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Post subject: E, A, LB and G
Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 4:59 pm
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I play a Fender Standard J-Bass (MIM) and I recently switched my strings to Ernie Ball after my guitar buddies talked me into it.

I picked up a set of Regular Slinky's, and E A and G tuned up perfectly after I put them on and sound great.

D is giving me problems. I'm not sure if its just the string, or what, but on an electronic tuner I can get it tuned to 3A and after that it jumps to Low B, then High C.

I've never seen B or C come up while tuning my bass... I've been playing about four months.

Could this just be a bad string? Its wound the same as the others, and I can get it tuned to just about everything but 2D which is what its supposed to be.

The string in that spot came out of the envelope marked 70, out of 50 70 85 105.



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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 3:45 pm
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What tuner are you using? I don't think it is the string. It may be the tuner. Are you plugged straight into the tuner? One of my tuners, a Korg GA-30, will do something similar when I downtune to D on my E string. I'll use one of my others then.


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Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 4:14 pm
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That's the tuner I'm using, actually.

I ended up taking the string off and putting it back on, and its tuning up fine now.


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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 6:28 am
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I have a Korg tuner that allows you to flat the intended note for drop tuning. Is this the same one you are referring to? (mine is currently MIA)

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Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 11:43 am
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sulley107 wrote:
I have a Korg tuner that allows you to flat the intended note for drop tuning. Is this the same one you are referring to? (mine is currently MIA)

Yeah, Whenever I drop it to D, that tuner just does not want to pick it up regardless what I do. I have no problem on my other 2 tuners at all. I like the Korg cause it is small, and has been dropped numerous times.


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Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 12:54 pm
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I've dropped mine a lot as well. It still works, though so I at least know it is sturdy!

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