Yamaha Pacifica 112

let's see... i got an alder body guitar with the black finish on it. it's got the S/S/H configuration on it. got myself a rosewood fretboard. what else is there? i'm not big into how the headstock looks.

it's works okay with my music. people are right. it's a good rhythm guitar, but for soloing it's not much. i'm using a crate gx 15 amp and a washburn bx20, i think. i'm using a dod icebox stereo chorus pedal to go out to the two amps. i like using the bass amp just because the tones are so much smoother than the crate. also, on one of the channels out of the stereo pedal, i have a dod supra distortion pedal hooked up. on the crate, the sound sucks, but the washburn can put out some pretty sweet tones. i'd like it better if the guitar came with a set of better pickups. i get a lot of hum when i'm not playing anything.

i think that the finish is pretty decent. the settings on the bridge were all fucked up... and i kept getting a lot of... i forgot what it's called. oh... i kept getting a lot of rattle on the low E string. i had to set the action higher up... and i moved up to using 10s... i like the height of the frets, but the neck sometimes seems too thin... hard to bust out with chords sometimes. i hate the damn bridge though. it's not made to take too much tension from the strings. for a while, the bridge was at a 20 degree angle...

eh... this is where it kind of lacks. i've had to take off the pickguard too many times, just because one of the pickups would begin vibrating. if you don't don't what i mean, you could the pickup physically rattle. the strap buttons are pretty solid. what really gets me mad is the plug is constantly getting extremely loose.

i dunno

i've been playing for 3 years now... i don't really own much other stuff. if it were stolen or lost, i wouldn't buy another one. i'm looking more towards ibanez, who puts out some pretty good crap.

Ive been thinking about getting a new guitar lately, but I just cant get away from the 112. I like it a lot, for 200 dollars i think its a great guitar. at least for beginners.it has one volume and tone button which is all you need and a five way switch.1 humbucker 2 seperate pickps that create nice clean sound and good smooth gritty sounds.

It makes good clean and dirty sounds.I use a crate gx15 and i have 4 huge speakers hooked up in back with sweet sound.I especially like the way it sounds with a dod dis. pedal playing blink 182 and last resort by papa roach.

this guitar was put together well. it could have a few more details on it though.

This guitar does the job for school talent shows and showing off to all your girlfriends and jamming with your best friend and small gigs.
nothing comes off or comes apart though.I would use this for small gigs if its not to hard of rock w/o backup.

havent needed it.

I have been playing for about 1 year and a half and have been very successful.I play rythym guitar for a band called METHOD.Were pretty good.My guitar sounds better every day because i practice about 3-4 hours each day.I like almost everything about it although they could have put a little more money into it.I would recommend buying one to beginners to 2 years of playing but then get a guitar with awesome pickups and start getting a little more serious.

You've already read specs. After nearly a year with a purchased-new Pacifica 112, I will give my assessment.

A, "generic," sounding guitar. The strat tones are not really strat tones. The humbucker lacks class; it is just loud. Does not have the sounds a good strat has. It is not a first line instrument for me. If it was all I had, I would make do. But I have better, so it is lacking. I've thought about dropping some better pickups in it, but declined, because the guitar just lacks a bit in the character department overall.

The neck is nice and thin. But the frets are too damn high. Not nice and low, like a smooth Fender neck. This fact offsets the value of that nice thin neck it has. Shame. The fret/neck work necessary, from a tech, to take it to where it would shine, would be too costly a proposition with regard to the price of the guitar. The finish on the body is thin, and definitely not close to that of a standard strat.

It is a durable guitar. Good sealed tuners. Well made.

Yamaha answers emails.

I think the current run of Squiers has come up to and surpassed the benchmark that the Pacifica 112 once set. The Fenders have some personality and pizazz. The Pacifica is boring.
I could suggest what Yamaha could do:
Lower smoother frets. Would be a Big help.
Better humbucker, or no humbucker. Straight single coil setup, or the third as a p90 or filtertron-type... Give it some personality. That lousy humbucker has got to go... Allright for ratty rock (for those that love headaches or jelly brain), but little else.
Get some custom pickguard action going to bump it up a notch.
Better paint job/finish thickness.
All these suggestions, I've looked into doing myself. Nope. Too much trouble/money.
Tried a double fat standard squier that just blew this Pacifica 112 away. Couldn't say that about Squiers a year ago. Can today. Fender, with its acquisition of DeArmond, can put together some great sounding pickups, and by doing it overseas, do it cheaply. Combine that with a thin neck and lower, nicer frets, and the Yamaha Pacifica 112 has become obsolete.
Now it is Yamaha that has some work to do in the catch-up department.
Presently, my Yamaha Pacifica 112 stays in a case. I will probably be getting rid of it soon, as it has no function in my current constellation.
With the great Squiers and Dearmonds coming out of China and Indonesia, there is no longer an excuse for getting a Pacifica 112. And I don't work for Fender.

