With more tension on the strings it just plays and sounds so much better to me. It’s almost like playing at standard again. That brought the Ibanez TMB-100 back to life. BEAD is really low compared to standard, so tuning it up to drop C was actually a huge improvement, being a step and a half up for 3 of the 4 strings. So I decided to keep the larger gauge strings on and try setting it up for drop C tuning to match one of my guitars. A professional could probably get it done but to me it sounded and played much, much better in standard tuning. In short, I just couldn’t get BEAD tuning to work well at all on the TMB-100. The low B string was so loose that it would vibrate for like 30 seconds after plucking it. It turned up all kinds of fret buzz that raising the action never seemed to fix. Unfortunately the act of changing the bass to BEAD tuning took a relatively nice-playing bass guitar and turned it into a clanking, flubby, irritating instrument to play and listen to. I used an older string to grind back and forth in the slots and that worked really well to file it down it was much easier than I had expected and it came out really clean. I had to file the nut down for the larger gauge strings.
So I bought a set of strings for a 5-string bass and proceeded to set the Ibanez TM-100 up with BEAD tuning using 130-65 gauge strings. Mostly I use it to record directly into an audio interface and use free bass amp sims to shape the sound.įor several months I kept the Ibanez TMB-100 in standard tuning and it worked great for that, then I tried experimenting with some drop-tunings with varying results.Ī lot of bass players like taking a four string bass and tuning it down to BEAD tuning, so it’s setup like a 5-string bass minus the G string.
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