Yeah that’s my DIY project. I asked Anthony at EMG if he’d offer the PV in X series as they only have them in Jazz pickups, a few months later he made 2 prototypes one as an EMG archive and another on my bass, .
As for the Bridge pickups it’s a double jazz, I literally bought 2 Jazz bridge pickups ground the tabs down and glue it together. Then the wiring got much more fun as I separated the control on the north and south coils, north would be the modern bridge position and the south would be the 75’ position a la, Marcus Miller.
Uh huuuh …. I read a lot of opinions. Lined vs unlined. Then last night I tried turning off all the lights and playing. I had two neighbors knock on my door to ask if the wounded cats needed any assistance…. Nope. I’m sticking to a great side dot solution or lined for now.
Ha ha, well if you don’t look at your hand playing fretted bass then Fretless it’s just a few corners away. It’s the matter of correcting the bad habits of not fretting at the lines.
Hey. I am considering my first fretless. It is unlikely I will be able to try before I buy. Does anybody have any thoughts on the Ibanez SRF700 or the Schecter Stiletto Studio FR for someone who has never played a fretless bass before? Thanks
Would you be able to try a similar fretted version of either bass?
That might help with getting to know how they feel to you.
I bought a Squier Classic Vibe Fretless Jazz Bass without trying one, but I did already have a Fender Player Jazz Bass that I already liked the feel of and this worked out very well.
I did try an earlier model of an Ibanez Fretless, but it was a five string and I wasn’t ready for that at the time. The D’Addario flatwounds on this bass were so smooth. I wound up buying a set to put on my Fretless Jazz.
I have also tried out an earlier version of a Schecter Fretless and it felt great to me.
I did try a fretted Schecter Stiletto Studio that felt amazing as well. I better stop now since it feels like I’m turning up the GAS.
As suggested, try similar ones, but fretted. (I realized I don’t care for Ibanez necks. Too slim for my hands.)
I personally dislike when they use the same side markers as on a fretted neck - with the dots in between the “fret” lines. I prefer an unlined neck, with the dots in the fingering positions.
This is easily fixed with paint pen(s).
At the price of the Schecter, I personally would go for a Warwick. Either the Corvette $$ or the Star Bass.
I love this idea. Fretless P bass is great but, but the Music Man and Jazz bass are much better with producing awesome Fretless tone.
It doesn’t matter much what type of fingerboard materials on fretted bass but it matter enormously on a Fretless. I like hard responsive material like Ebony but even better is synthetics like Ebonel (used on Squier Vintage Modified), RichLite several companies use this including Martins.
You can get decent amount of Mawh out of Maple but on darker wood like Wenge, Rosewood, Pau Farro would produce more pleasing tone to my ear.
Back to Squier VM Jazz Fretless. You can probably pick one up for $250-$300 and it sounds so awesome. You can opt to upgrade the pickup the EMG is my number one choice.
String! Buy them based on your tonal preference and not that flats would not damage your fingerboard, all types will do damage to it and there’s nothing wrong with it. I wish I play one bass often enough to wear it down.
Now I know why you deleted that post. Here was my answer
Actually if you are decent with your setup skill you can get the unlined Rogue. It’s very good. I have one. Love it. I paid $89 new free shipping. I know now it’s more years later.
I just bought a couple Richlite fingerboard blanks with the idea of building a fretless. I wish the bass sizes came in the variety that the guitar sizes do! For bass you can only get black or “maple”, but guitar sizes have some cool combos
Lots.
Much easier removing the frets which is already hard.
Highly recommend a cheapo Rouge Fretless. It was my first Fretless and I had so much fun with it.
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yes, exactly! I went with the black. 