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weemac wrote: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.

jps wrote:

weemac wrote: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.

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.

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

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.

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

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...