well, i bought this guitar in April 2000,(first guitar!!) and its cool!!its got two single coil pickups and one humbucker, which is what I mainly use.if you put the distorsion on on your amp, its a pretty gritty sound which is cool!! its got a maple neck, with a 21 fret rosewood fingerboard.its got a 'traditional' tremolo,and 1 volume and 1 tone control.chrome hard ware.my friend who is excellent on the guitar agrees that it is really cool, and she likes the action.

i mainly (try to) play rock, and use the h'bucker which gives a good gritty sound.i tried it in a friends effects pedal and it sounded even better!i've got a 15 watt RMS amp, with a distorstion button.the single coils (when i use them) have a nice tone to them, and are good for rhythm playing.the humbucker sounds cool esp. on 'smells like teen spirit'.

the guitar was set up just fine factory wise.every thing was made well and i guess its cool that way.the only bad thing on my guitar is that the jack socket is damaged cos the strap slipped while the lead was in it and it kinda caved in slightly, but it still works fine!!!

the guitar withstands live, as it stays in tune, and there are no problems.the only thing is when ya really hit it the top string tends to pop out, but you just put it back and its in tune!! which is good.
the finish is nice and durable and it is a light blue colour.the strap buttons are solid, but i would advise everyone to buy straplocks, cos every guitars strap slips!!i ve had it for 5 months and its still in the same condition(apart from the jack plug)

never needed to call!!

this guitar has been voted best guitar under #200 for several years in a row, and i can see why!!!they are WAY better than Squires for the money!its a really really good guitar, and (i ve tested!!) just as good as a strat!!!i am going to buy a distorsion box for it to get a bit more fuzz.

Purchased in 1999. This is basically a stratocaster copy with two single coil (neck, middle) and one humbucker(bridge). Comes with a whammy, which I don't use so I can't comment on. Has only two knobs: Volume and Tone (really all you need IMHO). 22 fret neck which has always seemed extremely easy to play.
The low-down is that this is my first guitar, and I think I picked a good starter. Easily comparible to my friends' fender strats, and have gotten many compliments on the neck. The pickups, especially humbucker, seem a little weak, but not to the point of crippling me, or hurting ears.

Very versatile guitar for the price paid! The S/S/H configuration provides a lot of leeway. I don't feel the loss of the second tone knob really hurts the sound. The pickups are a bit weak, but still sound good. I think this has been a wonderful guitar to start with, and I'll probably upgrade things like the pickups before I even consider buying a "dream guitar". Plus, with this guitar I actually wouldn't be scared to try upgrades myself, as I wouldn't be risking $1000 or more to my clumsiness.
All in all, a solid guitar to start with, though it could use a bit of work before you could put out SRV tones.

Guitar seemed setup well to my untrained eyes, and a few more experienced people gave it a thumbs up as well (one was especially doubtful of anything that wasn't a specially selected Fender American Strat, and was amazed). The only thing I didn't like were the strings on it, some 9 guage strings, which I changed for some 10's and adjusted the truss rod. The only other adjustments made were minor and only to suit personal taste. The fingerboard was excellent, not the least bit cheap feeling/looking as in some other brands. I might mention that I have yet to find a guitar in this price range that was of equal quality. They all had some pretty severe faults.
Keep up the good quality Yamaha!

Well, I'm definitely a bedroom hobbyist at best, but it seems good and solid. Much better than anything within $100 or more of it (I'm hoping the Fender MIM strats are close). The neck and body seem very sturdy and reliable. The tuners tune and seem to hold okay, especially if tightened a bit (those who have trouble holding tune on this guitar should tighten the tuners, or buy better strings). Pickguard is okay, wiring underneath seems clean and simple. OUtput jack seems good by me. The only real problem is with the brown satin finish there is very little protecting it from being scratched, but then, it is satin, and I kind of like the old beat-up look on a strat.

Don't know. I've never had the need.

I've been playing guitar now for 8 months, using this guitar through a little SS Crate 15W amp(Hey, it cost less than my car, thank you very much). I think this is a wonderful guitar for anyone that doesn't want to invest a grand in an instrument. I love playing it, and if this were stolen, I would without a doubt run out and buy one just like it. I hope yamaha keeps this up, and expands their electric guitar line a bit more with equally good guitars. I would recommend this guitar to anyone who can do without bragging about equipment name brands. Especially beginners who may decide they like a different style guitar later.
I certainly don't regret buying this guitar rather than the Fender MIM strat. Is the name on the guitar worth $100 more? Not to me.

