Fretless 6 Recomendations.

I own the predecessor, the V2 fretless, and I absolutely love it and recommend the Brice imports from Rondo.

 

I had a Z6 neckthrough for a while .... nicely built bass, great sound, tons of punch and pretty-looking, too (I had the natural finish), but it was fretted. Can't really comment on how the fretless sounds, but all the components of the bass are identical except for the frets/no frets.

While it didn't matter to me since I leave my action set at a medium height, some players have found it hard to dial the action down low, and I can see where that would be a problem. The bridge (individual saddle tuners), while functional, is one of the areas where they cheaped out on the bass.

Here's a closer pic of the bridge ....




I wouldn't hesitate to buy another one if the need ever arose .......

 

The bridge on the neck through Z does not provide a lot of height adjustment, just a lousy design. Like I said, the bridge is functional but cheaply made. Also, it was a real drag setting the bass up at first. It took a fairly long time to get the intonation set properly, and due to the bridge design, everytime a string was properly intonated it would require a height adjustment which in turn would affect the intonation, and so on and so on.

Once it was properly set up, it held up extremely well, but getting to that point was pretty frustrating. And I have reasonably good experience with setting up basses ..... Just be prepared to spend some time working on it when you first get it. I don't mean to sound so negative about this bass, it's just that the bridge is the weak link in an otherwise very nicely made instrument. If I had kept it I would have eventually switched out the bridge .......

 

http://www.carvin.com/products/guitar.php?ItemNumber=LB76 my fretless six string, i recomend!, greatplayablitily and feel

 

Im gonna recomend the Carvin as well, you can def. find a used one for 800 or less and it'll be a quality instrument with plenty of mwah.

 

Second hand Warwick Corvette fretless? If you're lucky enough to find one.

 

Roscoe!!!!

 

Roscoe! If you want to spend between 1000-2000...for a used.

If you want just to try - Get the Fretless Brice neck-thru - but only if you like a 35 scale. It's starting to kill my hand (getting old I guess).

Carvins are nice, but the choice is either a 34 (anything with a 34 has a floppy B - even the Brice V2, which I also have) or 35 1/2" in scale.

IMHO - fretless is a choice animal - you gotta play em, since it's all in the feel and finger placement (frets are so forgiving).

 

These are pretty hard to come by in this price range (I haven't seen any in recent memory)....although I'd be interested if anyone out there has a line on one!

 

They've made both in the past, sometimes different runs of the same bass had different fretless neck styles!