Quality to rival the world's finest basses.

The Yamaha TRB1006 is constructed to meet the demands of bassists looking for a bass that plays, sounds, and looks beautiful. It's a top-of-the-line instrument constructed from premium-grade woods and versatile, active electronics. The 35" scale neck is constructed from three pieces of maple and has dual truss rods for extreme stability. The neck is topped by a solid rosewood fingerboard with 24 frets and mother-of-pearl inlays. The contoured alder body features a luscious quilted maple cap. The TRB1006 is fitted with custom-designed alnico magnet humbucking soapbar pickups, an active 3-band EQ, and a pickup pan pot. Black hardware, including a solid brass bridge, is the finishing touch.

Yamaha TRB1006 6-String Bass Features:

• Alder body with maple top
• Bolt-on maple neck
• 35" scale
• 24 fret rosewood fingerboard
• 19-11/16" fretboard radius
• Solid brass bridge
• 2 alnico-magnet humbuckers
• Master volume, pickup pan, and 3-band EQ controls
• Yamaha limited lifetime warranty

When you're looking for unparalleled playability with quality and features to please the most discriminating players, you're ready for a TRB1006. Order now!

Yamaha TRB1006 6-String Bass

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Not Good Enough

Posted by Louis Friend from New Orleans, LA on Apr 10, 2008

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Metal, Funk, Experimental, Jazz

I was really happy to be buying from Yamaha again. I was extremely pleased with one of there low-end basses that I used to have. But I ended up sending this bass back. As soon as I took it out of the box, first thing I noticed was that the finish on my natural colored guitar looked NOTHING like the pictures. It's much darker and more yellow. Doesn't look nearly as good as the picture. But I got over that, didn't bother me that much. I plugged it in, tuned it up, adjusted the action and such to my liking.

The first problem I had, the neck pickup started cutting in and out. It's probably something I could have fixed, but I was not going to void a warranty one a BRAND NEW item. Next problem I had was an extremely odd sounding hum that made me think my speakers had blown out on my when hitting lower notes. Then it spread to almost every string except the G and C. And the amount of hum changed with how well connected the bad pickup was, so obviously there was some sort of relation.

In the end, I did NOT pay for a broken instrument. I'm returning it and buying a schecter instead.

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Super bass, but try the neck and string spacing!

Posted by Midinut from South Africa on Mar 24, 2008

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician 36 years

Reviewer's Play Style: All sorts mainly jazz

The TRB1006 is a super bass for the price. It has no dead notes, very powerful pickups (louder compared to my other bass with Bartolinis) and superb smooth electronics. The flat radius 35" neck take some getting used to as well as the string spacing on and behind the rear pickup where I usually play. The only problem I had was a few high frets causing irritating by buzzes, but this I fixed in a jiffy. I used an Eden amp and with flat settings I can get a great slap, finger and Joco-ish tone. Go get it!

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Yamaha, the most diverse instruments

Posted by eljuls from Kenosha, WI on Mar 18, 2008

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, Tejano, Jazz, R&B

I first bought a Yamaha bass about 10 years ago. At the time I was interested in looks, well my Yamaha has everything I was looking for. Looks nice, easy to play, great sound, diverse.

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Its on the cover of Bass Player Magazine

Posted by Chrisdude from Palm Bay, FL on Jan 16, 2008

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, Alternative,

I have been Playing Yamaha Basses for over 20 years, This bass is by far the best bass I have ever owned. It smokes my P-bass, Thunderbird, and even my BB3000S. Great feel, sound and look.

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This is the best bass I've played and bought.

Posted by Awake_DT from Panama City, Panama on Sep 23, 2007

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Session Man

Reviewer's Play Style: Jazz, Fusion, Progressive Metal

I've used this bass to play Progressive Metal, Jazz, Fusion, Classick Rock, Salsa, anything you can think of and it sure as hell does the job ! I've only had two problems with it, but they're not bad enough for me to lower the raitings. The hole where you plug in your cable is not working properly, but that can be fixed. The 16th fret in the A string for some reason isint working well. I'll get it fixed as soon as I can. Now I really feel like John Patitucci :P His cheap version at least. It's worth the money and if I was Yamaha I'd charge even more !

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