The LOWEST Guitar Tuning Possible

I attempt to reach the lowest guitar tuning humanly possible
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[@NikNocturnal]

*That's low*

[@BlazedOnYoutube]

indeed

[@smeylee]

It is..

[@RJYeates]

Sweep on it. Its gotta be awesome.

[@brendangibson8200]

Even for you

[@majortom4155]

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

[@connorgibson5224]

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

[@ProjectVastness]

Up this comment xD

[@LoganRonin-vn2we]

"Glorious Valhalla awaits us brothers."

[@Salazar249]

Gold

[@ultimatemetal9046]

literally lol'd xD

[@justinhart2831]

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

[@bryanbenn4018]

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.

[@sirdrum-a-lot]

Album dropping when?

[@radiant_7354]

Album dropping when?

[@copper_liege]

album dropping when?

[@yoppa6022]

Album dropping when?

[@anindianbadger9792]

Album dropping when?

[@Garthritis]

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]

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]

@@spite_beeekilled3643 f'n fauci

[@HEADASSLOOKINGAHHH]

@@Sadix99 this guy strings

[@blockchaaain]

we need the subest woofer

[@maaikevreugdemaker9210]

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

[@ndSpaz]

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

[@crowing3886]

I see what you did there.

[@thenickokane]

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

[@widexawake_]

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

[@kairqka3543]

That's why Metal is dead.

[@digitalmortality2001]

@@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]

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

[@ssgj_luke4486]

@@kairqka3543 what? 0_0

[@mallowstrings6769]

4:15 metal bass in a nutshell

[@Bassgangvt]

This is just ULTIMATE DJENT

[@MaestroKatProductions]

ULTIDJENT

[@takistsoukis07]

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

[@W0B0N]

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

[@Bassgangvt]

@@W0B0N yeah

[@diode_wow]

So DJENT it just became DJON'T

[@semu8030]

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]

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

[@semu8030]

@@colerougas5137 For example

[@evinberube8616]

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]

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

[@despizedicon]

You are reaching new lows with this.

[@thelonewolf7443]

Quite literally! 😅

[@glockroach5731]

@@thelonewolf7443 thx bro the joke was a lot funnier after you explained it

[@Hmmm-youraverageidiot]

Funne

[@AdamSoucyDrums]

God… God damnit

[@theogsteveday]

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

[@Blazico]

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

[@SeagoGuitarist]

What are you? Some kind of a smart smart?

[@aaronjohannmusic3655]

just what I wanted to say👍🏼

[@rolig9303]

Explain it like i was a 5 year old.

[@darksu6947]

@@rolig9303 Here's your crayon 🖍

[@seelenwaechter]

@@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.

[@multipredator01]

1:42 Im in love with that G1 riff.

[@leeisidk]

Same.

[@insertnamehere1258]

Same

[@Just_B0red]

Straight out of Doom Eternal

[@quadrant6912]

Is that a real song?

[@LaplacianDalembertian]

9:08 riff somebody use it pls

[@ungabunga115]

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

[@mikuspalmis]

*rumbler

[@epicadventureturtle1363]

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

[@neighborhoodmusicsnob5517]

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

[@zubrhero5270]

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]

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]

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

[@LeoneAmici]

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

[@goldenpie6]

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

[@FairyCRat]

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]

Jesus fucking christ. That’s an amazing idea.

[@puffballbk2186]

Its very cool but damn the practicality is non existent lmao

[@ghosttonesg]

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]

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

[@Burythelie]

Holy Stromboli, they've gone too deep

[@Man_without_a_mission]

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

[@ricardoacostav]

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

[@the_seer_0421]

You mean drop Z

[@static_motion]

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

[@brunocharbonneau5272]

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]

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

[@Jamer767]

@@Metal_Auditor Exactly

[@PeaceHaver]

It's delta rhythms of human brain

[@bimakristataaditama5644]

Tuning things that low, infrasonic-sensitive animals will headbang

[@Dornogol]

@@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

[@SaidTooMuchProductions]

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.

