What do you play? (poll)

[misterCRUSH]

Just curious, I am an all fretless player.

 

[P. Aaron]

New to fretless. Sorting out my garbage parts fretless Jazz Bass.

 

[bholder]

Both, slightly prefer fretless, voted 50/50, really more like 60/40...

 

[Killing Floor]

Fretless , fretted, guitar, baritone, violin...

 

[jd56hawk]

No real need for fretless for me.
Tried out a nice Fender fretless a few years back, but...

 

[Nephilymbass]

Mainly play fretted. Almost 40 years old and have been playing 27 years. I more recently got into fretless basses. Have so far owned a fender Mexican jazz and sterling by musicman ray 34cafl that were fretless. They were fun but I’m really a 5 string guy and would prefer a fretless 5er. I could see fretless becoming my main thing eventually if I found the right one. I really do enjoy them. And love how they sound in a variety of music. They sound great in everything from little duos with an acoustic guitar to metal bands. For example I’m a big fan of these guys.

 

[bassist4dalord]

I had a Squier VM Fretless Jazz for two years and enjoyed the feel and sound of it. I ultimately ended up trading it towards an Ibanez Roadstar II RB630 (P-Bass) and haven’t looked back.

It got to the point where I wasn’t enjoying playing the Fretless because I was always so worried about left hand finger placement. Now I don’t worry so much.

 

[CallMeAl]

Electric bass is all fretted. I used to own a DB, and would like to get one again someday. So even though I’m currently “all fretted”, in the grand scheme I voted “mostly fretted”.

 

[FrenchBassQC]

All fretted for me, I used to play a fretless before I took a 18 years hiatus. When I got back at it after I had all of my basses stolen from a break and entry, I got new basses and they were all fretted... Since this, I only purchased fretted ones.