Kumalo’s bassline on The Boy In The Bubble showcases the instrument's unique sonority with particular clarity. As noted engineer Roy Halee remarked in Sound On Sound magazine, “Oh, man – that bassline ...

Numerous DX7 presets were great for house bass, from the faux bass guitar sounds of the fretless bass presets through the ‘hollow’, ‘dark’ digital bass sounds. Due to the fiddly nature of FM synthesis ...

The three musicians previously worked together on Coolwater’s EP, which in retrospect looks like a trial run for Total Blue. Their debut album takes similar sounds and influences—fretless bass ...

Guitars come in all shapes and sizes and with everything from four strings — as in the tenor guitar — to 17, as in Gibson’s Style-U model. Because fretless guitars are, you know, fretless ...

Best for fretless thrills: Squier Classic Vibe '60s Jazz Bass Fretless - £389, Fender Best for five strings: Yamaha BB735A - £1,221, Amazon Best for a short-scale bass: Gretsch G2220B ...