Restring Tricone to C6 or transpose with G6?

[Adam Tracksler]

I'm kind of having an existential issue with choosing a tuning. Do you think its better to restring a tricone to C6 or to keep it in G6 (which I can pretty easily wingback into Low and High G) and transpose?

Thanks in advance for your sage advice.....

[John Rosett]

I'm no expert on tricones, but it seems to me that the heavier gauge strings of the G6 tuning would produce a better tone and more volume than the C6 gauges.

[Ken Pippus]

Yup.

[Jim Sallis]

I went round and round with this too, and my solution was to tune the tricone to A6, which means you can keep your regular high-G resonator strings. Low to high A C# E F# A C.

[Adam Tracksler]

I'll try A6, Moving up 3 frets is easier than moving up 5 (especially in my head!)

[Patrick Harison]

Most folks will tell you that G6 is the way to go on a tricone as it holds better tension against the cones. They're right. That being said, I play mine in C6 because that's the tuning I know really well. It sounds just fine, but probably not as beefy as it would in a lower tuning. I use heavier gauges than electric C6, so that helps make it sound not so anemic.

[Adam Tracksler]

Patrick, what are the gauges you use?

[Edward Meisse]

I go with C6 also. 14, 18, 24,26, 32, 38.