Alternative Tunings

[paul_5]

'Sup lowenders, I've just finished building a 4 string fretless bass out of bits and pieces. My main bass is a 5-string, which I love playing.

I'm a huge Primus fan, and so love the sound of a low B on the fretless, but don't want to sacrifice top end. Tomorrow I'll take a tiny file to the nut of my "Desibass" and tune it Low 'B', Low 'E' , then tune what would be the D and G to E and A respectively (the two 'E' strings being an octave apart).
I figure that this will let me keep the low boom and still have the ability to do some "Palladino" sliding up the dusty end. I figure this way I can keep the chordal approach going too, as the root, fifth and third should fall readily under the fingers in one position. Granted I'll lose an open 'A' strings, but I don't really play much AC/DC, so shouldn't be too much of an issue...

Any suggestions or thoughts on alternative tunings would be greatly appreciated.