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The Yamaha BB mega-thread


Al Krow

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3 hours ago, BassApprentice said:

How about a burst one? Under £400 for 1024, surely you won't get a better bass for that money? 

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If I'd live in UK I would have bought immediately 
love this bass without the pickguard

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11 hours ago, marleaux62 said:

Just bought this yesterday 

Congrats!! Did it come with that hard case in the price? If so you got a bargain and a great looking bass at the same time. You had a chance to put it through its paces yet? First impressions?

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14 hours ago, marleaux62 said:

A friend of mine has just bought a new bb734 in dark gray he said it's probably the best Yamaha he's ever played. I think he's had around 4 or five Yamaha basses over the years I can't wait to have a go of it really fancy one myself.

You've really got the Yammy bug bad haven't you? Only had your lovely 1024 for 5 mins and you're already after a 734! 😂 

Remind me, was the 1024 your first Yammy or do you have other models as well? 

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You've gone for some quality Yammys then!

I've included in the "wall of shame" on the OP - amusingly the Yammy bass owners with names / avatars beginning with "M" are far and away the most common. Not sure what that says about anything! 😁 

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On 12/10/2020 at 16:42, Al Krow said:

Just clicked on a couple of Yammy 735As and was gobsmacked by their current new retail prices! 

Actually there is one place still selling them at the old prices...Bass Direct (£749), but a couple of retailers were in the £850 ball park and the Yammy store in London has it on for an eye watering £934!

Bass Direct have just dropped their price to £729 shipped for a 735A and given that these basses seem to hold their value pretty well (as can be seen from 414/5, 424/5 and 1024/5 used prices), I'm really tempted to get a new replacement one for the used one I sold a while back (apparently because I was holding onto my P35, or so I thought!).

Lot more convenient for me in terms of follow up servicing / warranty issues to get from the Yammy store in London, and they have confirmed they are willing to match the best online prices - so that's a point worth bearing in mind.

So I just need to decide on satin black or coffee sunburst now then - decisions, decisions haha! I'm guessing you lot would split fairly evenly between the two options? 

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24 minutes ago, dannybuoy said:

I'd say the sunburst is a better fit for your retro bands, the matte black more at home with a rock / metal band, but get whatever floats your boat!

I thought it would be a slam dunk for the matt black - particularly with ALL Series 3 headstocks (including on the P34/5s!) being black, but the black headstock doesn't feel too out of place with the burst either.

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I say matte black; very elegant and “original” than the sunburst. 
Also love the blue stripe along the body which testify the attention to detail that Yamaha puts on this line of basses 

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26 minutes ago, Chopthebass said:

Wow this is a mega thread! I am waiting on a newly ordered BBNE2, in white of course. 

I haven't gone through all 171 pages to see if this bass has been discussed! Its a great sounding bass with superb build quality. I should get it just before xmas!

May have been mentioned a couple of times 😉

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@Chopthebass I hope yours has got black hardware and not the trashy gold hardware that this one has - otherwise you're likely to come in for a fair bit of abuse from ancient Egyptian admiring types on this forum 😁 

Check out P13 / 14 of the thread for some NE2 chat and I posted a short review of it on 13th March 2018 (P13).

And congratulations!! Dunno what other basses you currently have, but the NE2 is an absolute corker!

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21 hours ago, Chopthebass said:

Wow this is a mega thread! I am waiting on a newly ordered BBNE2, in white of course. 

I haven't gone through all 171 pages to see if this bass has been discussed! Its a great sounding bass with superb build quality. I should get it just before xmas!

Not jealous at all

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On 15/10/2020 at 12:49, Al Krow said:

Bass Direct have just dropped their price to £729 shipped for a 735A and given that these basses seem to hold their value pretty well (as can be seen from 414/5, 424/5 and 1024/5 used prices), I'm really tempted to get a new replacement one for the used one I sold a while back (apparently because I was holding onto my P35, or so I thought!).

Lot more convenient for me in terms of follow up servicing / warranty issues to get from the Yammy store in London, and they have confirmed they are willing to match the best online prices - so that's a point worth bearing in mind.

So I just need to decide on satin black or coffee sunburst now then - decisions, decisions haha! I'm guessing you lot would split fairly evenly between the two options? 

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Sunburst for me

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