Welcome to the power- and colorful world of BITE premium customization features!
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CONFIGURATOR - BELLS & WHISTLES - SHOP:
WHAT IS WHAT ON BITE.GUITARS?
Our CONFIGURATOR serves you the world's most popular bass choices as conveniently as possible. You enjoy immediate ordering: build your bass online, add it to the cart and proceed through checkout. Over a billion different basses - in and out in 3 minutes. You also enjoy prices way below market standards, worldwide delivery as well as short delivery times, your custom bass will generally arrive at your doorstep within a few weeks. How can we make all of this happen?
We have developed a special production process. This process allows us to fulfill also a range of premium wishes. They may need a bit of interaction between you and us for precise specification, and we cannot stuff all of those bells & whistles into our configurator. That's why we serve them here in, well, BELLS & WHISTLES. As your premium wishes generally will require extra work on our part, you'll find non-exhaustive lists of upcharges below. Stated prices are indicative and can vary depending on the amount of work required. We always try to give you the best pricing packages.
Finally, our SHOP has a number of preconfigured basses on offer, either premium builds, rebuild proposals or ready-made basses.
HOW TO ORDER BELLS & WHISTLES
- Build your bass in the CONFIGURATOR as far as available options allow, then hit ASK US A QUESTION.
- Tell us your premium wishes either in the ASK US A QUESTION form or send us a mail to hello@bite.guitars. We'll get back to you to make sure everyone has a clear understanding of specifications and pricing.
- We will send you a non-binding proforma invoice listing all specifications, shipping details and payment instructions for your approval. BELLS & WHISTLES payment options comprise bank transfer, VISA, Master and Sofort/Klarna. For bank transfer payments from outside the Euro Area, we recommend Transferwise (pay to hello@bite.guitars). They grant the most favorable exchange rate and fees are next to nothing.
- Once we have received your payment, your order will be confirmed and we'll set to work.
Prices include 20% VAT. For orders from outside the EU, export prices without VAT apply. To obtain your export price, simply divide our EU price by 6, then multiply with 5. Fell free to divide immedately by 1,2 if you're mathematically well versed.
348 SOUND CONFIGURATIONS
- BITE 1000mV split coil (P). We can arrange P pickups either in traditional or reverse order (DG coil closer to the neck). If not specified otherwise, we'll assume you want your P the traditional way (DG coil closer to the bridge).
- BITE 1000mV single coil (J), 92mm length in the neck position, 95mm length in the bridge position.
- BITE 2x1000mV humbucker (H), 92mm length in the neck position, 95mm length in the bridge position.
- Pickups
- Standard pickup covers, available in BITE branded orange-white, plain white and plain black.
- Routing, drilling and shielding work for pickups and additional control slots.
- Pickguard routing
- Additional potentiometers and switches
- Additional knobs: We're not gonna beancount. We'll try to match the knobs of any additional control slot with your underlying bass configuration.
- Side-mounted output jack including jack plate: We can position any additional control slot on the face of your bass (pickguard/control plate) or clear one slot by moving the output jack to the side of the body (lower bout) where we'll seat it in a jack plate of matching hardware color.
- Switch rings: Our standard switch rings are 3-ply with white writing on black or vice versa. If you want individual wordings, we can write pretty much everything that fits into the space. If you want individual colors, we can source 50 different color combinations including wood and metal imitations. Pricing for individual wording & colors varies depending on your request.
- The Dragon features 7 pickup configurations including the mighty JJ and PJ series circuits.
- The Steampunk sports a whopping 11 pickup configurations by adding another 4 out-of-phase circuits.
- The Sound Monster even tops the Steampunk by adding a bassmute, resulting in a whopping 22 sound configurations without anyone even getting near the tone knob.