[@bruno_gatti]

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

[@deafworldstudios8644]

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

[@elephantt2077]

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

[@namelessalias0007]

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

[@773Spair]

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]

I'm sure the fish would not appreciate that.

[@TankleKlaus]

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

[@NxJers]

Davie504's gonna call the police

[@773Spair]

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

[@thrashmetalfan2007]

8:08 Regular Show intro

[@codystevenson9648]

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

[@grim1683]

It’s as low as my moms standards lmfao

[@varunharikrishnan64]

8:58 that's explosive diarrhea ma friend

[@meep9935]

Now go the other way

[@gangstagrinder81]

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

[@FreedomRanger42069]

6:04 Sounds like and old rust hatch opening

[@DalanorTheLlama]

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

[@jonimtee]

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!

[@djem_arda]

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

[@Kuykenstuff]

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

[@vedro_hightunplayer9673]

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

[@josuastangl7140]

the wobble you hear are the oscillations

[@DJTheMetalheadMercenary]

Nik reaching into Experimental Noise subgenre territory here 🤣

[@luke9677]

A#-2 sounds like youre stuck in a sinking ship making metallic creaking and ambient noises

[@jonvass3133]

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

[@antonyc.7173]

Me

[@Sergio-nb4hj]

Rob Scallon could do it for sure

[@groovy_9633]

dew it

[@xXxLLIaMaHxXx]

I guess that would sound like a weird percussion song

[@mattball420]

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

[@RiceShouldBeFluffy]

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]

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

[@veh3mence963]

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

[@captainflappyarms8277]

Thank you so much

[@captainflappyarms8277]

Underrated comment

[@nwildner]

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

[@SlyHikari03]

7:19 reminds me of the band “floor”. They have one string on their guitar tuned ridiculously low.

[@AZALEA_HG]

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

[@oceangilboa-way4163]

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

[@crabbubbles1161]

Just a bunch of glurgs and warbles.

[@horstherbert35]

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

[@Rxbandit421]

Check out Admiral angry. The converted a Cort five string bass to a seven string and the low string is tuned to a0 which is just dumb low. God I miss that band RIP Daniel you mad man.

[@yeetus7285]

1:56 so standard bass tuning

[@karla1957]

bro found the brown note 💀

[@Happylink75]

Nah this the Taupe Brown note 💀

[@Saiku]

That last one sounds like just some random bits of sound coming through at the end of a song.

[@ky1ewithsty1e]

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

[@bycris522]

After hearing this, Meshuggah now just sounds like Oasis

[@alexiantwisty]

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]

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]

@@FairyCRat thanks man!

[@marianandnorbert]

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)

[@mexicanmaggot666]

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

[@mastamcpoop]

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]

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]

Drop C is still goated imo

[@therealthev]

@@tuckerkrause5838 my all time favourite tuning

[@beansbutterreviewwagon2542]

@@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]

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

[@Zman-hv4bk]

8:14 Fartcore?

[@timbahr1792]

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

[@First.Take.Jake.]

2:10 that is a distorted bass guitar from here on in

[@ion9460]

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

[@thomasjohanthorsrud]

that A sharp had me right back to limp bizkit days with the song break stuff. It's just one of those days when you don't wanna wake up!

[@BradTheThird]

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]

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]

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

[@tfwnoyandere]

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

[@2free2snakes]

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.

[@mynamemyers5914]

That literally just the Nukes Top 5 intro 7:19

[@trashhuman3977]

7:18 sounds like Everywhere At The End Of Time for metal heads

[@tyrantking9362]

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

[@claaskrickemeyer450]

5:57 took me out! 🤘🏻😂😂

[@The_BigPitBull]

The brown note

[@HeavyReign12]

Brown metal

[@xxdr34m5xx_4]

New tuning unlocked: 'tectonic plates shifting'

[@geggistinkfist7809]

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

[@KnapfordMaster98]

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.

