FRETLESS

--- This is a made in U.S.A. SLO SUB 5 fretless bass. This needs to be strongly emphasized - it bears no manufacturing relationship to the current line of "Sub" basses from the Sterling by Musicman brand. THIS bass instead was made by the same folks using the same tools and the same designs and same parts as any other American Musicman bass in the early/mid 2000s.

--- Summary: Aside from finish appearance and possibly feel difference due to finish on body and neck, this bass is essentially a Classic Stingray 5 string Fretless 2 band with Alnico magnet and 4-string style pickguard. This was back in the early 2000s long before there was such a thing available!

--- INCREDIBLE instrument.

--- Mine is wine with stock aluminum pickguard - a fairly refined looking instrument. Fairly versatile instrument, amazing to play and record. I play on adding a series/parallel switch to it since as a fretless I tend to play harmonics a fair bit ala Jaco, and the default Stingray parallel pickup setup cancels harmonics noticeably. Series will help a bit. Running hi-beams on it currently, a really nice bright string that has a slightly more polite midrange than my fretted sub's sunbeams gets.