Fingers? I used to have some once...

[Antag]

Been trying to work out an In Flames guitar part, but it's been driving me up the wall because I don't have a guitar tuned like they do - C with dropped Bb bottom string.

So I brought my office guitar home, strung it up with D'Addario 13-62 gauge baritone strings :o & bought a couple of 1.2mm picks to attack it with :twisted:

Jesus, what a monster :lol:  It really needs the nut slots recutting, because the action is painfully high, & I will probably need to adjust the trussrod too.  As I was stringing it up, I had visions of a loud cracking sound as the neck parted company from the body, but it's still in one piece.  Damn hard work to play though - even coming from 10-52s tuned to Eb...

FWIW This is one of only a few of my guitars that isn't BKP'd but if I decide to persevere with this guitar then some Warpigs might be on the shopping list... :)

[Muzzzz]

Wow, you type pretty good with your knuckles...

[BloodMountain]

warpigs + thick strings + low tunings = HELL!  :twisted:

[TwilightOdyssey]

Hehe ... sounds torturous!

How is the song coming along?

[Antag]

It hardly even qualifies as a song - the little clean guitar interlude between "Touch of Red" & "Like you better dead" on the "Soundtrack to your escape" CD (also used as the backing music for the menus on the live DVD), it's only around 80 seconds long.

I managed to find 2 tabs a while back but neither of them was at all credible - one was clearly wrong from start to finish, the other was a little better but still more wrong than right & included some ridiculous fingerings that I have a hard time believing... :)  Anyway, I'm getting there with it.

Also, have played around with the setup & managed to lower the action a little bit, as well as improving the intonation (really needs a new nut though).  Playing it through the amp has reminded me why I shoved this guitar under my desk at work - it's very neck heavy & the weedy, muddy, microphonic Gibson pickups really are vile :(  Found a wide strap that grips my shoulder more & seems to have solved the balance issue.  Might put 'pigs in it, but I'm a bit worried they may make the house subside :lol: