The LOWEST Guitar Tuning Possible

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  • @NikNocturnal
    @NikNocturnal  2 ปีที่แล้ว +3120

    *That's low*

    • @BlazedOnYoutube
      @BlazedOnYoutube 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      indeed

    • @smeylee
      @smeylee 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It is..

    • @RJYeates
      @RJYeates 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Sweep on it. Its gotta be awesome.

    • @brendangibson8200
      @brendangibson8200 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Even for you

    • @majortom4155
      @majortom4155 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hatebreed should use G0 tuning. Would be interesting to hear.

  • @connorgibson5224
    @connorgibson5224 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4116

    NASA: "We've discovered a black hole that rumbles at 57 octaves below middle C"
    Metalheads: *heavy breathing*

    • @ProjectVastness
      @ProjectVastness 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Up this comment xD

    • @LoganRonin-vn2we
      @LoganRonin-vn2we 2 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      "Glorious Valhalla awaits us brothers."

    • @Salazar249
      @Salazar249 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Gold

    • @ultimatemetal9046
      @ultimatemetal9046 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      literally lol'd xD

    • @justinhart2831
      @justinhart2831 2 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      What has a heavier tone than the low note vibrations put out by a supernova which fuses together atoms into
      Heavy metals.

  • @bryanbenn4018
    @bryanbenn4018 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1163

    Years ago, a friend and I came up with "rattlecore" as a goof. Named such because all the strings just rattle around with no discernable notes being played. I'm glad to see someone else discovering rattlecore.

  • @Garthritis
    @Garthritis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2893

    Not only can we not hear those low frequencies, the speakers can't produce them well either. Running that through a Spectrogram would be kinda neat.

    • @Sadix99
      @Sadix99 2 ปีที่แล้ว +125

      If the strings weren't blocked by the frets, you woudl actually be able to see and here the higher armonics of such not.
      Guitar strings do not simply generates pure sinusoids

    • @moonboogien8908
      @moonboogien8908 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@spite_beeekilled3643 f'n fauci

    • @HEADASSLOOKINGAHHH
      @HEADASSLOOKINGAHHH 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@Sadix99 this guy strings

    • @blockchaaain
      @blockchaaain 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      we need the subest woofer

    • @maaikevreugdemaker9210
      @maaikevreugdemaker9210 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@Sadix99 any wave is decompasable into pure sinusoids (fourier transform)

  • @ndSpaz
    @ndSpaz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +454

    I've never expected this from you, this is a new low.

    • @crowing3886
      @crowing3886 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      I see what you did there.

  • @thenickokane
    @thenickokane 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4716

    Within the next 10 years, this will be standard tuning for metal bands.

    • @widexawake_
      @widexawake_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +180

      I will die on the "D Standard should be the new "Standard" tuning" Hill

    • @kairqka3543
      @kairqka3543 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      That's why Metal is dead.

    • @digitalmortality2001
      @digitalmortality2001 2 ปีที่แล้ว +193

      @@kairqka3543 Whoever says that has been unaware of the amount of metal releases in the past 2 years.
      And also, bold of you to call bands who play this low "metal".

    • @kairqka3543
      @kairqka3543 2 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      @@digitalmortality2001 modern Metal sucks. Guitars with 200 strings but they all only use one of them.

    • @ssgj_luke4486
      @ssgj_luke4486 2 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      @@kairqka3543 what? 0_0

  • @multipredator01
    @multipredator01 2 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    1:42 Im in love with that G1 riff.

  • @ungabunga115
    @ungabunga115 2 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    Can't wait to jam out to songs using this tuning in 2083! Gonna be an absolute BANGER.

  • @Bassgangvt
    @Bassgangvt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2184

    This is just ULTIMATE DJENT

    • @MaestroKatProductions
      @MaestroKatProductions 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      ULTIDJENT

    • @takistsoukis07
      @takistsoukis07 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      This is just TENT, literally, being moved a bit with the wind lol

    • @W0B0N
      @W0B0N 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Metal in 20 years is just going to be fart sounds.

    • @Bassgangvt
      @Bassgangvt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@W0B0N yeah

    • @diode_wow
      @diode_wow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      So DJENT it just became DJON'T

  • @semu8030
    @semu8030 2 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    I see a possible use of such low frequencies: they could be used for special effects in rock or metal songs, like having one guitar giving these effects on the back while the rest are giving the actual riffs and melodies of the song. It would sound actually nice imo, I know that's what post processing is for but it would serve as an alternate way to create new sounds or atmospheres

    • @colerougas5137
      @colerougas5137 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yeah some of it sounded like the motor/grinding sounds in Mind's Mirrors by Meshuggah

    • @semu8030
      @semu8030 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@colerougas5137 For example

    • @evinberube8616
      @evinberube8616 ปีที่แล้ว

      that’s what i was thinking. i can see this as making sense for technical effects, but if anyone tries to make it genuinely musical they’re being silly lmao

    • @semu8030
      @semu8030 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@evinberube8616 yeah there's no way you can make audible notes with such low frequencies

  • @despizedicon
    @despizedicon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +609

    You are reaching new lows with this.

  • @goldenpie6
    @goldenpie6 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    5:11 “there’s no reason people should go to -1”
    The bass singing community: *laughs in G-1*

  • @FairyCRat
    @FairyCRat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +588

    Kevin from the channel Said Too Much Productions actually became somewhat well-known by modding a bass to go down to C#0. Since then he has built a massive djentstick-type instrument with a 5ft 212 gauge piano string, and in one of his videos he tuned it all the way down to B-2 (and yes, he also pitchshifted it 2 octaves down to B-4, literally less than 2Hz).

    • @ytgshlung
      @ytgshlung 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Jesus fucking christ. That’s an amazing idea.

    • @puffballbk2186
      @puffballbk2186 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Its very cool but damn the practicality is non existent lmao

    • @ghosttonesg
      @ghosttonesg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      You probably wont get the best effect from something like that in a recording (maybe with post processing) but imagine being physocally around that. You would feel it all just being next to it

    • @NACHOTHEIST
      @NACHOTHEIST 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      His channel is criminally underrated. Been watching SaidTooMuch for a while.

    • @Burythelie
      @Burythelie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Holy Stromboli, they've gone too deep

  • @theogsteveday
    @theogsteveday 2 ปีที่แล้ว +108

    It’s not static, it’s just Nik crapping his pants and doing an extremely good job playing it off.

  • @Blazico
    @Blazico 2 ปีที่แล้ว +857

    Fun fact, if you go an octave down, you halve the frequency. So it's not that difficult to calculate it yourself.

    • @SeagoGuitarist
      @SeagoGuitarist 2 ปีที่แล้ว +108

      What are you? Some kind of a smart smart?

    • @aaronjohannmusic3655
      @aaronjohannmusic3655 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      just what I wanted to say👍🏼

    • @rolig9303
      @rolig9303 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Explain it like i was a 5 year old.

    • @darksu6947
      @darksu6947 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@rolig9303 Here's your crayon 🖍

    • @seelenwaechter
      @seelenwaechter 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@rolig9303 Well there really isnt that much to it like you might expect. The octave is present in every music culture although the tones inbetween might be distributed differently (e.g. in old indian music culture over 40 tones where cramped into an octave), just because its the most basic frequency ratio of 1:2, which is simply the most pleasant to hear. Thats why every music culture kinda anchored around it. The Fifth is the next most basic ratio of 2:3 and also used by (pretty much) any music culture (?). On a side note: Distributing the rations of our european tradition 12 semi notes along an octave is slightly imperfect ("pythagorean comma"), which is why different tunings evolved. Until baroque and Bachs famous well tempered clavier, keys further from the tonal center, like F sharp or e flat sounded wildly different from C or a and couldnt really be used without sounding like a honky tonk piano out of tune. But this subject gets crazy complex at one point.

  • @mallowstrings6769
    @mallowstrings6769 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    4:15 metal bass in a nutshell

  • @brunocharbonneau5272
    @brunocharbonneau5272 2 ปีที่แล้ว +412

    Considering that E2 is 82.41 Hz and every lower octave divides that number by 2 (so E1 41.20, E0 20.60), the E-3 is roughly 2.58 Hz

    • @Metal_Auditor
      @Metal_Auditor 2 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      I'm guessing then that the "wub wub" sound we were hearing was just the pressure from the individual sound waves, then?

    • @Jamer767
      @Jamer767 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@Metal_Auditor Exactly

    • @PeaceHaver
      @PeaceHaver 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's delta rhythms of human brain

    • @bimakristataaditama5644
      @bimakristataaditama5644 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Tuning things that low, infrasonic-sensitive animals will headbang

    • @Dornogol
      @Dornogol 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@Metal_Auditor nah, your speakers won't even be able to produce sounds that low, because they are only really built for what hbumans can hear

  • @FreedomRanger42069
    @FreedomRanger42069 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    6:04 Sounds like and old rust hatch opening

  • @epicadventureturtle1363
    @epicadventureturtle1363 2 ปีที่แล้ว +410

    Once it's just static noise, it sounds like Merzbow. So basically Merzbow is the greatest djent god out there.

    • @neighborhoodmusicsnob5517
      @neighborhoodmusicsnob5517 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      He actually likes Veil of Maya and this was a brief controversy back in the day.

    • @zubrhero5270
      @zubrhero5270 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oof, I dunno... I've "challenged myself" to listen through quite a lot of his back catalogue, and *I WISH* they were this quiet lol.

    • @velhinho_91
      @velhinho_91 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      i didnt knew the artist, went and check out. Its really torturous for my ears at least. But yea its pretty much static with an unsettling beat.

    • @L0zza
      @L0zza ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ​​@@velhinho_91 It's called noise music - it's surprisingly popular in the underground scene.

    • @thegasli
      @thegasli ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm glad i found this comment *i'm deaf now*

  • @static_motion
    @static_motion 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    6:21 That "E" sounded exactly like the "EA Sports" thing wtf

  • @namelessalias0007
    @namelessalias0007 2 ปีที่แล้ว +345

    I would love a follow up video of you doing this to a bass.

    • @773Spair
      @773Spair 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I've read the lowest note most (treble) guitar amp's can produce the fundamental of is about A1 (55Hz). I wonder what it is for bass amp's-maybe about A0 (27.5Hz).

    • @adamsnyder7359
      @adamsnyder7359 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I'm sure the fish would not appreciate that.

    • @TankleKlaus
      @TankleKlaus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@773Spair I tested it on mine some years back and I remember watching the membrane move at frequencies below human hearing

    • @NxJers
      @NxJers 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Davie504's gonna call the police

    • @773Spair
      @773Spair 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TankleKlaus So they can produce pretty low frequencies.🔈

  • @SaidTooMuchProductions
    @SaidTooMuchProductions 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    when you get low enough the string is an LFO (low frequency oscillator), which is used in synthesizers for an audible tempo interpreted sound "wub wub wub" aside from a pitch, with of course the higher audible frequencies from timbre and distortion used to discern actual sound. I've always been fascinated at maybe creating a song where the lowest or pedal tone of a riff is a multiple of the tempo to coincide with that oscillation.

  • @deafworldstudios8644
    @deafworldstudios8644 2 ปีที่แล้ว +192

    Damn.... Those lower octaves make Drop B through Drop G sound like a E standard.

  • @RiceShouldBeFluffy
    @RiceShouldBeFluffy ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Fun fact if you actually want to hear something like this in use. there was a doom metal band called "Floor" who played down-tuned guitars with the lowest string tuned down till it was barely tight enough to stay on. They called it "the bomb note" and they would basically punctuate big drum hits with it and it was like a giant wave crashing.

    • @davidb4935
      @davidb4935 ปีที่แล้ว

      I just looked them up it rules as much as it is hilarious

    • @veh3mence963
      @veh3mence963 ปีที่แล้ว

      I fucking love Floor so much, I was just thinking of the song Sneech about halfway through the video

    • @captainflappyarms8277
      @captainflappyarms8277 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you so much

    • @captainflappyarms8277
      @captainflappyarms8277 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Underrated comment

  • @bruno_gatti
    @bruno_gatti 2 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    Bassists: Look what they need just to mimic a fraction of our power!