Mine is a 98 Taiwanese model with a s/s/h pick-up config,5-way selector and one tone and volume poy respectively.The neck (maple,bubinga) comes in with a widdle friendly 22 frets and easy high end access.The body (Alder) itself is a less rounded strat style but still comfortably contoured.My model is actually a 112X meaning that it has a black scratch plate and pick-ups (it looks better than the cheap looking white)ontop of a transparent finish.It also comes in black, white and red I believe.The bridge is vintage-style and the tuners are sealed gotoh.The one thing that bugged me was the side mounted jack socket

The base sound i got from my 112 was darker and fatter than my previous budget axes. The humbucker in the bridge is perfect for my musical tastes of alt rock and numetal where as the two single coils cope excellently with both clean and semi-dirty settings whilst possessing a cool low mid range bark.I've tried it through a number of amps and it doesnt lose its power and warmth even through the some of the poorer amps that ive tried.This being all well and good the 112 is basically a rock guitar and it is difficult to coax more ethereal,subtle bluesy type tones from it.

I really could not find a thing wrong it was spot on straight out of the box!I even had to open it up a one point and it was flawless inside as it was out!No mess or marks.

I've had my 112 a year now and its still good.I had a problem with the strap buttons not actuallt keeping the strap on so i sorted that with some tape ,nothing major.I have also found that the intonation has started to wane slightly along with holding a tuning (i find it holds de tuned styles better than concert pitch).I think theses problems may have arisen due to my lax storage but nothing a decent set up wouldnt fix.All the switches and pots are still in good condition with no noise or scratching.

not had to enquire comes with a lovely little booklet though!

I love this guitar I know there is better out there but not for this price.If it was nicked i would definetly buy another one may be not as my main axe but as a practice,back up or writing guitar because of its capabilities in my chosen genre!

H/s/s , crap machine heads ( goes out of tune all the time) tremolo which cant bend more than 1 step and lame strap buttons.Has a nice sparkle finish (silver with black scracth-plate).Only 1 volume and tone knobs ( albeit cheaply made ones)

Only sounds good on humbucker with full volume and tone as a result very limited ! Allright for scales and grunge stuff where you use a lame guitar that can be out of tune.Its lame otherwise with out loads of distortion chords just arnt thick enough.And lead sound is terrible ( hardly any Sustain)!

Came with rubbish strings , buzzed for ever and tremolo swings downwards all the time , Pickups way too high and completly out of tune.The peg for string 5 is way to lose.

It is very solid and tough , but the strings have broken twice in 1 month !!!! Ive dropped it twice and nothing happened! I guess it could have been better if it was assembled REALLY well.Humbucker is very loose!I have played 3 of theses things and they all suck just as much.

1 year warranty.Never dealt with them

Its targeted at begginers and unless you wanna play crap save up and get a mid-range jackson or ESP.As it was my first guitar i knew nothing and couldnt try it out.Ive played 3 of these and they all suck just as much.

The Yamaha Pacifica 112 is a solid-body electric guitar manufactured in Taiwan with 22 frets, a alder or basswood body, S/S/H pickups, a master volume control and master tone control, 5-way selector switch, and vintage tremelo system. The guitar I purchased was white with an alder body.

I use Ibanez 10-watt amp and play many different styles (classical to hard rock). Sound diversity was one of the main reasons I purchased this guitar. The neck singlecoil has a jazz sound when clean and a thick hard rock sound distorted. The bridge pickup, when distorted and at a tone setting of 10, has a good soloing sound. I use these settings the most, but there many other possibilities.

The guitar was perfectly playable and sounded good straight from the factory. I have had no need to alter anything, which, for beginners, is great.

I have owned it for almost a year and haven't had any problem. I don't know how well it would hold up to being used professionally, but I don't think it designed to be used professional.

Haven't contacted them and am unsure about the warranty.

I have been playing for around a year. The Pacifica is a good beginner's guitar bacause it allows the beginner to try out a variety of sounds on a easy to play instrument. It is much better than the Harmony acoustic I started learning to play on. I hope to run it through a better amp eventually to get a richer sound than my current amp can produce. I don't think it is a great guitar, but I do think it a good guitar for 200 dollars.

Strat clone (a little thinner and "swoopier" maybe) alder body, maple neck, bubinga fretboard, S/S/H. Single tone and volume control, five-way switch. Got mine with the satin finish. A good, solid, quality guitar. I looked around a lot before I picked the 112. What sold me? The neck! I have small hands, and the Fender's neck felt like a ball bat. The neck on this Yamaha, though, is the sweetest, smoothest thing. I play other guitars, and I always smile when I get back to this one. For the price, I haven't seen anything else that can touch it.

