Stentor Conservatoire. Advice Please 🙏

[Beer of the Bass]

Hmm, yeah, I suppose we don't want to derail too much from the OP and his bass.

I quite liked those Stentors when I've tried them, though the stock endpin isn't long enough for my height and where I like the bass to sit. The ones I'd played seemed quite articulate for pizz playing, possibly the petite shoulders and proportions help with that. 

And setup-wise there are points in between high tension steels and the lowest tension rockabilly slap strings, you don't have to go all the way to one end or the other if you want to explore a range of styles and still be slap-friendly. Someone else will have more specific recommendations, I'm firmly in the Spirocore camp and don't have much experience outside of it! 

Edited 12 hours ago by Beer of the Bass

[NickA]

12 hours ago, The Guitar Weasel said:

the thing that has 'idiot wires'

Only 2 of my electric basses ( and an acoustic bass and a viola da gamba) have those.  I find they make things more difficult tbh.

 

11 hours ago, The Guitar Weasel said:

enjoying the bass rebuild thread.

We are!!! Don't go!!!