You can put thicker strings on to a certain point, but your fighting a losing battle the lower you go. But, that leads to the other problem I have with really low tunings - tone and intonation go out the window. I guess if your trying to out heavy everyone else on the radio then you might get a brief advantage if you tune down before everyone else and your songs are lower than the songs that play before and after yours. If the rest of the album was tuned down, that effect would be lost or else Sad But True would have have to be tuned down to C to get the same effect. For instance, Metallica's Black Album has some pretty heavy sounding songs on it and they're all in standard tuning but then Sad But True comes along in D tuning sounds bone crushingly heavy. I think the contrast between standard tuning (or Eb as that's been an alternate standard for some time now) and a drop tuned song creates a lot more heaviness. If all your songs are in Eb, then Eb is your new established plane of heaviness and you have to drop down to D to get a heavier sound again, but if you play everything in D now, you have to drop to C# to get heavier. I think tuning down, at least beyond much beyond Eb, to get a heavier sound becomes an exercise in chasing your own tail.
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