Yamaha 4 String Bass Guitar, Right Handed, Tobacco Brown Sunburst, 4-String (TRBX174EW TBS)

It was worth waiting for. I am a novice player, with 4 basses now (Fender, Ibanez, Schecter), but kept reading many articles about this bass. It was on my list for a while and it arrived 2 days ago. I bought the black gloss, which has a tiger maple look under the gloss-and I view this as beautiful. The bass is heavier than my others and has some neck drop, but the controls are all spot on sensitive and adjustable to what sound/tone I am looking for. The piece arrived with round wound strings and I prefer tape wound and…

Yamaha’s made in Indonesia bass guitars are a question mark in terms of quality control. I really wanted to like this bass guitar, but apparently there might be a quality control problem with made in Indonesia Yamaha guitars.The Yamaha TBRX504 I received had a problem with its active circuit picking up a local radio station and playing it through my amp. In the passive mode the radio signals are cut out. This guitar can be played without a battery in the passive mode. Anyway, after playing it for a couple of weeks the E string suddenly because about 10db louder than…