Dropped Db Tuning, also referred to as Drop C# Tuning, is an alternative guitar tuning. It is similar to Drop D, having the lowest (sixth) string dropped down three semitones to Db, with the rest of the strings being tuned down one semitone. The tuning (from low strings to high strings) is Db Ab Db F# Bb Eb.

Artists who use Drob Db Tuning

• A Perfect Circle
• Alice in Chains
• As I Lay Dying (on the song "Comfort Betrays" from An Ocean Between Us)
• Avenged Sevenfold (On the studio version of "Almost Easy")
• Breaking Benjamin (mainly on their first album, Saturate, and on one song on Phobia: Topless)
• Buckethead (on the song "Jordan")
• Disturbed
• Enter Shikari
• Evergreen Terrace
• Fightstar
• Funeral for a Friend
• The Hope Conspiracy
• Jimmy Eat World (on the song The Middle, however they only use Drop D♭ in this song when they play live, they use Drop D when they recorded the song)
• Limp Bizkit
• Linkin Park
• Metallica in the song "Dirty Window"
• Nirvana (on the songs "Scentless Apprentice, Heart-Shaped Box, All Apologies, Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle and Something In The Way")
• Norma Jean
• Protest the Hero
• Scars On Broadway
• Sevendust
• Silverchair (Emotion Sickness, Spawn Again & Trash)
• Smashing Pumpkins on some tracks on Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (Billy Corgan referred to it as "the grunge tuning")
• Smile Empty Soul
• Sum 41 (some songs off Chuck)
• System of a Down
• Thrice (only on the album The Illusion of Safety)