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No matter what bass I play, or what head, speaker or combo, my signature sound is exactly the same.... flat, boring and uninspiring.... Guitarists love it

Love the 734. It does a real good p and a real nice stingray/jazz bite if needed too. Nice and easy to play.

I took a different tact this year.... Decided time waits for no man, so I'd try as much bass gear as I could, use it, then pass it on, and try more... hopefully without spending any money... 1. Notable purchases: Yamaha 734a - outstanding bass. Trace Elliot 115 twin valve - beautiful amp, has THAT valve sound. Tonex one - absolute game changer. 1000 steps above amp simulators. Zoom ms60b+ it is a brilliant pedal. In a brilliant compact size.... However what made it good was also it's bad point - I couldn't change patches easily and couldn't read what the patch was. Gator twin bass case. One of the best purchases ever. Carries everything I need in spares. Fits on your back very easily. No need for 2 cases or worse 2 hard cases any more. Frees up hands for load ins. TC bc250 combo. I thought it was great for small medium gigs, had plenty of options and was unbelievably light. Eden practice amp, quite loud has aux in and headphones. Nice sound. Cheapo temu wireless - work great. 2. Notable let downs: TC sub n up. It's a good pedal, potentially great, but the tone prints give too many options and if you start off on a bad one you're up against it. I couldn't get a decent octave sound out of it easily. Different upgraded set of temu wireless - clash with interference at 50% of venues. Prob a lot more, but I'll have to remember what I've had and sold this year...

Played my 734a at an audition this week. First time I'd played it live. Through a rehearsal room cheap ashdown tone master and a cheapo hartke cab. Sounded glorious just in passive p mode. Never had people comment on a small room sound before but all members loved it. Warm, fat, but authorative. Sat in the mix lovely. Got me the gig too

So... If I played 16th notes with a fat bass sound would the speed and size of a driver matter? I'm sure it does. That was the old argument for 10s being (perceived) as a tighter sound as they move quicker?

Isn't there other factors too, from a striictly playing point of view, other than just what it can handle - speed of driver/cone response, feel (flappy, tight etc), the 'slam' you get from them... Apologies for the non scientific terms just describing in a very basic way terms from a playing point of view.

After years and years of 2x10, 4x10, 2x12, 6x10, if convinced myself that 15s are where "my" sound is. Just love them, now that I understand eq. Years and years when I didn't fully understand eq, ago they were muddy and dull. Too bassy. Having played the odd one or two 15 combos in practice rooms I always was really impressed. Peavey, GK etc. Then my recent trace valve 15 (but that was glorious anyway). Then tonight played through a really cheap ashdown head and a 2x15 hartke cab - which started shocking, but one I boosted the mods and reduced a bit of treble sounded glorious. I'm never up with fashions... And all the recent bass cab fashions seems to be 10s and 12s... Any love for 15 inch cabs?

These are Indonesian made.

Think of it a different way.... The sound guy has had several bands worth of playing beforehand to get the bass and drum kit mixed really well out front. So you should have had a great sound. If you used you're rig he'd be starting from scratch again. I do agree though, always underpowered and inaudible for some reason....

They look like a set of geezer gzr

The pickups just say emg in gold on the bottom right. I did see a video where on of the retailers were saying they are designed standard size so you could upgrade etc if needed.

Hi all, Having a play with a yamaha 734a this week. This has been on my wanted list for probably 10 years, or at least since they came out. Very distinctive look and cool. We'll, after 2 days I can say I love it. Granted it took quite a few hours to get used to. There is SO much tone control it's unreal. The passive p tone is absolutely perfect, yet the passive tone control (the treble knob when in passive) helps you dial it to perfection. Flick it to active and you've a whole lot more tone to dial with. Turn it to rear pickup and it's lovely and growly. Thinner and tighter. Put again either the tone control or active eq allow you to move to your taste. Personally I start at either end of the pickup selector, dial in a nice sound then move the pickup blend to either make it warmer and fatter or thinner and tighter. Works a treat. The bass is nice and light. It also has a lovely shallow neck. Both making it easy to play. This one has emg pickups, did they come as standard?

Fantastic, gorgeous, individual looking basses. Sound fantastic too.