Quote Originally Posted by dave.king1 View Post
I would lean towards the shorter scale with heavy round wound strings. ( don't like flats on a bass to my ears the are not as harmonically rich )
Not a fan of flats either but did put a set on the fretless conversion and they feel great, just don't sound as bright. On my previous fretless used same Rotosounds that I had on the Ric 4001 with no issues and it sounded much better.