This is one of our all time favourite basses: a Marleaux Consat Fretless Edition 5

Marleaux fretted basses are excellent instruments, but their fretless are truly amazing. Of course they are built with great care and attention, using only the best tonewoods available and twin Bartolini pickups, .You can effortlessly get that ellusive vocal quality that only a good fretless has and that seems to behave almost like a wind instrument, responding beautifully to the player's vibrato.

This is in part due to a clever system to join the neck in a way that no sustain is lost and all the vibrations transmition is kept intact (see ASF picture bellow). Some special routing at the end of the neck seems to further increase the fretless' trademark growl and "mwah".

This bass has a mahogany body and flamed pearwood top. The three piece maple neck sports an impressive Macassar ebony lined fingerboard.

Marleaux's own 3 band active/passive circuit allows you to musically boost or cut specific well chosen frequencies (40Hz, 500Hz, 8kHz). You can boost the Highs full up and get 0 noise, which is plain amazing. Just try to do this on any other bass...

This bass was a custom order for the shop. The idea was to use it as a demo model at the shop to allow every player order their fretless bass down to their specs. We feel that this task has been achieved many times so we have decided to let it go now. It shows a few minor marks, but nothing really remarkable and you get a really nice discount. It was signedby Gerald Marleaux at the back of the neck when it was built, as well as his former mate Tilman Antons.

Marleaux Consat Fretless Edition 5 Special

Body: Dibetou
Top: Flamed pear
Neck: Maple/Mahogany 5 piece
Fingerboard: Ebony (with lines)
Construction: Bolt On
Frets: 24 (fretless)
Pickups: Bartolini Humbucker Custom x2
Electronics: Marleaux Active-Passive
Controls: Volume, Balance, Tone, Bass, Mid, Treble, Active-Passive switch
Scale (inches): 34
More: Custom Order preamp with Passive Tone and stacked Bass + Treble. Used (very little), great condition
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Marleaux Consat Fretless Edition 5 Special
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