Music Man StingRay 4 Fretless

I paid about $800 for a clean used
bass at Parkway in Clifton Park, NY.

I saw it and it said "Play me".
I played it and it said "Take me home."

It's very solid, comfortable, and
has a very fretless sound to it.
I keep the action pretty low, which
increases the amount of whine and
also makes it so comfy to play. It
speaks well of the quality of the
bass that I can set the action that
low and not turn the whine into a
ruinous rattling buzz.

The controls are very simple. It
also *looks* very simple. Mine is
a plain clear finish and unlined
fretless board. I think the funk-
oriented "StingRay Sound" emphasises
the same frequencies that support
the whine of a fretless. I'm not a
slapper-popper and don't think that
I'd want a fretted version of this
same bass.

Our guitar-and-fiddle player heard
this bass and declared that if he had
one, he'd give up guitar, fiddle, and
mandolin and just play all bass. BTW,
I don't do special tricky sounds and
I'm no virtuoso. This bass just sings.

Like many great-sounding well-built
basses, it's not light. Be aware that
it's not a "24 fret" neck [ok fretless].
This bothers me less than on a fretted
because my intonation skill up there is
not very good, but I wish it were the
longer scale so I could learn to work
on my higher intonation.

I wish it had a second pick-up, just to
make it more versatile even though it's
already got a beautiful singing voice.

This is a solid a bass as you
will ever encounter. The neck
is not laminated, so only time
will tell about its stability

MODEL This is a continuation of the stringray SERIES mapleneck frets.
Except that it is fretless, Obviously.
The bridge is home, ditto the mic and the two are massive.
The most active filter rglage volume low needle.
The Tone of CONTRL is effective, it does not "gum" not sound. Personally, I RULES two position three quarts and then I module.

UTILIZATION

The wooden handle is excellent, the handle too broad and rather short (practical must be prcis the top of the handle when you play fretless, the false note comes quickly!).

The freight line of the handle are included and what is not a luxury: it is not always well trs sleeve when playing at the top of the handle, unlike when you play the bass.

And snobbery of the handle is not repre (like any snobbery) inflated.

CHAC at the bottom of the handle is normal, the ergonomics, the normal weight.

SOUNDS

It does not sound like a Fender Jazz bass dfrette, because it sounds fuller, "boisquot, and" mdium top "but with very large bass.
It sounds really approaching a double bass.
A particular feature unique to fretless and exploitable trs, trs it sounds "shrill and hard" when you play right hand on the handle (if your right handed). Quite the opposite of a lower fret. With a saturation derrire, sounds quite a "trash" kind Pastorius in concert.

OVERALL OPINION

Low comparable anthology of jazz bass.
practical design, it has a trs strong color, especially in the bass and provides a wide range of sound.