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SHOW YOUR BLACK BASSES!!!

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Sundogue said:
Man, I really dig the black Yamaha BB series (obviously, having the BB415). I got mine less than a year ago used in trade from a fellow TB'er. I had one a long time ago and I can't imagine ever parting with this one now. It has the most tonal variety of any bass I've ever owned (including actives, this being a passive bass). Mine had the switch swapped out for a tone control with the others being volume controls, one for each pickup.

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Always dig seeing more pics of Yammies.
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Sweet. I love seeing pics of Yammies too. Besides yours having chrome trim and mine having gold/brass do you know what the differences are between the two? I couldn't be sure from your pic but is yours a bolt-on, whlie mine is neck-thru. Anything else besides that, Electronics, pups?
 
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Bassmanmike1 said:
Sweet. I love seeing pics of Yammies too. Besides yours having chrome trim and mine having gold/brass do you know what the differences are between the two? I couldn't be sure from your pic but is yours a bolt-on, whlie mine is neck-thru. Anything else besides that, Electronics, pups?
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Yeah, I was thinking the same thing (what's the difference in models?). Mine is bolt on, though it is a very solid bolt on.

I'm not sure about the pups. My J-pup has the 60 cycle hum like a traditional Jazz. The P-pups sound just like a P-Bass (I've owned lots of them and it nails the P tone perfectly).

Aside from the customizing of the controls I don't know what other differences might be. In fact, aside from this one I have now with it's J-pup it reminds me very much of my old BB200 I had long ago.

I think the BB series of Yamaha's are all great and most I think have somewhat subtle differences between models. One of my favorite basses of all time.

EDIT: If you look close at mine, you'll see mine has the offset bridge for the low B string. I don't know if it makes a difference or not, but the B string sounds great on mine...very similar to the E in tone (some B strings sound too different from the other strings).
 
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I think they are very under-rated basses. I've bought two of them, both for far less than the cost of a Squier (don't get me wrong those are good too for the money) and they are the best (in my opinion) basses I have yet played. True, I've never played a 62 P bass or a Sadowsky or any bass that cost over a grand, but even a grand is about 4 times what I paid for these basses so I guess it ought to be better.

Has a great P bass sound to it, very deep with the Quarter Pounder pickups.

Nut work seems to be lacking on the two I bought, I got tuning pings on the first one so I replaced that and put a new graphite and took my time, and the second one had a bad nut from the get go - thing had two slots filled with glue! Nothing a new nut and a little elbow grease couldn't take care of now they play great. Action is insanely low.

But I am seeing that one area they seem to be skimping on in the construction of new basses is nuts. I suspect it's because it's so time consuming to do it right and the profit margin isn't there.

Anyway these are truly under-rated especially for the going price of them these days.
 

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JTFormula said:
I don't know what it is with this bass but it looks like if you met it in a dark alley, it will punch you in the face with brass knuckles, knock your teeth out, kick you in the stomach when you are down on the dirty rat infested ground then laugh at your sorry ass when it walks away chugging a 5th of Jack.

~ Love it
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It's a Wal, and if you buy one, your wallet will feel like that just happened to it. ;)
 

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