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12-27-2006, 09:19 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: La Mesa (San Diego area), Cali | |  Anyone tried the Neuser "fretless" bridge?
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I saw a post a while back that talked about the release of a bridge by Neuser that would make your fretted bass sound like a fretless by moving a part of the bridge. The info on the Neuser site says you can easily retrofit it to other basses. Has anyone tried it, and how did it sound?
Here's the url: http://www.neuserbasses.com/nfs.html
Dan K.
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12-27-2006, 09:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: South Jersey near Philly | | | ....well it looks cool, sounds beautiful, is easy to install, and is much easier than learning a fretless. How much?
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12-27-2006, 09:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Leeds, UK | | | I don't think it sounds like a fretless. I wouldn't bother, it's not very convincing.
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12-27-2006, 10:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: London, UK | | | Agreed, it doesn't sound like a real fretless - but it's a great sound anyway. If it was affordable and I had a bass it would fit (I can't see it working on a rick 4003), I'd buy one.
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12-27-2006, 10:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Chicago, IL | | | it sounds a little like fretless, but there's something missing. i just don't know what it is.
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12-27-2006, 11:14 AM
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12-27-2006, 11:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: La Mesa (San Diego area), Cali | | | Well, some of the places I play are pretty dark and having the fretless sound would be nice. I might want to try it for those times. I'm still not at a point where I could comfortable play fretless in the dark while reading charts!
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12-27-2006, 12:23 PM
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12-27-2006, 12:26 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | It doesn't sound like a fretless bass to me. I'd take the real thing which isn't that much harder to play anyway.
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12-27-2006, 12:45 PM
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Originally Posted by tplyons  It doesn't sound like a fretless bass to me. I'd take the real thing which isn't that much harder to play anyway. | I agree .... it doesn't sound like a fretless, really, and that's with Dominique DiPiazza playing it. If you put that same bass in my considerably less talented hands, it'd probably sound nothing like a fretless 
But it does have a cool sound, though. It might be nice to have that tonal option, but that would depend totally on the cost to have it installed ..... |
12-27-2006, 01:45 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Bilbao Espaņa | | | I wonder how does it works.
If i put it in a fretless bass do i get twice as fretless sound????
And what you guys are missing on there is that deep mwah you get on a real fretless |
12-27-2006, 01:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Slovakia | | | i wouldn't bash it for not exactly simulate fretless. i think its nice invention and love dominique's work with that toy (e.g. front page with dennis chambers and bireli). his chordal style could not be played on fretless that way.. |
12-27-2006, 02:48 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | Anything that adds mwah to harmonics has got to be a bit dodgy! Still, it's a neat toy and well, if you want it, it's there for you to use. I prefer the sound of a real fretless though, plus, I think people get so hung about playing fretless and forget to have fun! |
12-27-2006, 03:04 PM
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12-27-2006, 03:14 PM
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Originally Posted by vene-nemesis I wonder how does it works...
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Originally Posted by vene-nemesis
If i put it in a fretless bass do i get twice as fretless sound????
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12-27-2006, 04:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Canyon, Texas | | Hmmm... $275 from Allparts for Chrome 4 String... I'd probably be in at $100, just to see what it's like.
Here's a better description that I found in the archives at www.bassplayer.com
It began with an idea from phenomenal flamenco bassist Dominique Di Piazza and was developed by Finnish bass builder Neuser. And just days before the Musikmesse began, Neuser received a patent. The Neuser F Plus is an innovative bridge modification for fretted basses that mechanically creates the blossoming sound of fretless. A sliding lever is mounted over each string’s saddle; push it toward the pickups for remarkable fretless mwah, even on open strings; push it back toward the bridge and it’s back to a normal fretted-bass sound. Neuser hopes to offer the device as a retrofit that can be installed on any number of instruments for around €390.
Neuser Basses, Espoo, Finland www.neuserbasses.com
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12-27-2006, 04:52 PM
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Originally Posted by BassoP It sounds decent enough | +1
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12-27-2006, 04:57 PM
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12-28-2006, 12:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Canyon, Texas | | | It is a cool effect. The tone and mwaah kinda remind me of Tears in Heaven.
BTW - 50 points to the first one to name the song played in the demo on Neuser's website!!!
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12-29-2006, 09:55 AM
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Originally Posted by The Dave 50 points to the first one to name the song played in the demo on Neuser's website!!! | Alright, nobody knows, (or nobody cares)  but it was How Great Thou Art!!! 50 POINTS FOR ME!!!!!! 
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