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Yamaha TRB5PII

5+ string bass guitar from Yamaha belonging to the TRB series

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Published on 02/23/04 at 08:49
Trs beautiful hand manufactures low in Japan (not core as the lower and mid-range Yamaha)
5 string active 3-band eq (severe acute mdium) gnral volume, balance and mix piezo pickups
neck-5 layers saddle and mahogany
affects bne
body frne flammbr Saddle and table /> (the violin is of excellent quality)
2 Alnico humbucker
piezo pickup
Price: 3000 in France and 2000 in Germany ...

UTILIZATION

Channel trs enjoyable (varnished) and not too wide for a 5 string (no comparison with the proportion trb6p or must have oversized hands!)
attention, this low weight pse ... around 13Kg
the balance is good trs, it is positioned immediately as it should, there is no need to adjust all the time!
CHAC is correct to acute (24 frets)
Ds that the branch, the piezo eq 0 and the center was a good direct sound with great sustain (neck-forces!)
I put 8 for the weight that some find Gnant but I am not a drang not to play, just in the metro must admit that it's a little galre ;-)

SOUNDS

Low trs versatile, you can go to the big dub funk blues by modifying only the bass eq (long live electronic active)
I use it in blues-rock and electro and although it sounds trs.
Its field of excellence as the rhythm and blues and fusion (jazz rock, prog rock).
The piezo can bring a sound interresting color but use with modration (not even when it sounds like a good grand-mre!)
attention as the amp, if you can not turn the tweeter, the piezo is unusable especially with new codes (too crystalline sounds of freight accentus ...)
The best sound recording direct to me is obtained starting from eq centered and then adding a little sharp in turning some serious balance and leaving the microphone in the center and even a little bit sharp, but ad hanging styles.
Basically the sound dchire and it is always better from the center and it moves away a little bit.
rglages the trs are sensitive and that's good!

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 8 months and I still taped by looking at its booth, the violin is superb.
J'apprcie as always the sound that continues to hallucinate my friends.
I have shit pigalle stores and tried everything I could, I give the remarks that have guided my choice but the sound is something trs staff:

warwick: good bass to play alone for APRS and the seller's actually a terrible trs not dig forcment group o everything is done in mdiums
Spector: mono sound too good, but what I was looking for (his Graham Maby, bassist Joe Jackson) but not versatile enough I would have one one day when even
Fender Jazz Deluxe 5: Audio Fender but that's it and then there are really nervent dtails that this price level: small bridge that must change for a badass term (this everyone does) and then mcanique say "light weight" plastic, it's really low for abusing more than 2000
Fender Precision Deluxe 5: I prfre the four, it did not sound terrible, and yet I saw the killers playing with a precision 5 and sounded serious (Cockelaere. ..)?!? may be the store's silent rotten!
Neuser (MODELS more but I remember the names): I got too nasal but try, when even endorse the brand of good raw (Di Piazza ...)

and others which did not leave a memory imprissable

two remained low COMPTITE APRS fitting: Jazz Deluxe 5 and trb5pII. I returned a week later and you know who won!