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I've had this a lot on fretless basses and I've found fret buzz noise on a fretless is way more common than on a fretted bass for some bizarre reason. So the things I would check are the following. 1. Neck relief. With your left hand, press down the string at fret 1. With your right hand, press down with your thumb around fret 16 and stretch you fingers up to as close to the 7th fret and tap on the string to see how much gap there is to the string and the neck. It should be about a business card. If theres not then you need to adjust the neck relief. If you're not confident doing this then don't and leave it to an expert. 2. Neck grooves or dents. Run your fingers over the entire fretboard and feel for any imperfections, grooves, ruts, mark's etc. If you feel any then get some Martin Cox 0000 steel wool and Howard Feed and Wax Orange Bees Wax and Orange oil and rub the neck to smooth it out, wipe it down with a damp cloth and then coat in the Bees wax. Let it soak for an hour or two and then wipe off. I do this to my necks on a regular basis and they come up super smooth and shiny. This is what Tony Franklin does to his fretless necks. 3. Bridge. Try just raising the buzzing string at the saddle to see if this cures your buzzing. 4. Neck Plate. Looses the bolts holding the neck a little and make sure the neck is seated in the pocket correctly. Check the E and G strings are evenly spaced to the edge of the neck and then tighten the neck back up. 5. Loose Scress. Check all scress are tight on the scratchplate, string the, tuners, bridge, strap pins etc. 6. Shake it. Give the bass a gentle shake to see if you can hear anything rattling. I had a bass once that buzzed and it was the truss rod vibrating. 7. Nut. Looses the strings and re-position then in the nut. I'd even go as far as re-stringing the bass just to eliminate that possibility. If still no good, then take it to someone professional to have a look and set up.

It helps I have a friend who runs a backline business! Trying to get him to get one of the handmade Hiwatt heads in!! it was his place I fell in love with GK amps after trying out the frankly terrifying 2001rb.

When we tried it the B15 setting sounded lovely and smooth and the SVT more gritty but you can dial in the amount of each feel you want. Against a real SVT i thought it did a really good job. I wasn’t expecting much after disliking a Portaflex I tried once but I walked away very impressed.

Open G? If raising the saddle a knats don't cure it, try a bit of paper in the nut slot - low nut..

Interesting. I don't have much opportunity to try stuff in real life nowadays.

Thanks will give it that a try

Nerves are about audiences and this audience is going to be 120% behind you. It’ll be an amazing experience 👍

It's got the SGT circuit, with SVT and B-15 voicings. Supposedly sounds quite authentic - it has no valves, but that's not a big problem these days. I've not had the chance to try it firsthand yet though.

Hi, @PaulThePlug, thanks for the reply. Wiring is all factory standard apart from whatever came with the pickups.

That is a pretty stunning looking bass

Spot on bro. I can live with a ‘very good’ Warmoth for that money, but I want ‘outstanding’ for Lull & CS money. My mate has a CS that’s a belter, mine is very sweet too, but it does feel like a lottery… Glad I’m sorted!

Hey, @jonno1981, thanks for the reply and, yes. It's the J pickup at the bridge. Buzz starts at 50% blend and increases as I go all the way over to the J. It sounds like a cut and boost. Both dials at are 50% in the recording. Boosting bass and cutting treble reduces the buzz.

At 3-4k luck should not come into it though. I know that if I buy a mid-top range Warmoth neck and body, a Lindy Fralin PUP, a @KiOgon circuit, Gotoh hardware and spend some time on setup - £1000 in total including import duty - I'll get a great Precision bass 95% of the time. Frankly I find it f***ing amazing that with Fender costing 3-4x more it's still a 50% chance at best....

I disagreed with a decision to slow a song down to half speed. Said the other two were “mad if they saw that as an improvement of any sort”. Was uninvited to rehearsal that week. Then came the “we’re not sure you’re the right fit for this project, no reflection on your playing etc” - so I was really mature about it as a 40 year old bloke with approximately 30 years playing experience. Told them they’d wasted my time, and they could f*** off… And blocked them on all platforms. Because I’m a child. Incidentally heard a snippet of one of their recordings. Boring turd of a track so…

Presume wired parallel, I wonder if turning the J round would help... I'm a Passive Ibby Fan with 4 SRs Toneriders shouldn't need help in the Tone Department from a cheap pre. Quality VBT Loom?

Then Sklar had best stop bullshitting.............. “It was put together by John Carruthers in 1973 with a Charvel alder P-Bass body I handpicked for resonance, a maple ’62 P-Bass neck I had that John reshaped to Jazz Bass dimensions, first-generation EMG-P pickups mounted in Jazz Bass position and flipped upside-down—which provided a more even sound—one of the first Hip- Shot D-Tuners, and a Badass bridge. In shaping the neck, John had to remove the frets. I saw some mandolin fret wire hanging in his shop and convinced him to try it, and we were thrilled with the results. It seemed to fit my style of using glissandos, and I had gotten tired of listening to railroad tracks clicking away; with a lightened touch it enables me to get an almost fretless sound.” But yeah, youre quite right - as ever, it's mostly in the fingers