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Let me see your same style bass collections
- Thread starter LadyLoveStingRay5
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No pics (but believe me, it DID happen), but in the 90's and early 'aughts, I owned all three versions of the Yamaha BB5000. The OG 5000, then the 5000A (same axe with active inhouse pickups and v/f/b/t controls) and then the BB5000A2, the last version with the big clunky body and clunkier neck and TRB PJ pickups without the piezo bridge/circuit. All three in white and gold hardware.
Original BB5000
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BB5000A, active pickups, vol/fade/bass/treble
BB5000A2: New body design, MUCH wider fingerboard, TRB PJ pickups and controls. These were not MIJ, but made in Yamaha's new Taiwan factory (since closed). Just a bigger, clunkier axe without the gracefulness of the first two (IF you could handle an 1.5" nut subdivided for five strings, REALLY cozy down there).
The middle one was my favorite.
Original BB5000
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BB5000A, active pickups, vol/fade/bass/treble
BB5000A2: New body design, MUCH wider fingerboard, TRB PJ pickups and controls. These were not MIJ, but made in Yamaha's new Taiwan factory (since closed). Just a bigger, clunkier axe without the gracefulness of the first two (IF you could handle an 1.5" nut subdivided for five strings, REALLY cozy down there).
The middle one was my favorite.
Updated pic. Some changes have been made.
The theme I'm going for is Indonesian-made 5-string versions of Leo Fender's post-FMIC designs.
Jazz Bass Collection! All of these are workhorses that I use regularly.
And what fantastic changes they are!
I hope you're going to give that new Amethyst Sparkle an appropriately pretty, matching strap. 
That short scale could make me want to try a 4-string again....
Nice!! Any difference between them other than finish?
Thanks! the two white ones are 2011Fender American Specials, blue and red are 2000 American Standards, and the pink one is a custom bass that my friends dad built for me. It’s got fender custom shop pickups in it!
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Nice! It's hard to tell looking at the picture on my phone, but does the pink one also have an Audere preamp in it? The knobs look like the ones they use.
I have an Audere preamp in a parts Jazz bass and like it a lot. It has a wide range of tonal options but it's transparent so you can hear the character of the pickups (I have Nordstrand NJS5's in it, great classic Jazz sound).
They're not mine, but these are same-style Bass Collections.
I'll show myself out.
I'll show myself out.
Actually no, its just a passive bass! I usually just play my Jazz basses passive with all the knobs at 100 percent. It helps me to get a more consistent tone because its just less signal processing to fiddle with. I let the amp or the DI box do the work usually.
When deciding to hang my frequently-used roasted-pine Am Pro Jazz V to keep the Roomba from attacking it, I realized it's a family and finish corollary to my office-bling (and now infrequently-used) J and P wallhangers:
I need to take an updated family pic. There have been some adds.
i sure do! the pink one will probably end up with a replacement pickup. i'm torn between the nordstrand hum-cancelling '51 with alnico 3s and the same type from fralin. for a variety of reasons, the black one with the pickguard my husband made is my number 1 as it's comfortable, feels great, and mysteriously has no single coil hum unless you really crank it. although it's close to identical to the pink one, the neck feels a tiny bit nicer, too. love 'em both.
i might give the pink one slightly less white pickguard and knobs - maybe parchment. i don't want to go antique white as the pink is so pink.
i might get crazy and photograph them together...
I've posted all I got that meets the criteria, unless I can post my Guild B-301. It is a 4-string fretted bass, same as the two Rickenbackers I posted previously that are 4-string fretted basses.
