Opinions for another guitar...

[El Chiguete]

I would like to get a guitar to have it tune 1 step down and be able to play Girs Girls Girls, Wild Side and any other cool song that it's on that tuning. So it needs to have a floyd rose and at least one hum and I would like to have a normal body and not a radical strange body shape... and since it's not going to be my main guitar I would think that the best choise is to go with a used good player guitar that I wount regret having it just for those 2 songs.

Maybe a Jackson Dinky would be a good choise? Or a Charvel model? I would like to steer away from Ibanez so I would not be just another Ibanez guy (here many guys have them) and thats not saying that I like some of there models but again I'm not going to be using that guitar for many songs.

Old Kramer Focus go cheap (I've never played one) and I hear so good things about them, that they are as good as american Pacer and all, and I think I would feel bad to not use it propietly.

So what would you get if you where me? spending not more that $300?

[guitarsjb]

Used DK2.

[MartinBarre]

DK2 or SL3. Or even a Performer or Concept.

[neilli]

Model 2

[Grandturk]

I've got my SG set up 1 1/2 steps down with fat strings to play Sabbath exclusively.

[Soap]

The tuning for Motley Crue is... =
1. Tune E to E flat (half step down) tune guitar to e flat.
2a. Focus is placed on the G string.
2b. Like a D tuner in principle. You tune the Low E to the D string.
Take the low E string and and tune down to the G string.
3. Tune the guitar to the new low E... and now you have motley crue tuning.

If you do this with a Floyd Rose be prepared and ready to adjust the Floyd.
This will take sometime to get it flush with the body again.
I have a separate guitar for Motley Tunes.

[paige]

what?

[DonP]

The tuning for Motley Crue is... =
1. Tune E to E flat (half step down) tune guitar to e flat.
2a. Focus is placed on the G string.
2b. Like a D tuner in principle. You tune the Low E to the D string.
Take the low E string and and tune down to the G string.
3. Tune the guitar to the new low E... and now you have motley crue tuning.

If you do this with a Floyd Rose be prepared and ready to adjust the Floyd.
This will take sometime to get it flush with the body again.
I have a separate guitar for Motley Tunes.

Yeah, I'm lost too. What's the tunings of each string?

[nhspike]

I'm a big focus fan.
Tough to beat an ESP with an OFR for 3 bills or so.

[Soap]

Yeah, I'm lost too. What's the tunings of each string?

Step by step:
1. Tune down to E flat or also known as half step down.

We all should know the functionality of the D tuner.
The D tuner allows the low E string to be dropped down to low D.

Years ago before a D tuner was every thought of we learned to do it manually. We turned the tuner down to take the low E down to D and kept plucking the open D string repeated until we got the low E tuned down to D.

With that said, we'll be tuning the low E to the open G string.

2. Tune the low E down to the open G string.
Keep plucking the open G string repeatedly until you finally get the low E string tuned down to G.
3. Now tune the rest of the guitar to the low E.

Low E string fifth fret (A)
A string fifth fret
D string fifth fret
G string fourth fret
B string fifth fret
High E is done.

Long time ago many of us were self taught.
Meaning, we learned and figured out these tunings on our own.
In the above, is how I learned and discovered Motley Crue's tuning and it has worked for me.

[phill_up]

Soap, I'm still having trouble comprehending that.
6E = ?
5A = ?
4D = ?
3G = ?
2B = ?
1E = ?

[Newc]

Why are you tuning the Low E to the D and then retuning the Low E (which is now D) down to the G? I've played Crue since T.F.F.L. and 1 full-step down works just fine for everything up through Girls, Girls, Girls.

[MartinBarre]

Soap?