Hellzero

Mike bought my EBS ValveDrive P1. Everything went fine from the start to the end. Great communication and ultra fast payment. You can deal in confidence with Mike.

Tony bought my Boss RC-30. Ultra fast payment and great communication. Highly recommended buyer. You can deal in total confidence.

Bought the 8 Gotoh GB 707 from Davide. Great communication, very well packed (nice box, by the way) and sent immediately. What else ? Un vero doppio ristretto !

And the next one will be this one : http://www.lefay.de/english/bass_capone_rht_multiscale.html Or this one, if you have less money : http://www.lefay.de/english/bass_rob.html

Maybe what you are looking for and the guy living in Antwerpen surely speaks English : https://www.zikinf.com/annonces/dispannonce.php?annonce=1504535

And what about Percy Jones, Mick Karn, to name two old fretless active bass player and Alain Caron to name a modern one or even Alfonso Johnson. Some of them played fretless when someone was still practicing sport and not playing bass... Try to boost the 800 Hz zone on your fretless with your on board or out board preamp and you'll hear that your fretles bass is singing and growling...

And I forgot the mixing desk...

To me, even if I'm back on an old AKAI DPS16, the best intuitive DAW is Nuendo coupled to Wavelab Pro, but the cost is prohibitive. Used them both when I had my little recording studio, with Reason for "electronic" parts and the results were simply top of the cream, but you have to own an ultrafast PC with an ultra performant sound card and top notch monitors... So, certainly the best pack, but the total cost will be, say, out of the real world.

Hum, with a Baxandall EQ you "cut" the mids when boosting the highs and lows which is THE sensible point of a fretless, the place to create the sound. If you want to have your fretless really singing, the key frequency is 800 Hz, so it's better to have a 3 bands EQ with an 800 Hz boost because a 2 bands EQ Baxandall type won't do the job here...

It's not really fretless shopping as you didn't buy anything. The problem with fretless basses is to find some to try in shops, but you were lucky, I would say. If you want to buy a very good bass, just try the second hand luthiers basses, they are the best you will find as they resell for peanuts. Be patient, look here on BassChat and everywhere else and you'll get the right one.

Vintage market is becoming the "try the highest price tag possible" place and without any arguable reason. It's not because it's old that's it's better on the contrary... To me it's really worth 1/100 of this stupidly high price, these guitars are as close to perfection as a Wishbass is.

Cellos are intended to be played with a bow at first and every bowed instrument is made that way. A flat table instrument used with a bow will create so much low end vibration that the table would explode or at the best deglue. It's the same for double bass which was originally intended to be played bowed as all the quatuor instruments as they are called. Now you've got the explanationfor the archtop construction.

Like it a lot, very nice job, but having an acoustic sounding loud enough can't be achieved with an archtop which will be more focused on mids, that was your only "mistake", even if I don' t like the word in this case. Put a Fishman BP100 in (on will be more appropriate) it and you'll have a very very good sounding bass, I can swear it as your conception will ccorrect the default of the BP100 which it's tendency to be a bit muddy.

Having tried a few, avoid the very low cost ones. I own a Stanford B61-5CM which is a terrific instrument with standard 9/18 mm strings spacing and just a volume. The low B is precise and clear, but not powerfull, the rest of the bass is very well made in ... Europe. It's the "low cost version" of the Furch Durango B61-5CM. It's more than what you expect to put in the market, but it's worth the money. The Stanford B6Stanford B61-5CM with sound on the second link : https://www.musicstore.de/en_GB/GBP/Stanford-B-61-CM-5-B-Stock-/art-BAS0006636-000 The Furch Durango B61-5CM with sound in the second link : https://www.thomann.de/gb/furch_b61_5_cm_acoustic_bass.htm

At this price tag, it's a gift, even at full price, could be worth looking at it. The Stanford-Furch has an advantage which is the regular string spacing at 9 mm at the nut and 18 mm at the brigde, so an easy to play instrument...