Apparently Gorgomyte buffed/polished it right out 
I guess I owe EB at least some apology here
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I very much enjoy these Stringjoy strings and being back to thru-body on my C-5 GT.
.050 - F
.065 - C
.090 - G
.115 - D
.145 - A
The tension feels great.
Yeah the .090 oddball up to 46lbs wasn’t super ideal, but it was the best I could do iirc.
revisiting this. The .145 A0 sounds… dead/dull with a pick compared to the rest of the strings. Finger plucking it’s faintly there but not nearly as noticeable. It sounds big, but has noticeably less upper harmonics/sparkle/click than the rest of the strings. My Stiletto has the 5th string at A0 on a .130 atm and sounds a lot better with a pick; I’ll probably try to move it to a .135 or a .140 tops and see how that goes. I might try the .145 on The Beast with its 34" scale and see what happens Be hilarious if it takes to that thicc string better, fulfilling its namesake as my biggest and heaviest bass by also having the biggest string 
Been playing The Beast more lately, and not finding its 34" B0 .130 to be a big problem anymore maybe it was just due to the ol brain being weird…
I still think I want a .135 on my Schecters that are tuned ADGCF, or I will try it once and then get a second .135, and try a .140 if that’s not quite right, but I suspect .135 will be the magic number.
I’ve been playing The Beast for ambient stuff tuned ADADGC and really like this tuning for it. I’ve also considered just going ADADAD with it, too. I’ll try to test that during the week…
I’ll likely put the .145 on my C-5 GT onto The Beast 
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I keep forgetting… I’ve noticed while doing a lot of tension maths that the A string always has some wonky extra tension beyond the other strings and I can’t seem to find out why. A few string sets have a .080 instead of a .085; The .085 is 5lbs+ more tension. A .080 brings it to within a few lbs of the strings around it, at least. Maybe it’s just an oddball note/tension for available strings diameters. Stringjoy makes “half diameters” in their upper guitar strings for just this reason, but not bass players so I’m wondering why. Maybe it doesn’t matter and as is tradition I am overthinking it…
Dunno. Never noticed any abnormal A string tension.
Neither have I so seeing the number surprised me. And I also forgot that most sets are also a .065 on the D which puts it around the same tension. So once I realized that I answered my own question
ie: I’ve noticed a lot of strings sets have more tension nearer the middle and the outer tend to be a little less, and Stringjoy even recommended this method specifically for the bass side of the fretboard when discussing custom sets.
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Interesting.
It’s a tradeoff between string diameter and pitch increase. The string diameters do not necessarily decrease in a linear way so you may see higher relative tension than you would expect on some strings if they are thicker than they would be for a linear progression between strings.
Stringjoy seems to go from .110 to .125 on standard longscale strings o.O Well okay, I guess I’m putting a .110 on my Stiletto then vs the .115 the C-5 GT has for its 4th/D1 I wanted to try it anyway, hope it works out 
They do not offer single strings in extra long for some godless reason, unless maybe I contact them, because that seems silly…
Edit Either way, I’m ordering some strings tonight or tomorrow. Also going to grab some single guitar strings because I’ve decided to tune my two guitars to all fourths as well. F that godless minor third 
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The Billy Sheehan BS66 set from Rotosound are 43, 65, 80, 110, so interestingly a heavy E, standard D and lighter A and G strings.
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Yeah the Peter Hook Elites I had were 105/85/65/60 and the G string was so high tension it broke the nut.
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Damn!
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When you play bass but have an 8-string guitar
trololol…
7 are wrapped lol…
one semitone shy of 3 octaves between strings 
Finding flatwounds for ADGCF tuning is tricky… As I imagine DGCFA# would be, too
Maybe it’s the obsessive/compulsive in me, but I have a hard time with string sets that aren’t mathematically even. For instance, on my 5 string, I have to use .40/.60/.80/.100/.120 or .45/.65/.85/.105/.125. On my 4 string, it has to be .45/.65/.85/.105.
I’ve been cycling through strings lately to find my “favorite” set. I’ve gone through D’Addario NYXLs, Fender 7250s, Dunlop Super Brights, SIT Foundations, MarkBass, and Ernie Ball Hybrid Slinkys. All roundwounds, I’m not a big flatwound guy. I’ve found a couple of things:
First, I greatly prefer the sound of my Kiesel Osiris (P/J, active 3 band EQ with mid sweep) run passive, even though there’s no passive tone control.
Secondly, I’m really liking the EB Hybrid Slinkys. They sound really nice on my bass through my amp. The MarkBass strings sounded really nice too, but they had really high tension. Ultimately, so far, my favorites are the SIT Foundations and, believe it or not, the EBs.
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There’s a reason they are so popular! They are not bad strings at all. Just not my favorite 
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Stringjoy will be coming out with flats soon. Don’t know what to say until then
I vaguely remember something about that being a thing Soon 
Playing the C-5 GT, it’s lost a lot of that initial “spank” or whatever that it had. Only thing that’s changed is it has Stringjoy strings on it, heavier gauge due to tuning it down a step. I don’t remember if it had the Cobalts on it or not when I recorded The Three Amigos. It was either Ernie Ball Extra Longs or Cobalts.
Wondering if I need to go slightly lighter in gauge on even the 4th string. I definitely know I need to on the 5th, it’s too thicc.
I should get the set for the Stiletto next week and that will tell me; it still has Cobalts on it.
Stringjoy needs to hurry up with stainless steel bass strings; stainless has a similar sound profile as the Cobalts.
Skull Strings out of France will make custom sets of stainless