  • @Man_without_a_mission
    @Man_without_a_mission 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    9:12 so that's how a guitar fart sounds like

  • @prostheticnameTS1
    @prostheticnameTS1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    Alternative tittle: "I've tuned my guitar in drop -Q"

  • @thrashmetalfan2007
    @thrashmetalfan2007 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    8:08 Regular Show intro

  • @vedro_hightunplayer9673
    @vedro_hightunplayer9673 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    6:31 if our speakers could produce frequencies after this point it would be technically possible to count the oscillation

    • @josuastangl7140
      @josuastangl7140 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      the wobble you hear are the oscillations

  • @meep9935
    @meep9935 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Now go the other way

  • @jonvass3133
    @jonvass3133 2 ปีที่แล้ว +413

    How many people here want to challenge Nik to compose a song using only minus octaves?

    • @antonyc.7173
      @antonyc.7173 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Me

    • @Sergio-nb4hj
      @Sergio-nb4hj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Rob Scallon could do it for sure

    • @groovy_9633
      @groovy_9633 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      dew it

    • @xXxLLIaMaHxXx
      @xXxLLIaMaHxXx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I guess that would sound like a weird percussion song

    • @mattball420
      @mattball420 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I could see it in a break down, the drums just slow, burts of blast beats on a floor tom, static guitar noise crackling randomly, band in debug mode, head banging so low theyre half way into the floor

  • @elephantt2077
    @elephantt2077 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    3:00 SUNN O))) : "Hello? Copyright police?"

  • @AZALEA_HG
    @AZALEA_HG 2 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    Can’t wait to hear a song that’s all tuned so low I can’t actually hear the song

    • @oceangilboa-way4163
      @oceangilboa-way4163 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Listen to hell below by periphery. That's what you're looking for.

    • @crabbubbles1161
      @crabbubbles1161 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Just a bunch of glurgs and warbles.

    • @horstherbert35
      @horstherbert35 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      the sounds you can't hear are playing all the time

  • @KnapfordMaster98
    @KnapfordMaster98 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I can think of one nonmetal application. Steven Spielberg‘s first major film duel from 1971 has a very experimental score by Billy Goldenberg. There are a couple of points where I think they have an electric guitar tuned so stupidly low to create rumbling and growling sounds. It’s pretty awesome for that sort of sound design application.

  • @BradTheThird
    @BradTheThird 2 ปีที่แล้ว +115

    Each lower octave is half the frequency of the previous one. So your A#-2 would be 6.875Hz (A#0 = 27.50, A#-1 = 13.75) and E-3 would be 2.575Hz. Basically at the point where the noise you're hearing is purely the mechanical function of your speakers/ headphones.

    • @joshuaa4677
      @joshuaa4677 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I think you used the frequency for A0 rather than A#0. It should be 29.14 Hz, then A#-1 is 14.57 Hz, and A#-2 is 7.29Hz. Your frequency for E-3 is correct.

    • @BradTheThird
      @BradTheThird 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You know what? I think I did too... That was dumb.

    • @tfwnoyandere
      @tfwnoyandere 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      your headphones or speakers aren't producing much below 40hz lol it's all harmonics

  • @gesh92
    @gesh92 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You can easily calculate the frequencies - for each semitone you divide by root 12 of 2 or about 1.0594631. For example to get from A4 = 440Hz to G#4, you divide 440 by 1.0594631 and you get ~415.3

  • @ky1ewithsty1e
    @ky1ewithsty1e 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    E -3 is pretty ridiculous to think about. Sounds like the Bloop. Slayer plays in Eb and they're still heavy!

  • @brunobailly7013
    @brunobailly7013 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    4:52 That's where I really started laughing 😅 It's where you enter the abyss... Basically.

  • @mastamcpoop
    @mastamcpoop 2 ปีที่แล้ว +127

    I'm a modern metal poser. I want E standard to come back so I can actually hear bass. The lower the tuning, the less contrast guitar/bass provides.

