Let's see that new bass! No five strings here, (when I had one it was specificly ordered "high C"), and I would drop to D on the E string. I tune my basses any way I want, I like looser strings, since my main axe is a Chapman Stick, and that goes to A. I have four basses, and I can't tell you if ANY of them are tuned EADG right now...Personally I can't see the point in playing bass and not experimenting. (Uh, oh, someone's typing...)