My Gear YAMAHA RBX375

The Yamaha RBX 375 5-String Bass Guitar, Black. Great value, fine-playing, great-sounding, versatile instrument.

The Yamaha RBX 375 represents amazing value yet the quality is everything you would expect from a Yamaha bass. The Yamaha RBX 375 features include a muscular, contoured double-cut alder body , a smooth tapered feel bolt-on maple neck which carries a genuine rosewood fingerboard and a 3-D headstock design for cool looks. The combination of high-output ceramic humbucking pickups with 2-band active EQ and pickup blending pots, let you dial in a wide range of thick tones. A remarkably versatile bass that sounds great in jazz, blues, funk, gospel, rock, metal.

The main features of the Yamaha RBX 375 include:

• Body - Alder
• Alder is popular as a material for electric guitar bodies, used by many guitar makers such as Fender, ESP, and Jackson. Alder provides a brighter tone than other woods (such as mahogany), and—as alder is not a particularly dense wood—it provides a resonant, well-rounded tone with excellent sustain. Alder is also occasionally used to make harps, although this is a rarity. It is a favored wood for banjos and dulcimers, and is occasionally used for cigar box guitars

• Neck - Maple
• Maple is considered a tonewood, or a wood that carries sound waves well, and is used in numerous musical instruments. Maple is harder and has a brighter sound than Mahogany, which is the other major tonewood used in instrument manufacture.
  
  The back, sides, and neck of most violins, violas, cellos, double basses and many guitars are made from maple.
  
  
  
  Electric guitar necks are commonly made from maple. The necks of the Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster were originally an entirely maple one piece neck, but later were also available with rosewood fingerboards. Maple fingerboards have a brighter sound than rosewood. The tops of Gibson's Les Paul guitars are made from carved maple. Many Les Pauls have quilted or flamed maple tops, and these models are particularly prized by players and collectors. Very few solid body guitars are made entirely from maple, as it is considered too heavy. Many guitars do, however, have maple tops or veneers. Gibson uses laminated maple in the manufacture of many of its semi-hollowbody guitars.
  
  Maple is also often used to make bassoons and sometimes for other woodwind instruments.
  
  Most drums are made from maple. From the 70s to the 90s, maple drum kits were a vast majority of all drum kits made. In recent years, Birch has become popular for drums once again
  
  
  
  
  
  Controls - Master Volume 1, Pan-Pot and 2-Band EQ
  
• As I told you it is a versatile bass that sounds great in jazz, blues, funk, gospel, rock, metal. You can work your tone out experiment a little bit, there's a lot that this bass can offer, rich sounding instrument. Most of the time I use Middle pan pot a little bit of bass boost and 50% Treble, in such way the richness of the bass sound blends together with when your playing in a band. Well maybe depends on which genre you're playing. As I said if you have this bass man experiment a little you will hear amazing sounds this baby can offer.

• Great value, fine-playing, great-sounding, versatile instrument
• Muscular, contoured double-cut alder body
• Bolt-on maple neck
• Rosewood, 23 5/8’’ = 600mm radius fingerboard
• 24 Frets
• (864mm) 34 inches Scale Length
• High-output, ceramic humbucker pickups
• 2-Band Active EQ
• Master volume, master tone, pickup balance and 2-Band EQ controls
• Diecast bridge black
• Diecast black enclosed tuners

That's pretty much the first Part of Yamaha RBX375 Review. I use this at Church and it sounded awesome blends really well with the band and the genre of the song. Watch out for the next Chapters..