Yamaha BB735a - Fired Red | Inc. padded Yamaha gig-bag | ***NOW £550 Shipped!*** £675 DH2 Durham

[Paddy777]

For sale is my Yamaha BB735a 5 string PJ In Fired Red (one of the new colours out) - this bass is less than a month old, I’ve played it a handful of times and gigged in once - still has the plastic wrap on the battery compartment 

 

Comes with a very nice padded Yamaha Gigbag which is fur or velvet lined (something like that anyway - it’s nice and soft ha)

 

The bass is incredibly high quality - same pickups as the BBP range, 6 bolt Miter neck joint which makes for an extremely tight fit, the body is sandwich of Alder/Maple/Alder, the neck is amazing to play - the quality of these BB700 series is just crazy

 

Its active with a 3 band preamp, and an active/passive switch - in passive mode the treble control works as a normal tone control would on a passive bass, which is a really nice and useful touch and the preamp has a red led battery light 

 

This link to the Anderton’s page for this bass which has all the info and specs on it: https://www.andertons.co.uk/yamaha-bb735a-bass-guitar-in-fired-red/

 

*19/5: Back up for sale* 

 

**Reduced to £550 inc. Free UK Delivery** 

 

Edited 5 hours ago by Paddy777

[Gaucho 5]

Hey Paddy,

                       How's the B string on this? I believe the 2025 models (which includes the Fired Red and Indigo Blue) had a bit of a tweak here and there so may have improved the B??? Slightly subjective subject as there was quite a marked difference of opinion regarding the B!

I've not seen any reviews of the newer model as yet so I'm sure chatters would appreciate your view buddy!

Regards

Gaucho

[Paddy777]

I never played one of the older ones, so I can’t compare it to those, but it’s a very good B string - I’ve not given it a lot of thought which is a very good sign, I generally only think about the B string on a bass when it’s farty and dull every time you play a note, and this definitely isn’t the case here. Like everything on the bass it’s absolutely spot on, a proper working bassist’s bass.

 

I use the B string a lot, I pretty much live between frets 3-12 on the B and then moving across the bass, and when a B string is crap you can’t do that. 
 

Edited Monday at 19:27 by Paddy777

[Paddy777]

Reduced to £650 with UK delivery included! 

[Terry M.]

Great looking bass this. When you say it's less than a month old do you mean you've had it less than a month or it actually came off the production line less than a month ago?

[Paddy777]

16 minutes ago, Terry M. said:

Great looking bass this. When you say it's less than a month old do you mean you've had it less than a month or it actually came off the production line less than a month ago?

I don’t know when it came off the production line obviously, but it was bought brand new less than a month ago 

[Terry M.]

8 hours ago, Paddy777 said:

I don’t know when it came off the production line obviously, but it was bought brand new less than a month ago 

Okay. You said the bass was less than a month old which drove the question from me. Thanks.Also do you know the weight at all? I tried one in Guitar Guitar in this finish and it felt like it weighed about 11 pounds or so.

Edited Wednesday at 05:36 by Terry M.

[Paddy777]

I’ll weigh it later, it’s lighter than my Lakland 55/60 which is 4.4kg, so it’s nowhere near 11lbs thankfully 😁 

[Paddy777]

On 21/05/2025 at 06:02, Terry M. said:

Okay. You said the bass was less than a month old which drove the question from me. Thanks.Also do you know the weight at all? I tried one in Guitar Guitar in this finish and it felt like it weighed about 11 pounds or so.

4.2kg or 9.24lbs 

[Paddy777]

Now reduced to £575 with free UK delivery!

Edited yesterday at 12:41 by Paddy777

[Paddy777]

£550 Shipped…!

[HeadlessBassist]

Come on all you Vincen Garcia fans. This is the funk machine of 2025!  😎👍