I play mostly blues, with a scattering of other genres thrown in for variety. This guitar suits my particular style very well. I play it through a Vox Pathfinder amp (another rare value), and I can get most any sound I want from it. The pickups aren't bad, but they're not first line, either (I didn't expect they would be, though). The sustain isn't all you could hope for, but the tone is warm, and with the right strings and pickups, this guitar has great potential.

Nicely finished! The adjustment needed only minor tweaks right out of the box. The quality of this guitar kicks the butt of anything else in it's price range, and a lot of more expensive manufacturers that I looked at could do well to follow the example set by Yamaha. I like nice wood and woodworking, and Yamaha did just that!

Would I gig with it without a backup? Well, my current tour takes me to all the best basements, garages, utility rooms, and backyards of southeast Portland, and I NEVER take a backup ('cause I don't own a backup). Hey, it works for me - I don't abuse it, I treat it well, and it always works. The strap buttons are a little small, but well affixed, the hardware is not exotic but is solid, the finish was well applied. It should last a good long time, properly cared for.

Didn't get the manual when I purchased it, so I slid on over to Yamaha's web site, and there it was!

Just returned to playing after a 24 year break. If someone stole this guitar, I would hunt them down and commit numerous felonious acts! Then I'd get really honked-off! Would I buy it again? Sure would! I really like this guitar!

Same as other reviews. Three peice satin finish. Don't like the tremolo or the vintage whammy bar. Stays in tune well. Love the neck. Small frets and scale length. That is all you need. www.mp3.com/TennisStudd

I have a 94 PRS. I like it cause it is fat and screams without bite. The Pacifica is similar. It does't have the overly bright sound and glassy high end of the typical japaneese guitars. Ibanez has a nasty top end and muddy bass. This Pacifica has enough high end to scream but sounds sweet like my PRS. The Low end is aboundand, tight and chunky. The upper mids are tight as well. Sounds Excellent. To me it takes an bassy high mid sound to get a real juicy sound. I only use humbuckers. The single coils are weak and quak. I run this guitar through a Hughes and Kettner 100 half stack (the best amp made). For recording I use a Roland cosm multi effects unit. No noise... not anywhere. On my recordings I can't tell the difference between this guitar and my PRS. I could tell the difference between this and other jap guitars. As far as crunch. Oh yeah. playing the low E is fat and crunchy. Not like most cheasy strats or copies. Strats (even fat strats) sound weak and cheasey.

Excellent set up. Never touched the pickups. Am considering a Screamin demon or a PRS HFS. Maybe not. I took it apart just to check things out. the output jack came apart on day on. That was easy to fix. As far as the plastic jack plate, it seams to work fine. Top is matched well. Bridge is set up fine. I just want a real floating trem. I have any trem resembling fender. I'd like to find one similar to my PRS. That is a trem. The bridge is starting to rust after about a month. Still this guitar plays like a dream. I've owned wizard necks and such. You don't need a certain neck to play certain solos. All you need is a guitar that plays good and sounds good. I have also owned a Fender Stat plus. I would rather have this Pac.

I don't play live. I guess this guitar would take a beating. The satin finish scratches easily but I will probably paint a custom graphic on it. I pulled the strap butons off as soon as I got it home. I don't like strap buttons. I put on Dimarzio strap locks.

Never dealt with them

Been playing 10 yrs. Own a 94 PRS (before they started sucking). If this guitar were stolen or fell apart I would buy anouther one. I love the neck, the sound, and the playability. It may be cheap and some may consider it a beginner's guitar but I don't. I think it all depends on whose hands it is in. You fingers are affect your tone as much as anything else. The industry makes up different reasons for us to buy a new guitar every year. Don't believe them. The quality is great and the selection of wood is nice. Fender Mexi strats sound like crap and the Americans do too. Look at a Fender that is unpainted. They us 4 peices of wood on some of them. they look like peices of scrap. Check out the rosewood Fender uses. Mustard color. The Pac uses either babinga or a decent rosewood.
I would be happy to answer questions. Within the week I bought it, I recorded a demo solo with it. to listen go to mp3.com.. Band name- Tennis Studd. Song- Pac 112

Bought new, May, 2000. Alder body. Maple neck. Solid body. 25.5" scale neck. Two single coils and a humbucker. 5 way switch. White finish (which looks to my eyes to have a tinge of green to it). Tremelo. Sealed tuners. 22 frets. Basic. Decent.

