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MGR/Greg « Yamaha BB404 »
Published on 12/22/03 at 15:00Paid £229 on soundslive.co.uk because I wanted a good simple bass for not much money!
Everything. It's simple, sounds great, well built and easy to play. And dang, it looks good! I got the natural one.
The BB404 has 4 strings, two pickups, a beefy bridge, maple neck, rose wood fret board, alder body, a volume pot for each pickup and a master tone control. They work very well, and a large range of sounds can be obtained.
Very playable.
Nothing.. but there is one thing (it could be me being a little slow up top...) I'm not too sure about how humbucking the pickups are (info sites say it has twin humbuckers). I think what is happening is they are alot quieter when both pickups are used together, so individually they might not be. Not entirely sure though.
Doesn't come with a gig bag, so I got one for it!
Well built, not dropped it yet, but it feels like it'd carry on working no worries. Nothing skinny to snap off.
It's quite light compared to my old, knackerd, beasted 1970 something no-name Japanese thing, but seems stronger and stiffer.
Comes with S.S. strings, cable and two allen keys to adjust stuff with, but the only thing mine needed was to be re-tuned, that's it!
Smooth neck, no nasty bits to cut you up (I heard some nasty stories about frets on cheaper basses!)
Awsome bass, although it's the base (haha..) model of the BB range, it's much better (in my opinion) than the lower RBX gank. I had a go in shops, and the RBX seem a bit cheap and tacky by comparison.
I'm quite new to playing bass, but it's easy to play, great fun, has masses of "play me, play me" to it, so I only put it down to wright this...
Get one!
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com
Everything. It's simple, sounds great, well built and easy to play. And dang, it looks good! I got the natural one.
The BB404 has 4 strings, two pickups, a beefy bridge, maple neck, rose wood fret board, alder body, a volume pot for each pickup and a master tone control. They work very well, and a large range of sounds can be obtained.
Very playable.
Nothing.. but there is one thing (it could be me being a little slow up top...) I'm not too sure about how humbucking the pickups are (info sites say it has twin humbuckers). I think what is happening is they are alot quieter when both pickups are used together, so individually they might not be. Not entirely sure though.
Doesn't come with a gig bag, so I got one for it!
Well built, not dropped it yet, but it feels like it'd carry on working no worries. Nothing skinny to snap off.
It's quite light compared to my old, knackerd, beasted 1970 something no-name Japanese thing, but seems stronger and stiffer.
Comes with S.S. strings, cable and two allen keys to adjust stuff with, but the only thing mine needed was to be re-tuned, that's it!
Smooth neck, no nasty bits to cut you up (I heard some nasty stories about frets on cheaper basses!)
Awsome bass, although it's the base (haha..) model of the BB range, it's much better (in my opinion) than the lower RBX gank. I had a go in shops, and the RBX seem a bit cheap and tacky by comparison.
I'm quite new to playing bass, but it's easy to play, great fun, has masses of "play me, play me" to it, so I only put it down to wright this...
Get one!
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com