A FRETLESS bass guitar for $120 shipped? Glarry Fretless Bass review. Fat Strings Friday Epi #4
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
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Please be advised, the “dots” seem to be where fretted basses would have them.
You best off blotting them out and finding the actual point where these intonation guide-dots belong
Yes I purchase one & am speaking from experience AMA
Agreed. It put me off at the time.
I own a fretless Glarry, and the tuning keys are fine. I have heard that this is a hit or miss issue with their whole product line. But, it is a relatively inexpensive fix, so it is still a good value. The only thing that I changed are the strings. Fretless basses require good flatwound strings.
All in all, I absolutely love mine.
Yep I put Fender flatwounds on my Glarry P bass. Love it
@@CIRCLEOFTONE I've been playing fretless and fretted basses for gigs for nearly 30 years--can you GUESS which brand is among them? Do not knee jerk-subscribe to the "must-have" flatwound hypothesis...but if you prefer a somewhat darker, duller sound, flats R cool. I've used rounds successfully for the entire span; they work just as well if not better (for coaxing that celebrated "mwah"). (I would stay away from "half-rounds" or "semi-rounds" because, for me, they almost felt like sticky sandpaper, if you can imagine what that must feel like.) What leads me to believe that many who automatically insist on flatwounds are applying or parroting, but not specifically stating, a well-known fact that flats wear through the fretboard at MUCH slower rate than rounds.
Furthermore, if I want to create specific tonal spectrums, well I've got a GREAT amp for achieving that effect.
If you're a DIYer, you can follow any number of UA-cam instructional vids about how to apply layers of cyanoacrylate, aka "Superglue," to a worn fretboard and sand/buff/polish them until you achieve a super glossy, pretty much impervious finish. OR, if you don't like committing about a week to this task, at the price, consider ordering a NEW ONE! [:^) Which is what I'm going to do tomorrow. btw, I'm buying one of those "burlywood" basswood models tomorrow!
I got the fretted P-style bass at least 6 months ago, and the tuners are fine so far. I love the strings it has, and plan on buying some more sets for my other (fretted) basses.
@@FenderBassMan I recently bought a lined fretless 5 string (they didn't have any unlined models). It came with roundwound strings, so I was expecting that 'mwahh' I always hear about, but it doesn't do that, the roundwounds aren't smooth enough, so I was disappointed. I can't wait to try flatwounds on it, but I won't waste these strings, so it can wait a few months. My main bass is an unlined Fretless Jazz made in Japan, and I have another unlined fretless. I am so used to fretless, when I play a fretted, it feels weird and slow.
Yes, I know.. 1 guy will bad mouth, and then the next guy will Praise it!🤷🏻♂️ What do Ya do?? To each to his own; I reckon.. I wanna BUY 1!!! Yes! A Glarry Fretless!!
I bought a Glarry 5... but I’ve forgotten the procedure! 😂
I love fretless bass in metal, it just has a texture that is so nice. There is a learning curve with alot of muscle memory involved especially on an unlined fretless if you don't want to autotune the shit out of it and half the time the side markers are wrong anyway. You gotta trust your ear on this one.
Yep. Death used it well.
@@CIRCLEOFTONE thats why i play a fretless as my main instrument tuned to d standard
I agree the odd tone of the fretless makes perfect for metal
Just ordered the one you're playing. Thanks for the demo--it helped decision making a bit easier and with more confidence.
Awesome.
I love your channel !
Thanks man!
For a future "Fat Strings Friday" do an episode on the Dan Lilker S.O.D. bass tone.
Amazing idea.
I’ll second this!
Thanks for the honest review, Owen. Everything sans tuning keys seems pretty nice and the bass sounds good. I upgrade things like that anyway, so a fretless for $120 seems like a pretty great deal. Cheers!
Stuff in my room was rattling too 😂 I thought there was a bee in here with me
It was a murder hornet.
Nice honest review with quality playing.
I hope all is going well with your cariad bach.
Thanks man. All great.
@@CIRCLEOFTONE sweet
Love that mwow sound when get that right attack.
Hey was that a Chris Squire here! I though that I recognize the riff. Nice sound, I want one now!
Nah I was just noodling.
Thanks Owen, enjoyable content 👍.
Asking an important question for fretless beginners:
Are the fretdots at the right place? Like where the tone is intonated proper?
