anybody know what tuning planet rain uses? im trying to figure the song out but it might help if i got the tuning right. also if anybody knows where to find planet rain tabs that would be really helpful, i've been searching all over the internet but have yet to find anything. thanks.

from low to high: AAAEAE

Just like the entire Physicist record

cool thanks. never seen that one before, heh.

from low to high: AAAEAE

Just like the entire Physicist record

Are all the A's in the same octave?

from low to high: AAAEAE

Just like the entire Physicist record

Are all the A's in the same octave?

I would figure the first two A's are in the low key (downtuned from low B), and the upper A is an octave higher.

Whoa I just tuned to that tuning. This tuning is interesting. You can make some pretty cool songs with it.

Yeah, it's a great tuning. I wrote some cool songs with it. Be sure to use a guitar with a thick neck. I used a Gibson SG Classic myself, with 0.13 strings, with double A-strings. Also, try using flatwounds for this tuning, you get more low tones.

Flats last ages too. I use them on my jazz guitar, sounds great. Never tried using them on a distortion based guitar though, I'll have to check it out (I don't distort my jazzer ever, it's a Gibson ES-150 and it would feedback like all hell I imagine. It's a 1951 too so it's got a P-90, they hadn't introduced the Charlie Christian humbucker pickups onto that model yet so it would buzz greatly also)

Haha, I've used a hollow jazz guitar with distortion to record some feedbacking stuff, sounds great, but it's almost impossible to use distortion on a hollow body for something else.
Btw, a lot of nu-metal bands like System of a Down, Limp Bizkit, Adema, etc, use flat-wound strings on their guitars, for the extra low sounds.
Experiment with it, especially nice on a 7-string with Line 6 effects; fuck around with your tone, and you're quite close to Thordendal's sound.