Yamaha AES620

wow

wow

sick

wow

beast

great guitar! pretty sick

See in the Yamaha Website. It's a Les paul, with 2 vol pot and 1 tone pot. But i replace the Yamaha Pickup. I put Seymour Duncan Jazz.

Wow!!!!The Seymour Duncan pick-up screams. Clear, high, fantastic. The sound is Les Paul. That's it.

Korean model, with great action. I replace the strings, because it was set up with 09. I put 010. The finish is great, well built.

This is a heavy block of wood. The hardware is great. Great quality. It keeps shinning.

Never deal

This guitar is much better than epiphone. I don't know why everybody gets epiphone. It's hard to believe. Yamaha is perfect for the price.

For the price of this guitar i think the features are amazing.

Has a very nice carved flamed maple top.

I wont go over them as they have already been written countless times.

This guitar offers a wide pallete of sounds for almost all genres. It is great for any thing from Gary Moore blues to Guns N Roses rock to Avenged Sevenfold metal.

My backline is a pathetic Marshall MG15 cdr Combo and this guitar still sounds good. I often put it through a Boss ME50 effects processor to get Tones not possible on my amp.

The bridge pickup is a Seymour Duncan JB which sounds amazing on the dirty channel but is a little too high output for the clean, and has a very bright sound imo.

I was extremely impressed with the stock Yamaha neck pickup which has a thick warm sound to it and is great for crunchy rythm. It has a far superior sound to most of the other stock pickups ive played. (mainly the prs SE range Which suck and are terrible value for money)

you can get a good clean sound with the middle position.

The pickups are very quiet (they dont hum) at high gain settings.

no problems whatsoever

i had no problems accept the tone pot became loose

never used them

Over all great guitar for the money.

Quilted top, LP body style, string thru body, Grover tuners come standard,great feature. Same size neck as the 1960 tapered LP. Came with nice yamaha case. 2006 model, Korean made and an excellent job I might add. Nothing flaky about this guitar. 22 frets 2 volume, 1 tone control, pickups are great, jb hummer at the neck, Seymour, a real Seymour on the bridge. This thing screams. Every feature that you would need is here.
If you like a coil tap you have to install yourself. I personally don't like a coil tap. If I need that I'll use my PRS Mcarty.

My music is blues, blues/latin, rock, some country. for country there is always the telecaster, or Strat. The yamaha will cover just about everything if you play with the controls. If you need distortion turn up the gain on your pedal and there it is. Smooth, back off the gain, adjust the tone knob and your there. Marshall amp, pre-amp, and Marshall speakers 1965b 410. Really a warm bodied sound can come out of this guitar, or it can scream. A guitar can only do so much with all the controls and pick-ups. Your hands really do all the work. Are you capable of playing light, aggressive, harsh, your style, technique, of playing has more to do with sound quality than anything else. The guitar makers can only do so much. The rest is up to the individual player. I have no dislikes about this guitar so far.

I remember reading somewhere that Carlos Santana walked into the PRS factory. Picked out a new guitar from the shipping dept and played it in concert that same night. My Yamaha aes 620 is the same. Take it out of the case and play. The only negative I will say and it's minor, is the volume knobs on one of my aes 620's and I have 5 of them. One has pots that are a little hard to turn, but remember this is a $ 600.00 guitar, not a $2000.00 Gibson. but I fixed that with a little oil. The finish is excellent. no flaws that I can find. The finish is better than my LP classic. A 9 because of the pots.

You could probably beat some drunk in a bar with it and never miss a lick. I think it will last a life time. Strap buttons are bigger than most. Certainly bigger than Gibson, but I always use strap locks on all my guitars. Hasn't let me down yet, and I don't expect it to.
I would never gig without a back-up, unless I only owned 1 guitar.

Off and on I've been playing 45 years. You know the old story, kids come along, get a real job, support the family. Let the music playing take the back seat for a few years. The kids grow up and leave, the wife leaves all on her own. Now it's time to go out and buy all that gear and here we go again. And this time my whole house is my studio, not just a little room in the back with egg cartons on the walls.
I bought one aes620 and loved it. So I bought more and there all great.
Lost or stolen I would certainly buy again. favorite features are the contour body, lighter weight than my LP. I made my comparison to other guitars at home. I have Tele, Strat, PRS Mcarty, Gibson es335, LP classic, Aes620HB, Aes 720, 68 SG.

Already mentioned in previous reviews but the Seymour Duncan JB in the Bridge , Grover tuners and Mahogany body make it stand out

Bought to compliment my strat for Classic Rock . Through my Laney Valve amp the Bridge JB sounds excellent very meaty and powerfull .

Ive changed the neck pickup which I found quite sterile to a Seymour Duncan 59 .This has greatly improved the clean tone .