    • @beansbutterreviewwagon2542
      @beansbutterreviewwagon2542 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I feel like after A/g# it gets too low, anywhere between there and e standard is what I like to play in, it feels like the bass still has a prominent role in the mix (for me at least)

    • @tuckerkrause5838
      @tuckerkrause5838 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Drop C is still goated imo

    • @therealthev
      @therealthev 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@tuckerkrause5838 my all time favourite tuning

    • @beansbutterreviewwagon2542
      @beansbutterreviewwagon2542 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@tuckerkrause5838 I play d standard, drop c, a# standard and drop g#. I have a baritone and a normal length jabroni. Those are me favs

    • @digitalmortality2001
      @digitalmortality2001 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The lowest acceptable for me on 7 & 8 string or baritone guitars is F Standard/Drop Eb

  • @jonimtee
    @jonimtee 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    3:22
    Nick: But it's very rare a whole song I've seen this low, 'cause it's just stupid!
    The future: Hold my beer!

  • @DalanorTheLlama
    @DalanorTheLlama 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Drinking my morning coffee while Nik trying to hit the brown note is a risky business. Oh well here we go.

  • @LeftyConspirator
    @LeftyConspirator ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Making some killer sci-fi sound FX there, man.

  • @codystevenson9648
    @codystevenson9648 2 ปีที่แล้ว +184

    When you get tired of people complaining that metal is just noise, so you make metal that ceases to even qualify as sound

  • @peterbatten596
    @peterbatten596 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    E-3 isn’t even a brown note. You have now reached the most deepest of bowels that require surgery to salvage whatever’s left by rockin a colostomy bag.

  • @timbahr1792
    @timbahr1792 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    You found the legendary tone of the ancients. Used only by the band intestinal atrophy… they are the only band on earth that has a genre so unique to metal we had to make up a brand new word for them. Welcome to “DireDeficationBlood” Core

  • @OrbitalLizardStudios
    @OrbitalLizardStudios 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In 20 years metal guitar will consist of holding an unattached string in your fingers and slowly wiggling it near the pickups, so there is like 1 back and forth vibration per second

  • @karla1957
    @karla1957 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    bro found the brown note 💀

    • @Happylink75
      @Happylink75 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Nah this the Taupe Brown note 💀

  • @ootleberg
    @ootleberg ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fun fact: The A#0 (or Bb0 if you're a normal person) at 2:55 is the tuning for the Meshuggah song Spasm

  • @Kuykenstuff
    @Kuykenstuff 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    At 2:05, when he's playing E1, the closed captions pick up and dictate the noise as [applause] hahahaha.

  • @neonbeams5923
    @neonbeams5923 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is what I imagine the recording of the sound from the black hole that NASA captured sounds like

  • @tyrantking9362
    @tyrantking9362 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    @3:40
    Poor Davie, he slapped so well...

  • @tates300monkyears4
    @tates300monkyears4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    1hz means 1 cycle per second, so he got down to three hz or oscillations per second, which boosts the 4th overtone and makes that signature wub sound

  • @gangstagrinder81
    @gangstagrinder81 2 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    Honestly, can’t wait for a song to be made in tuning E-3, just sounds like a blown speaker 😂

  • @n.henzler50
    @n.henzler50 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The thumbnail promised me 50 octaves below E standard. I demand to hear what 82*2^-50 Hz sounds like!

  • @djem_arda
    @djem_arda 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    2:51 Meshuggah has a song called "Spasm" and it has the same tuning and it's released in 2002.

  • @Xero__AU
    @Xero__AU ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Bass players will soon combat the guitar players by tuning up to unimagineable heights

  • @nwildner
    @nwildner 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Tunning is so low that music turn into static noise coming from a cellphone placed at the side of old pc speakers....

