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That's a really lovely bass. The only thing I would bare in mind if you use a tuner to try to work on intonation don't let yourself get too lost in trying to keep the needle in the middle. Especially if it's a clip on tuner most of them jump around a bit especially on the low strings. It's fretless and assuming you have it dialed in close as possible already I would encourage you to keep an ear out for how you harmonize with bass tracks as you play along and get your feel that way. I'm playing a fretless 5 string too and I can stay in tune pretty close especially on root notes where my muscle memory is gotten used to where I need to be. You have dot markers and I'd imagine just a hair to the right of them is the sweet spot. One thing is I can guarantee that after enough time your ear is going to get a lot better. Your muscle memory in your hands will too. I was looking for a challenge as well as something different from my normal fretted experience and I feel like fretless is making me become better at navigating a bass neck. There's freedom in the fretless and it demands clean playing to sound good and that makes your fretted playing cleaner too. Enjoy the candy and let us know how the playing goes!
 
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That's a really lovely bass. The only thing I would bare in mind if you use a tuner to try to work on intonation don't let yourself get too lost in trying to keep the needle in the middle. Especially if it's a clip on tuner most of them jump around a bit especially on the low strings. It's fretless and assuming you have it dialed in close as possible already I would encourage you to keep an ear out for how you harmonize with bass tracks as you play along and get your feel that way. I'm playing a fretless 5 string too and I can stay in tune pretty close especially on root notes where my muscle memory is gotten used to where I need to be. You have dot markers and I'd imagine just a hair to the right of them is the sweet spot. One thing is I can guarantee that after enough time your ear is going to get a lot better. Your muscle memory in your hands will too. I was looking for a challenge as well as something different from my normal fretted experience and I feel like fretless is making me become better at navigating a bass neck. There's freedom in the fretless and it demands clean playing to sound good and that makes your fretted playing cleaner too. Enjoy the candy and let us know how the playing goes!

Thanks so much for the advice!
 
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Thanks so much for the advice!
You're welcome. We're here for you. There's guys and gals on here that know way more than I do that can answer just about anything. I guess I'll add that if you have a very good tuner or a strobe tuner it could work. Otherwise you'll be either waiting for the needle to register every note and then if you're not confident in your playing you'll be making all these little hesitation moves trying to find the notes especially if you're trying to follow a song. It would be a good idea to go up the neck with the tuner and find where the dots line up vs where the tuner says you're on a note. If you hit the 7th fret and the 7th fret harmonic you can see how close the intonation is. If it's on the note and hitting the string open is on then you're there. If you haven't intonated a bass I'd check out on here or YouTube it. Guys like Mike Tobias, Roger Sadowsky, and Fodera all have videos on intonation. Since it's a fretless you're going to have to find the perfect pitch in your fingers but closer you intonate the easier it'll be. I had to set up mine from nothing. I had a bad bridge I replaced and went through all 5 strings.
 
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I'm sure this has been answered a billion times but the search is failing me. Is it really a problem to string tapes through the body? I'd like to try them but my bass has a fairly severe string break angle through the body
I would probably avoid trying it unless it says specifically that it's ok. Dr strings for instance caution users against through body stringing because of how it stresses the core and the construction around the ball end. None of my basses have that style so I can't remember exactly all the details of what string is ok and which one doesn't work.
 
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