[@leonfrost2829]

These are cthulhulu's preferred tunnings haha

[@haj_endot]

bassists showing up to your house saying "stay out of my territory"

[@DerPressiv]

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

[@arthurmtll2199]

the last was so low you could hear the guitar's beating heart

[@bingbong3406]

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

[@richardmetalfan94]

Next video: The HIGHEST Guitar Tuning Possible

[@barbod4777]

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]

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]

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

[@markhillan4038]

Some of those notes remind me of "Minds mirrors" from Meshuggahs Catch 33 🤣

[@traffyguy1764]

Play through the fire and flames in this tone

[@iconofsin5886]

You could open a portal allowing the void to come in with those frequencies.

[@spencercool100]

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 KZbinr 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

[@Derek.Horton]

This honestly had me watching the entire video, and I appreciate the start/end comparison. I agree, music will tune this low in the future just for the clout. Well done on the video.

[@colbybennett]

I dare you to use that in a Termina track

[@thecrazzxz3383]

He used DROP E in Termina track

[@colbybennett]

@@thecrazzxz3383 but not Drop E-3

[@alchemist3661]

A year later, I only just realized the thumbnails says 5.0 octaves, not 50. So he's not technically lying

[@PicklesAreCool69]

should have wrote a song using the lowest tuning

[@AcidFloor90]

This woop-woop sound is a real metal

[@Solifuga]

I really have to wonder how your guitar still sounds so good after being pitched down so much. like you can still make power chords and stuff, i can't. my experience with pitch-shifters haven't been so hot...

[@radiationcookie3541]

in my experience, when pitch shifting you have to adjust eq to fit it, usually for me it's turning bass down and treble uo

[@TheRedAnvil40]

Axe FX 😂 sorry had to do it 😂

[@Sergio-nb4hj]

Agreed. I end up resorting to pitch shifting in post, since recording with real-time options always sound like ass with anything that's more than one note

[@auberginedreams00]

One thing I’ve found with really low pitch shifted guitars is that it sounds a lot better if you pick really close to the bridge. It makes it difficult to palm mute that far back but it will sound a lot less muddy. Also I feel like single coils work better for super low tunings (like anything below drop E). When downtuned that twang turns into a djenty snarl. For Loathe type stuff, rather than a 7+ string or baritone guitar I just I use a Telecaster in Drop C# and then a Whammy DT to pitch shift it an octave down and it sounds surprisingly good, and you don’t have to deal with ridiculous scale lengths or bridge cables for strings.

[@auberginedreams00]

@@Sergio-nb4hj the DigiTech whammy dt or drop pedal works great for me. August Burns Red uses them live and uses them in the studio to record anything lower than Drop C. There are a few other bands that use them too, Humanity’s Last Breath is another one off the top of my head. Of course it may not be the solution for every player but I’ve been pretty shocked how well it works unless you go super low or you have it at such a low volume that you can still hear the strings acoustically in another tuning.

[@WarAngel_TSUNAMI]

for some reason, when i was listening to this, i got anxious the more it went on. drop A is good enough for me

[@BURN_SHITTUBE]

To transpose a frequency by n semitones upwards/downwards, just multiply/divide it by 2 ^ (n / 12) n can be negative also

[@BassoProfundoRombola]

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.

[@AlchemyLOZ]

7:40 anyone else getting Jurassic Park T Rex vibes?

[@alexanderaliptschenko8]

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..."

[@MattDavis-nw6fu]

9:33 I actually pood a little!

[@fazefusion2220]

Lol me too 😮

[@camallred142]

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

[@hyrumblebee2783]

G#-2 is gonna be the tuning for the next electric wizard album

[@mishapashchenko6518]

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.

[@horstherbert35]

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

[@Aaron-zh4kj]

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)

[@perplexedon9834]

When you play that low (10Hz), you could play a higher pitch by sixteenth note chugging any note at 150bpm

[@ion9460]

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

[@Sweet9964]

should rename this video "the search for the brown note" lol