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As mentioned before, my black 1000MA had to go through some weird times... 😛

Beautiful bass !!!! 😍 I think the black 1000MA is going to get a silver sparkle finish this year. This is my first 1000MA and it had to go through so many amateur-ish optical operations in the last 20 years.. 😱 Foils, stickers, gold harware (including the transformation of the pu rings to gold) Maybe I can find some pics of the most cruel things done to this piece of wood somewhere 😉

I think (but don't know) everything new was done to make it even more attractive to Fender orientated bass payers. The downsizing, the std size pus, the body without pu rings. In my opinion, you'll get the best Fender tone when playing a Fender. It's so simple 🙂 The new line does not amaze me that much. Played an incredible BBP35 at Guitar Summit two years ago, no 4 string could match that sadly. I started with a 300 back in the 80s. Went up from 1600 to 3000 then came the Hifi years with active basses. When the BB series started new with the 414 I fell in love again with the series. My main bass is 1000MA for nearly 25 years now (this bass even smashed my 3000MA) and last year I found some 424s in mint condition that are just wonderfull. I remember putting a pu ring on a beautiful 300 in candy apple red, I should have kept that (heavy) bass 🙂

First of all, I don't want to get into a personal dispute, I just expressed my opinion. What I wanted to say fits the topic of what's new in BBs. With today's technology, an inlay doesn't cost a fortune to mass produce. And it would have been nice ( and even nicer than before when Yamaha used to do so ) and an incentive to buy. That's all. Let's not forget that I still love and play BBs! Well, the older ones 🙂

It is not ire 🙂 More disappointment. To do some inlays with todays technology is not an issue of a hundred Dollars.

I like the older shape better than the new one and most important... the new line lacks the presence of the pick up rings! THE symbol of the BB line. Gone. Like a Mercedes without a star 😉 Maybe to appear more Fender-ish. How easy the construction of some new pu rings (fitting std size pus) would have been. To just leave them out was easier and cheaper. To leave out the iconic fretmarks on the cheaper models... just sad. The new line has one positive effect- customers of a new BB are selling their old ones. Well, it is what it is. Edit: Concerning colours - just buy a second hand BB and choose a colour you want and refinish it. You'll get your dream bass with a totally mint appearance. No reason to wait for new catalogue colors - including a fitting headstock finish (!).

New look on my 424. I recently bought a pickguard and a controle plate for my other 424 and made an "X" version out of it. This one was black too like it's brother. A new string tree is the only thing I wanted to improve.

Had some time to wait for a guy who wanted to buy a bass from me (and did so) and I noodled arround with my BB1000MA this afternoon. It's just for fun, nothing serious! BB1000MA over an old Zoom B2 into a Zoom R8 recording device. Relax 🙂 BB1000MA

Ah...good news. 🙂 Thank you !

It seems as if the seller has given up his fine work??? 😞

Thank you !

I am sorry that I asked someone in this thread if he was interested in a bass. I got "a penalty point "that will never expire" , whatever that means. The evil content can't be shown to me, because I have "no permission to see it" and the email from bc can't be answered because it's a no reply mail. So sorry IF the question I asked was the reason ... OMG....

After nearly 2 years of only playing the Telecaster I had to record a bass and took the bb out again. I still love the sound 🙂 What a brilliant bass 🙂

If you are not one of the lucky BBPH bass ownwers... other BB's will do ! 🙂 Recordet with one of my BB1000ma`s.

Happy new year! Frank Itt on his Yamaha's