Fretless

[Toomanypuppies!]

im looking for a new six string and i need some help fretless or not? does any one have points? brands? anything?

[Chris K]

Fretless Six String Warwick Thumbs=Sex

Fretless Status Graphite sixes are also amazing.

[sixner]

whats price range?
-sixner

[irishslappop]

well do you have a price range?

[Chris K]

Also to note, you can't go wrong with Fodera and Alembic.

Fretless Anthony Jackson Contrabasses are amazing. Also look into Hotwire-Kai Eckhardt turned me onto them.

[irishslappop]

why don't we just assume that he has 1 million dollars then.....

[Naveed Afzal]

Warmoth

[Chris K]

why don't we just assume that he has 1 million dollars then.....

Well why not? Those companies undoubtedly make amazing instruments.

[EADG]

Also to note, you can't go wrong with Fodera and Alembic.

Fretless Anthony Jackson Contrabasses are amazing. Also look into Hotwire-Kai Eckhardt turned me onto them.


I'd recommend picking up the original Bass of Doom. Great tone. A little bit of wear though from a few mods.

[irishslappop]

do you feel the average poster has $8000+ to throw away on a bass? how about instead of simply spewing out big names to make yourself look like you know what your talking about, try to be helpful.

[Chris K]

do you feel the average poster has $8000+ to throw away on a bass? how about instead of simply spewing out big names to make yourself look like you know what your talking about, try to be helpful.

Of course I don't expect him to have $8000+, but I'd rather take the oppertunity to discuss brands other than the bog standard (though solid and undoubtedly useful to beginners) ones he'll most likely be interested in (things like Brice, Peavey, Aria, Dean etc etc).

and EADG-I'd rather buy Stanley Clarke's orginal Brown Bass from Victor Wooten.

[Aukai]

I was going to start a thread like this but i thought I post here.

thinking of Shecter Studio-4 Fretless, how does it sound?

[EADG]

I was going to start a thread like this but i thought I post here.

thinking of Shecter Studio-4 Fretless, how does it sound?


To TS:

Studio 6 fretless?

[Phalanx]

check out some second hand Carvin fretless basses, they're really good and fairly cheap.

I got my status graphite fretless 6 string for £400 second hand off www.bassworld.co.uk

[Roo_bass]

To TS:

Studio 6 fretless?
You can't get those.

[Toomanypuppies!]

well how bout some differences of fretless to fretted maybe some pros and cons and ya a price range would be nice

[e p]

well you sound unsure, so i would suggest play as many fretless as you can, simply to determine whether you like the sound over a fretted, then if you do like the fretless and youre determined to get a six string, get one from a company such as rondo music or schecter.

[faelun]

why not get a 5 string fretless and string it with a 6 string set, do you realllllly want to be hearing a low B on a fretless? think about it

[Phalanx]

do you realllllly want to be hearing a low B on a fretless?

yes

[Toomanypuppies!]

is there any brands with large amount of space in between the strings i cant do the 5 to 6 string thing because it would be a tight squeeze and yes i played a fretless and its was surprising ly easy to someone with a fair amount of experience (like me)

[Naveed Afzal]

My Ibanez is pretty good for slapping and i have huge hands..