All user reviews for the Yamaha RBX775

I purchased my instrument at Vine Music in Evesham for £415 pounds. I decided to buy it because I am a Muse obsessive and I've seen Chris Wolstenholm playing the four string version at the NEC and it was awesome. Listen to the track "hysteria" on their album "Absolution" to hear the four string version, which is practically the same, in all its glory.

I have only recently purchased this bass so have not yet put it through its paces. My bass is in the metallic blue colour and looks gorgeous. The extremely pronounced shape of this guitar gives it a slender but aggressive look, and the pick ups, tuning pegs and bridge look very contemporary and stylish. The volume and treble knobs are in black as well, with rubber grips to allow easy, smooth operation. The pick up selector and active switch are also stylish and cleverly concealed. The whole guitar is just amazing to look at. When I was handed it in the shop, you could hear everyone in the shop saying how good it looked. Another point that I like about it is that as well as giving a great rock and metal sound, it also is great at jazz, blues and funk, with some really deep notes possible and high twangs to contrast them.

I know that everyone who owns this bass says the same thing, but you can't help it. There really is nothing bad to say about this guitar. It looks beautiful, plays beautifully, and kicks out an amazing sound. Having played solely on a four string for three years, it was hard to get used the initial transition to five strings, but with a bit of practice you easily get used to it. Also, when you first get it, the strings will sound quite tinny, but after about a week of use it will mellow out into the bass of your dreams.

The construction is sound. Hardly any plastic is used. All the knobs and switches are robust, and the jack input is well positioned to prevent the lead being yanked out when your having one of those spin the guitar around your head moments. The black bolt on maple neck is pure quality and gives you 24 frets to play with. The alder body is durable and stylish, and the matt metallic paint is virtually impossible to scratch. The humbucker pick ups give out a clear, sustained sound and can be used to their full potential with good amp.



A fantastic bass that will last you for ages. Will suit most types of bass player sound wise, and will aesthetically please you for years to come. I've never felt better about parting with a large amount of cash than when I bought this.

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I bought the big boy, as its affectionately known, from Music Academy in Nottingham UK just over a year ago. I had been looking for a long time for something to replace my Aria, it had to be loud, fat, sexy and with 5 strings, after reading several reviews i decided this was the one for me. I paid £465 over the counter for a silver model although i did want black.

The sound of this bass when its turned on is something to behold, the bottom end punches its way through the usual accompanying wall of sound that is two Les Pauls and Marshalls which like to be called 'guitarists' in my band, giving me an orgasmic cross of percussive and rythmic control along with a tone quality which until now i thought only the big boys had. I come from a Faith No More, Primus school of thought, so you know what I'm talking about.
I have only ever needed to use the big fat front pick-up but the back one is nice to have there in case i need something to put my beer on!
The other really important selling point of this bass, which will sound really really shallow, was there are no inlays or marks on the neck!
Playing the RBX775 is always a breeze, the neck is wide for the 5 strings, enough that there is plenty of room, but at the same time the neck is not too deep for people without the obligatory hands-like-shovels.

I thought the bottom cut-away could be a little deeper and a nicer shape, sometimes its difficilt making it to the 15th fret in time and doing something constructive with it.
Oh listen to me, sounds like i know what i'm doing!

The first thing that hits with this bass is it is solid, heavy and well built, if it was a woman she would strike out at a good pace, wearing brogues and a tweed suit saying "jolly Hockey Sticks" loudly, don't worry, its a british thing. The back of the neck is nicely matted to stop that sweaty-stickyness that appears on varnished necks with a smooth and positively skin-like finish, making it something almost fetish-like to the touch.


After gigs i quite often have people comment on the bass sound or ask me what effects or filters i use, when i tell them its the bass and a big amp and thats all they always look shocked.
Sometimes i wish i was out front so i could enjoy how good it sounds too.

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I saw it in a Musician's Friend and I loved it. I ordered it through my local music hook-up at MusicQuest Stevens Point, WI (act like ya heard!) I got it for $650 American. Gotta love active pick-ups.

