Yamaha Owners

[Trance_9]

I own and love my Yamaha RBX375,....it rocks,...light,...comfortable, balanced, so versatile, and just one bad MFer. Rock On !!

 

[Compressed]

Love Yamaha's and own 2.
1979 BB300s (My first bass, picked it up for $75!)
Attitude II (Just picked it up when over in Japan recently)

 

[PilbaraBass]

I love...LOVE my Yamaha...RBX170...one of their lowest end basses, and theres no frills to it, but


here's what it has.
-a GREAT GREAT neck.
-level frets
-decent pickups
-(Plays like butter, sounds GOOD!)

here's what it doesn't have
-fantastic tuners (they work good, bass stays in tune just fine...they're just not the smoothest tuners in town is all)
-fantastic bridge (not as good as a Badass or a Hipshot), basic bridge (just like 95% of all fenders out there)...but it works just fine.

When you can't touch a middle of the road bass here in Aus for much less than $1K...it's nice to know that you can always pick one of these puppies up for a "buck-fitty" to "two hunny"

Yamaha RAWKS!

 

[Some Groovy Guy]

I'm a recent Yamaha owner

Heres my bad girl (yet to be names, suggestions?)

 

[Compressed]

Maybe you should call her Tranny, coz the transparent finish on that baby is beautiful!

 

[Some Groovy Guy]

Maybe you should call her Tranny, coz the transparent finish on that baby is beautiful!

Tranny's a little well.... Odd

how about Betsy?
Cause shes the best!

 

[Trance_9]

How about Black Betty or the widowmaker?

 

[Machines]

I've never understood the whole naming your basses thing..

 

[rob@da@buzz]

here is my rbx 650, good sound, but it has problems with the neck (fret buzz)

 

[TheXym]

I have a TRB4-II that plays very smoothly - almost like 'squeezable buttah', and I'm VERY happy with it, using D'Addarios on it, and I have the RBX-JM2 on order (should be here mid December). I love the feel of the Yamahas, and I've gotten pretty darn good deals on them. If I was playing out a heck of a lot more, I'd plunk down for a sweet high-end bass, but for the money I've spent, the Yamaha has served me well in both jazz and heavy rock settings plus a couple one-shots in churches.

 

[danomite64]

I tried a BEX4C last night, and was pretty impressed, especially considering the amp I was trying it through was a Peavey TKO 65 that looked like it saw action in the battle of Midway.....anyway, if I get it, I'll have to play it upside-down, but I think it might be worth it even so.

 

[Trance_9]

here is my rbx 650, good sound, but it has problems with the neck (fret buzz)

Have you had the bass set up properly? mine needed some bridge hieght adjusting to accommodate my strings and tuning,...I had fret buzz from the first fret esp on the d and g strings,..the g string even had a bit of buzz on the 2nd fret,..after I reset it everything has been excellent. Rock On !!

BTW any of you have the Yamaha Bass amp ??? Are they discontinueing it??

 

[pbass2go]

Yamaha Attitudes all the way. P Bass on steroids. It also functions kind of like a Ric with the dual outputs...but is more friendly to finger style players. A great bass.

I sure hope so... I am waiting on my first Attitude Ltd.(a purty red one!) Just got it off the 'bay. Looking fwd to comparing it to my trusty P-bass.

I will post pics and my review when it shows..

 

[topov]

Currently TRB5P and TRB5IIF. Love both of them.
Many argue TRBs have a very HiFi sound, but with little EQ adjustments you can really get such a WIDE variety of tones... when in need of an extra tweek, I put the 5P through a Yamaha NE1... AWSOME!!!!

Here's a Pic of the 5P (a.k.a. Dr.Pepper), I'll upload one of the 5IIF (a.k.a. Mr.Fred) asap...

 

[topov]

TRB5IIF Ok, here it is, and NE-1

 

[bassaroo]

I know this is an old thread, but I had to post because I LOVE these Yamaha babes!

I keep going between my three Yamahas:

BB2000
BB3000s
BB5000

I just CAN"T make up my mind!

 

[jschwalls]

LOVE all my Yamaha basses !!!!!

 

[JMBassist]

use to have a RBX800A - great bass, unfortunately i sold it

Now one of my basses is a BB605, also a great bass, but the 5th string is not so defined as in my Tobias.

 

[stflbn]

Yamaha TRB5 in trans charcoal finish.
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[BritFunk]

My Friends,

My first bass (that wasn't a complete P.O.S. or a loaner) was a Yamaha BB300, candy apple red finish, purchased for me by my parents as a Christmas Gift in 1986. It has been modified a bit and has been refretted twice, but I still own the bass and it would be the very last instrument I would ever let go of. It is currently strung B-E-A-D and the tone is just earth-shakingly unreal. I also own a BB-300 from the same era that I defretted.

More recently, I purchased a Yamaha RBX4-A2 A.I.R bass due to a lot of my back/neck problems and am still ASTOUNDED at the tone. I strung this one with Rotosound Funkmasters and the tone is bright and zippy while still being very, very deep.

Now that I think about it, the only bass I own that isn't a Yamaha is a Hartke bass I recently purchased at an estate sale, with SKB case, for $75. Needed set up very badly and a new set of strings, but the playability and tone are excellent.

I have yet to play a Yamaha bass that I don't care for - I have owned and let go of several others, all of which were excellent basses.

If I had my choice and unlimited funds, I would still choose passive Yamaha basses (especially the BB-series) over any other basses I have ever tried.

----
Kurt