  • @greenrryt
    @greenrryt ปีที่แล้ว +2

    1:03 infant annihilator working on the newest album, 2023 colorized
    LMAO THAT IMAGE THO

  • @DJTheMetalheadMercenary
    @DJTheMetalheadMercenary 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Nik reaching into Experimental Noise subgenre territory here 🤣

  • @coreycollins6703
    @coreycollins6703 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    my band's tuning, Burn The Grave, is DGCGCFAD with the bass tuned to D0

  • @spencercool100
    @spencercool100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    It's interesting you mention bands doing this in 10 years because it's kinda already part of the experience of listening to metal. Music TH-camr 12tone has a video called "Why does Metal have to be so Loud?", and he talks about the concept of listener collapse and other phenomena, but essentially, the lower you go, the less sound you "hear" and the more you "feel" physically, which breaks down (heh) the illusion of sound being a non-physical concept. It's one reason why metal resonates (okay i didn't mean to make that pun) with a lot of people

  • @heavensplitter
    @heavensplitter 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We started up with Strager Things soundtrack and ended up with Minecraft Cave Sounds

  • @ion9460
    @ion9460 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Bro, this video is legit cool. I don't play an instrument, but it's really cool to hear each tuning change.

  • @ion9460
    @ion9460 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    G0 sounds like a good pre-breakdown or intro tuning. A little tappy taps from the drummer and then chunkdown

  • @e_n_t_i_t_y_8_6
    @e_n_t_i_t_y_8_6 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    0:44 thats a nice tone

  • @BassoProfundoRombola
    @BassoProfundoRombola 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I have an 11 string bass that is tuned to that low C# 0. It’s what I would consider semi-audible but not really something you’d use musically. It really does add some nice tone to a big chord similar to a piano.
    I’ve heard of/seen a 13 string bass with a low g# but that’s functionally inaudible. Just neat to see.

  • @riangarianga
    @riangarianga 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    For your reference, I calculated all the frequencies below A0 down to A-4.
    A-4 : 1,72 Hz
    A♯-4 / B♭-4 : 1,82 Hz
    B-4 : 1,93 Hz
    C-3 : 2,04 Hz
    C♯-3 / D♭-3 : 2,17 Hz
    D-3 : 2,29 Hz
    D♯-3 / E♭-3 : 2,43 Hz
    E-3 : 2,58 Hz
    F-3 : 2,73 Hz
    F♯-3 / G♭-3 : 2,89 Hz
    G-3 : 3,06 Hz
    G♯-3 / A♭-3 : 3,24 Hz
    A-3 : 3,44 Hz
    A♯-3 / B♭-3 : 3,64 Hz
    B-3 : 3,86 Hz
    C-2 : 4,09 Hz
    C♯-2 / D♭-2 : 4,33 Hz
    D-2 : 4,59 Hz
    D♯-2 / E♭-2 : 4,86 Hz
    E-2 : 5,15 Hz
    F-2 : 5,46 Hz
    F♯-2 / G♭-2 : 5,78 Hz
    G-2 : 6,12 Hz
    G♯-2 / A♭-2 : 6,49 Hz
    A-2 : 6,88 Hz
    A♯-2 / B♭-2 : 7,28 Hz
    B-2 : 7,72 Hz
    C-1 : 8,18 Hz
    C♯-1 / D♭-1 : 8,66 Hz
    D-1 : 9,18 Hz
    D♯-1 / E♭-1 : 9,72 Hz
    E-1 : 10,3 Hz
    F-1 : 10,91 Hz
    F♯-1 / G♭-1 : 11,56 Hz
    G-1 : 12,25 Hz
    G♯-1 / A♭-1 : 12,98 Hz
    A-1 : 13,75 Hz
    A♯-1 / B♭-1 : 14,57 Hz
    B-1 : 15,43 Hz
    C0 : 16,35 Hz
    C♯0 / D♭0 : 17,32 Hz
    D0 : 18,35 Hz
    D♯0 / E♭0 : 19,45 Hz
    E0 : 20,6 Hz
    F0 : 21,83 Hz
    F♯0 / G♭0 : 23,12 Hz
    G0 : 24,5 Hz
    G♯0 / A♭0 : 25,96 Hz
    A0 : 27,5 Hz

  • @The_BigPitBull
    @The_BigPitBull 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    The brown note

  • @RokhanKMT
    @RokhanKMT 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Actually you can hear or I would say feel lower than 20 Hz. But for this you need to come up on concert stage with all amplification gear on max volume on BIG speakers.
    Then it will make sence.
    Just imagine unaudible breackdown! It starts, but you don't hear a sound, you just feel the vibration! This is something beyond music arts.
    An arthouse prog deathcore

    • @TheSharkAnt
      @TheSharkAnt ปีที่แล้ว

      So basically, the musical equivalent of a reconstructed dinosaur sound.

