From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:20180525112701145-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > I tried a fretless bass yesterday. A friend bought a Squire fterless, sort   
   > of a fender jazz style body, but not exactly.  Nice slippery neck,   
   > fretboard is some sort of space age plastic.  It was real sweet, fun to   
   > play.  It only took a few minutes to adjust to fingering on the fret   
   > marker inlays ( edge of finger where the fret would be ) as opposed to   
   > between the frets as you would on a fretted. No big deal. Since I play   
   > violin, this seems totally normal to me.   
      
   The do have an interesting sound.   
      
   > One of these could easily be my main instrument, if I were a serious   
   > bassist. Live a fretless would be far more fun, and the slight tuning   
   > issues wouldn't be a big deal.  Much like Strats where the vibrato isn't   
   > blocked, never really in tune, but cool to play with live in small combos   
   > where the tuning isn't critical.   
      
   How can tuning not be critical? ;)   
      
   > Basses were fretless forever up until the 50's or so, weren't they ?  Not   
   > sure who invented the fretted bass, but the Fender ones must be near the   
   > beginning.   
      
   Yeah, Fender named their first "electric bass", or more specifically,   
   electric bass guitar, the Precision, because having frets, one could now   
   play the bass with 'precision', tone frequency wise at least.   
      
   > I have a both a 4 and a 5 string fretted basses, mostly tho play the 4   
   > string.  And then, only really on recordings.  But that fretless, ... it   
   > is nice.   
      
   It doesn't 'lock' you in the way frets do.   
      
   > Gotta mow today.  It's always something.  Got the garden in last evening.   
   > At least that's taken care of. No gig today, but the weekend will be busy.   
   > So I need to get thea yard done and rest up some.   
      
   I'd like to grow a crop of new songs ;)   
      
   > Almost bought some active pa cabs yesterday. Turns out SweetWater was out   
   > of stock, so now it doesn't matter. We needed them for tomorrow, and   
   > failing that, it can wait a month until we're back at that same venue.   
      
   If they get them back in stock by then.   
      
   > Our normal pa cabs are too big, and the single solo gig active Behringer I   
   > use is too little.   
      
   Kind of sounds like the three bears ;)   
      
   > Oh well, time to research more. And, .... we're looking for an active sub,   
   > or subs, for the band that are light enough to transport.   
      
   How is such a thing possible? Subs tend, for physics reasons, to be on the   
   from large to huge side.   
      
   > Reason for that is to try and even out the low end response of the pa, so   
   > the mix doesn't vary as much between setups.  Our " big " system doesn't   
   > have the low end when cranked. No big pa's do, unless they are REALLY   
   > massive. It's far easier to have more mids and highs than it is to get   
   > good deep low end. The reason is, good low end takes moving massive   
   > amounts of air, that that takes serious speakers.  Big, in other words.   
      
   Jim   
      
   Use nothing less coupled than the quarter space and that'll at least help,   
   even with smaller bass cabs.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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