Prime_BASS

Can vouch for true oil. I don't like doing too much so literally spent a day or two applying a light light light amount to the back of a neck, steel wooled it down after a few hours. Repeated 3 or 4 times. Feels great.

BB pre-amp from xotic has been on my pedal board for roughly 6 or 7 years. It's my go to, my rock I wouldn't want to go without it. Others have tried and failed to take its place. It's simplicity is it's key(along with a great sound) I like the sansamp stuff don't get me wrong but I find the BB to have a much more useable range of sounds and uses.

Warmoth will make you a P shape body and you can have it routed for two J single coils. Add a P neck and you have a precision feel bass that sounds like a jazz I'm also pretty sure G&L have made or make a bass that's basically precision but has two J single coils in it.

After going passive and never being happy with a stock fender(even us ones) I've been using bitsa basses. Around 3 years now, bar a modulus I recently had. All are a mix of Warmoth parts, some have the same neck on. Always use dimarzio model Js and Ps wired into Klogon looms too. Had fully unique ones, the yellow Jazz the black Jaguar, too copies. The red is a 60's reissue style and my most recent is a Takeshi Ueda signature copy. I'm just deciding on what to get for a spare bass right now too.

Had one, loved it. Would like to try one again. Not many out in the wild though

Try it, if you like it buy it. If not try something else. Ignore what anyone says about anything. Report back your findings.

Right I've had one of these for a while and it's been absolutely fine with how I was using it. Until I started getting this super load very high pitched feedback/squeal. Assuming it was the bass, as it happened right after I changed the body, I've changed the pickup and the electronics. I've then proceeded to check everything! While checking stuff I noticed that while the Suncoasts volume was off and nothing was plugged in it was generating this high pitched whine. Turning up the volume made it louder all the way until it sounds like its oscillating! Same thing happens turning the drive up and down. Playing around I found basically moving any knob up or down makes it worse or quieter, but it's always there! I've tried everything with the power too and it's still there. The only thing I haven't tried is a complete isolated power (batteries). I can obviously set the pedal as such it doesn't feedback while using it but then I wouldn't be using the sound I want it for, and sometimes it will still give me that gnarly high pitched squeal. I'd like to stress that I've used the same settings on it for ages and one day I got this high pitched noise and I've just found out about it's whining yesterday. I've emailed Sales at suncoast but no reply yet. If it is broken, then I have no way to replace it for £350 haha!

At the end of the day this in-store price rise is just bad. Bad for buyers and bad for sellers, especially on an already over choked market lace where people are more likely to buy online for cheaper anyway. Even I've ended my reign of terror at my 32ND bass. But I have brought two cars this year haha. As I understand oil is brought in USD or at least that's the benchmark and that's actually coming down on Monday, where I read a month or so ago it was feared it'd rise to 1.50gbp per litre with in the next year

Was a local shop at the weekend with the drummer and he was picking up some Zildian cymbals and the clerk said that they were going up 30% on Monday. They've had some sort of nod and everything basically is going up one way or another. Stuff from fender all the way to drum stuff I've never heard of. Anyone know why, can't just be inflation at that increase.

So you brought this? I have an xotic BB and a guitar one on my board and I can say without a shadow of a doubt that they don't have the same bass response. Even more so when you have a lot of gain on either. I'm not sure about the bass one being brighter either. I'd say definitely more open on both the top and bottom. I agree that the guitar one is very muddy though, glad I got the mid eq version to turn them down a touch. For my regular tone; Bass BB - Vol 10 (o clock) Gain 10 Bass 3 Treb 1.5 Guitar one Vol 10 Gain 10 Bass maxed Treb 12 Mid 9 (o clock) They sound similar and behave similar, great touch sensitivity etc, however the guitar one is clearly voiced more for guitar purposes and I wouldn't choose it on its own for bass, where the bass BB sounds great on either bass or guitar.

[quote name='geoffbyrne' timestamp='1468498533' post='3091328'] DiMarzio Model 'J' is pretty much a 'straight' P pickup (i.e. two coils side by side in series). You could try that in the neck position - I'm sure someone on here would have one to sell you at a reasonable price. G. [/quote] This... Plus some EQ tweaks you can get a fatter sound. I will say as a avid dimarzio fan that the model J sounds brilliant but does sound different to a Model P

That's a shame but can retort with: Brought a stock body from them, it arrived damaged and offered to replace it or a full refund. Didn't want to send it back so they gave me a partial refund. Been nothing but helpful with me.

Came for the biscuits, but they left a sour taste in my mouth

Warmoth? Fully custom parts, choose all your own hardware, could even pay a tech to stick it together for you with that budget Edit: I did exactly this, cost me around 800/900 all in and put together myself.

Anyone in or around Nottingham have one of these for me to have a go with?

All of this and more is exactly why I don't come on here anymore

Have nothing but positive comments for warmoth products. I've used the same warmth neck on a few builds now and it's solid as anything else.

It's a dimarzio model P. Previous bass had the same model in and never did it. I'll try the old pickup to see if it's that. Definitely something vibrating though as it gets interrupted when the D and G strings move

So new bass build with some old parts into a new body. Old electrics were fine, a nice single volume to Jack job from kIogon, and using a brand new pickup. I was getting the loudest highest pitched feedback I've ever had! Things I've done that has helped; Checked all the copper shielding. Removed springs from pickup height screws. Lowered pickups. Turned treble down. Now I use a boat load of drive which I know will make it worse but not sure what else I can do. It didn't do this before hand and it's definitely the bass that's causing it.