About intonation and stuff

[wasp]

Ok so... its known fact that changing of gauges from heavy to light and vice versa needs intonation adjustment. But how about downtuning of a same gauge, does the intonation still needs to be adjusted? Say from standard E to B. "WTF!! What is this guy thinking!!" you might ask, well Carcass fan here. So basically my question is does different tuning on the strings affect the intonation as well?

 

[subversion]

when Bill Steer employed the low tunings in his Carcass efforts, he was still using his Ibanez S-series. this guitar features a dual-action whammy bridge whose tension helps to counter the strings' slack. also, a thicker string gauge was utilized.

back you your query- downtune needs intonation adjustments? depends. check the intonation after you downtune.

 

[wasp]

Yeah I understand he used .12 guage back then. I take the dual action whammy bridge is actually a floyd rose?

 

[subversion]

according to him, it's Ibanez's stock...

 

[wasp]

ahhh... i get it. Thanks for the help. Already B tuned and Carcasssed.