[captainclegg]

Originally Posted by fraserlaeto

you can get a Hipshot, that's what you're after.

As for E tunings, personally again as with my marshall arument, i like my guitar to sound like a guitar.
A fact that not a lot of guitar players want to face is that electric guitars cover the midrange more than anything else. It's a middle-y instrument. If someone wants a low low bassy thing, maybe they should play bass, there's a big shortage of bass players, i'm sure the accordingly dormant bands of the world would be glad of it.

Again, i think it's easy to hide a multitude of sins behind something i find gimmicky. But that's for me, i don't expect anyone else to appreicate that.

More than anything else, i think it's vitally important that a band understands the spectral range of what they're doing in terms of physics as much as melodically. In a band you have a bass drum, you have a bass, the bottom end is covered. You have a snare, you have cymbals, hi hats, maybe solos, maybe a singer, the top range is covered. What's in the middle? Guitar. It'll make your band much much louder and a lot more powerful and dense a proposition to be operating some kind of full spectral dominance, where everything operates inside it's place and doesn't have to compete in another range. In particular, it makes mixing a record a nightmare, and mixing a live band like this a nightmare.
Knowing the limitations of the range of the speakers in your equipment as well is also a factor, but not one that really needs explaining.

I agree totally with what u are saying but the fact is i joined a band that plays in C so tuning to E is not really an option for me thats why i think at this moment E is a pish tuning. If its good enuff for metallica and led zeppelin its good enuff for anyone but the point im making is i play in a band that has been downtuned since day one and have the sound they want and being tuned to E does not give the sound we want maybe if we could recreate that sound tuned to E then we might do it but we dont have sound engineers and thousands of pounds worth of equipment to create that sound. so donations please, helps us create our sound in E