New Gear: The BITE Booster Bass
Austrian custom bass builder BITE Guitars presents another eye-catching customer bass, the BITE Booster Bass.
How the BITE Booster Bass came to be… “This customer wanted his boost badly, and we’re not talking about the funny leaves. It’s the pickup, folks!”
The Booster Bass features a BITE 2x1000mV humbucker, a humbucker splitter and a 3-way rotary selector for humbucking (series) mode – parallel mode – single coil.
BITE quotes their customer, a proud owner of 20+ basses, writing in, “Our drummer said this was the first time he could clearly hear the bass. I love it!! The pickup output is monstrous. Should have put an 11 on the volume knob! Everyone in my band is really impressed with this bass.”
EU price: 1.300€ with digital artwork, incl. VAT, excl. shipping
US price: ca. 1,740$ with US-eligible spraypainted artwork, incl. shipping (VAT not applicable)
The BITE Booster Bass Specs:
- BITE Custom Bass Model: Punch
- Body: Red Alder
- Finish: Black Blast
- Body Art: White Weed
- Pickup: BITE 2x1000mV Humbucker in Neck Postion, Cover White
- Neck: Vintage Tinted Hard Maple
- Nut Width: 38,1 mm
- Fretboard: Vintage Maple & Black Dots
- Nut: Black Graph Tech®
- Pickguard: Black
- Control Knobs: Diamond Domes Chrome
- Neck Plate & Control Plate: Black
- Tuning Machines: Black Y
- Bridge: Chrome
- Strap Buttons: Vintage Black
- Screw Color: Black
- Wiring: Snap Connections
- Strings: D’Addario EXL 170 Nickel Roundwounds
For configuring your own version of this bass, build the basics on bite.guitars/configurator/, then pick your sound option on bite.guitars/sound/.
Interview with Wolfgang Maderthaner of BITE Custom Bass Guitars
