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BGRA: Yamaha BX-1
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Yamaha |
Model |
BX-1 |
| Reviewer |
Stephen Woo |
Email |
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| Experience |
18 |
Item owned |
A very, very long ti |
| Review Date |
2002-08-14 |
Price paid |
380 used |
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Bass type | 4 string fretted |
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Neck join | Neck Through |
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Neck construction | 5 piece Maple thur body |
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Fingerboard | rosewood, 24 fret |
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Body | Maple |
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Finish | cream White |
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Pickups | a Pair 16 poles soapbar pickups |
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Hardware | Black |
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Electronics | Passive vol, pan, and tone with coil tap |
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Very good looking Headless style BX-1 I owned for 12 years.
It looks better than my Steinberger XL2, because the star shape look.
Truss rod is quite easy to adjust and the neck keep straight all the time
even the weather change. the headless strings installation is easy, and it
does not need special double balls string like those Steinbergers, it save
a lot of money. The sound is thicky deep, beefy tone eventhough it uses
the passive electronics. The tone seems to be missing some highend crisp,
a little lack of punchy power to slap, but not very disappoint from its
passive electronic.
The Yamaha special design soapbar is the same one using on MB-1, motion B
bass, and the size it have are not able for me to upgrade. It does come
with its onlt slim small case which is very easy to carry around. For
those who interest to buy one like mine, make sue they have the perfect
fit custom case that come with it, because this bass cannot fit in regular
guitar gig bag like Steinberger X series does.
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| value |
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