  • @geggistinkfist7809
    @geggistinkfist7809 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    As a bass player i have to say, finaly there's a good sounding guitartuning

  • @gamerguy425
    @gamerguy425 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The tuning in the first like 2:40 reminded me so much of Killing Floor 2 soundtrack, good times!
    I love how the last one just sounds like a heartbeat lol

  • @varunharikrishnan64
    @varunharikrishnan64 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    8:58 that's explosive diarrhea ma friend

  • @FinalDriveGame
    @FinalDriveGame 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Them: CRT background frequencies is not an instrument
    Nik: Hold my 6 string.

  • @eltipo6651
    @eltipo6651 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    @niknocturnal
    Look up a band from the late 90s called floor. They have their bottom string tuned so low that it sounds like a bomb look up the song iron girl. They hit the bomb string at 0:57. The remaining strings are AAEGB

  • @Not_Manner
    @Not_Manner ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well if nothing else I now know the sound of my stomach rumbling from food poisoning is A#-2

  • @ubermenschbrent
    @ubermenschbrent 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    On the song ‘Snocap’ by A Memoria Brooded which is in Drop C#1, you can hear the bass it parts of the song, which I believe is at C#0. And by ‘hear’ the bass you more or less kinda feel it

  • @2free2snakes
    @2free2snakes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When I got my baritone strat built, I tuned it down to A1 because A0 is the lowest note on a full scale piano, also the perfect 5ths start to sound really dumb below A1. I know about 8 string and 9 string guitars and lower than contrabass frequencies, ok, but A1 was the perfect low note for that guitar.

  • @Eden21425
    @Eden21425 2 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    The thing with anything below A0, is that most people only hear the overtones at that point.
    Human hearing capabilities are usually generalized from 20khz to 20hz (for young people)

    • @RainOfMe
      @RainOfMe 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Not only that, but the signal strength from the speaker most likely drops off heavily outside the range of human hearing.

    • @WintermintP
      @WintermintP 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Not true, E0 is where audibility actually starts to go but counting room for tuning cent discrepancies, F0 is where the limit is.

    • @arthursouza420
      @arthursouza420 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      sound its just a perturbation in a fluid, like the air in our atmosphere. yes you can perceive events below 20hz, but not as pitch as they lack the intensity to stimulate our eardrums, but it can be haptically felt like a cat purr

    • @mikuspalmis
      @mikuspalmis 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@arthursouza420 Do you happen to watch Theoria Apophasis (Ken Wheeler)?

  • @LilWatercup
    @LilWatercup 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    9:00 sounds like ice glaciers shifting and separating.
    That's so fuckin' metal, bro.

  • @mishapashchenko6518
    @mishapashchenko6518 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    7:51 If bands did tune that low, might wanna crank up the gain because it does sound like Static. If the Tesla Coil was converted into a guitar it would sound like that.

  • @jonasl8830
    @jonasl8830 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the last sound reminds me what a black hole would sound like

  • @barbod4777
    @barbod4777 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The only time I think I listened to c#0 was vittring by humanitys last breath.....as a guitarist...it took me 3 months to understand how buster thought and planned recording such dark and creepy track which claws through your mind as it progresses until it explodes in your face At The end
    Only buster could write such tunes
    And yeah ..after a certain amount of frequency...it's nearly impossible to write a song.... unless your a mad genius

    • @static_motion
      @static_motion 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Even more impressive than composing that low is being able to actually mix a track like that so that it sounds good. Buster, outside of being a songwriting genius, is an absolute master at production. Vittring is such a unique, incredible track.

