Yamaha BB234 Bass - Natural Satin

The Yamaha BB234 4-String Bass Guitar is an introduction to the highly anticipated BB Series, and what an introduction it is! Featuring a double cutaway solid Alder body with both modern and contemporary appointments this bass has the guts to become the workhorse players just starting out on their bass journey are crying out for.  

Take back control of your bass with stylish chrome appointments in the form of one tone knob and two volume knobs, use these to bring out alternative tonal voicings to suit certain grooves and moods. 

With this revamped and redesigned BB234 Yamaha have opted for their Custom V3 Ceramic Pickups. This versatile set naturally produces a crisp, clean sound with clearly defined frequencies that will suit a huge variety of genres and playing styles. These pickups have been designed to be the powerhouse of this workhorse bass guitar and will lap up slap styles, picked riffs or even heavily distorted rumbles. 

The chosen neck profile on this model is thinner in diameter when compared to previous models in the BB range. This change will satisfy both old school and modern players by offering improving overall playability and feel. Players will still feel at home too thanks to a traditional Maple construction and Rosewood fingerboard that creates a perfectly balanced sonic platform for any player to learn their trade. 

This Yamaha BroadBass 4 String Bass Guitar continues to prove its road ready, workhorse credentials in the hardware department too with reinvented super lightweight open gear tuners which have been designed to feel sturdy and dependable while providing unrivalled tuning integrity. The introduction of these tuners mean that the bass itself feels more balanced which is more in keeping with the smaller, lightweight body. 

Specifications:

Body & Bridge

• Body: Alder

• Bridge: Vintage-Style

• Construction: Bolt-On

• Finish: Natural Satin

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck: Maple

• Scale Length: 34" (863.6mm)

• Fingerboard: Rosewood

• Radius: 10" (250mm)

• Frets: 21 Medium

• Inlays: Cream Dots

• Nut: Urea

• Nut Width: 40mm

Electronics & Hardware

• Bridge Pickup: VSC3b Single-Coil (Ceramic)

• Neck Pickup: VSP3n Split Single-Coil (Ceramic)

• Controls: 2 x Volume, Master Tone

• Tuning Machines: Lightweight Open Gear

• Pickguard: 1-Ply Black

• Hardware: Chrome

• String Gauge: 0.045 - 0.105

• Case Included: No