff is.

Iommic Pope wrote:

misterstomach wrote:if it sounds like a dude is wearing a track suit

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orD3zvZsarU[/youtube]
You cannot deny how awesome that riff is.

total track suit death metal. i admire the response, but somehow i still find it within myself to deny any awesomeness to anything about that.

this is the shit i'm talking about though. fucking awesome. track suit dudes got nothing on this.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBfPCgqSP7U[/youtube]

Changed my board around.

Blood Duster is some great grind from down under. One of the few bands that can be humorous and I can still enjoy. How they are dressed up in there is part of the joke. another funny thing... Blood Duster is about as old as Deicide. deicide formed in 89. Blood Duster in 91.

I love death metal it's not like I'll ever out grow it or anything like that. The first stuff I listened to was grunge then directly into death metal and grind my tastes spread out and I started exploring tons of other stuff anything that had interesting song structures or guitar never really leaving anything behind just swallowing it along my regular steady diet of metal then more around 07 08 I pretty much just didn't care about much else aside from death metal and weird death/black metal and crust and really dark hardcore and grind. And I'm pretty much there still. I like the same things over and over just done slightly differently. Which is also reflective in the different projects I do.

i guess i missed the joke. also missed the band too apparently. i got into death metal in the early 90's but i've never heard blood duster til today. i've never really listened to much jokey metal stuff. anyway, old death metal isn't really my big passion these days or anything either. i'm similar to you. i love the stuff from my past that still rings true, but i've progressed. i've always loved and kept up with good darker punk/hardcore/crust kind of stuff and for years have mostly been into dark weird doom and black metal. and i feel like death metal has had a bit of a renaissance over the past few years and there's some really cool interesting bands. grind core is mostly something i've left behind except some of the really great old 80's stuff like napalm death and extreme noise terror and a few gems from later on like assuck. and of course carcass, but i'm not sure if i really think of them as grind, even though they pretty much are.

anyway, to keep it on topic, i've posted this before i think, but here's my rig, as far as what i'm using live these days.

You have such wonderful taste, mannnnnnn

i don't know if you're talking about the man-o-war poster, the topless chick on the motorcycle (which isn't mine and i just realized was in this pic, blame the drummer) or my rig/pedal board. but they're all pretty awesome if you ask me.

I Can attest to the sheer sonic goodness of that rig. Finally Gave Tony the Druden shirt I got for him at his birthday shindig a week ago and he was stoked btw.

The wife's been off work all week as she did 60 miles in the 24 hour pacific rim race last weekend, she took a few days off to recover and goes back to work tomorrow.

Time to form Rig Voltron.

I'll try to record but I have a feeling that it will be to much for the mics. Hell at practice tonight we were turning the input down almost to nill to get it recording without peaking.

Also, Take a look a a little video project I did for our friends in Stereo Creeps. Not Doom so much, I don't know what genre I would put them in aside from "rock" I dig em though and have enjoyed working with them on this album sampler idea. The concept was a visual collage to go with the music.

NSFW for brief werewolf titties

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MImlbOSbgco[/youtube]

AxAxSxS wrote:Also, Take a look a a little video project I did for our friends in Stereo Creeps. Not Doom so much, I don't know what genre I would put them in aside from "rock" I dig em though and have enjoyed working with them on this album sampler idea. The concept was a visual collage to go with the music.

NSFW for brief werewolf titties

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MImlbOSbgco[/youtube]

Video was very cool! Sometimes got a Melvins vibe here and there, but they sound like they cover a lot of ground.

yeah they are all over the place. Keeps it interesting. Cool bunch of guys too.
Just realized I posted it in the rig thread, oh well it's all good
Glad you enjoyed the vid