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I've had Yamaha products for over 20 years, keyboards, pro audio that have never let me down so in that regard I decided on trying one of their guitars.
Out of the box, first impressions were excellent, flawless finish, no sharp frets good workmanship but looking a little deeper things changes. The guitar had little chips in the neck where the heel meets the body, the paint on the headstock was covered in black marks and the low E tuner was missing the screw on the back. The neck at the nut was rough as hell.
I got them resolved but they shouldn't have shipped this with those faults.
Onto the sound.
I was looking for a guitar that I could replace two guitars with, my strat and my sg, so the idea of having a humbucker that could be spilt was a dream.
The humbucker itself is fine but the coil split on this is very poor, I had to use a boost pedal to make up the volume to make it anyway useable.
The whole experience of having this guitar has left me with a bad experience of owning Pacificas.
I sold it for half of what I paid because it annoyed me sitting there.
Maybe I just got a bad guitar but no, I looked at another in a music store near me and it was worse.
I understand the demand for guitars during the pandemic increased, but someone in Yamahas quality control didn't do their job.
I won't be buying Yamaha again.
I've had Yamaha products for over 20 years, keyboards, pro audio that have never let me down so in that regard I decided on trying one of their guitars.
Out of the box, first impressions were excellent, flawless finish, no sharp frets good workmanship but looking a little deeper things changes. The guitar had little chips in the neck where the heel meets the
I've had Yamaha products for over 20 years, keyboards, pro audio that have never let me down so in that regard I decided on trying one of their guitars.
Out of the box, first impressions were excellent, flawless finish, no sharp frets good workmanship but looking a little deeper things changes. The guitar had little chips in the neck where the heel meets the body, the paint on the headstock was covered in black marks and the low E tuner was missing the screw on the back. The neck at the nut was rough as hell.
I got them resolved but they shouldn't have shipped this with those faults.
Onto the sound.
I was looking for a guitar that I could replace two guitars with, my strat and my sg, so the idea of having a humbucker that could be spilt was a dream.
The humbucker itself is fine but the coil split on this is very poor, I had to use a boost pedal to make up the volume to make it anyway useable.
The whole experience of having this guitar has left me with a bad experience of owning Pacificas.
I sold it for half of what I paid because it annoyed me sitting there.
Maybe I just got a bad guitar but no, I looked at another in a music store near me and it was worse.
I understand the demand for guitars during the pandemic increased, but someone in Yamahas quality control didn't do their job.
I won't be buying Yamaha again.
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Yamaha Pacifica 212V QM CBR
MartinHally 04.02.2023
Excellent Yamaha 212V , Beautiful Guitar and a lovely "feel" to it .
Very well made , Excellent Body too.
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Money/valuewise a clever bargain.Money/valuewise a clever bargain.
Januski 06.11.2019
Very good playability. Soundwise Fender Stratocasterish (I have two). A definite positive surprise compared to the expectations I had. It?s beautiful, the neck is good in my hand. Had to do some setup-work like adjusting the tremolo all the way through, also adjusting the action lower. Truss-rod was OK. Had to use anticorrosive (MD-40) for the volume pot to get rid of the noise when turning the pot. Factory quality inspectors could have done their work better. Generally the finishing was great. Sounds like an Indonesian SSH Stratocaster, which is fine for me. I was?nt looking for another Strat.
Very good playability. Soundwise Fender Stratocasterish (I have two). A definite positive surprise compared to the expectations I had. It?s beautiful, the neck is good in my hand. Had to do some setup-work like adjusting the tremolo all the way through, also adjusting the action lower. Truss-rod was OK. Had to use anticorrosive (MD-40) for the volume pot to get rid of
Very good playability. Soundwise Fender Stratocasterish (I have two). A definite positive surprise compared to the expectations I had. It?s beautiful, the neck is good in my hand. Had to do some setup-work like adjusting the tremolo all the way through, also adjusting the action lower. Truss-rod was OK. Had to use anticorrosive (MD-40) for the volume pot to get rid of the noise when turning the pot. Factory quality inspectors could have done their work better. Generally the finishing was great. Sounds like an Indonesian SSH Stratocaster, which is fine for me. I was?nt looking for another Strat.
Very good playability. Soundwise Fender Stratocasterish (I have two). A definite positive surprise compared to the expectations I had. It?s beautiful, the neck is good in my hand. Had to do some setup-work like adjusting the tremolo all the way through, also adjusting the action lower. Truss-rod was OK. Had to use anticorrosive (MD-40) for the volume pot to get rid of the noise when turning the pot. Factory quality inspectors could have done their work better. Generally the finishing was great. Sounds like an Indonesian SSH Stratocaster, which is fine for me. I wasn't looking for another Strat.