On my Fenix the fretdots are on the places you would expect it on a fretted bass, nearly impossible to intonate right for a fretles beginner.
They just took a neck that was supposed to get fretts and screwed it to a body.
I am fine with this, the old Fenix is a wonderful instrument, but a beginner may be verry confused with that.
Not sure to be honest. I struggled a little to get used to it
@@CIRCLEOFTONE
In the beginning I just held another neck to the one without spots and made signs on the neck of the fretless. For every fret a mark.
So I learned proper intonation (again, had a Squier Jazz fl in the '80's), until the handmade markers were wiped off by my hand.
To be honest, I had to refreshed the marks some times until I was able to use the bass in live situations.
Highly skilled players don't need fretmarks or -spots. But I for myself needed the spots about the first few month.
Btw., MusicMan adds fretlines on their fretless basses.
Often on a fretless with no lines, the dots are placed where the fret would be (where the note is). On a lined fretless neck, the face or side dots are typically where you’d find them on a fretted neck and the lines replace the frets.
There are different models and manufacturers that do it differently, but I’ve found the above observation to be by far the most common.
Then of course there are models with no marks of any kind. If you have one of those, I’d recommend putting a strip of tape along the back of the neck in at least a few positions (maybe 5th fret, 9th fret, 12th fret?) to at least get you in the ballpark. Use a tuner to help you get close.
Other fretless beginner tips: GOOD FORM. Keep your fingers curved, wrist under a bit more, so your fingertips are hitting dead on at right angles to the string path. That will help with note definition and intonation. And most importantly, stick with it. Autotuned (fretted) basses can’t mwah. You know you need more mwah in your life.
@@Terrible_Peril great info. I may need to re position the markers on this one.
@@kongandbasses8732 What you can do is take a small drill bit and drill into the side dots, then use a screw to pull them out, and fill in the holes with wood filler (you want a color similar to the wood of your neck). Then take it to a tech, have them intonate it and mark the new dot positions with a pencil. Then you can simply make new dots for cheap with a black marker or phosphorescent paint. The advantage of the paint is you can see the markers in the dark when you are gigging. Playing with good technique helps intonation a lot, but it's still nice to have the option of seeing where the frets would be on occasion.
Had to get one on Reverb...already have a Harley Benton fretless.
Just ignore the fret markers. They are in the wrong place haha.
Nice video, sir. Aren't the single coil pickups noisy or properly grounded ?
I was watching this video, and the ad that interrupted the video was for a Fender Squier bass. It didn't sound near as good as this Glarry! Lol.
Having played fretless bass for over forty years I can tell you the side dot markers are in the wrong place. In the higher register the strings buzz like mad. You will need to level the upper register of the fretboard or live with the buzz (this is NOT mwah or growl, it's tone/volume killing buzz). That being said if you can fix the side markers and level the fretboard it's good for the price.
Yep good info. It messed me up but it's fixable.
Thanks for the warning.
This is going to be my next purchase,my only thing about these GLARRYS I just ,well I'm figuring it out now,I swapped the pickups of my 5 string,it sounds great with the Wilkinson pickups I put in,only problem is,their both on full,the front pot quit working all together and the rear pickup now functions both pups and it's backwards,I'm guessing it's my error I never wired a jazz before,all I did was attached the negative and posative where I took them off at. Like I said it sounds great though. I'm still sticking to buying a Glarry now is an investment like buying a fender in the 60s,call me crazy all you want on that one
Haha. Yep I don't think Glarry is sustainable long term. My Glarry strat keeps tune better than all of my other strats including my Japanese one.
@@CIRCLEOFTONE we'll see,I'm sticking to my guns,I'm sure when Leo put out the P bass,there where people saying it wouldn't last ,look at them now. Glarry is definitely up to something,, I won't be surprised if in the next year or so we don't start seeing Glarry "standard" models or Glarry "vintage". Their definitely up to something,in that Glarry factory
Ngl i would play the g string while going up and down the neck as fast as i can
Hehe
Lemme is God.. Killed by death.. ace of spades. Some other ideas when you get the stand up bass.
Why you bending strings on a fretless??
Because I'm fkn amazing.
I love ❤️ the Glarry Fretless Bass!!!
P.S. It is not a rosewood fretboard but some type of composite.
looks like the strings are roudwound hard to slide on a fretless??
I may buy one of these and beef it up just for fun. For the price, it can only become better with some minor modifications. Plus I like to tinker and I’d rather mess with a dirt cheap bass over one of my expensive ones.
