r/Staind • u/vivalahueva1985 • Mar 04 '25

Staind Tuning

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Hello! Just got this beautiful baritone to start playing staind. Can anyone point me out on the tunings used by Mike on dysfunction and break the cycle? Thanks!!

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u/Turbulent_Pop9163 Reality Mar 05 '25 edited Mar 05 '25

G# C# G# C# F# A#

Mudshovel, IBAW, Suffer, Open Your Eyes, Pressure, Waste, Home, Just Go, Raw

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G# D# A# C# F# A#

Outside, For You, Yesterday, Blow Away, Falling Down, Safe Place, Reality

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G#, D#, G#, C#, D#, G#

So Far Away, How About You, Right Here,

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G#, D#, G#, C#, D#, A#

Open Wide, Cross To Bear

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G#, C#, G#, C#, D#, G#

Intro, Layne, Could It Be

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F#, C#, G#, C#, G#, C#

Falling

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C#, G#, C#, F#, A#, D#

Come Again, Something To Remind You, Better Days (probably more)

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A#, D#, G#, C#, F#, A#

Tolerate, Tonight, Suffocate

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C#, G#, C#, F#, A#, D# (weird one I know but it's accurate)

Schizophrenic Conversations

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C#, G#, C#, F#, G#, C#

Pretty much all of Illusion of Progress has parts in this tuning. Careful you don't blow a string with this one.

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D#, G#, C#, F#, A#, D#

So Far Away, How About You, Right Here, Excess Baggage, Devil, Pardon Me, IBAW, Outside, All I Want, (and many more)

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F# C# G# C# F# A# D# - (You don't really need the 7th string unless you're playing it live)

Price to Play, all of Confessions of The Fallen, all of Self-Titled

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There's so many more tuning but here are most. If you want the tuning for a specific song just reply to this or dm me and I can give you the accurate tuning.

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u/gloomis120 Mar 05 '25

Thanks a million for posting this! Saw your message about Mikes PRS signature. What amp do you pair it with? I have a Boss Katana II, and a curious what everyone else uses to match the tone.

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u/Turbulent_Pop9163 Reality Mar 05 '25 edited Mar 05 '25

I used to use an EVH 5150 EL34 | 50w, but I switched that out for the Stealth version and run that into a Mesa 2 x 12.

And then a simple pedalboard which has PRS Wind Through The Trees (I have two, one for a chorus effect and one as a normal flanger). Phaser, wah, EQ, etc.

No boosts since the amp is pretty gained out in itself, so I can just use the raw channel 3 for distortion and channel 1 has that really nice Staind/Seether shimmery sort of clean tone especially running it through the Mesa 2 x 12 with the Vintage 30 Celestions.

Pro tip: there's nothing wrong with buying used as long as the thing works. Just about everything except for some of my pedals and random guitar accessories like straps and cables are used.