    • @barbod4777
      @barbod4777 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@static_motion by all mean my man.....
      It's my phone alarm song😂😂😂

  • @bycris522
    @bycris522 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    After hearing this, Meshuggah now just sounds like Oasis

  • @alexanderaliptschenko8
    @alexanderaliptschenko8 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Loathe in 2023: "A#-2 tuning throughout our new album was kind of an experiment for us since we wanted to try out some high-pitched sound..."

  • @richardmetalfan94
    @richardmetalfan94 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Next video: The HIGHEST Guitar Tuning Possible

  • @alexiantwisty
    @alexiantwisty 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    What pitch shifter did use? Whenever I go below -3 semitones on the pitch shifter on my multi fx the tone gets obliverated but yours stayed pretty good sounding

    • @FairyCRat
      @FairyCRat 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      he often talks about using the Digitech Whammy pedal, but I remember watching a video by Gary Hiebner where he shot out many pitchshifters against one another and determined that the Poly Capo shifter from the Line 6 Helix software was the best in most cases.

    • @alexiantwisty
      @alexiantwisty 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@FairyCRat thanks man!

    • @marianandnorbert
      @marianandnorbert 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I don’t know which one he used but I use the electro harmonix pitch fork and I’m very happy with it, it also goes down 3 octaves for some weird reason lmao (oh and it has a downshift and upshift switch if you wanna go up 3 octaves too)

  • @glitchxero4687
    @glitchxero4687 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "Lowest possible guitar tuning," or as those of us with sense call it, "When you're too much of a bitch for bass."

  • @Aaron-zh4kj
    @Aaron-zh4kj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    At the risk of repeating what someone else said and speaking in some generalities, you need at least a 15 inch or 18 inch speaker to get into that territory, as far as reproducing the actual note (below 60 hertz and definitely have to go bigger with the speaker to get anywhere near reproducing 20 hertz)

  • @regor5150
    @regor5150 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was mad funny and entertaining. I think what metal guitarists who push the boundaries of low tunings should keep in mind, is that if a chord doesn't sound good, then you're too low. Just hitting the lowest string in a repetitive pattern, will let you get lower, yes. But there's only so much you can do with that. If the strings don't "play well" with each other, because you've tuned too low, then you're wasting the point of playing a guitar. And you should probably just mic up a railroad cable at that point.

  • @mynamemyers5914
    @mynamemyers5914 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    That literally just the Nukes Top 5 intro 7:19

  • @hand_and_justin_entertainment
    @hand_and_justin_entertainment 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hell yeah. The lowest frequency? That's what my band is using.

  • @camallred142
    @camallred142 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Challenge: make a song with all those tunings.
    Awesome video bro.

  • @colbybennett
    @colbybennett 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I dare you to use that in a Termina track

    • @thecrazzxz3383
      @thecrazzxz3383 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      He used DROP E in Termina track

    • @colbybennett
      @colbybennett 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@thecrazzxz3383 but not Drop E-3

  • @horstherbert35
    @horstherbert35 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    from the "i bought an overpowered subwoofer just to have all frequencies covered" perspective: it's sort of audible even at 7:50, it just sounds like a bowling ball rolling down a tunnel with some crackling on top

  • @DerPressiv
    @DerPressiv 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Looks like you have proven that dubstep is a subtone of modern Metal ... well done

  • @MorfarZXZ
    @MorfarZXZ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you so much Nik, for making this beautiful 10 minute progressive djent song. Loved the part where you dropped to drop E -5 minor. Truly spectacular art!

  • @leonfrost2829
    @leonfrost2829 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    These are cthulhulu's preferred tunnings haha

  • @bingbong3406
    @bingbong3406 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I need to hear a tri-tone in this tuning absolutely all of these are valid 😂

  • @mexicanmaggot666
    @mexicanmaggot666 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Funny enough, Hell Below by Periphery has Nolly playing his bass at C#0. And it somehow sounds very defined!

  • @traffyguy1764
    @traffyguy1764 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Play through the fire and flames in this tone