Drop D on a Floyd Rose

[Mario8672]

I have a simple question: without any aftermarket parts installed, how do I tune my SL2H to Drop D tuning?

[toejam]

Tune the string to E but keep your fine tuner all the way down. When you want to go to D, loosen the fine tuner.

[rjohnstone]

Joe, That only works if you have the trem blocked to dive only.

[toejam]

It may be a tiny bit flat due to the nature of the floating trem, but it'll work.

[Mario8672]

I tried the fine tuner idea. It worked on the low E string of course, but it knocked the other strings way out beyond the fine tuner's range after having to retune all the strings.
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Eventually, what I did was really simple: I just tuned the string to D, while keeping the others in standard tuning (with the nut unlocked). After I had it in DADGBE, I just locked and did a couple cents-worth of fine tuning. I just played through a couple full songs, and the tuning has remained DEAD (or DAD(gbe)) accurate!

[slash-ed]

So... you, uh, re-tuned it??

[toejam]

I tried the fine tuner idea. It worked on the low E string of course, but it knocked the other strings way out beyond the fine tuner's range after having to retune all the strings.
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Eventually, what I did was really simple: I just tuned the string to D, while keeping the others in standard tuning (with the nut unlocked). After I had it in DADGBE, I just locked and did a couple cents-worth of fine tuning. I just played through a couple full songs, and the tuning has remained DEAD (or DAD(gbe)) accurate!

Yeah, that's the easiest way. You didn't specify if you just wanted it in Drop D or you wanted to be able to go back and forth between standard and Drop D.

[Mario8672]

^Oh, you're right. My bad.

[VitaminG]

So... you, uh, re-tuned it??

funny Kiwi, make me laugh