This is a fairly common pairing of Seymour Duncan pickups even on guitars costing 3-4 times as much as the Yamaha ( eg Framus )

The Guitar I ordered straight from the distributor and came in very good condition - absolutely no complaints . The finish was much better than I expected and every part has a certain sturdness and quality feel such as the swiches and knobs.Set up was quite good although I did lower the strings which only took a couple of minutes

Last year I bought a Gibson Les Paul Studio new within one month it was returned to the distributor because the finish was flaking off the bridge and pickups .The replacement I received one month later had a faulty selector switch. This on a guitar thar cost 3 times more than the Yamaha

Only two months old and has been gigged about 5 times , maybe too early to say but so far no problems everything indicates it will be durable and reliable .

Ivs never used them so I dont know

Ive been playing for about 10 years and I am very pleased with the guitar especially for the price its almost unbelievable . Sounds great through a valve amp .Yamahas electric guitars are very under rated ( which ubdoubtly means lower prices) Compared to this how can epiphone sell any guitars ?

Features have been covered by otehr reviewers
so this part is redundant, I guess
I should add that I like the modern looks of this guitar

I needed a guitar with humbuckers to complement my 2 teles (G&L tribute special and Fender Delux Nashville)for that gibson tone
I play classic rock, blues, breatpop - no metal or too heavy styles
The sound was good and the feel was good
Though I found a JB pickup decent (but I did not like its high output and too much midrange as it seemed to me(the neck pickup was decent too, may be a little lacking in sensitivity to your playing), I still prefer low-mid output pickups (so I went for a dimarzio paf classics set)
And these DM paf classics were just the ticket for me.
Now it is a real paf sounding guitar with sustain and all teh tome, which disencourages me to buy those expensive gibsons...
Why waste money? If you have good paf tone with this Yamaha.
I give a 10 in this department.

Setup was good
Later I installed pafs and adjusted the bridge and pickup height to taste
I string it with 9s

Yes this guitar is reliable and I guess it is durable too
The finish is as good as any fender I had. I like the color too (mine is red)
I put staplocks (I do this as default for all my guitars)
It can play a gig without a backup. See no concerns about it.

Playing for 13 years
I also have two teles (see above)
If stolen, I'd buy it again (see no alternatives to a lespaulish guitar in this price range)

it's the Royal Blue AES. Bought it bout 2 years ago.
Everything is basically stock. Did not change anything except for the intonation for my low E..coz i play drop D most of the time...

I play emo, hardcore and alternative styles and also the occasional acoustic with an electric guitar kinda thing.
This guitar plays like a charm. Will never sell it. The tones that i get out of both the pickups...simply buttery.....
But i do say that the neck pick up can get a bit too bassy for my liking.
Overall i like the sound that it produces. Especially the overtones i get from every string when i play. i played quite a number of guitars and i'm not saying i'm a good guitarist. but i do have a good ear cause i'm an audio engineer. This guitar really has sweet overtones that seems to thicken up the single notes that i play. The clean tone is always amazing..constantly blowing my mind off.. for the price i got it for..

I'm not really sure bout factory setup. when i bought it, it was on sale. 40% discount. so bought it for RM1500(bout less than 200USD). a darn good deal i say. no blemishes. tip top condition.
well, the only problem are the volume and tone pots. when i bought mine, they gave me lotsa problems. a lot of cracking and popping sound and i can't adjust the volume proper. any tips on clearing that without changing them?

all in all...i'm quite satisfied except for the pots.

this guitar is hardcore. i love it coz it can take a real beating. i've travelled to lotsa places with it and everything is still working like i just bought it. inlcuding the lousy pots.
and i've been using this guitar without any back up guitars at all. the strings dun snap easily. probably it doesnt snap at all during my gigs.
totally dependable. if i had to choose between a les paul and this...the yamaha aes really wins hands down.

Yamaha is pretty big in malaysia and south east asia. So no problems at all with customer support.
Couldn't get much of a warranty coz it was a discounted product.
But the yamaha retailer who sold me this could've been a bit nicer.

This guitar has its all. except for hollowbody type of guitar sound.
apart from that..i recomment it as a really good buy.

A Seymour JB on the bridge and a yamaha humbucker on the neck...
Great combination...

Some say the the stock pickup on the neck is not good,
I don't agree.It sounds better than those pickups on the *cough* Epiphone LP and PRS SE.

The Grover tuners makes tuning really butter smooth.
The tone/volume knobs are really solid and almost indestructable.
Really solid mahogany body, makes your sound really full and alive.

I play Metal (not those -core or nu metal shit), European/Middle-Eastern Folk, soul and Jazz.

And this guitar does it all.

My setup is Yamaha AES620,

-->Danelectro Black Coffee -> BOSS CE-2 -> BOSS DD-3 -> Danelectro Fish & Chips EQ -> MXR Dyna Comp -> Marshall JCM2000 dual super lead

It helps turn those pedals above into monsters.
The pickups are as quiet the forests of lothlorien.

The Seymour JB bridge pickup gives you a really bright, trebly tone.
Perfect for fusion/funk even jazz chord progressions.Although when you solo with distortion, the sound the JB gives you is a very sweet, addictive solo tone.(sometimes really agressive when playing pentatonic solos...)

