DAN AGOSTO: Hi. I’m Dan Agosto for Gearwire.Com, and we’re checking out the Fender Deluxe Fretless Jazz Bass. And as you can see, this has a really nice color combination that I like it. This is black with the brown pickguard. Some of the things that makes this a deluxe bass, other than just a regular fretless bass is the EQ controls. It’s a three-band active EQ. This first knob up here is just a volume.

[DAN AGOSTO TWEAKING THE VOLUME KNOB ON THE FENDER DELUXE FRETLESS JAZZ BASS]

The second knob over here is actually a crossfader between the two pickups. If I’m over here, I’m just using the neck pickup.

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Play that with a pick a little bit...

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...and in the middle we’re using both pickups...

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...and over here, just the bridge pickup.

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And let’s play that with fingers really quick.

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All right. I’m going to go back to the center so we’re playing with both these pickups, and we’ll check out our EQ. First of all, this is a stack knob over here. This is our treble. All the way up, this is how it sounds.

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Not really doing too much with the fingers. We can hear some more noise of course but...

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...you can definitely hear it more with the pick. I’m going to turn that treble back down and actually bring it down even further.

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As you can see, since it’s a fretless bass, I’m not always hitting every note exactly in tune. I’m not really a fretless player but it’s really actually not that hard to switch to a fretless bass of this quality, so that was the sound with the treble all the way down. Let’s turn it back the middle and check out our bass boost. Boost that up there.

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All right. Bring that back down. I’m going to bring that all the way down.

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All right, and the we also have a mid frequency boost. I’m going to bring that up.

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So that adds a little bit more knock, almost makes it sound a lot more like that Rickenbacker bass that we did in the last video. We’ll bring that down.

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This gives it a very hollow sound.

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All right. So, a few other features on this bass that makes it a deluxe bass, we have the bridge over here is chrome bridge and the pickups are actually samarium cobalt. They’re called noiseless jazz pickups. They’re pretty noiseless. They’re very quiet right now. The only time we really heard a good amount of noise was when we turned treble all the way up, and that’s to be expected anyway.

So, that’s the Fender Deluxe Fretless Jazz Bass, and thanks for checking it out here at Gearwire.Com.