As I've read in other reviews, there is pretty much zero humming from this bad boy. It weighs about 10 lbs, which is good for me. I like 'em heavier. It's got a 4 bolt-on neck. The bolts are farther apart so it has more stability/sustain. It has a built-in parametric EQ, apparently modeled after the NE Magic Box. I have one and I agree, so you save $70 on that end. The volume and tone knobs are high-quality (so much so that you need the included hex-a-wrench to take them off) and have rubber grips. It comes in blue, black, and SILVER (guess which I got). Great tuning, no fret-buzz (if you do it right), and an all around fun 5-string to have. It's got a solid alder body and a maple neck (Fender?)

Not a lot to cry about. To be honest, I don't use the bass-boost switch at all. It's more of a slight volume boost. Some might complain about the weight or the limited color selection, but they should probably hit the gym or drink some beer.

This was put together with love and care... but in all seriousness I've had it for over a year and it still looks good (and I'm abusive).

There is no valid reason not to buy this bass. If you want the 4-string, then that's fine too. The price and the product are well matched and I don't plan on getting another bass anytime soon.

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I got this bass on e-bay for the absolute bargain price of £300!!! and it was only a few weeks old (don't worry genuin reason for sale). I wanted to upgrade from my ibanez gsr200(begginer) bass, and was looking at various basses around the £500 mark and then the RBX 775 which should be about £500 came up on e-nay for £300. Need I say any more!!!!

This is agreat guitar, Firstly it has two great active yamaha humbucker pick ups so there is absolutely no "noise" at all, You have to play string to know if the volume is on even at high volume through my 300w trace elliot amp! Any one who has every tryed a five string bass, will understand the benifits of a 35inch scale(the B string is not floppy at all), And my only other consern with moving to a 5 string was the width of the finger board but this is an absolute dream to play, I like to play a mixture af rock and funk jazz and the manuvourabilty on the figure board is great, it doesn't feel cumbersom like some 5 strings can. The available tone which you can get out of this guitar is great, especially the tone of slap and pop you can get, there is a three way pickup selctor for the 2 humbuckers and also a bass boost switch for the extra bit of bassists ego in the middle of a gig(good for soloing in jazz). And lets be honest I just looks gorgous!!!!(i have the silver one.)

Well this is hard, I absolutely love this bass, I'm not even on the "new bass high since I've had it for over 6 months now. My background is that I got this during my year out in which I was playing in a band touring around the UK and europe doing at least one full headline gig a week as well as playing smaller promotion gigs almost every weekday. so As you can see I've certainly put this baby through the works and I have no let downs!!! My only bad point might be that it has no built in eq which these active basses often have but since i use a trace elliot amp with 12band eq and compress etc this has not been a problem at all.

This is a very well built bass. As I said in the "don't likes" section I got this basses on my year out so it was moving from city to city every week making regular trips across the irish sea and it was as solid as it looks even after all those van packs. It has an alder wood neck and a beautifully smooth maple neck which allows easy movement up and down the 24 fret fingure board. The bridge has 5 individual saddles which are very easily set up for the perfect action and set-up. The active circitry on with the 2 humbuckers gives great tone and allows tone for all styles I've tryed from Heavy rock to trad jazz to church band. It is a great quality bass that also looks great (I'm not so keen on the bog standard precision looking basses and this one has lush contores with out going too far and looking stupid.

The bottom line is that this is great bass if it was stolen I would deffinitly replace it even if I was forced to pay full price!! However I would recomend looking at the Ibanez MQ aswell if your looking for a 5 string bass in the £500 price range as this is also a great bass(play before you choose). As you can tell form this review I love this bass and I can say that only bass I've ever played which I prefered was a £3500 original(pre gibson) Kramer which are way out of my price range. This is a very high quality bass that is half the price of most basses which it plays like, a deffinite 5/5.

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I got this guitar on www.andysmusiconline.com for only $579.00, reduced from $999.00. I decided to buy it because I was doing useless on the electric guitar, and decided that I would be better off dumping it and begin learning how to play bass. It was reduced by $420.00, had 5 strings (a lot better than 4), and it had a limited lifetime warranty. There was no reason why I'd have anything to lose.

I like many things about this guitar. As soon as I put my left hand on the fret board I knew I made the right choice. There are around 24 frets on the maple fingerboard, which are easy to pick, as the space between the different strings is neither too big nor too small. The style is also something that attracted me, having the body being in a quite cool rock look. The pickup on the guitar is also very good, as it has “dual hum bucking" pickups making it sound a lot clearer and professional than other poorer quality bass guitars, which have the same old irritating buzzing effect. For the same amount of money I couldn’t have got a better buy, especially presuming I bought it from Yamaha.