The Yamaha neck humbucker is really sort of a JB with reduced treble and increased bass.When pick acoustically, it almost sounds as good as a really expensive taylor.I really love playing palm-muted riffs on the this pickup.Master of puppets?...yeah...this guitar gives you that fat rhythm tone...i usually play mid-paced solo lines on this pickup as it gives me a really smooth lead tone...(unlike the JB, whihc sounded too harsh for slow, relaxing solos...)

Both pickups gives you unlimited access to pinch harmonics.And because i play metal, pinch harmonics are important to me and both pickups does the job extremely well.

This guitar is very versatile and is perfect for any genre...

The action is low, and really comfortable to my hands.
The pickups are set up comfortably, and makes the guitar look "evil".

The lacquered finish as well as the Les Paul-styled body compliments well with how the guitar sounds.

This is the best-looking Les-Paul-type body guitar ever...

When played live, it kills.I havent been wiping the body for abt a week now but it stills looks new like the day i bought it.

The are two strap buttons to adjust to your style of playing.I like playing with the guitar at my waist.

I'm gona buy another one and tune it to low B...

Definitely better than LPs...

Great people, they provided me with the info i need everytime...

I've been playing for 4 yrs now and tried dozens of guitars.
I've had several choices, Gibson LP, Epiphone SG, Ibanez prestige etc.
But the Yamaha AES620 beats them all...

I cannot recommend you a better guitar than this one...
This guitar is really gorgeous and is the best-looking guitar ever,
plus the colossal and titanic sounds it gives me,
There's no reason to get another guitar, unless its Yamaha...

A Seymour JB on the bridge and a yamaha humbucker on the neck...
Great combination...

Some say the the stock pickup on the neck is not good,
I don't agree.It sounds better than those pickups on the *cough* Epiphone LP and PRS SE.

The Grover tuners makes tuning really butter smooth.
The tone/volume knobs are really solid and almost indestructable.
Really solid mahogany body, makes your sound really full and alive.

I play Metal (not those -core or nu metal shit), European/Middle-Eastern Folk, soul and Jazz.

And this guitar does it all.

My setup is Yamaha AES620,

-->Danelectro Black Coffee -> BOSS CE-2 -> BOSS DD-3 -> Danelectro Fish & Chips EQ -> MXR Dyna Comp -> Marshall JCM2000 dual super lead

It helps turn those pedals above into monsters.
The pickups are as quiet the forests of lothlorien.

The Seymour JB bridge pickup gives you a really bright, trebly tone.
Perfect for fusion/funk even jazz chord progressions.Although when you solo with distortion, the sound the JB gives you is a very sweet, addictive solo tone.(sometimes really agressive when playing pentatonic solos...)

The Yamaha neck humbucker is really sort of a JB with reduced treble and increased bass.When pick acoustically, it almost sounds as good as a really expensive taylor.I really love playing palm-muted riffs on the this pickup.Master of puppets?...yeah...this guitar gives you that fat rhythm tone...i usually play mid-paced solo lines on this pickup as it gives me a really smooth lead tone...(unlike the JB, whihc sounded too harsh for slow, relaxing solos...)

Both pickups gives you unlimited access to pinch harmonics.And because i play metal, pinch harmonics are important to me and both pickups does the job extremely well.

This guitar is very versatile and is perfect for any genre...

The action is low, and really comfortable to my hands.
The pickups are set up comfortably, and makes the guitar look "evil".

The lacquered finish as well as the Les Paul-styled body compliments well with how the guitar sounds.

This is the best-looking Les-Paul-type body guitar ever...

When played live, it kills.I havent been wiping the body for abt a week now but it stills looks new like the day i bought it.

The are two strap buttons to adjust to your style of playing.I like playing with the guitar at my waist.

I'm gona buy another one and tune it to low B...

Definitely better than LPs...

Great people, they provided me with the info i need everytime...

I've been playing for 4 yrs now and tried dozens of guitars.
I've had several choices, Gibson LP, Epiphone SG, Ibanez prestige etc.
But the Yamaha AES620 beats them all...

I cannot recommend you a better guitar than this one...
This guitar is really gorgeous and is the best-looking guitar ever,
plus the colossal and titanic sounds it gives me,
There's no reason to get another guitar, unless its Yamaha...

everythings good here. made me a convert to the duncan 59 plus the stock pu isnt as bad as some say im leavin it in. mahogany is great, no buzzing here very quiet even with my uber metal on its butt!

nothing is perfect, but after going from emg's to the duncan 59, im hooked wont go back. emg's are sterile, this guitar with the wood pickup combo makes your sound alive. very nice.

mine is perfect. got the sunburst color and wow nice. has a chunky neck but ill be honest have a jackson with a thin neck but now like the chunk. a tad bit slimmer than a les p. action was great with the shorter scale length, you can bend like mad and it takes very light touch here shredders.

dont know its new but yamahas been in the game forever so i trust it.

get it. dont spend 1500 for les p without trying both. bet you get this one!