Sounds. This thing excells. This is my second unit. This one has great sustain; much better than the first 112 I had. The tones: from strat to tele to beyond. The tone control really does a lot here... as opposed to tone controls on so many guitars. If you move slow and keep an ear out as you fiddle, you'll find a lot of variety. I have a Fender strat which is my main guitar. I bought this Pacifica 112 as a backup. It has more tonal variety. I can go from cool ice blues lead to twang country gymnastics very easily... and convincingly... on this little gem. Can really do just about anything.

If you have never had one of these, here's the skinny, literally: a great slim neck. Radius is different from that of a strat. One string was cut a little high on the nut. A tech's file and 15 seconds and it was just right. I had no problem adjusting each string at the bridge to where I liked it best. I adjusted the two single coil pickups closer to the strings. Finish was fine for a guitar in this price range. The high rating reflects the sweet neck (IF you like them slim) on these guitars.

The Pacifica 112 appears to be built well. It is a backup guitar. That does not mean I would bring it to a gig as a backup. It means, if my strat was unavailable for a gig, the 112 would swing in. To be honest, I will probably rotate these guitars a bit. I don't see a need for a backup to the 112. It is well made.

Any emails to Yamaha have been answered. Never needed any fixing on my Pacificas.

Been playing for a very long time. Have had the vintage names and guitars. I HAVE to have a slim neck and low action. This guitar, out of ALL the guitars I have looked at, low budget to high end, has been the best low action, off the floor, with no major tech work, of them all. I must applaud the factory in Taiwan, as well as the designer(s).
That they managed to put so much tonal variety in the electronics is really something. And for the price... well, I have looked around and tried plenty. Let me tell you, I really appreciate this little guitar. There is one thing you have to watch for on the Pacifica 112.... The way the wood pieces of the body are glued together. The first one I had, used four pieces. They were glued in such a way, as for the two middle pieces to cancel each other out in terms of sustain. It was nice, but a "plinker." This new one is done much nicer... a single piece down most of the middle has made for a dramatic increase in the sustain department. This 'un is reeall nice. To be honest, it is hard to justify going out and buying a bunch of other guitars when you get a real good Pacifica 112. Thanks, Yamaha.

Post Script: I was prepared to shell out a lot more money for a guitar, up to 600 bucks. There were plenty of nice guitars at reduced prices at the sale. Couldn't pass up this one. It was just what I was looking for in terms of tones, sustain, and playability.

OH BABY IT"S SOMETHING

DAmn satin finish is getting scaded up

Hey Harmony-Central, the name is Alex and this is an update
on my left-handed PAC112, i have now found the perfect sound (for me)
if anyone of you are left-handed and own this beaty, well look out for Seymour Duncan because i bought and installed two in this guitar and the match is AMAZING. My new setup is a custom PAC112 with a Duncan Distortion in the bridge, the stock in the middle and a customized Alnico 2 Pro Staggered left-handed from the nice guys a t Seymour Duncan, now some people told me this is a weird match, but let me tell you for me it's HEAVEN! So here's my beef, lot of people are just bying what bands are using, well the hell with it, be creative and be yourself, this is Alex : Frontman of 2nd Protocol
saying to you guys "Not Being Yourself is Becoming Someone Else"
check out the site and leave me a message if you have any questions

http://burning2k.tripod.com or go to www.canadianmusic.com (just click on the first band in the alternative section)

PEACE OUT

I bought my Yamaha Pacifica 112 brand new in the UK five years ago. It has 22 frets, the finish is a lightly glossed, light shade of wood. There is a 3 way selector, Humbucker-Single-Single combo of pickups, (very good indeed for the price). The body style is like a strat but the features such as the headstock and parts of the body are shaper and more trendy. This makes it suit the style of a heavy metal/ rock guitar player more than a fender strat would. It has a white scratch-plate which suits the guitar very well, and it has 1 volume and 1 tone knob. The bridge is a basic whammy, a sort of modest version of floyd roses and ibanez lo-pro edge for example. There is a standard headstock (not reversed) but as I mentioned, it is nice and pokey, not all fat and round like most strats. My model came with a free soft gig bag which is quite nicely padded.

I am into bands such as Metallica and Megadeth, (mostly Metallica at the time), and although this guitar is not really equipped for all of the lead work, it surpasses expectations with playability and sound. When this was my main guitar, I had about as basic a setup as you can get, just a 10watt pretty much bottom of the range amp, costing around #50 ($60 ish). Even with this setup, it worked as well as I needed it to, for the chords and basic riffs I was learning. It plays as good as the amp you play it through, but you can certainly tell that the quality of this guitar surpasses that of cheper guitars or even ones in the same price range.
Surprisingly, this guitar is good for metal, (although meets it's limit in the lead departement), and for clear stuff such as Nothing Else Matters(Metallica) style.
I need to say no more, as the sound is very good in every departement, and would challenge any very specifically classified guitar from any style under the sun within the same price range. Very good indeed!

