http://youtube.com/watch?v=vg5TaS4EIVE

In your live performance with Andy Mckee and Don Ross, I was wondering what effects you used, in this song particularly. I really love that tone you're getting with the bass.

Well, he is using an Ebow at the beginning, I honestly think that is just the tone of that particular bass. lots of Mwah and growl, MMmmmmm

I expected that it was going to be his bass, I just want to see if there is a way to get that really strong "mwah" sound with my fretless.

What is your fretless?

Phenolic fingerboards really tend to sing, on top of being really strong as a fingerboard.

I see, I have a Cort Curbow with an Ebony fretboard.

Perhaps, do you have a nice and tight bridge pickup?

Ha, funny you ask. It's a single pickup bass. One Bartolini MK-1 I believe, about 3 inches above the bridge.

I don't know much about Cort basses, but I knew a bunch of 'em had only one pickup and that luthite body and I thought some had an ebonol fingerboard, which was an epoxy made to look like ebony. I think the ebonol had a brighter sound, was more durable, less weather sensitive, and a lot less expensive.

Manring's bass has a pretty specific tone because it's a very specific bass. Without getting a Zon like his Hyperbass, it would be very hard to duplicate the tone. Perhaps a Status might come close, but not many companies offer graphite necks that are set neck or set through construction.

http://www.zonguitars.com/zonguitars/hyperbass.html

That's not to say his fretless tone is the best tone out there, but certainly a nice signature tone.