Originally Posted by: PonyOnethat's the other way i'd go. the only bass i ever owned was fretless and it was cool, but, it lacked some of the sharpness of a fretted instrument (which may have just been my ineptitude).

You pretty much have to work with it -- my solution was to put flatwounds on mine so as to get maximum "thump" out of the thing.

That said, you can still get plenty of attack but you need a good EQ and you need to be fretting very cleanly with your fretting hand.