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Yamaha Club Part II

#681
Wow, Gustavo...nice work! Two drummers, a bassist, a saxaphonist...no guitars. What a combination. I watched a couple of your other vids..."Bagdhad" (with the Warr) is awesome. I saw what looked like a Behringer FCB1010 on the floor for looping (?)...[DEL]what's your setup with that?[/DEL].. Never mind! I just found your "Gear" page on your band's website. That is one heck of a set up!


thewildest - #352
 
#682
ZubenElGenubi said:
Wow, Gustavo...nice work! Two drummers, a bassist, a saxaphonist...no guitars. What a combination. I watched a couple of your other vids..."Bagdhad" (with the Warr) is awesome. I saw what looked like a Behringer FCB1010 on the floor for looping (?)...[DEL]what's your setup with that?[/DEL].. Never mind! I just found your "Gear" page on your band's website. That is one heck of a set up!

thewildest - #352
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Thank you!!!!!! 352, great numbrer, thank you very much!
 
#683
BB415 modded with John East U-Retro & 18v battery box

BBG5S modded with RBX375 humbuckers

TRB 1005F unmodded

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G.
 
#690
Here's mine. Wasn't looking for a Yamaha in particular -- in fact I wasn't even looking to buy another bass, but I found myself in a music store, and well, the rest is history.
Wound up with this RBX260. It's pretty nice for a really inexpensive guitar! I set the action a little lower and it's a very playable instrument.
This isn't my first fretless, but it is my first 'lined' fretless. The edges of the 'lines' are *sharp* -- my only complaint. I'm going to have to figure out how to sand them down.
My very, very first guitar was/is a Yamaha classical that my parents gave me back in 1979 or 1980. Maybe this Yamaha will stick with me as long...
Funny thought -- the strap is worth more than the guitar!

Number me up please, I'm 'in'.
 

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#692
My Friends,

Of all of the bass "clubs" this is the one I should be solidly entrenched in. I started playing Yamaha basses in 1986 when I chose a candy apple red BB300 over a steel grey Ibanez at the local music store as my first "real" bass ($259 with gig bag - I still have that bass and will likely be buried with it. :p ) It has had a J-style pickup added, the tuners replaced, the bridge upgraded to a Badass II, and has been re-fretted twice, but still plays better than any other bass I own.

More recently I added an RBX765A to the stable, tuned with a high "C" rather than a low "B". LOVE that bass. In my experience Yamaha basses are some of the very best basses available, especially given the pricing.

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Kurt
 

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#694
Need Help....Like all of you guys I`m a Yamaha addict, I proudly own a BB424x Tobacco Sunburst, a real rock bass indeed. I had an accident on my last gig, during the mosh pit a random dude got to the stage and pushed me extremely hard against a wall (stage was small), nothing happened to me, but my bass!!!!...ohhh dear...one of the tuners broke (E string)...I need to replace it. Any suggestions???
 
#695
Hey Maelo Yakama,

You might want to try cross-posting this question in the Yamaha BB Club thread.

I own two BB models: one is a BB400 from the early 80's and the other is a BB415 that's just a couple years old. The tuning machines are significantly different.

The silver lining might be that you could upgrade all your tuners to Hipshots. Or maybe just go for a drop-D tuner on the low E.

Good Luck,
Glenn
 
#699
ZubenElGenubi said:
Geoff,

Welcome to the Club!
GeoffByrne - #353

So, can you tell us more about the John East mod and what improvements in tone you got from this? I'm especially interested in how the bridge pickup is improved. I own a BB415 also (same finish) and that pickup is my only criticism.
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One of the nice things I liked about the 415 passive was the even-ness across the strings on both pickups. I didn't find the neck pup problematic at all, but I had it wound right up & I had the P pickup screwed down.

The John East U-Retro has a pair of pots inside with which you can balance the output of each pup, so you can get a pretty even volume from them as you pan from one to the other .

The U-Retro was fitted professionally, as the cavity had to be enlarged slightly - it was given two coats of conductive paint, earthed & a new plastic cover cut.

The pre gives me more of everything than I'll ever need. It turns this decent bass into a tone-monster. The panning mid-frequency is especially useful as you can pick your frequency then boost or cut. I usually boost the low - around 150 - 180Hz, or I may cut around 800Hz.

I got it routed for an 18V box and it hasn't let me down. I love it - has rounds on at the mo.

The biggest surprise to me is the BBG5. I picked it up real cheap and it's fairly bashed around & scored - Mojo by the bucketload - but when I managed to swap the pickups for the humbuckers from the RBX375, it really started to work for me. It hangs just right and is very comfortable to play. Chomes on meantime.

The TRB is simply divine. I find the mids on this extremely effective for adding punch if boosted & for softening down when cut. Chromes.

Just wish the fingerboard was unmarked.

G.
 

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