Re: bass tunings

["Charlie Milkey" <pilotcp@gmail.com>]

very interesting...

on a cool sidenote,
as far as gear goes, you are my hero!
I love every piece of gear you own!

Charlie

On 5/9/06, Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill <rs@moinlabs.de> wrote:
> If you go to moinlabs.de, and then follow Moinlabs->MoinSound->MoinSound
> Archives->rtbs solo, you'll find some tunes under the "SAUBER!" and
> "Neinnein auf dem kleinen Weg" header, where all string instruments (and 
>in
> the latter case, some of the stuff which sounds like a synth) is that 
>very
> bass, although on the SAUBER! album, it was still tuned one step higher 
>if I
> remember correctly.
>
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Charlie Milkey [mailto:pilotcp@gmail.com]
> > Gesendet: Montag, 8. Mai 2006 23:31
> > An: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> > Betreff: Re: bass tunings
> >
> > I'd like to hear some songs where you use that tuning...that
> > is really low! The weirdest bass tuning i've ever encountered
> > (other than any of Michael Manrings crazy 100 different
> > tunings per song tunings) was in fifths, like a standard bass
> > only upside down (like a violin right?) and that was pretty
> > wild...Another cool tuning i like is the one that a cool bass
> > player named Jauqo III-X uses and that is C#, F#, B, and E,
> > from low to high...and yes, that E is equal to the low E that
> > bass players are used to :) if anyone ever finds the brown
> > sound, it'll be Jauqo :)
>
>