Alternate Tunings, which can harm your neck |
I have 10-46 gauge strings on my Jackson JS30DK, so can this be risky or not?(without changing gauge)
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Nov 25 2008, 01:39 PM
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It will not damage your guitar, but the change of gauge and change of tunings could make a relief on the neck bigger, so the action could raise a bit, but it all depends from guitar to guitar. In general nothing wrong is going to happen, just be carefull, and don't overdo it.
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Nov 25 2008, 04:39 PM
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I agree with Ivan, there is no problem (or danger) with experimenting a bit, just, as Confusion mentioned, be sure to use thick strings when you want to use very low tunings.
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Nov 25 2008, 04:53 PM
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Basically just change strings accordingly, As everyone has said. I switch tunings alot, but I change strings As I need, and all is good.
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)? I used(and using now) some GHS strings and tone is quite good, but i don`t like that lower strings(they are black) lose the paint pretty fast or whatever that is and after 2 months they looks like zebra 
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Nov 25 2008, 07:35 PM
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I am only interested in drop D for now. Open tunings are a different ballgame. They do something neat real easily, but are also limiting. Maybe in the future I will take some interest. But if you try to do too many things, you just end up being mediocre in a lot of things, at least for a long time. I will worry about something like this when I can hold my own against the teachers here. I think most super guitarists that use open tunings went this rout. They did not get into it until they had a mastery of standard tuning.
I am not talking about tunings mostly people use potentially causing damage. I am talking about extreme things, particularly if you leave it tuned like that for an extended period. The stress on a neck goes up by by a squared factor as you raise pitch of a string. If I used some strange tuning, especially while using an non standard set of strings such as heavy bottom, and especially if you are up tuning, I would check the neck bow on both sides of the neck, what you do for a truss rod adjustment. That should be about the width of the high E string. If you find that increased a great deal, I would certainly not leave it in that tuning. And particularly if you find that the bow increased a great deal on one side of the neck, and not on the other. That is just common sense. By putting unbalanced stress on wood for an extended period, you sure as heck will warp it I expect. Could be wrong, but in my experience, common sense is close to correct 80% OR 90% of the time, so I go with it. But most tunings are not like this, most of the time they downtune. I found this list of open tunings researching this. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/w...ngs/tunings.htm I am not interested as I said, because I am busy enough trying to get some mastery of standard tuning (other than dropping the low string down a tone once in awhile, because you can still pretty much think like open tuning when you do that). edit: when I talk about standard tuning, I include Eb tuning in that category. I pretty much use that all the time anymore. This post has been edited by fkalich: Nov 25 2008, 08:13 PM |
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Nov 26 2008, 10:13 AM
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Would be very great if some experienced players check what I`m asking about in the last reply (in this post)...
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