As far as I can remember, the setup was fine, fresh from the factory. Excellent!!

This guitar is so reliable that I wouldn't have any quarms about playing this live. The trem is very reliable and it is a solid and well engineered build all round. Because of the untreated finish, (prehaps lightly glossed), the body is a little more liably to get chipped, but this only applies to the body as the neck and headstock are very heavily glossed like in any guitar. These chips will not show up as much as in a heavily glossed guitar, and if you make sure you are quite carefull with it, there wont be any problem. The strap buttons could be a little bigger in my opinion, but that is just my personal preference, and they are no smaller than the average guitar. The strap buttons are solid however, and put in very well designed areas on the guitar so that the balancing of the guitar is very good.
This is a very dependable guitar, and the only reason I damaged it was because I dropped so that the headstock smashed on to the corner of my amp, and the headstock bust. Because of the bolt-on construction, this is no fatal move.
Very relibale, great quality.

The warranty is at least a year by my recollection, but this can probably be extended. A good service as far as I know.

I have been playing for five years, and this was more than sufficient for the first two, but as I progressed to more technical lead solos and techniques, I found the need for a higher specification guitar mainly just concerning the bridge, so I stumbled upon a second hand BCRich Bich. A Floyd Rose is a good upgrade for a lead guitarist,(for heavy metal styles such as Metallica and Megadeth), but this guitar will fit the needs of any beginner or any Indy, Rock, etc, style of player.
It would be laughably unreasonale to expect anything more from this great guitar for the price you pay for it. I love everything about this superb value guitar, and it really got me to a great start with my guitar playing. If your budget only stretches this far then get this guitar because to get any better you would have to pay about twice as much at least.
Superb value for money, superb guitar, if you are a beginner or have a strict budget, get it.

Just about as basic as you can get, but thats what i needed. this was my first guitar (and last...i really play bass). two single coils and a humbucker, tone and volume know, and five way pickup switch. Im sure the electronics are as crappy as they can be, but they actually sounds pretty good. I never use the tremelo, but it has one.

Suprisingly a very nice sounding guitar. I've gotten great sounds clean and distorted. When its distorted though, the two single coils tend to buzz quite a bit, but i usually use the bridge pickup, so its not too much of a problem. For a Yamaha, this thing sounds pretty good.

This guitar sat in a closet for 4 years before I stumbled upon it. I have no idea how the factory set up was, because the original owner screwed it all tho hell, plus everything was starting to rust up. I have to keep the action kinda high so it wont buzz...not too fond of that, but i make due. The nut isnt shaped quite right, but that is to be expected from a lower quality guitar.

This is a diffcult section. My roommate has droped the thing at least 3 times, and it hasnt even gone out of tune, or gotted and dings or scratches. but since ive had it (about 1 year), ive had to replace the input jack twice, re-soder some wiring, and the magnet for the neck pickup randomly fell off. But even though it has no magnet, it still finds a way to work fine. nevertheless, im very happy with the guitar.

Never had to call...dealt with everything myself, even though ive probably just made things worse.

This is the only guitar I own. All of my other gear is bass related. But I got the guitar and a peavey 110 amp for free, and taught myself how to play. I still play it almost every day. Im very happy with it. I like it more than my friends fender strat and tele. And so does he.

Made Japan. S/S/H pickup config. Generic yamaha bo-bo pickups. Beautiful ALder body and Bubinga fret board. Nice thin strong neck. I hate the fat necks on my friend's fender. Nice tremelo. You can use the wammy bar without it coming out of tune. Wonderful, cheap, alternative to an expensive Fender.

I do my damndest to reproduce a Smashing Pumpkins sound. I didn't think I could do it with such a cheap guitar. Billy and james use american made strats or les pauls. Surprise, for the lwo price of around 200 bucks, they can be transported to your living room through this inexpensive treasure. Great beatlesque sound with a good clean amp (I use a fender deluxe 90). The only limit on this guitar is the cheasy humbucker, the plastic input cover which I promptly smashed in when i dropped it, and the talent of the player.

The guitar was perfect right out of guitar center (towson MD). No sharp areas above the frets like a lot of the cheaper strats. (i cut my finger on a strat squier). Pickups work fine. The wood finsih I have is beautiful, even though it's now scratched and dented from heavy use. The plastic coating on the pick guard was a pian in the ass to remove.

