Favourite Guitar tunings

Drop D (DADGBE) exclusively for the past 20 years after using it to play along with Helmet (although I first used it to play a 16th Century lute piece when I had classical guitar lessons as a teenager).

New favourites of mine:

D A D F# B E

Nice for playing acoustic fingerpicking stuff with bar chords and slides, writing a ton of stuff in this right now.

Another favourite:

Not so much a tuning, but a capo on the 4th fret (from the bottom of neck up) so it frets every string except the low E, and then tune (what would normally be) the B string up half a step.  

Obviously you can tune every string up 2 steps and the B up 2.5 steps but it's a lot easier with the capo, + the smaller frets at that distance make fretting chords a lot easier.

Although if you were so inclined to tune up, you can tune it as:

E C# F# B E G#

If you have light enough string gauges/are game to play with that ridiculous string tension.

Edited by progkidjoel - October 18 2011 at 06:15