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Posted at June 27, 2016, 1:22 pm:

I have a Fender P-Bass, and I read up on how to defret it. I played a fretless a while ago, but don't really remember it. So, what are the advantages to a fretless, and why do bassists like them so much?

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Bassists don't.

I personally enjoy fretless for the amount of twiddling it allows you ...

Awesome.

^ You put for finger exactly where you would normally.

If i am not mistaken, to have exact intonation, you wouild have to sto...

I thought you put your finger where the fret would be, or else the not...

Correct.

^ Yeah, but being off a few millimeters isn't going to ruin your tone/...

Not completely.

Okay, thanks a lot guys.

i hate it if i am off when playing my fretless, i can notice the littl...

Try to stay away from Squier.

IMO most squires are solid basses.

You could defret it like Jaco did.

123.

do it, it will sound much better lowsound

Im afriad to though, i really like my tone.

No fret buzz I was thinking of defretting/putting new pups in my P c...

do both, just wait until you get 666 lowsound

Nah man, I wouldn't use that bass.

I'm not sure what to go with as far as pickups go.

i for one like barts, but i don't know much about pups lowsound

nice tone, odd slap tone, slides, quatertones, harmonic slides, uprigh...

aren't you not supposed to slap on fretlesses? i've heard that it can ...

not if it has a layer of epoxy or polyeurothane.

you don't need to slap to damage the neck of a fretless, it justs happ...

If you're using roundwound strings, perhaps.

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