Rasied B and your Guitar

little ants734 · Post by **little ants734** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 4:40 pm

Hey, when you go to rasied B strings (setup) and such, does your guitar need a setup because essentially you are putting lighter gauge strings where your thicker strings.. I was just wondering thanks.

jsgksu · Post by **jsgksu** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 4:42 pm

dunno, this help? http://www.dmbtabs.com/faq.php?id=7

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 6:26 pm

"NOTE: YOU WILL NEED A TUNER IN ORDER TO GET THE RIGHT
PITCH AS YOU CANNOT USE OTHER STRINGS AS REFERENCE.

that is not true lol.

filmdude100cms · Post by **filmdude100cms** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 6:50 pm

Jay wrote:
"NOTE: YOU WILL NEED A TUNER IN ORDER TO GET THE RIGHT
PITCH AS YOU CANNOT USE OTHER STRINGS AS REFERENCE.
that is not true lol.

yeah i know, ive never had a guitar in raised b setup

little ants734 · Post by **little ants734** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 5:39 pm

I was looking at that, but I still dont know completely if you need to adjust your truss rod ect because of the string change. I would assume no.

whopler · Post by **whopler** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:32 am

cant you just have and extra an A string for the sixth , then a normal e string for the 5th then tune the G string to f#
that would work wouldnt it or would that fuck up the guitar?

sorry i know nothing about tunings other name half step, and drop D and C and open E

smedley · Post by **smedley** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 11:06 am

if you put a normal E string on the 5th, A on 4th etc... I believe that they will be an octave lower than normal raised B tuning.

ros41 · Post by **ros41** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 8:14 pm

I have one of my guitars in raised B.

You don't have to do anything special, just put the strings in the correct position and tune it accordingly.

Post by **jkanter** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 10:03 am

Jay wrote:
"NOTE: YOU WILL NEED A TUNER IN ORDER TO GET THE RIGHT
PITCH AS YOU CANNOT USE OTHER STRINGS AS REFERENCE.
that is not true lol.

What that meant was that you cannot get a reference point because the low E string will be different. I don't exactly remember why I put that but it probably had something to do with taking all the strings off the guitar first and then having no reference point on the first string installed...everything else you obviously can