Saw a Rhett Shull video yesterday about D Standard and decided to give it a whirl on my Peavey EXP. I had a set of slinky top beefy bottoms so I used those. Holy cow what a sound! There was always something I didn’t quite like about the way the Peavey sounded before I did this. It’s a great guitar but something was… just not quite right. Probably needed a legit setup but anyways I think this guitar is meant to be in D because it seriously came alive. That D Major chord instead of the E Major is just dark moody bliss. Here’s a short clip of me running through some chords through my dark rift. YouTube compression sucks yada yada trust me it sounds GOOD
D Standard (Why did I never do this before?!?)
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Bricksnbeatles
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D standard is perfect for Tame Impala style riffs 
Nostradoomus
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It’s a long road to tuning your guitar down to F# but you’ve taken the first step.
Hahaha should I just buy an 8 string now or let things occur naturally?
Stickman393
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Tho you may need to break out the guitar neck stretcher.
And the string thickenener.
And the nut slot widenener.
And the bass player slapping stick that leaves a mark that says "we play in UNISON now".
Stickman393
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One does not simply buy an 8 string, one offers thyself to the multiscale.
Nostradoomus
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Mine works just fine with a regular 25.5” scale…string thickener is a good machine though.
Grubb
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Possibly sacrilegious but my HSS Strat lives between D standard and Drop C. I will often spend time in the build up to a gig transposing or rewriting E standard guitar parts for my guitar (hello there, jangly open chords in the key of D or G). I'm intending to buy another guitar for standard tuning because I don't want to change this guitar back.
Hah sacred instruments
That’s how I feel about my guitar now. It’s staying D but I’ll keep my Tele in E so I have something for that.
BurntFingers
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That's the Sad but true tuning, and the tuninf Gojira used for years up until recently.
Right you are. The lower sound pairs well with a a tremolo pedal too. On The Run by The Jompson Brothers is a good example
finebyfine
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I tune to c# or c standard with regular strings and love it. Got a new strat a couple of weeks back and it arrived setup to E and it felt like I was playing a mandolin. Plus a prebend with release sounds more like a dive bomb than the real thing hahahaha
Lol yeah that must have been quite the difference!
Feral Feline
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"In my band, the guitars kept downtuning, so I just tuned up a little — next thing you know the guitarists are playing 8-string guitars downtuned, and now I'm playing a 6-string picolo bass..."