Electric fretless or EUB?

[andydye]

I've toyed with buying an EUB on and off for a couple of years, am now selling my fretless jazz because I don't like the neck and am not keen on the s-1 switching thing so...

Do I get a fretless Sr5 to complement my fretted one or...

Do I get an EUB, NS design NXT4 type thing...

Am torn because I can get similar sounds from the electric to a degree and it would feel familiar, the EUB would simply be v cool and a great new skill to learn...

Help?

 

[knumbskull]

um i've never gone fretless but it is a fun challenge to play EUB, i would recommend it.

though no doubt 'real' double bassists regard me as scum

 

[type C basses]

Get the EUB!!!

Seriously though, I'm glad that I bought my NXT4 every single day. It doesn't play exactly like an upright, but it's still pretty sweet.

 

[Eric Moesle]

Bass and upright are two totally different instruments. That's like asking whether you should get a clarinet or a trumpet.

They really don't sound all that alike, and they certainly don't play with the same techinique.

 

[andydye]

Thanks guys1

Bass and upright are two totally different instruments. That's like asking whether you should get a clarinet or a trumpet.

They really don't sound all that alike, and they certainly don't play with the same techinique.

Eric, you may be slightly overstating the.differences but I can see your point...
I know they're way different from a players perspective in both technique and the finer points of sound but apart from visually can an audience can tell the difference...?

 

[gbarchus]

I have four fretless electric basses, one EUB and one carved upright. They are all different basses. I can play the same gig with most of them but they have a different effect on me, my band members and the audience.

Which do you want to play?

Gale

 

[andydye]

I have four fretless electric basses, one EUB and one carved upright. They are all different basses. I can play the same gig with most of them but they have a different effect on me, my band members and the audience.

Which do you want to play?

Gale

Hi gale, I just got back from 2 weeks away from my bases and I think the answer is...I want both! Not sure which to get first but I do want both!!

 

[nostatic]

 

[andydye]

Nice! Wassat?

 

[sixtyneedles]

There was a guy playing the ns Eub last night at a pub and it sounded realy awsome and he said the trasition from fretlles wasnt that bad
The neck was a bit on the thick side though imo

 

[Kwesi]

Bass and upright are two totally different instruments. That's like asking whether you should get a clarinet or a trumpet.

They really don't sound all that alike, and they certainly don't play with the same techinique.

Pretty much.