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Big Alain Caron fan, I also attended a masterclass with him that was very interesting. His work on the fretless bass is equally impressive. Listen to anything under his own name including D-Code that could be considered his slap anthem or listen to Uzeb (his band from 1976 to 1992 and reformed in 2016 for a tour) Reunion Tour, which is their last ever live album.

Saw that video some time ago and funnily it's the answer to the reversed question I asked to Alain Caron during a masterclass. 😉 My question was: "Does it bother you to play the fretless out of tune to be in tune with the other instruments?" It's something I noticed a very very long time ago when practicing my scales perfectly in tune (with a tuner) and that, when I was playing perfectly in tune (for my notes) with others, the overall "chords" were out of tune, wobbling, so I started to really play with my ears listening to the others and adapting for a total non disturbing harmony. It's at this point that the lines are becoming very dangerous for the music...

Fantastic work as usual. Congratulations @Basvarken !

A luthier.

At the moment, I have 6 fretless basses (34 inches scale), all unlined and 5 of them are sixers, the sixth one being a 4 string. My third ever bass way back in 1987 was a fretless (a defretted Aria Diamond 500/1 copy painted in pearly yellow with two EMG HB pickups and a piezzo under the floating bridge) as I always wanted to play fretless and since then almost did with very few incursions in the fretted world. I prefer unlined fretless basses, but really don't care if they are lined with frets positions at the fretted place or at the frets places as I only look at them when I'm some kind of lost after a huge slide or a technical acrobatic stuntery... That said, the strangest fretless bass I had was an unlined fretless with dots at the fretted positions: simply a nightmare to play as each time I looked at them, it blocked me as my ears were telling me I was in tune when my eyes were saying I wasn't. I ended up giving it to a school after having masked the frightening dots and putting some fluorescent dot stickers to the usual spots (3, 5, 7, 9, 12...). The funny thing was that it was sounding vey well...

The teacher above is saying the name of this flamenco technique, it's called a rasgueado. Stuart Hamm has been using this a lot as well as the amazing Abraham Laboriel or equally amazing Carles Benavent.

Neither do I, when I like an artist I buy his stuff on CD.

And here is even a video:

I also own a 58R head and the fan can be noisy indeed. If it becomes too annoying I'll put a Noctua fan in it as they are very very quiet : I've done this a lot of times on different amps and also measured the noise difference which is quite frightening seeing how many dB's less these Noctua fans really are. @Pbassman, you can use the "special" cable for the most silent solution (looks like a resistor in series in fact), even if it will turn slowly. And it wasn't recommended on another bass site... :

Is it a new Viking boat made of glass?

You are right as this is what the Cutlass originally was, but now it's a kind of EBMM P-Bass... Here's an original Cutlass, the model was introduced in very late 1982:

My 1979 original natural and fretless Stingray that has become my number one bass.

Which is stupid as it's the opposite.

If you have a router, these are available all over the internet.

Check the solders, one (or more) is certainly dry. It could also be a hot (this is how the "positive" is called) wire touching the ground intermittently.

It has to be said, but it seems Caroline Mimbs Nyce never heard of T.M. Stevens. I know exception confirms the rule...

I must be an extraordinary powerful magnet that doesn't seem to work that well as I don't do blacksmithing (but who really does these days) and astronomy, but all the rest. 🥱🤣 That said I like gastronomy, does that count... 🤦🏻🤪

Ibanez is using barrel jacks and they are not all made the same way. When replacing such output jacks I always use a stereo jack plug to check the lugs (connectivity) to know which one is which, that's the safer way to replace these. If your tech is simply soldering wires were they were using a photo or a sharpie, then he is no tech at all. Better find a real one.

The Boss app tuner is totally free of any ad, so it's a great plus. I also have the Peterson Strobe app tuner, but it's not available anymore, at least on Android.

And the brand is called MN Guitars, Baiful being a bass model: https://www.facebook.com/mnguitars67/

According to the language used, it's coming from Italy @Bassassin. 😉

Try the Boss app, it's totally free and works on Android and Banana.