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Yamaha TRBX605FM in amber tint. Stunning at this price point. The bass is really well put together, functions with no issues at all, tuners, bridge, truss rod all beautifully operational. Is essentially a brand new bass, condition is excellent. Body is lightweight, well balanced and smooth contours on the heal. Overall it's a very well designed and put together instrument, perhaps given the Yamaha and TRB legacy more generally that's not surprising. The bass has been further upgraded by the addition of Aguilar DCBs and an East unipre (5 knobber with active/passive switch). I only purchased this week from Happypants as I was curious to try something I could tune E-C. It works brilliantly in this regard however the neck is not really what I want for this and I know ultimately it's not a keeper. I am becoming a neck snob as my years advance it seems. Pictures are current with TI Flats on but I'll restring with the original B-G rounds and undo the very minor adjustment I made on the bridge so it's restored as a more conventional 5 string. Also included is the original Yamaha pickups and preamp in case you wanted to fully restore it and reuse the East/DCBs... potential bargain right there some might say 🙂 No case but Happypants packed the bass well (thank you again matey, BC kudos!). Alternatively I am selling a Gator gig big which could be included in the deal if helpful.

Wonderfulness my back says no though (very much at the stage where my body and I disagree on most things) Glwts, classic

What is this thing and what does it do???

Very nice. Any chance of some more shots of the bass please? Aka basschat Frankie Vaughan 😁

As new, used once. Very nice bag, decent padding and support etc. carrying straps fold away when not in use. Which is nice. £75 posted or a bit cheaper if you want to collect. Cheapest I could find online was 117…

Brilliant! Well done for making this 😃 The tone might not be fab but I bet it does a terrific version of brick in the wall by Floyd gentlemen start your engines…

A thing of beauty no doubt

Man alive that is a total spunker

Hi matey - I was going to ask re the Sadowsky EQ as well. Can you confirm what the controls are now please? is the VTC version?

In answer to the questions: 1 Kind of. I think the pickups are now wired in parallel but were originally series, so this gives a slightly different flavour. Also both pickups are slightly further back than a regular jazz spacing (perhaps the rear is closer to 70s) so not quite the jazz sound but close overall. 2 I don't know, but I think it might be New Jazz Hybrid. I've got a feeling I tried a white one of these in the gallery and Martin may have mentioned it then.... Or I could just be imagining that.... It would make sense as most of the bass is a kind of evolution of a regular jazz Hope that's helpful

Hello fella! possible, did you end up with an 6er of mine at one stage….?

Thanks guys, looks lovely but I must resist!!!

Hello all. This is wonderful - feels and looks fantastic. I picked it up from Steff last year, great bass but simply not using it. Most of my gigs these days are either DB or P bass with flats, I've used this on a few function style gigs and it truly kicks like a mule Specs: Top - Claro Walnut Body - Ash with Bubinga tone block Neck - Flamed Maple and Purpleheart Fretboard - Curly Bubinga Pickups - Kent Armstrong Preamp - Noll 3 band with semi-parametric mid sweep. 24 Fret 34” Scale 18mm string spacing Weight is around 4.1-4.2kg Dadarrio nickel XLs Condition is excellent - a few very minor dings as you might expect Hope you don't mind Steff but I've included a few of your photos as they are much better than mine! Also, no pen and paper to hand this morning so I have enlisted the help of a lego robot to evidence ownership. I will most likely take the bass down to the gallery fairly soon, back to it's spiritual home. Posting here to see if there is any interest before I do so. Open to trades - yes, and happy to consider anything of comparable quality. The price is the price though. Shipping is an option in which case I'll include a Sadowsky gig bag. Cheers, Abd

Wonderful I absolutely love this

very nice I had a 5 string version for a while - it does take a little bit of figuring out but once done this is the closest thing (at the moment) to 'proper' control of a synth with a bass. The key thing to get your head around imo is that synths work differently to basses so you can't necessarily expect to control them using a bass string and get the same outcome. If you are into or using synths though well worth checking out. Not sure about yours James but mine worked really nicely as a regular bass as well

let’s hope that whoever buys this gives her a good home and doesn’t have to flipper

You can go about your business

Wonderful fretless bass and I think fairly well known This is the more unusual 20th Anniversary model, it has an ash body, Aguilar pickup and EQ (instead of the usual Bartolini) and the sunburst finish which I think Ibanez call tequila sunrise (?) It is a fantastic fretless bass, everything about the design works really well, it's light and resonant and the Aguilar electronics give plenty of musical variation The bass is currently strung with Dadarrio XLs but I do have a set of Dadarrio flats which can be swapped out if preferred. They are older but work really well on the bass Enlisting the help of R2D2 to evidence ownership Any questions let me know!

Thanks peter looks like different controls and bridge to the original pics, great bass though

Lovely bass Could you confirm the controls please, with three stacked pots and a passive tone I’m counting one too many? One passive tone per pu? cheers abd

Concur and lots of ka pickups on seis wonderful bass glwts

@lee650…..?

Thanks for listing this plethora, it means a lot I am so sorry

Sure, here you go: Also I've had a question on the size, the pickups measure 91mm front and 95mm bridge. Both are a fraction under 17mm wide without the screw fixings. Depth required would be anything over 25mm to allow for solder and wiring on the bass. Hope that helps but let me know if you have any other questions gang!