Was Dimebag tuned to 430 or 425HZ?

It's completely possible that he intentionally tuned to that. I also wonder if it's a byproduct of mastering or mixing, slightly slowed down or sped up (depending on the tuning).

The MSG records with McCauley are all a 1/4 step down, but live he's either standard or 1/2 step down. Did they tune that way for the record?
 
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I have a theory that Dime was guilty of letting new strings stretch and keeping them in tune using fine tuners since they’re floating trems. If you do it this way you’ll notice you’ll be around a half a step out after the strings are done settling but it’s string and tension dependent. I only know this because I ran floating trems for years and his tuning matches what I experienced just using fine tuners to be in tune but not necessarily in key.
 
I thought that Cowboys from Hell was 440.... some say 435hz was their reference tuning for standard.

Google states:

The tuning for Pantera's "Cowboys From Hell" is in E Standard (E A D G B E), but tuned slightly flat, approximately a quarter-step down. This means the strings are tuned slightly below the standard E A D G B E notes. Some sources indicate a slight flattening of the tuning to a 435 Hz frequency, rather than the standard 440 Hz
 
harddriver said:
What the hell is on Rex's fingertips....are they some kind of finger protectors? They look like the finger extensions that Toni Iommi had....
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Fans may have noticed that Brown still wears protective tape on his fretting hand when playing live. This stems from a dog bite over three decades ago. “That injury is still there, and it's gonna be there forever, because my dog bit through the nerve. First I used Band-Aids on it, and then duct tape, but I started looking around for something tougher because those things didn't work.

“Back then we were playing arenas, and a lot of them were hockey venues, so I found this hockey tape: the kind that players put around their hockey sticks. I went through tons of that stuff: I found a really cool roll in Kansas that had skulls and crossbones on it! I usually wrap that finger in three layers of tape, and when I get off stage, which is usually after an hour and a half, that tape is worn all the way down to the very first layer.”
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https://www.guitarworld.com/features/rex-brown-reveals-the-tricks-behind-his-technique
 
glpg80 said:
I have a theory that Dime was guilty of letting new strings stretch and keeping them in tune using fine tuners since they’re floating trems. If you do it this way you’ll notice you’ll be around a half a step out after the strings are done settling but it’s string and tension dependent. I only know this because I ran floating trems for years and his tuning matches what I experienced just using fine tuners to be in tune but not necessarily in key.
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Something like that is what I would suspect.

I do that quite a bit with my FR guitars. Since I don’t really use them for recording or live shows, they just get tuned relative to themselves & are usually a few cents flat.
 
cobrahead1030 said:
Something like that is what I would suspect.

I do that quite a bit with my FR guitars. Since I don’t really use them for recording or live shows, they just get tuned relative to themselves & are usually a few cents flat.
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Yep you get it. That’s what I think he did was tune it relative to itself over time during settling and you end up a few cents flat after a while.
 
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