Miles Schelling grew up playing bass in Vermont. He studied sitar in New Delhi under the instruction of Shubhendra Roa in 2016. The idea of the sitarbass came from an inspiration to recreate the note bending found in Indian Classical Music while preserving the sound of an electric bass.

In 2018 Miles traveled to Miraj where he met the Sitarmaker family and proposed the idea to create a Sitarbass. Over many subsequent trips the design has been optimised.