Samick YBE5 5-String

This bass was made in 1990. It is a 24 fret 5 string electric, with 1 split coil pickup and one humbucker on the bridge. It has a separate volume control for each pick up, and a tone control. The tone knob is also a two-way switch that switches the pickups from passive to active mode (pull-out for passive, push in for active.) One 9v battery is required. The finish on this bass is a glossy, slightly metallic royal blue. Looks sharp, no flaws. The hardware is pretty standard, nothing special, but solid - it's not hard on strings and it holds it's tune well. The neck is super-slick on the back and is medium in thickness. It plays very well. One thing I don't care for are the fret markers - they're little pictures of the planet Saturn. Kinda funny looking but not a major thing.

This bass has a great punchy sound when played on the active electronics. It really has a fat, cave-your-chest-in thump when played loud. I play it through a Peavey TNT150. It definately is not noisy - no white noise or buzz, even when cranked up. It can achieve a fairly wide range of sound between the active/passive pre-amp and the separate volumes for each pickup. I play alot of classic rock, a bit of metal and blues and even some country, and this bass plays them all.

The action was average, a little high for my liking. I had it set up professionally (frets filed, bridge and neck adjusted) and I like it alot better now. I should emphasize that it did not come set up poorly, just in need of a little tweaking. There were no flaws in construction.

I'm not real hard on this bass, but in 11 years of playing regularly (and a period where I took a hiatus and it sat for nearly two years,) it has held up very well. It has fallen from a leaning position a few times, once onto concrete, and it is no worse for wear other than a few dings in the finish. The finish is extremely wear resistant - top marks in that department. It is very dependable - once set up it has not needed any adjustment. I'm cautious - I almost never play without a back-up, but this bass has never let me down yet.

Never used.

I've been a bass player for 11 years. I also own a Fender MB-5 5 string bass, which I also like, but the active electonics on the Samick kick. I would definately buy this bass again.

it's a 1999 samick 5-string, 24 fret with 2 volume and one tone control the pickups are samick j pickups and I'm not sure if they are active or passive, I think they are active but like I said I'm not sure. has a solid finish. has a string though body bridge which the b string at time is hard to pull trough when changing strings.neck is fat and it is a long scale.nice finish on fret boards but very soft, strings have eaten groves on the most played frets

this is a very good sounding bass, I drop tune it alot for playing stuff like korn, coal chamber and stuff like that and it sound clear not a lot of muffled distortion when dropped,warm full sound, easy to tune, I use a peavey Microbass with it and a B160XL 15in speaker amp combo with it. I also use a DOD Bass30 effects pedal with my bass. only thing I don't like about it is limited sound variety, which the effects pedal makes up for.

strings were out of tune(had only been sitting in the store show room 2 weeks), pick ups needed lowered, one tuning mechanism need tightened

tis bass is very durable, has been dropped twice when strap feel off while playing and no damage done(good thing)good thick finish, strap buttons are solid but not very effective, need to comstomize them with new better buttons, seems very dependable(except the buttons). would feel comfortable using it with out a back up

I would buy this bass again id I had to do it over, overall it is a very nice bass with a really good warm full sound to it, everyone that has played it loves it and says it sounds really good. was easy to get to sound they way I wanted it to sound after I ajusted it to they way I wanted it.