Normally my thumb is on the B for 70% to 80% of my playing and when I'm using the B in the song the MM is standard and works fine for me. The tone of this bass is so great man. Most instruments I play/own have a tone that is more electronics than wood I guess that's why I like Warwick as well as they get closer to my ear as having more of the wood come through the sound of the bass than electronics. But this Warrior is like 70% wood and acoustics of the bass and 30% the insane killer preamp custom built for him by Bartolini...Passive pickups and active preamp 18 volt is ear porn to me!

Hey Sly, I think I already said before the pickup thing is no issue..I use the B mostly for an anchor and the MM is fine for banging away on the B and I have thick wide hands not super long. They have a bunch of different options....They are not cheep though! My 5 is only 8.2 LBs. JD says it's because all of his woods are air dried for 40 -120 years. He only buys way high end killer woods..No CNC machines that I could see it's all hand done. The pickup config I chose is his signature set up. It sounds amazing!

http://warriorbass.com/index.html This is down for right now it's brand new but check it later..

I have tons of pics of woods and the shop and of JD himself leveling my frets and buffing the fretboard out..I'll put them up if you guys want..