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3 PU-Circuit Combinations Available | Circuit Name Controls |
Neck PU | PB
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P | standard |
J replacing P | € 0 |
H replacing P | € 165 (€ 137,50 excl. VAT) |
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45 PU-Circuit Combinations Available | Circuit Name Controls | ||||
2 Neck PUs (9 PU Configurations Available) | JB Parallel
| Balance Parallel
| 3-Way Parallel
| 3-Way Series
| 4-Way Parallel/Series
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PJ / JP / PP / JJ | € 195 (€ 162,50 excl. VAT) | ||||
PH / HP / JH / HJ | € 330 (€ 275 excl. VAT) | ||||
HH | € 495 (€ 412,50 excl. VAT) |
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45 PU-Circuit Combinations Available | Circuit Name Controls | ||||
1 Neck PU + | JB Parallel
| Balance Parallel
| 3-Way Parallel
| 3-Way Series
| 4-Way Parallel/Series
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PJ / JP / PP / JJ | € 255 (€ 212,50 excl. VAT) | ||||
PH / HP / JH / HJ | € 390 (€ 325 excl. VAT) | ||||
HH | € 555 (€ 462,50 excl. VAT) |
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135 PU-Curcuit Combinations Available | Circuit Name Controls | ||||
2 Neck PUs + | JB Parallel
| Balance Parallel
| 3-Way Parallel
| 3-Way Series
| 4-Way Parallel/Series
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PJP / JPP / PPP / JJP / PJJ / JPJ / PPJ / JJJ | € 450 (€ 375 excl. VAT) | ||||
PHP / HPP / JHP / HJP / PHJ / HPJ / JHJ / HJJ / PJH / JPH / PPH / JJH | € 585 (€ 487,50 excl. VAT) | ||||
HHP / HHJ / PHH / JHH / HPH / HJH | € 750 (€ 625 excl. VAT) | ||||
HHH | € 885 (€ 737,50 excl. VAT) |
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30 PU-Circuit Combinations Available | Circuit Name Controls | ||||
1 Neck PU + 1 Bridge PU (6 PU Configurations Available) | JB Parallel
| Balance Parallel
| 3-Way Parallel
| 3-Way Series
| 4-Way Parallel/Series
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JJ / PJ | standard | € 60 (€ 50) | € 60 (€ 50) | € 60 (€ 50) | € 60 (€ 50) |
HJ | € 165 (€ 137,50 excl. VAT) | ||||
PH / JH | € 225 (€ 187,50 excl. VAT) | ||||
HH | € 390 (€ 325 excl. VAT) | ||||
PP / JP / HP | not available |
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90 PU-Circuit Combinations Available | Circuit Name Controls | ||||
2 Neck PUs + | JB Parallel
| Balance Parallel
| 3-Way Parallel
| 3-Way Series
| 4-Way Parallel/Series
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PPJ / PJJ / JPJ / JJJ | € 195 (€ 162,50 excl. VAT) | ||||
PHJ / JHJ / HPJ / HJJ | € 330 (€ 275,50 excl. VAT) | ||||
HHJ | € 495 (€ 412,50 excl. VAT) | ||||
PPH / PJH / JPH / JJH | € 420 (€ 350 excl. VAT) | ||||
PHH / JHH / HPH / HJH | € 555 (€ 462,50 excl. VAT) | ||||
HHH | € 720 (€ 600 excl. VAT) | ||||
P in bridge position | not available |
ARTWORK
Here we're talking about an endless sea of possibilities. Our digital techniques span printing, lasering, inlays, decals and textile wrapping, as well as spray painting with stencils. We also offer highly artistic spray painting by hand which takes years of training.
Each of our artwork techniques has its own possibilities and restrictions but, roughly speaking, we can say this:
- We can apply pretty much any custom design in high-resolution photo quality.
- We can embellish body, pickguard and pickups, often seamlessly across all levels.
- Those underlying surfaces can be of any available color, not just white.
- Some techniques work only on the top surface, while others can be applied all around your bass, in 360 degrees.
- If you have some vague design idea but don't quite know where to start, talk to us. It's easier than you think.
- Another good place to start on your ultimate individual bass design are stock providers of graphics and images, such as dreamstime or shutterstock.
- In many cases it will be quite easy for us to alter such motifs so that they suit your purpose.
- In many cases we can work with both, image files (such as jpg or png) or vector files (such as pdf, ai or eps).
Pricing largely depends on the amount of work we need to put in, we give you some rough ranges below.
Artwork | ||
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Description | EU price (incl. VAT) | Export price (excl. VAT) |
Body only | € 100 - € 200 | € 83 - 167 |
Pickguard only | € 98,00 | € 81,67 |
Pickup(s) only | € 98,00 | € 81,67 |
Body + pickguard | € 150 - 300 | € 125 - 250 |
Body + pickup(s) | € 150 - 300 | € 125 - 250 |
Body + pickguard + pickup(s) | € 180 - 380 | € 150 - 317 |
NECK PLATE ENGRAVING
We can engrave subjects like your scanned signature or pretty much any other design. Just ask us, we are happy to give you instructions.
Neck Plate Engraving | ||
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Description | EU price (incl. VAT) | Export price (excl. VAT) |
Custom neck plate | € 38,00 | € 31,67 |