Adrian Posted December 20, 2008 Posted December 20, 2008 Hi I have a Yamaha RBX800 bass that im planning on doing up! Ive got all the parts except for the pickups! Does anyone know where i can pick up a pair of the original yamaha pickups for this bass? or HAS ANYONE GOT ANY? cheers. Adrian Quote
Gman Posted December 20, 2008 Posted December 20, 2008 Awesome bass mate - I have one in blue! To be honest the stock pups weren't great - I replaced mine with Barts and an EMG BTC tone circuit to give it a bit more welly and control. As you'll know, if you do replace them with non Yam pups, they leave whopping big gaps round them...but it's worth it. Have you just got this...how much did you pay for it (if you don't mind me asking)? G Quote
thepurpleblob Posted December 21, 2008 Posted December 21, 2008 [quote name='Adrian' post='359936' date='Dec 20 2008, 10:30 PM']Hi I have a Yamaha RBX800 bass that im planning on doing up! Ive got all the parts except for the pickups! Does anyone know where i can pick up a pair of the original yamaha pickups for this bass? or HAS ANYONE GOT ANY? cheers. Adrian[/quote] I used to have the fretless version of that. Quite nice.... apart from the weird, intelligence test bridge possibly. Quote
Adrian Posted December 21, 2008 Author Posted December 21, 2008 [quote name='Gman' post='359979' date='Dec 20 2008, 11:42 PM']Awesome bass mate - I have one in blue! To be honest the stock pups weren't great - I replaced mine with Barts and an EMG BTC tone circuit to give it a bit more welly and control. As you'll know, if you do replace them with non Yam pups, they leave whopping big gaps round them...but it's worth it. Have you just got this...how much did you pay for it (if you don't mind me asking)? G[/quote] Cool! Thanks for the tips. I bought it a few months ago....50 quid....EBAY! (Y) Adrian Quote
Gman Posted December 21, 2008 Posted December 21, 2008 Man, that's an awesome price! I still have the occasional play with mine and it feels like home! Quote
King Tut Posted December 21, 2008 Posted December 21, 2008 (edited) I got a bluey green one - £129 from cash converters. It's all standard - gotta say I'm quite happy with the original electrics in mine! I've also got the manual somewhere if you need a copy of it. Edited December 21, 2008 by King Tut Quote
Adrian Posted December 21, 2008 Author Posted December 21, 2008 [quote name='King Tut' post='360194' date='Dec 21 2008, 01:03 PM']I got a bluey green one - £129 from cash converters. It's all standard - gotta say I'm quite happy with the original electrics in mine! I've also got the manual somewhere if you need a copy of it.[/quote] cool..its a really good looking bass! wow great value. and yeah please...that would be great!!! cheers Quote
King Tut Posted December 22, 2008 Posted December 22, 2008 I've scanned in the manual Adrian - PM me your email address and I'll send it to you. Regards Col Quote
Adrian Posted December 23, 2008 Author Posted December 23, 2008 [quote name='King Tut' post='361314' date='Dec 22 2008, 07:19 PM']I've scanned in the manual Adrian - PM me your email address and I'll send it to you. Regards Col[/quote] Thanks Col my email is [email protected] Kind Regards Adrian Quote
King Tut Posted December 23, 2008 Posted December 23, 2008 On it's way....................enjoy! Quote
mrcrow Posted December 28, 2008 Posted December 28, 2008 [quote name='Gman' post='359979' date='Dec 20 2008, 11:42 PM']<snip>..............As you'll know, if you do replace them with non Yam pups, they leave whopping big gaps round them...but it's worth it. Have you just got this...how much did you pay for it (if you don't mind me asking)? G[/quote] why yamaha did this i can never understand...the funny pup shapes Quote
DanTM Posted January 8, 2013 Posted January 8, 2013 My black RBX800A arrived yesterday. Great quality and I really like the Pickups so far. Any other RBX800A owners in here ? Quote
iconic Posted January 8, 2013 Posted January 8, 2013 wow, 4 year old threadoerection! I always thought those were a lovely looking body, they went over to the later rbx shape around '97 I think? Cool looking bass. Quote
megallica Posted January 9, 2013 Posted January 9, 2013 I had a white one that I sold in 2010 - very nice basses. The pointy headstock does look very 80's but that's not a negative in my book. This wasn't mine but identical [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_1LQDNiIcA"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_1LQDNiIcA[/url] Quote
Paul S Posted January 9, 2013 Posted January 9, 2013 I had a weird kind of pearloid finish white one for a while - RBX800A bought on here and sold on here about a year later. Gorgeous neck, completely odd bridge. I found the tone fairly harsh, though, and had I kept it would have wanted to change the electrics somehow. They usually go for peanuts, so an extremely good buy secondhand. Top of the range in its day, I think? Quote
Ghost_Bass Posted March 20, 2013 Posted March 20, 2013 (edited) I'll take advantage of this topic ressurection to ask if anybody has a J pickup for this bass that can sell. I have a friends 800A on the bench for repair, the pre is now working but the single coil is fried, i only get sound from half the pickup (D and G) and at a very low volume. The P pickup is fine and sounds lovely, very punchy, i'm really liking it. EDIT: the bass is the RBX800A, so the pickup must be active Edited March 20, 2013 by Ghost_Bass Quote
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