Hey there, was wondering if anyone knows what tuning the bassist from electric wizard uses? tried to look it up but google just keeps giving me tabs instead

cheers

Just a wild guess, because I've never really tried playing any EW, but I would guess that he tunes to whatever the guitarists tune to except for the top two strings, and most tabs have the tuning on there.

I think he tune in C

MOst EW is in B isnt it?

witchcult today and come my fanatics are in B
selftitled and we live are in C
dopethrone is in A# (mostly)

Dopethrone sounds rediculously low... but i find it sounds fine played in B.

If you have the recording stuff to do it, just tune to D, then drop the pitch without changing the tempo. Keeps shit tight. (You can also do the opposite...alter the tempo without changing the pitch. Thts how I used to record racks. Play them SUPER slow & precise, then speed them back up to the correct tempo. Yeahh.. I cheat )

makes ya sound like you know what yer doin

every body cheats. thats the whole point of going into the studio.
so you can record multiple tracks multiple times so you get a thick accurate sound.

"cheating" wasn't as easy in the 60's and 70's though. It's a lot harder to "copy & paste" or "ctrl+c , ctrl+v" on analog tape.

Ditto.

mmmm....tape Old school forever

yeh but back then bands who had the money to go into a real studio had technicians and producers to do all the heavy lifting.

They also learned how to play their parts. That's not a dig at you or Watt. But we all know that there are bands that really abuse technology to the point that their recordings are a farce.

Agreed. When I do that kinda thing.. I'll TELL someone I done it. BUT.. Anytthing that I wanna record, I can play the parts the way they're meant to be when played live. I may have "secret" things as far as tweaked / hot rodded / modified pedals, amps, etc,...but If I polish something up.. I'll tell you "That recording has been fucked with" ... and I'll show that I can play my stuff. Sour notes, warts & all.

I only use cheap tricks like that because I dont have access to a big time studio, and want to make my works sound the best I can possibly make them sound, using the toold & resources I have avail.. I dont want lo-fi amature stuff that sounds like all the typical "myspace" bands / high school punk-tards around here slap together & pass off as recordings.

Right, I jammed with some dudes last night that were playing with some home recording stuff. We all kinda had our own take on how much was enough to screw with the recording. It was like an improv hold on to your hat sort of thing. One dude would show everybody a couple chord changes, and then everyone would jump in. They wanted to record eveything live, and I didn't even know the songs. They might not be too happy when they listen back this morning.