That's true. You ideally need to build up muscle-memory on a fretted bass first. It'll make things SO much easier.

lol i loved it when the "guitar god" of our school had a go on our fretless

Him- "Oh my god this is out of tune"
Me - "errr, no it isnt *harmonic tunes* see?" (yes it has a good intonation)
Him - "No it isnt *plays somewhere around the 4th fret area and proceeds to start retuning my bass* see?"
Me "*sighs*"

he claims to be grade 8 guitar and grade 5 bass

i laugh heartily at his claims (he cant play bass to save his life, he tries to shred like on guitar and has an amazingly crabbed fretting hand - ala guitar)

[QUOTE=jamie_dunce]I quote, "Freedom of expression"

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That was meeeeeeeeeeee! :thumb:

Nice review and nice guitar!

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There's my baby! What you's think?

She's getting shipped on Monday :D

Why you shipping them?

Its being shipped to him I think.

^^^ Yep :)

Those are pictures taken from the guy im getting it off's house ;)

Oh okay good

Nice bass guitar an review, adds to wishlist

youre a complete spamwhore, you know that dont you? :D

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There's my baby! What you's think?

She's getting shipped on Monday :D[/QUOTE]

aw wicked, that guy has a Beast Wars video

*is buying Jamie's V490FL* :D

Mine came on Friday, it's a great bass, good tone and playability, and it looks lovely. I'd definitely recommend them to anyone looking for a fretless at a very decent price. I'll try and get pics up sometime soon, but I'm at school atm.

Just a quick question, not having much knowledge on electronics, is there anything I'd need to worry about if I wanted to change the electronics in the future? Or would it be a simple case of buying the pickups and swapping them over?

It depends on the pickups you buy - I've actually done exactly that - picked up a cheap set of EMG P/J pickups. I had problems (in fact I've not got them in yet) but that's because the EMGs are set up to use two seperate volume pots, not one balance pot. I can't be bothered to change the actual pots over just yet. I may just take it into a shop to do.

I never liked unlined fretlesses before but these pull it off very very well. Very nice! :thumb:

[QUOTE=if_jaco_was_punk]I never liked unlined fretlesses before but these pull it off very very well. Very nice! :thumb:[/QUOTE]

This is amazing...someone who doesn't like unlined boards!

[QUOTE=MachinesOfHate]And some more V940 pics...

[IMG]http://www.mig29.org/v940door.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://www.mig29.org/v940close.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://www.mig29.org/v940pup.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]

Beautiful, just beautiful...