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You are not going to get a fretless tone from a bass with frets. Impossible. You can get the smoothness of slides and vibrato by using very low, shallow frets, like mandolin fret wire, ala Leland Sklar.
If you're going to leave the last fret in, you're going to have to file it down pretty severely if you hope to get low action.
Slap plates are kind of rare, but when you think of it, the string is coming down on the last couple frets during slap, but what abouting popping? The string is pulled up and then comes down on a larger area of the fingerboard.
It'd probably be cheaper for an entire refret with mandolin fretwire.
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