Fretted, fretless, double bass ... to get that natural distortion – and Stewart's drums. But I hate the sound of a bass guitar coming through headphones – it sounds like a mechanical fart.

If you were going to put one effect on your fretless bass in the 80s ... If you’re after slap bass, Apple provide a tutorial for creating a slap sound using Logic Pro X’s Sculpture modelling ...

From Kumalo's perspective, fretless bass is all about tone first. “The first step, before you play a lot of fancy licks, is ...

The sound is simple, but it’s easy to see why it’s a popular ... Numerous DX7 presets were great for house bass, from the faux bass guitar sounds of the fretless bass presets through the ‘hollow’, ...

Franciosi does a spectacular job with the solo and demonstrates how amazingly fluid a fretless guitar can sound in the hands of a guitarist who knows what he’s doing. If you want to know more ...

Decked out in wind synths and fretless bass, the L.A. trio’s debut album ... Back in its heyday, this was an expensive sound to create; Total Blue pay tribute to those studio bills of yore ...