Brand: Yamaha
Label: Yamaha
Manufacturer: Yamaha
Model: SB59C
Publisher: Yamaha
Special Features: With Yamaha's SB59 Silent Brass System for Trombone, the Aux in allows you to play along with CD or MP3 recordings. Echo-enhanced sound mode creates large-room ambience. Volume and input lo/hi controls. Basic system includes Silent Brass module, pick-up mute, locking cable, belt loop/strap, button earphones, and 9V battery.
Studio: Yamaha
MPN: Yamaha

Aux in allows you to play along with CD or MP3 recordings. Echo-enhanced sound mode creates large-room ambience. Volume and input lo/hi controls. System includes Silent Brass module, pick-up mute, locking cable, belt loop/strap, button earphones, and 9V battery.Smaller, lighter and more portableThe redesigned Silent Brass module is smaller than a cassette tape and weighs about as much. It fits easily into a shirt pocket and can be attached to the player's belt, if desired. This makes the Silent Brass system much more portable and convenient.Improved soundThe sound from this next generation system has been greatly improved over the previous generation. Hiss has been greatly reduced, allowing the player to hear more of the instrument and less noise.Simplified controls and sleeker lookThe module has only a volume knob and an echo switch, eliminating the unneeded extra features and making it even more affordable.Aux In jackThis jack allows an external sound source to be combined with the signal coming from the mute or microphone. Players can then play along with their favorite song in practice and performance settings and put the fun back in their practice sessions.Input jackThe input jack allows a quick and easy connection to a Yamaha pickup mute for practice or to a Yamaha MC-7 instrument mic for performance.Output/phones jackThe output/ phones jack allows the Silent Brass system to be connected to the...

Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent option when you need a sound-proof practice room
Comment: The product works as advertised, which I can't really say for most products with as much marketing material as the Silent Brass System for Trombone. I have a slightly older revision of SBS and use it regularly in my apartment.

As another reviewer mentioned more emphatically, make sure you don't become dependent on the resistance and feedback from the mute. It definitely changes all of my trombones drastically versus an open horn, but I won't go as far as to dissuade owning one. Practicing with the mute is 100% improvement over no practice at all!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: easy to use. doesn't annoy the neighbors.
Comment: and i haven't played in many years, so i don't want anyone to hear me. moms: get these for your kids.

i like it. it gives the same sound level over the whole range. no attenuation.

i don't feel that it restricts air flow. it feels okay.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Acceptable practice mute
Comment: I bought the SB5-9 Silent Brass system for tenor trombone, its not so much silent as very quiet, enough so that i can practice my trombone during the afternoon whilst my 8 month old daughter sleeps peacefully and the wife watches TV undisturbed, for me this is a result. The mute offers little resistance and better than any other mute i have,i have quite a few, the sound through the headphones is acceptable, not quite the sound you would normally hear but close enough, remember the purpose of the mute is practice without upsetting people. I give it 8 out of 10, it would have got 10 but i think the onboard reverb could have been better, its ok.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: I would give it 0 stars if I could
Comment: Quite frankly, the Silent Brass System (SBS) is not worth a dollar. Sure, it may keep your son or daughter's sound down, but the resistance the SBS gives back to the player is HORRIBLE. This is coming from an experienced trombone player. Not only does the SBS give back WAY TO MUCH resistance (making the trombone harder to play), but, if a person practices only with the SBS, they can come dependent to the way they have to change their embouchure to gel with the silent brass system. If a student, or anyone, becomes dependent on the SBS, real performances, without the SBS, will not be the best. In other words, DON'T GET THE SILENT BRASS SYSTEM! IT IS NOT WORTH IT...AT ALL (ESPECIALLY NOT FOR WHAT THEY ARE ASKING FOR).

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Yamaha does it again! Another great product!
Comment: I seached and searched but could not find any reviews of the SB59 Silent Brass System for Trombone. Well let me tell you my friends, stop reading and go buy it! I've been practicing now for 2 and half hours one room down from where my wife has been sleeping. And she's still sleeping! It can't believe it myself. She's not a heavy sleeper either. Really.

My horn with the pickup mute makes only a very soft muffled buzz. Much quieter than any normal horn mute. I have been hooking up pickup mute to my pc and using a computer based tuner, and multi-track recorder. And listening though the included headphones. Also I've been playing along with some mp3 music on the pc. Of course, you can plug the headphones directly into the control unit. It works perfect. There is a slight air restriction with the pickup mute attached. After 10min you will hardly notice it. Tone quality seems very good and realistic. It has an echo switch which adds a small bit of echo. The echo delay is not adjustable.

I got the SB59 so I wouldn't disturb my neighbors and family and I was not disappointed. And you won't be disappointed either!

I am really floored by how well this thing works. Can you tell?

Thanks for reading my review. Happy Practicing!

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