hey guys,
I purchased an Ibanez EDA905 a few years ago, just after they blew em out at 300 bucks a piece. I was just getting started into bass and it cought my eye. In the 4 years since I havent seen any on ebay (except this past week for some reason) or in any guitarcenters ect. Well I walk in to GC last week and see a fretless version - even rarer than the regular version. I pick it up and fall in love with it, put it on layaway. I just went back and got it a few days ago and man it is sweet! It cost me 400 but I traded in a bunch of crappy guitar equipment for it so I only paid 50
You know the rules: no pics, no bass...
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Notice that the fretless version is a darker grey color with white lettering while the fretted is lighter grey with dark lettering - kinda cool, I think.
They are completely different animals in terms of tone - the fretted is this harsh gritty in-your-face kind of tone, whereas the fretless is sooo smooooooth! granted, I've never owned a fretless, But in the two weeks between finding this one and buying it I played evey one I could get my hands on - warwick, ocean, fenders, a few others. The only one that came close to sounding as good as this one was a squire fretless jazz bass - that thing was sweet (but it didnt look as cool
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I have the fretted strung up with Elixers (after goign through D'adarrios, DRs, and a few others that were all to harsh with the piezo pup on the bass) and tuned DADGC
The Fretless is strung normally BEADG, I'm not sure what strings (flats with blue windings).
I'm tempted to sell my MIM Jazz bass in favor of something more usefull - like an amp or something because all the mellower stuff I was planning on using the Jazz for I now can use the EDA905F
feel free to input, discuss, whatever - especially if you have two basses that are identical but one is fretless and one is fretted!
This disscusion here might be interesting if you want more info on the EDA series.
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=348503
I purchased an Ibanez EDA905 a few years ago, just after they blew em out at 300 bucks a piece. I was just getting started into bass and it cought my eye. In the 4 years since I havent seen any on ebay (except this past week for some reason) or in any guitarcenters ect. Well I walk in to GC last week and see a fretless version - even rarer than the regular version. I pick it up and fall in love with it, put it on layaway. I just went back and got it a few days ago and man it is sweet! It cost me 400 but I traded in a bunch of crappy guitar equipment for it so I only paid 50
You know the rules: no pics, no bass...
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Notice that the fretless version is a darker grey color with white lettering while the fretted is lighter grey with dark lettering - kinda cool, I think.
They are completely different animals in terms of tone - the fretted is this harsh gritty in-your-face kind of tone, whereas the fretless is sooo smooooooth! granted, I've never owned a fretless, But in the two weeks between finding this one and buying it I played evey one I could get my hands on - warwick, ocean, fenders, a few others. The only one that came close to sounding as good as this one was a squire fretless jazz bass - that thing was sweet (but it didnt look as cool
)I have the fretted strung up with Elixers (after goign through D'adarrios, DRs, and a few others that were all to harsh with the piezo pup on the bass) and tuned DADGC
The Fretless is strung normally BEADG, I'm not sure what strings (flats with blue windings).
I'm tempted to sell my MIM Jazz bass in favor of something more usefull - like an amp or something
because all the mellower stuff I was planning on using the Jazz for I now can use the EDA905F feel free to input, discuss, whatever - especially if you have two basses that are identical but one is fretless and one is fretted!
This disscusion here might be interesting if you want more info on the EDA series.
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=348503
