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Yamaha Club
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Are these really as light as the reviews say they are? How do you like this bass? I've thought about getting one.
I love this bass and have found it to be easy on my back. It weighs between 6 and 7 lbs, sounds like a Jazz bass and is very playable IMO. I would say try one and see what you think
Woo! Do I get anything else?An "antique" clock or maybe a "gold" broach?
I'll send you a free coupon for a pint of whatever your favorite brew is.
Here's some shots of my favorite Yamaha bass. The only things original are the body, neck & neck plate & tuners. It started life out as a humble RBX 260. Even though I have much more expensive basses, I always tend to gravitate towards this one.
I routed it for the jazz bridge pup. It's carrying Seymour Duncan quarter-pound pickups, a Seymour Duncan pre-amp/tone circuit, Badass II bridge, straplocks, a variety of cool stickers and dents and scratches from two previous owners.
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I routed it for the jazz bridge pup. It's carrying Seymour Duncan quarter-pound pickups, a Seymour Duncan pre-amp/tone circuit, Badass II bridge, straplocks, a variety of cool stickers and dents and scratches from two previous owners.
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Your only axe now is an Am. Std. Jazz bass? Bummer.
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE jazz basses (I have two of them), but a man's got to have a little variety in life
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE jazz basses (I have two of them), but a man's got to have a little variety in life
Hey, I was also thinking if it was possible to fit a Badass II brige on my RBX260F. Thank you for showing it can be done.
I already ordered Seymour Duncan quarter pounds last week. Now I'm reassured they'll fit also.
Since I love my RBX260 fretless so much, I'm looking around for a fretted version of this wonderful instrument, and set it up especially for tapping.
Don't know which pickups I'm gonna use for that though.
I also have a more expensive bass, Fender MIM fretless Jazz. I don't play this as much as the RBX, but I'm thinking of replacing that one with a MIA standard, because I'm using it solely in a jazz band project, and I am looking for the warmest deepest tone possible from an electric bass.
The RBX is for metal wich I practice at home.
The bridge & better pickups add alot to the sound of this bass. It's got a great neck and a super-light, well-balanced body. In addition the Seymour Duncan active pre-amp circuit allows me to get lot's of different tones with this bass. My biggest disappointment is that the new pickups still get the single-coil buzz at high volumes.
I have the stacked Seymour Duncan pickups in one of my jazz basses, and the Dimarzio Ultra-jazz pickups in my other jazz bass. Both of them have zero single-coil hum.
Shouldn't be too hard, there are a lot of them on Ebay. I think I got the carcass of mine for about $70. The ones made in the Kaohsiung, Taiwan factory are the best. (Not that I'm biased, because the town where I was born is just up the road from Kaosiung).
My fretless is a Yamaha BBN4F. It's got big soapbar pickups on it. Not my normal choice, but for fretless it's wonderful. I got it for a steal also.
I never tried a Yamaha BB series. But out of all the fretless basses I tried so far my "silly" cheap RBX260F is the best and the one I enjoy the most. I discovered that I like just simple P-style pickups on a fretless, with roundwounds. For the record: I play metal with this bass. And this set up is most suited for metal music. In the short future it will be perfect: the SD pickups I ordered and afterwards a Badass II bridge.
As for jazz basses: I have a kind of love/hate relationship with it. I have a Fender MIM Jazz fretless, but it doesn't deliver the right tone I want.
I'm using this one (still standard) in a jazz band I'm recently try to start up. (So far only me, female singer and a pianist)
I'm looking for a round warm tone. But I don't have any experience with jazz set up. Also I have just a small practice amp wich kills the tone.
I am using a small practice amp I bought for private practice. But I'm considering getting a Line6 bass Pod just for tone sake.
The owner of a local music store adviced me that an American Jazz Bass would have better electronics and better body for the tone I'm looking for.
So far I know nothing of jazz when it comes to equipment.
When our jazz band comes of the ground, I might get the proper equipment for it. But I'll need a lot advice on it.
My favorite Jazz bass is an MIJ that I've had since about 1985. The only original things on it are the body, neck, pickguard and tuners. Everything else I've changed along the way. In retrospect, I've done a lot to it. It sounds so good, that I am afraid to take it to gigs, because I couldn't handle it getting stolen.
The Yamaha's are my workhorses.
The Yamaha's are my workhorses.
My Yamaha is also my workhorse, when I was in a metalband and a rockband several years ago. It always did it's job perfectly.
But now I'm learning jazz and I like it.
Do you have any suggestions for me what bass would be better than my MIM?
Your MIM with different strings. I kind of like the sound of those Thomastik-Infeld Jazz Bass Flatwounds, but that is just a matter of taste. Also a decent amp helps A LOT.
Already a member, but just want to show of with a funny picture from a gig:
It does play pretty nice, i might add.
It does play pretty nice, i might add.
Gig - Belgrade, Serbia.
What's wrong with wearing it high??
I am 5' 5'', so i actually had to shorten the strap a bit because i couldn't get the bass high enough. I would even get it higher, but my fat prevents it.
What's wrong with wearing it high??
I am 5' 5'', so i actually had to shorten the strap a bit because i couldn't get the bass high enough. I would even get it higher, but my fat prevents it.
it's a great playing bass.... i love the neck profile, it's not wide at all, and the shallow C shape is really comfortable for me.
Serbia. Wow, that's great we have a good international presence in this club.
Nothings wrong with wearing it high, it's just a lot higher then I like to wear my basses.
It's easier to ply them strapped on high, then it is when they are strapped on really low.
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Nothings wrong with wearing it high, it's just a lot higher then I like to wear my basses.
It's easier to ply them strapped on high, then it is when they are strapped on really low.
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