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Yamaha TRBX305 5-string Bass Guitar - White

5-string Electric Bass with Mahogany Body, 5-pc Maple/Mahogany Neck, Rosewood Fingerboard, and 2 Humbucking Pickups - White
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An Extremely Versatile 5-string Bass!

The Yamaha TRBX305 5-string bass guitar brings versatility, killer looks, and amazing performance together in a complete package. This sleek-looking, great-sounding bass gives you a comfortable Yamaha body shape and a fast-action bolt-on 5-piece maple/mahogany neck with a smooth-playing rosewood fingerboard. A pair of humbucking pickups deliver hum-free sound and the Performance EQ active circuit instantly optimizes your bass or different playing styles. Factor in the Yamaha TRBX305's solid hardware and thoughtful design, and you've got a great-looking bass that's ready to conquer any stage.

Comfortable body with progressive styling

One look at the Yamaha TRBX305 5-string electric bass, and you know it means business. A deep cutaway gives you clean access to the higher registers for soloing, while the pronounced upper bout provides balance (and looks cool). The 5-piece maple/mahogany neck has a comfortable and fast-playing profile. The TRBX305 sports a precision fitted neck joint that gives you clear, punchy tone. And the straight string pull of the headstock offers improved tuning stability and reduces overtones. You're going to love the way the TRBX305 looks, plays, and feels!

Humbucking pickups deliver massive bass tone

Yamaha loaded the TRBX305 5-string bass with a pair of custom-designed M3 humbucking pickups. These bad boys sport ceramic magnets and oversized polepieces for big tone with great depth and definition without any hum. The M3 pickups even have a built-in thumbrest for your playing comfort. On top of amazing pickup tone and performance, the TRBX305 has any extremely versatile set of active electronics so you can be ready for any gig. An active 2-band EQ lets you dial in your ideal sound fast and easy. The Performance EQ 5-way switch is loaded with optimized EQ settings for playing styles ranging from slap, pick, fingerstyle, and solo bass playing. No matter what kind of sound you need, the Yamaha TRBX305 bass can get you there in seconds!

Yamaha quality, through and through

The Yamaha TRBX305 5-string bass is covered by the company's Limited Lifetime Warranty. Yamaha has been making world-class instruments for over a century, and they're supremely confident of the quality of the materials and workmanship that goes into their products. You can rest easy that you've made a solid decision in purchasing the Yamaha TRBX305 electric bass guitar!

Yamaha TRBX305 5-string Bass Guitar Features:

  • An extremely versatile 5-string bass for all styles of music
  • Fast-action 5-piece maple/mahogany neck with rosewood fingerboard
  • Comfortable mahogany body with progressive styling and deep cutaways
  • Humbucking pickups give you a universe of great bass tones
  • 5-way Performance EQ switch delivers optimized tones for different playing styles
  • Yamaha Limited Lifetime Warranty

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Tech Specs

  • Number of Strings: 5
  • Left-/Right-handed: Right-handed
  • Body Shape: TRBX
  • Body Material: Mahogany
  • Body Finish: Gloss Polyurethane
  • Color: White
  • Neck Material: 5-piece Maple/Mahogany
  • Radius: 23.625"
  • Fingerboard Material: Rosewood
  • Fingerboard Inlay: Dots
  • Number of Frets: 24
  • Scale Length: 34"
  • Nut Width: 1.692"
  • Nut Material: Urea
  • Bridge/Tailpiece: Die-cast Bridge
  • Tuners: Covered Die-cast
  • Neck Pickup: M3 Ceramic Dual-coil
  • Bridge Pickup: M3 Ceramic Dual-coil
  • Controls: 1 x master volume, 1 x balance, 2-band Active EQ, 5-way Performance EQ switch
  • Strings: D'Addario EXL, .045-.130
  • Case Included: Sold Separately
  • Manufacturer Part Number: TRBX305 WH

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Rated 5/5

Perfect Bass

For me this bass is absolutely perfect. Personally, everything I wanted and I liked in my equipment.
Rated 5/5

Amazing bass

What an amazing bass! I want to add a 5 strings to my colection, but I didn't want to spend lot of money because I enjoy more the 4 strings. I tryied a lot of good basses, including the Yamaha Trbx505 witch is the next model to this one. This is by far the best 5 strings under $600. My main basses are a Fender Geddy Lee signature and a Warwick Corvette and this Yamaha TRBX305 easily kills both in sound, versatility, balance, playability and the price is half of the others. I change the strings for LaBella 40-118 and I got a nice low action without buzz. Yamaha really take care or the details. A+ bass.
Music background: Active musician
Rated 5/5

Worth it

As a lifelong guitarist, I bought this bass for writing and recording demo material with. I honestly don't know if I could have expected any nicer of an instrument for what I was after. I've had it for several months now and I can say that the 305 is a solid instrument, you can tell before you plug it in. It plays effortlessly, stays in tune, and a the EQ circuit makes finding the tone in your head a lot quicker, especially for a novice bassist like myself. Fit and finish are top notch, too.

Also: Buy it here. Seriously, the inspection is worth it - even if they don't immediately have it in stock. I just bought a completely unrelated guitar (for $1k more!!!) from a competitor and I didn't even bother plugging it in because it had so many cosmetic defects right out of the box. Your patience will be rewarded.
Rated 5/5

A home run by Yamaha!

Wow, what a sweet bass! Feels great in the hand, looks great, sounds beautiful. I have several Fenders and love them, and I almost bought a 5-string P, but I'm happy I chose this one. The tone is deep and powerful with a sweet top end. The EQ presets are very useful for quick adjustments and the preamp is quiet. Bass and treble control frequency centers are just right. In fact, the preamp sounds as good as, and is less noisy than, my Sadowsky outboard. Don't let the low price fool you, Yamaha really hit it out of the park with this one!
Rated 5/5

Yamaha TRBX305WH is # 1

I honestly was not sure about getting the 305 instead of the 505 with slightly better pick ups but after using it last week when I received it it REALLY didn't matter. This bass is awesome!!!!! The 5-way switch had me!!! LOl this bass plays fantastic,sounds fantastic and for 400 bucks I'll put it up against ANY "boutique" basses !!! just remember friends,it's ALL in the amp and player!!!! LOL btw i'm running an SVT0410HLF and a Hartke-LH100 !! sweetwater ROCKS!!!!!!!! p.S. thanks Nick!!!!!
Music background: player over 40 yrs
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