As I am a very negative person, so I can criticize a lot but with this I can’t. I guess you could get some people that would prefer to have 4 string guitars, but I found that having 5 was a lot more useful and if I didn’t need the 5th string in a song, so what! I wont lose anything from that. You could say that the color choice is a little dull, but I won’t complain. Black, Silver, or Blue are good enough for me, and anyway with a style of such quality and a sound that is also so great, then why should color matter? I recommend anyone who wants to be a good bass player to buy what I bought.

Well, as ive already said the guitar has a rosewood fingerboard,has the body in a modern rock style,which is solid alder,and has a 35" maple neck.The quality of the guitar is very good,as ive noticed that many other guitars get dents and scratches alot more easily being of less quality.The pick up is much better than on most other bass guitars, and ill again stress that there is no,if any buzzing.

As bass guitars come this is excellent in every way.If i ever knew someone who was deciding which bass to get id tell him to along with this one. I never regretted buying this from Yamaha.

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Body: Alder
Neck: Maple Bolt-on
Fingerboard: Rosewood, 600mm radius
Frets: 24
Scale: 889mm
Pickups: 2 Humbucker
Controls: 1 volume, pickup balance, active 3-band EQ
Bridge: Black with five individual saddles

I bought this bass after careful consideration and testing hands, and I'm not disappointed at all! A magnificent low, complete and powerful, with a nice finish and a beautiful design to avoid waste anything!
Only one default attention to delicately manipulate the wood of the body is very tender and it crashed (very) easily ... Other than that, nothing to say!

UTILIZATION

I use this bass to play metal, mainly speed and melodic.
The RBX775 has a handle for that fabulous, very responsive and to obtain a precise sound with a touch stronger agrébale. Although it is large enough, access to acute is very easy.
Be careful if you have a style of play fast like mine, a pitch of 889mm, it's not nothing when it comes to playing fast sequences in the low, where the gap between frets is the greatest!
Ergonomics issue is still one of the reasons for my choice, RBX is stable and will not ruin you back, it is very light compared to other basses in its class!

SOUNDS

While there, the RBX775 is very adaptable to all styles of music and gaming, and the micro switch is a real plus compared to 4-5 with a bass control buttons! Personally, I use it to position neck pickup and bridge normal, which delivers a good offense and a powerful sound, and I alternate the two other positions for solos, tapping ...
Question her, nothing to say, the RBX a punch!

OVERALL OPINION

I have for almost a year, and I have not made this choice lightly, I have tried many other basses (Fender, ESP / Ltd, Ibanez, Cort Curbow and Traben) before buying a RBX775. What I liked: the handle of high quality that provides a smooth game, accurate and pleasant sound (I would never in a passive electronic!), And ergonomics! Not to mention the devastating look (I in silver, too good!)

No, except that body which sinks a little too easy, nothing to say, this bass is a real monster, pleasure in its purest form!

Be careful price issue: where I found this bass, it made me believe in the super promotion: € 800 instead of 1000 ... Internet (German site), I found it to ... € 640! I spoke to another dealer and offering to support this site, I got it at 650 €, which is still cheaper than if I had ordered over the Internet costs + port! COMPARE PRICES and therefore do not hesitate to negotiate, it pays!

-Alder body.
-Bolt (4 screws) in Rabl.
, Rosewood fingerboard, 600mm radius.
-24 Frets.
-Scale of 889mm.
-Pickups: 2 Humbucker.
-CONTRL: 1 Volume, pickup balance, active 3-band legalization, boost switch. -Bridge: Black with five individual saddles.

Good quality for all, except for the bridge which, to me, as sharp and cut the strings ... The two colors offered are blue and gray (for me, my blue). Yamaha provides us with a jack and cls for rglages (+ classics such as warranty, user manual, etc. ...). In addition, the head is plastic. It's been a little "spot" ...

UTILIZATION

Channel enjoyable to play, neither too fat nor too thin. Good access to acute. It stings the nose slightly. The rglages are very simple: a volume knob, one tone, one slecteur micro and a "boost".

SOUNDS

The point that angry. The jouabilit the bass can be good, but the sound is clearly wrong. We always get the same sound, there is no variation. It's a cold, artificial, sec. The 5th string is not well made (because of the horrible lack of heat and DEFINITIONS microphones). It would seem that it comes from prampli and must be changed. But for me, having to change the prampli on a low 600's a bit of foutage Geul.

