Fretless pedal

[ped]

I'm going to have a fretless bass again soon, so I'm thinking about my pedalboard setup.

 

My current pedalboard contains the following:

 

Filter - OD - Fuzz - Bassballs - Comp - LPF

 

Occasionally I put an octaver in the loop of the filter. 

 

Thing is, apart from the comp and LPF I probably wouldn't use many of these with fretless, but I don't really want to make a second board and have to bring both. I don't want to bring several extra pedals to put before or after my pedalboard either.

 

Ideally, an all in one fretless pedal would work well, that I can bypass for fretted but switch in things as required. 

 

I've been toying with the idea of a multi fx, from the Zoom Multistomp through to a Helix, but those options are either possibly under or overkill!

 

In my search I found this Trex 'Soul Mate Acoustic'

 

 

The selection of effects are exactly what I'd like on fretless. Reverb, chorus, looper, comp, para EQ... this could happily go between my fretless bass and my pedalboard.

 

It seems as though it would be great for bass - the para EQ frequency centres make sense and none of the effects are necessarily ones which would rob low end.

 

What do you reckon?

[Hellzero]

This is THE pedal for fretless, simply called The Fretless, by FKT Audio, an Italian company: https://www.fktaudio.com/articolo/the-fretless/

 

[BlueMoon]

I agree……I have one and use it regularly.

 

Not cheap though.

[ped]

44 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

This is THE pedal for fretless, simply called The Fretless, by FKT Audio, an Italian company: https://www.fktaudio.com/articolo/the-fretless/

 

Yeah that’s the sort of thing I was thinking of but then I saw a used version of the Soul Mate which seems to offer a similar set of features plus some useful additions. 
 

I really like FKY audio stuff (Had the Meridian Funk-u-lator made by the same guy but for Meridian guitars) so I’ll check out some more demos of it. 

[Bagman]

On 15/08/2025 at 07:32, ped said:

Yeah that’s the sort of thing I was thinking of but then I saw a used version of the Soul Mate which seems to offer a similar set of features plus some useful additions. 
 

I really like FKY audio stuff (Had the Meridian Funk-u-lator made by the same guy but for Meridian guitars) so I’ll check out some more demos of it. 

the FKT Fretless Pedal is quite good 

 

but I suggest try before buy , it looks like significant coin to get one 

 

I use one with a 2EQ Stingray fretless with flats and I think it's glorious