Carpentry is done- some soldering tonight and I should be able to post some audio clips
New fretless build
That looks awesome! Love the fretless fingerboard into the raw wood.
That is shweet..
Well done.. hope it brings you years of joy
peterleroux Delicious! Came out great, well done @peterleroux & @Tuckstir!
a month later
Wow, looks great. Would be nice to hear what it sounds like.
10 days later
RodneyVikens
thanks! I'm trying to sort out an electronics problem (lots of hissing, popping and dropouts) that makes it pretty unpleasant to play plugged in at the moment- looking forward to being able to record it.
16 days later
So I heard from my local guitar tech today that he has re-wired the bass and solved the earthing problem, so I’ll be picking it up from him tomorrow morning, audio clips to follow this weekend ?
Awesome. Looking forward to it
Finally got some audio- please excuse the intonation:
Nice.. Glad Its playing finally ..
So how does it feel in your hands?
Tuckstir
Pretty good, thanks- it has great sustain, I think partly because the neck is quite thick, and partly because the neck joint is a tight fit.
It's pretty comfortable to play but I noticed that I was working quite hard to 'fret' the strings- it could probably do with having the action lowered now that it's working. I brought it to rehearsal on Sunday afternoon and ended up playing it in the service, so it has been a fairly natural transition - I think keeping the same body shape and scale length as my fretted bass might have helped
peterleroux please excuse the intonation:
No need to, you're fairly good already! Lots of fretless goodness in them slides ? Some big low end too, very nice!
V8 Thanks! Appreciate the kind words.
Awesome Peter.. sounding good
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peterleroux nice to hear it! It almost sound like the sound has been reversed (beginning of recording) or a reverse sound effect has been applied. Is that just the sliding? Very interesting sound indeed.....
RodneyVikens Hi, thanks! One of the things about fretless is that the note attack isn't as sudden as a fretted instrument- the notes 'bloom' rather than 'jumping' in, so they sound a little bit like they are reversed or have some kind of effect on them.
4 months later
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I ordered a set of walnut knobs on eBay, which arrived this morning-five weeks from China with a tracking number. I think they fit in pretty well with the oiled timber body
Noice! I played a Warwick Streamer Fretless over the weekend - was far more fun than I expected - though I had to slide into everything - which wasn't easy technique to change into.
I'd really have to have a set of tunes to practice to get the most out of it. Do you have any tunes in mind?
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V8 I like that Streamer- it was the first decent fretless I messed around with in a music shop. I like the look and feel of the timbers.
Graceland is an awesome album for fretless bass- Bakithi Kumalo has great tone, and an interesting technique- very bright tone for fretless - slides, including sliding power chords, and groove-based rather than the more melodic lead-style playing of other 80s fretless players.
peterleroux it was the first decent fretless I messed around with in a music shop. I like the look and feel of the timbers.
+1, thought the same. Had a grand feel to it, decent tone too and the biggest plus - it didn't have the usual Warwick 'sex toy' top horn ?
peterleroux Bakithi Kumalo
YES, excellent call! THough he makes it look farrrr tooo easy. Deceptively so ?