Yamaha trbx604 experience and opinions!

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Great looking bass, good price and its probably impossible to go wrong with Yamaha.

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I always went with bright rounds so I am probably not your best answer here :slight_smile:

Yes, IIRC.

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DR Black Beauties Heavy gauge. Lovely and growly.

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Iā€™ve got rounds on my BB435 which Iā€™ll be replacing this weekend with a set of stainless rounds, still the stock rounds on my BB734, and GHS pressurewounds on my BB300. Iā€™m betting you meant TRBXs though.

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I did mean TRBX. Iā€™ve only bought used (not new) basses before and never even had to change strings yet. But, I think experimenting is in order.

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I was buying new strings for one of my basses every 2 weeks for most of last summer, just trying to get a good sense of what my tastes are. I got real good at changing them out. After that, @howard talked me into leaving the rounds on my 734 when I got that, and it turns out I donā€™t hate rounds like I thought. I just donā€™t like cheap rounds.

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Yes, I do think the new rounds will mellow out after a bit. I have always liked Dā€™addario for guitar, but not yet found my way with bass strings. Looking forward to the experimentation. Thanks.

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I got my BB434 with DR HI-BEAM, round stainless, medium (45-105). Iā€™m getting used to the stainless, but I donā€™t love the feel on my fingers and have a set of NYXL, same gauges, to swap to.

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Iā€™ve got a set of Stringjoy Stainless to throw on my 435 next time they need a string change. Theyā€™ll be my first stainless rounds, weā€™ll see how that goes. I think Iā€™m going to put a set of SITā€™s Iā€™ve got sitting around on my 734 this weekend. I havenā€™t been fond of the stock ones the last week or two.

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How would rotosounds do on them?

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Bright rounds do great. Never used RotoSounds myself.