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Mick Karn's terrific fretless playing in Japan's I Second That Emotion: And that Pino Palladino sound in Paul Young's Wherever I Lay My Hat :

Very nice !

Neck pickup 100 %, bridge pickup 25 %, tone 25 %, nickel strings and playing on the bridge pickup with a firm strings attack : you should be close. Thanks (that way it's done ).

Almost never use the preamp of my basses. Most of the time when room correction is needed. And my amp is dead flat. That said, mon ami, as the two Jazz Bass pickups have reversed winding and reversed polarity, when they are both used, you get a parallel wired humbucker.

https://www.zikinf.com/annonces/dispannonce.php?annonce=1556286

And was there :

This guy is a heavyweight champion.

For my 50th birthday, all I wanted was a simple meal home with my lovely wife, nothing else, no fancy fair or big fiesta. And it happened just that way : to me, it's the most prized present I ever had. Getting back to your asking, just as some fellow bass players already wrote, if you are into the Wal thing, get yourself a Wal, but as Mick said, you won't have it ready for your birthday unless it's a second hand. Having owned a 4 strings fretless Wal in the 90's (that I sold and bought back twice to finally let it go to a friend who sold it I don't know where, which is a good thing ) and having tried the ACG's, I would say that I prefer the ACG's. The V-shaped neck on the Wal was something really special and the Wal preamp is a bit capricious. That said, now that I will turn 53 this August, I'm thinking of a Zon Hyperbass II or a Leduc U-Basse 6 strings fretless or a Lefay Remington Steele 6 strings (a unique metal fretboard fretless bass), but even if order one of them today, I won't get it for my birthday. And yes I'm a fretless man and proud of it.

This bass was certainly fretted before, has been defretted and the fretboard certainly partly sanded. If there is still enough wood, a sanding until everything has gone is possible, but as it's a fretless it's a high precision job. If you don't feel comfortable with this work, go to your luthier and for around £100 GBP, he would do the job with a lacquered finish, which is mandatory here as it's a maple board.

Do you still own that Zon Hyperbass ?

No problem, I'm as direct as you are.

At least, someone is reading, it's nanofarads, but habits made me type uF (microfarad) instead of nF. Correction is made. Thanks.

I'm certainly not the best, but thanks to you to you for thanking me.

Same here, so certainly gone.

TC Electronic Polytune for me too and it's working fine with all my 6 strings basses and even my EUB 6 strings with the Bass Mode engaged. Being a user manuals reader helps a lot.

Two basses at really correct prices, the 6 strings being very rare : https://www.leboncoin.fr/instruments_de_musique/1385666022.htm?ca=12_s

Except that the seller doesn't know it's a 2 bands EQ... https://www.leboncoin.fr/instruments_de_musique/1401115081.htm?ca=12_s

https://www.2ememain.be/musique-instruments/instruments-de-musique/guitares-basses/bas-gitaar-curlee-404024146.html

John Wetton (may he rest in peace, even after that) would have been jalous ! Holy mother of toilet seat, is it possible to be so stupid and selfish ?

In fact, it's even lower, it's £430 GBP.