NFBD New Fretless (Sixer) Bass Day

I’m very happy with this SRF706! It manages to sound huge through the little Ibanez Troubador amp in my front room. Can’t wait to take it up to the studio and out on a gig.

This is the right sixer for me. My Tune was too widely spaced and my MIJ SR 886 didn’t quite have the tones I wanted. This is also my first fretless (DB notwithstanding) that wasn’t a defret and the difference is clear.



Ajihad. This Bass case was immediately Azi approved.

 

I have a sort of roughly defretted Korean Ibanez EX404 and it has a punchy expressiveness that I LOVE. My 1977 Silver series Jazz has the slightest roughness at the lines. It plays great and I get all kinds of compliments.

They have a more raw tone because of the tiny variation in smoothness. I could correct it of course. But this pristine board invites different playing style. I want to do some expressive modern prog type reverb/delay sweetened work with this… it just invites that refinement.

But I rock out with my other less refined fretless basses and love them.

My EX404

My Silver Series Jazz

 

Thanks man. That first album was a “oh crap the gig got cancelled for rain, let’s livestream a set and stick a zoom in the room and record it” It came out pretty ok. That bass was $80!

 

The fretless sound really suits work on that high C string.

My previous sixes:

 

Yes! It’s a very musical bass at various settings of the pickups and tone controls.

The “just can’t put it down” feeling is my experience too!