OVERALL OPINION

In conclusion, it is a low average. Violin making and finishing is correct but the sound is bad. It may well have a nice design (and even, tastes and colors), but the rest does not follow clearly not. I deprecated.

-Alder body.
-Bolt (4 screws) in maple.
, Rosewood fingerboard, 600mm radius.
-24 Frets.
Diapason-(long) of 889mm.
-Pickups: 2 Yamaha Humbucker.
-Controls: 1 volume, pickup balance, active 3-band EQ, boost switch. -Bridge: Black with five individual saddles Yamaha.
One can only regret the absence of a handle and a switch through asset / liability

UTILIZATION

The handle-
so it's a maple neck with rosewood fingerboard with equart type of ibanez 16.5mm (19mm in OPPOSITION to the fender)
It is painted black but not varnished so it's a special touch, widening gradually with a width at nut very fine will get almost double the body so the style of modern bass Ibanez launched by the handle slides well it is rather flat as opposed to my lag is on the contrary D well rounded he not tired hand to the nut but do not facilitate Careers News treble strings on the most serious
-Access to treble is quite correct body position facilitates the 21/22 th until the cargo without concern after the mounting plate and the body does not really help, but good on a bass .. .

Ergonomics
The shape is meant to thin profile that allows only played without forced sitting inferior horn enters the thigh (cest not very pleasant after a while) and the dorsal horn is so large to accommodate the low is not if not the entire top portion is refined.
The weight is minimal is the lightest of my bass, a really lightweight you can feel it just above a 5 string
The violin is very proper mechanics are pretty effective is also the body and the handle is only details were neglected qq (qq filing of frets, the bridge, pickups knockout that leaves something to be desired but the details in a good luthier that can not do it!

Sound:
I was looking for a low character guy with a really aggressive cut with my other basses I needed a low neo metal / rock punchy and suddenly the presence of an active electronic and micro double aid is not bad true type metal (John myung signature is based on it)
She is very bright and collected a joy to play slap and the blow stops the roundness of sound a little Patie ... must play lequaliser and boost bass / treble to make up the thing the mic is quite disting and sounds good to them is really a case neck pickup and bridge pickup, the sound is pretty close to a kind of ibanez K5 or the limit of a music man but less pronounced.
The possilités tuning strings are very good and does not bleed so bad even if it lacks a bit of presence (the 5-string classical che)
This is not necessarily the most Polivalente low but I bought it for a specific purpose so it's all good: D

SOUNDS

As I said I used to rock with punchy slap eg metal or neo / powerfunk (watcha, Korn, RATM, Pleymo, Guano Apes, Limp Bizkit, etc) so it fits perfect

- I plugged into an amp pro or v I model what I need and full of power and a 4x10 and a 1x15 (4x10 soon one second) so a good balance between brightness and roundness at the gear
-His record is very clear but not crystal clear and powerful, perfect for the big energy play slap and stumbled it responds well and does not bleed, incisive and brilliant
reinforcement is achieved adjustable back into its relatively round and present.
for everything that's heavy on fat and forget directos
-I like the fact it fills its role in a register or the bass is very aggressive with a huge potato style funky but hey I guess if someone has it that the risk of finding some limit songs to play soft and asked: s

OVERALL OPINION

I've had 5 months and I love it for what Personalities I regret a little bit of push-pull labsence to switch to a passive medium cutter so I could see to change the electronic microphone to see the latest and the plastic head sucks a little low was almost € 1,000 japprecis but otherwise it fills his role perfectly
I tried a lot of low knowing full well what I wanted: a 5cordes active humbucker has to type in a korn mudvayne between her and her competition Pleymo dailleurs largely K5 I tried in this area although may be less polivalente that the latter but hey I did not really want davoir K5 Write on my sleeve and is 300 € equart anyway: S
I got a € 650 in Germany I found the gallery for the production of this model stopped 2 weeks before my order I wanted it more in gray (silver) so jai caused the command several times.
Finally in my case is exellent value for money we are left with an almost pro bass with lots of personality and qq default for a competitive price
I love the look of her own Son and his aggressive
Yes, I buy it back with pleasure: D and if it did not exist then it would have an ibanez was in the same range (the sound is close enough and the handle)