Fat strings Friday
Impressive !
Are the side dots located where you should place your finger or are they located where they would be on a fretted? I have heard conflicting answers.
They are where the frets should be
@@CIRCLEOFTONE I bought one. I have a Fender aftermarket bridge and Wilkinson tuners laying around.
My biggest regret was buying a five string fretless. Never used the low B. 4 is the way to go.
A 5 string fretless is a usefull instrument. You are able to find patterns that are easy to use, especially when you are able to use, lets say, low C or D.
I play 5 string basses 80% of the time, and I would love to have a 5 string fretless.
@@kongandbasses8732 You just named the two notes that it's useful for. Not worth the extra string in my opinion. I think I'd rather go the other way and have a high C on it.
@@alanredversangel
So lets mention the low B. ;) Actually there are 4 half steps below the E. And a 5 string is usefull for all of them. Even if you play a song in E you are able to play a walking or cromatic line up to your E. You are able to use 3rd, 4th and 5th under your main note.
5 - bangers are useful, trust me. So is the G on the 8th fret of a fiver much fatter and much more mighty as the G on the 3rd fret of the E string.
But I recommend my students to tune down a 4 string to B for checking out, if low tunings are any good for them, and not buying a instrument that ends as a wallhanger.
My first experiences with the low B have been on my Warwick Streamer stage I. It sounded so good and felt so right that I bought a 5 string bass shortly after.
Sounds like it comes equipped with round-wound strings.....does it, or do they do the proper and string it with Flats?
@1:23 is that chrono trigger?
the problem i have as an actual Fretless player you don't play fretless with a pick and secondly you don't play fretless like a guitar the mistake guitarist make when they play bass
Tell that to Carles Benavent.
I think Tony Franklin would also disagree with you.
dont use a plec on a fretless it defeats the job
You sound like a bass forum bot.
Dude sounds like he’s got a Glamorgan accent with hints of living in the states. Shwmae butt
Spot on
What cams don you use. Asking for a friend that is having bad luck with budget action cams to make vids. What editing software is a good free intuaribe one. This is for a friend not me. Thinking of going for the fo pro i black on sale for 300 or the 7 for like 250. Used ones in my friends area are as much as new
D7500 but that's getting old. Also a D3500 and an old gopro hero 4
I love that t-shirt...made me chuckle..thank you
Hehe
It looks like it has a string spacing issue too.
Nah thats a lens/perspective thing. Watch the angle from the initial shots then watch the headstock cam. The headstock cam is more fisheye so it looks like a bigger gap. The nut is trash though/soft plastic. I think the markers on the side don't account for frets too in retrospect.
Only if they shipped to australia?
Yeah that sucks.
Try warmoth.com, you can build your own fretless and the possibilities are endless.
Other than that, get a cheap bass from Cash Converters and pull the frets out. Get some filler from Bunnings and sand it down.
@@johnmoyle4195 thanks man sounds like a promising idea
They ship to Australia now.
unrelated.. will you ever be covering the tones of neurosis ?
I doubt it. I kinda have to sell out, but if you ask in the Circle of Tone group I think they talked about it already.
Do the ITP death bass tone, on the original mix it was massive and wanky as fuck
What is the intonation like on it?
Okayish. The screws need to be a bit longer to be perfect.
Like your EARs, man...
Why are you playing with a pick?
Because I'm smarter than a bass player ua-cam.com/video/ou094O_2NX0/v-deo.html
That bass actually sounds great considering the price. Beside, you can always upgrade it if you want to (pickups, nut and so on). Seems like a bargain.
Yep it's a modders dream.
@@CIRCLEOFTONE that actually sounded like sarcasm coming from you :'D
Really? This I gotta see..
BATHORY BASS TONE PLS!!!
what is this rock on a fletless with a pick...NO worst fretless video in life!!@@
Ey... You spent too much time in bass forum land man. They will lead you astray and put you in a box. Watch this and tell me I'm wrong? ua-cam.com/video/ou094O_2NX0/v-deo.html
will never understand why people play bass with a pick it completely takes away from the who upright bass things and it sounds horrible
Haha. Fkn bass drones believe all the bass forum talking points. Tell me... Do you ever have any thoughts of your own? Or do you just spew forum myths? ua-cam.com/video/ou094O_2NX0/v-deo.html
Correct in most instances