Fretless FNA Jazzman setting up problems

[GreeneKing]

For a fair while know I've owned an absolutely gorgeous mint Warwick FNA Jazzman fretless:



Now I consider myself pretty good at setting up normal basses, neck relief, action, intonation etc. but I've always struggled with fretless basses for some reason. Oh I can get it to play fine with good action but the Mwaaaah factor is elusive across all the strings except the D in a small range of the neck. You can see btw that the intonation has probably never been set on this bass

I presently have the FNA set up with a very small amount of neck relief and a fairly low action. I've tried raising and lowering the action as well as subtly altering the relief and it's not sounding like I desire. I've tried all combinations and I don't think the strings are 'choking' along the board.

I've TI Jazz flats on it and I'm about to try rounds (ebony board) unless anyone can offer a better idea or three.

Otherwise - Does anyone have a FNA Fretted neck they want to trade?

Peter

[El_JimBob]

The TI's won't give great 'mwah' - generally i don't think the sound is inherent in flats. I use halfrounds on my (rosewood board) fretless and they give much better results without the risk of too much fingerboard wear. Given that yours is ebony, give a set of nickel rounds a try....