100% reliable. If you a professional, you'd probably use this as a back-up just so you could show off your new Fender or Gibson. But if the guitar fails you half-way through the show, you could use this, and 99% of the people couldn't tell the difference. The wood fifnish isn't coated with polyurethane, so it dents super easy. Just take care fo it and you'll be fine. This guitar has withstood hours of continous playing, and it hasn't failed me yet.

Never used it.

I've benn playing for 4 years. I own a cheap acoustic (santa rosa?), and a fender deluxe 90 amp. Howard hennig, the sales manager at guitar center was instrumentla in the sale of this guitar. He was right. It knocks the sock off of EVERY foreign guitar I played at the store, including the mexi and japani strats. It's not quite an american standard, but you save around 900 bucks. I wish it had three tone control knobs instead of jst two, and I'd also wish they'd replace that damn humbucker with something better. I'd buy it again in a second. Cheers to Yamaha on this wonderful creation.

Japanese-made SSH electric, 22-fret BUBINGA fingerboard on a maple neck. Strat-style body (though lighter and more comfortable than a Strat), chrome hardware, standard tremolo. Passive stock pickups are fairly bad, but a quick switch for an EMG SAV-SAV-89 set really makes a difference. I also installed an EMG-SPC mid-boost control, which really fattens up the tone of the single-coils. The body is finished natural satin, and is very pretty. Very playable neck and fingerboard - the neck is thin and fast, with jumbo frets, and the fingerboard is very flat and thin. The tuners are non-locking, and have since been replaced by Sperzels. I'd give the guitar a 7 without the upgrades, a 10 with.

With my upgrades, the guitar is fabulous. I use it for everything, from funk and blues to progressive metal. My amps are a Line 6 AX2-212 and a Danelectro Dirty Thirty. On the AX2, I use the Dual Rectifier, Roland JC-120, and Dumble Overdrive Special amp models, all with very suprising results. I get FANTASTIC tone (especially with the pickup change), and those artificial harmonics are SO easy to attain. I'd recommend that anyone with a Pacifica guitar should get EMG pickups - your tone will improve ten-fold!

The guitar was set-up poorly at the factory - lots of fret-buzz, decently high action, and what not. The nut is cut improperly - that's the next thing that will be fixed. The pickups were at the correct height, but of course I yanked them anyway. The body's woodgrain is beautiful, especially against the white pickguard and black hardware. There are no finish flaws or electronics problems...

This guitar is incredibly durable. I've owned several, and I just keep coming back to them. It is a simple, no-frills guitar, and I love it. I have a very aggressive right hand picking technique, and I bend up minor and major thirds on a regular basis with my left hand. This is the first guitar I've played that can withstand my abuse in both rehearsal and live settings.

The guitar has a lifetime warranty. I don't think I'll ever need it. The only reason I'm giving Customer Support such a low rating is the fact that Yamaha's parts technician is IMPOSSIBLE to get ahold of. I wanted a pearloid pickguard for my guitar (standard Strat pickguards from Warmoth and such are shaped differently), and of course, Yamaha only sells the pearloid pickguard with electronics built-in, for a grand total of EIGHTY dollars. Whatever...

I've been playing guitar for about 5 years, playing in bands both in rehearsal and live. I play mostly Dream Theater-style progressive metal, with some Jazz, Blues, and Funk thrown in for good measure. I've owned way too many guitars over those 5 years, including ESPs, Corts (check out the CL1500 - also a FABULOUS guitar), Fenders, Ovations, and other Yamahas. I keep coming back to the Yamaha because of the playability, the simplicity, and the versatility. The stock guitar is great, but the guitar with just a couple modifications is simply amazing!

Alder body, two single coil and one humbucker pickups, tuners that stay in tune, tremelo that works with strings coming back in tune. The features that are there work well.

Makes more sounds than my Fender standard strat. Also, has much more life. This thing really rings. I can cover some jazz territory, plenty of country and rockabilly, blues from ice to raggady. I run it, and all my guitars, through effects... some distortion, compression, and delay. This guitar can cover a lot of territory. Until I run into one that does more, better, I will have to give this a high rating in this category.

Excellent neck! Give it a ten for that, for sure. Finish is fine, especially considering the price. Fit is perfect for me, as far as contouring. This is a "low budget" guitar. That being said, it is a bargain. I would give it a ten for the neck.

I bought this to play it in clubs. It is fine. I wouldn't take a backup to SOME of the small club all night gigs, because I just want to get in and out quickly.

I have found the Yamaha necks to be excellent. I am looking at other guitars in the company's line. Every email has been answered.

