Opinions please, on acoustic fretless basses

[jps]

You could try an Ashbory, small cheap and big sounding!

emac.

Plus, it could stand up by itself with a couple of helium balloons attached to it.

[weemac]

You could try an Ashbory, small cheap and big sounding!

emac.

Plus, it could stand up by itself with a couple of helium balloons attached to it.

They tend to sound like a half inflated balloon.......

I have mine strung with the strings for the U-bass and it has less sustain than the Ashbory strings (if that is possible) but it plays better and by golly does it thump!

emac.

[jps]

To get back on track here , Jason, what sort of upright sound are you looking for? When I had my NS design CR4M I thought it sounded much like an electric bass, similar to my ZON, actually, more so than to an Jdog-house bass.

[jdogric12]

I'm getting my old 92 4003FL FG back soon, so I may just try to make something work with that.

[Ivan3000]

Well, there is a one off Rickoustic somewhere...it has frets though.
Try finding on that fits you, and just do a conversion maybe. Or seize the day and go for an upright.

[jdogric12]

I have an upright. I'm just trying to avoid carrying it on the Metro.

[cassius987]

Upright sound from a fretless Ric is not hard... solo the neck pickup and play over the end of the fingerboard. Don't even need the mute. It's pretty easy. Because Rics have a neck pickup so far back on the scale, I think they do this sound better than a lot of other basses.

This guy appears to be using both pickups with nylon strings and gets a pretty nice fretless sound, that reminds of an upright. If you want a "big" sound, solo that neck pickup, roll of some highs, and call it a day...