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Originally Posted by Steveaux  What ever kind of action makes you happy. |
That's less relevant in the case of a fretless. Assuming you want the modern fascination with a fretless buzz sound you want a fairly low action and low angle of the string to the fingerboard. Before the onomatopoeia "mwah' became common, most people refer to that unique sound as fretless buzz, hence buzz bass by Pedulla. This is of course dependent on whether you desire to have this sound effect, if you don't want it - a higher action will kill this tendency for the buzz sound, or 'mwah'. DB players usually don't really want this sound in DB pizzicato playing, too low an action will give you this buzz, and a DB will start to sound like contemporary fretless EBs.
