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Status with a BendWell will be a 32" scale and lots of them have 16.5 mm strings spacing at the bridge. The Fender Stu Hamm was 32" scale too, but with standard strings spacing. My Alpher was 33" scale with 16.5 mm strings spacing. ACG or any other real luthier can make you wathever you might want. I recognise that those medium scale basses are a delight to play.

You are right, Trash Metal like Heavy Metal was awful in the 80's : certainly the worst recordings ever, absolutely crap sounding, totally lacking inspiration and, even worst, dressed like sissies. And I was more on the metal side in the early eighties than on the jazz scene.

Or simply use your fretless the way it's built :

Or the Neuser Fretless System aka NFS :

Try this, the Mikey convertible basses :

After having owned truckloads of Fender's, I can't simply play on these planks. That's the problem when you've played some real luthiers basses. Sad news, but awfully true.

Rush terrific XYZ

This because punks hated them so much without reason, except the fact they were really talented and gifted. The yes Drama album is under rated and one of their best with Trevor Horn singing, playing fretless bass, composing and producing. The 3 wonderful pieces.

@dannybuoy USPS as I wrote.

Don't forget Religion I-II :

P.I.L. debut single was some kind of awful noise. Enjoy.

And another icon of the 80's electro punk scene. Einstürzende Neubauten's Tanz Debil. Specially found for @Barking Spiders

@Happy Jack Ask him to get a quote by USPS, you'll be amazed by the difference. That said, apart from BestBassGear shipping to my wife's sister in France (as it's free over $100 USD and the French customs don't tax the way the Belgian ones do), I don't buy anything anymore in the USA. Period. Oups, bought a second hand Michael Manring / Thonk bass transcriptions book through eBay USA and just received it today without any hassle.

And to me, the best track of the 80's with the best line-up out of their best album, here it goes live and mad. King Crimson's Indiscipline :

Yek yek, not the original version, but an instrumental one, years later, and not even an 80's track as it was released in 79 :

?!?

And I could go on for days, like everyone here, I guess.

Killing Joke with that massive hit :

Talk Talk, of course :

Mick Karn's terrific fretless playing in Japan's I Second That Emotion: And that Pino Palladino sound in Paul Young's Wherever I Lay My Hat :

Very nice !

Neck pickup 100 %, bridge pickup 25 %, tone 25 %, nickel strings and playing on the bridge pickup with a firm strings attack : you should be close. Thanks (that way it's done ).

Almost never use the preamp of my basses. Most of the time when room correction is needed. And my amp is dead flat. That said, mon ami, as the two Jazz Bass pickups have reversed winding and reversed polarity, when they are both used, you get a parallel wired humbucker.

https://www.zikinf.com/annonces/dispannonce.php?annonce=1556286

And was there :