Yamaha TRB 6 string bass guitars

[Chris Horton]

As the title ...........

I own a TRB 5pII and a TRB 6 II and love them both. They both sound very different .

Can anyone please tell me if there is much difference in tone between the TRB6 , TRB6p , TRB6 II & TRB6pII ?

Has anyone played / owned any of the above ??

I have been watching the " dirty Loops" the bass player uses a TRB6p.
I have also been watching " Magazine gap" tim the bass layer uses a TRB 6 pII.

I have some real bad gas for a TRB 6p now !
I don't think that i can hold it in for much longer

[Kiwi]

Had a similar conversation on Facebook recently - I'm lost as to the differences now. Fantastic sounding instruments even if the string spacing is wider than I'm comfortable on.

[bubinga5]

An adjustable bridge would be a great thing on those basses.. like the bridge i had on my old Sei.. can i remember the name of it???

[Chris Horton]

Do any fellow trb6 string players think it is worth the extra cash to go from a TRB 6ii to a TRB6p ??

[AttitudeCastle]

Do they still make the TRB6ps?

I know a new line of TRBs are coming out before too long and have been designed in collab. with Mark from Bass direct

I'd personally make sure i had one with Piezos and i'd be happy!

All the sound clips of the TRB6ps i've heard have been awesome, but whats the actual difference?

[Chris Horton]

[quote name='AttitudeCastle' post='1329727' date='Aug 6 2011, 11:19 AM']Do they still make the TRB6ps?

I know a new line of TRBs are coming out before too long and have been designed in collab. with Mark from Bass direct

I'd personally make sure i had one with Piezos and i'd be happy!

All the sound clips of the TRB6ps i've heard have been awesome, but whats the actual difference?[/quote]


No, they don't make the Trb6p's anymore.
You can only get them second hand.

I had no idea that there were new TRB's on the way ! Very exciting !

Do you have any details / specs of the instruments ?

[XylemBassGuitar]

[quote name='Chris Horton' post='1329262' date='Aug 5 2011, 02:25 PM']Can anyone please tell me if there is much difference in tone between the TRB6 , TRB6p , TRB6 II & TRB6pII ?[/quote]

Are they all the same scale length? Have the same pickups? If either of those two aspects are different they will [i]definitely[/i] cause differences in tone between the instruments.

[Chris2112]

They are awesome basses. The TRB6II's are as good as handmade instrument, they really are works of art. The TRBJP6 has always been my favourite model of the range (particularly the first generation models). Shame they had a bolt on neck.

[AttitudeCastle]

[quote name='Chris Horton' post='1329835' date='Aug 6 2011, 12:48 PM']No, they don't make the Trb6p's anymore.
You can only get them second hand.

I had no idea that there were new TRB's on the way ! Very exciting !

Do you have any details / specs of the instruments ?[/quote]

None, but they will retail through BassDirect for about £3000 (I'm going to pry Mark for specs though!)

[quote name='XylemBassGuitar' post='1330028' date='Aug 6 2011, 04:28 PM']Are they all the same scale length? Have the same pickups? If either of those two aspects are different they will [i]definitely[/i] cause differences in tone between the instruments.[/quote]

I believe the older ones were 34" and now they are 35" and also the much older TRB6s had single coils, and the the TRB6p ones were "fat" single coil designs which progressed into full on soapbars (IIRC)

[Kiwi]

There was a time about 5 or 6 years ago where you could easily pick up a used TRB Mk1 thru neck for 600 quid on Ebay. I knew then they were being undervalued and would have had one were it not for the width.

[Kongo]

My main 6-string is a Yamaha TRB6II (1998) and I gotta say, it's very well built!
It's age has only made it better. It's massive and the neck is hunk a chunk but that's what I like about it. However, it played even easier than my Ibanez BTB556, which has a really flat neck.
Never tried a TRB6IIp though...Hmmm...

Edited August 6, 2011 by Kongo

[bubinga5]

This is the badboy for me.. awsome bass..

[Chris Horton]

[quote name='bubinga5' post='1330614' date='Aug 7 2011, 08:07 AM']This is the badboy for me.. awsome bass..[/quote]



I have the 5 string version of this bass in the same finish and it is awesome!
I'd love to check out the 6 string at some point. It would probably weigh about the same as a small planet though

[bubinga5]

The tone fingerstyle and slap sounds awsome on this older TRB..

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRbmvkzvUII"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRbmvkzvUII[/url]

[thumbo]

[quote name='bubinga5' post='1335981' date='Aug 11 2011, 02:26 AM']The tone fingerstyle and slap sounds awsome on this older TRB..

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRbmvkzvUII"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRbmvkzvUII[/url][/quote]

There's a great midrange tone to these basses that seems quite unique to TRBs.

[AttitudeCastle]

[quote name='bubinga5' post='1335981' date='Aug 11 2011, 02:26 AM']The tone fingerstyle and slap sounds awsome on this older TRB..

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRbmvkzvUII"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRbmvkzvUII[/url][/quote]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V43Y11jjtfo&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V43Y11jjtfo...feature=related[/url]

Check out that too

[quote name='thumbo' post='1336020' date='Aug 11 2011, 08:10 AM']There's a great midrange tone to these basses that seems quite unique to TRBs.[/quote]

Yeah, definately, thats why i like them so much!