What a strange concept this is of “last bass”… I’ll probably die with one in the shopping cart. 
On the fretless… I am new to fretless…
They are good basses, awesome sounds, awesome soul… they will either frustrate you because you can’t get the intonation right… or make you precise as hell while playing.
While I think everyone should have a fretless(for precision purposes), I do believe that it might not be the best bass.
It’s up to you, in the end… your heart is in charge. 
It is not a mandatory to make any or all of the adjustments on your bass and that includes Volume knob. Last thing first, you can have the volume knob anywhere above 0 and use the external peripherals to adjust.
I highly recommend that you play your bass at zero adjustment for some period of time. Doing this would familiarize yourself to the tone of your bass and when you make adjustments you are more sensitive to change. As most time you don’t need much change to get the radical tone you want.
You’d also benefit from learning how to alter your tone by the way you plug and fret your notes. I own some crazy custom electronics and pickups but I don’t necessarily have to touch all ‘em knobs to get to the tone I want.
It’s such an ingrained practice that leads to most players misunderstanding the concept of tonal adjustment.
Knobs … it’s full of knobs!!!
Absolutely, positively agree, @Al1885. 
“The Kanata distractions are up to the operator.”
It’s a great amp and i might get the 210 next.
Just thinking, as a new player it may be most beneficial to just get your first 500 hours of practice asap and avoid to many buttons or to much forum until this happens.
500 hours is a milestone and around the time more and more ability clicks in…
Just play more bass bro"s and sisters…
I like the forum while taking a fingers and arm rest… Bass on…
Guys… don’t overcomlicate things for the poor guy. Just get him a good bass (like the Sire he likes) and a simple amp to start 
That’s is usually found in the Piezo type pickups. Ibanez has on a few models. This is mine
One of the miss opportunity I think is the series and parallel switch this makes such a dramatic change in tone especially for the prog genres. Parallel tone is so good for the genres and the multiple pickups setup.
This is my Big Al bass control. Albeit, that’s pretty much the max you can do to any electrics
I said the same thing 30 posts ago. 
Hell yes!!
I bought the fretless to try something a bit different, a) for the “mwah”, and b) to see if I could actually play one (ie hit the right notes). It’s not my “go to”, but it gets played often enough to warrant its place on the rack. In fact, with all this talk of fretless, I played it for an hour this evening (in passive mode )
haha yeah, I just woke up and saw the massive overkill and LMAO’d
To put it simply. The main thing you need is the volume control. The rest is just the array of option to simply put you in the mix or standing out of the mix.
Your favorite tone probably won’t make it through the first time you play with others.
Mine is a bit different to that one, it (cough) only has two pickups. This is a control diagram for an Afterburner, but it’s the same as the two pick up Combustion. It’s got that series and parallel setting. The series tone seriously kicks!
That’s a fact…
I have been playing a lot of Rush lately and it’s meant to be played with a certain amount of attack, well most of it, Trees has some gentle Fryer Tuk, medieval moments.
But my favorite Rush is the hard attack songs.
I like the look of this alot. What is it? Does it sound nice?
It’s a fancy Ibanez Affirma.
At the moment I plug my bass directly into the Spark CAB because I am still learning how to pluck strings (super beginner level) so I am not taking advantage of the bells and whistles of either the Spark 40 or the Spark 2 (which is mostly used by my son and his electric guitars). The Spark app allows you to model many different amps and pedals. An AI engine also selects and configure amps and pedals for you in response to a prompt that describe the tone you want, e.g. I want a sound like Bon Jovi in Living on a Prayer.
Oh, that’s new!
How do you like the Spark 2 for bass?
You mention the Spark CAB. I had that too for a few days, but sent it back cause it was humming unbearably! You don’t have that issue?
I have yet to try the Spark 2 connected to my bass, since my son almost exclusively practices with it since he loves playing with the AI engine and backing tracks out of YouTube or Apple Music.
The Spark CAB hums when turned on, but not to a level that gets on my nerves.
That is a very interesting ai function.
If that could be used somehow with my Katana amp that would be great, I could use the assistance in dialing in the sounds.
ai, coming to a home studio near you.
