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I absolutely love the sound and feeling of my fretless bass. It was as I suspected, playing fretless is for me. To expose me as much as possible, I decided to play everything with the fretless for a while. That means biting rock, funk, blues and soft ballads. The only thing that is excluded is slapping. I realize that my Warwick Streamer LX is better suited for rock, but the fretless can bite you also. You can create the “mwah”, the typical fretless sound, when you want it and avoid it at other times. It is all in your fingers.

For maximum “mwah” you should have a low string height. On the other hand, if you want to avoid it at times, the height should not be to low. Regarding your playing technique, you get more “mwah” when you play on your pads instead of on your fingertips. If you slide up just a tiny bit to the correct pitch the effect is increased. What we call the “mwah” is really a change of the timbre, the color of the sound as it develops. The amplitude of the harmonics change from the start to the end of the tone. Your fingers has much to do with it. Wow, a naked tone can express so much.