I have been playing since 1965. I looked through five 112s to find this one. Got the proper combination of features: 1. Fret edges not sharp. Have to watch this on lower priced guitars. 2. Decent fret height. Can lower action without having to file down a fret here and there. 3. Strong neck. Again, with cheaper guitars, have to get the best possible to avoid neck give and subsequent in-and-out-of tuning while playing. 4. Tuners that stay in tune. 5. Whammy bar that comes back with strings in tune.
When I got to this one, I knew it was what I was looking for: an inexpensive, good playing, good sounding guitar that could hold up to nightly small club work.
This is a GREAT guitar. I am considering getting a second one. The neck is just what I was looking for. I would like to always have one of these around. A bargain.
If Yamaha keeps doing this, I'll probably never buy another Fender. I HATE the Strat's fat, chunky neck. The only thing I have run across comparable would be the Jaguar's neck. This 112 is lighter and sounds TONS better, and I like its neck even better than my old "vintage" jag's.... In fact, I am putting my three months new strat up for quick sale. No comparison, comfort and sound wise. Want a good guitar? Get a Yamaha Pacifica 112. The only other thing I need is a semi-hollow/hollow body. This thing covers all the slab ground I need.

Made in Taiwan,Strat-model,Alder body,Rosewood fin board,22 frets,H/S/S pickups.

Sounded amazing at first but when i changed style to metal it was not powerful enough, so i changed the brige humbucker to a Duncan Distortion, and put the old one in the neck-position (the old hum. in neckposition and with distortion don't sound so nice, but what i lacks in tone it gains in volume). I've got a scratch-plate made of metal, so i've done some isolating stuff,and i don't know how this have affected the sound.

Din't remember, i think it was kinda good.

It goes out of tune very easy,so it's a menace to play with it live,which is a shame 'cus the sound is so great. Strap buttons are a bit small. I've played this guitar for some years and it has never let me down.

Never dealth with them.

The basic guitar is kinda boring, but perfect for beginners. With some money and work the guitar can be much funnier to play,but not reliable enough to play at gigs though.

This is an update of a posting that I made on an early date (7-28-98 to be specific). I have replaced/changed a few other things sence my last posting. These things include: a second EMG select single coil (in the center position), Sperzel locking tuners, new string trees (I have installed two extra trees, so that all strings have a better angle accros the nut), and I have also replaced Yamaha's **ONLY** Major flaw, the use of a PLASTIC plate to hold the output jack, I replaced it with Metal plate, which Yamaha should have used to begin with!!!

With all of my improvements this guitar is AMAZING!! But before all of my improments this guitar was AMAZING!!, it just sounds better now.

In My Humble Opinion Yamaha is an amazing guitar maker! For the price these guitars are phenomenol. With a little tweaking these guitars can be an absolute workhorse.

In fits of anger I have been known to throw this guitar around, and it has kept going without even looking back.

I have still haven't needed to contact Yamaha.

WOW

Made in Taiwan,Rosewood finger board,22 frets,4-piece Alder body in natural satin finish,S/S/H pickups,vintage trem.

Sounds a bit bland with the original pickups,but still pretty solid and useable.The sustain is shorter than on most Strats,possibly because the body is so light,but it's still nice and pingy.Good strat sounds,but loads better with replacement pickups.

Beatifully finished-a basic guitar but very solidly made,the neck fits perfectly into the body,everything was set up well.The action was a bit high for me,but the neck is straight so I could get it down as far as I wanted.The neck on this thing is just gorgeous,you could play it all day!Frets are nice,high but not too wide. The natural finish won't last 5 minutes though-It actually rubs off if you sit down to play it frequently!And the wood dings very easily- it supposed to be alder but it's more like balsa.Maybe the coloured finishes are more durable.

It'll survive a lot,being well built,but may not look too great after a few knocks(see above)

Haven't called them.

I've put a Kent Armstrong Humbucker in the bridge,moved the original bridge humbucker to the neck, coil-tapped them both,and rewired the whole thing so I can get loads of sounds from it.It sounds pretty good,loads of variety,but I still feel the basic guitar is a bit bland,and no amount of changing pickups will improve it beyond a certain level.Maybe the one I've got isn't one of the best,so try a few out before buying.The big thing in its favour is that neck-really one of the nicest I've ever played.Now maybe if I were to replace the body...............!!!

Made in Taiwan, 22 frets, standard stuff that appears in submissions below...s/s/h pickup configuration, with maple neck (that's very, very nice...) and bubinga fretboard. covered tuners, standard trem, the usual...just a very nice looking strat copy (which works better than a strat)
Tuners keep a nice tune, but my low E seems to go out of tune more than the others. However, as long as there isn't any string-breaking pressure bending, it keeps its tune just fine. it'd get a 10 for the price, but i still drool over parkers...

I play mostly christian music through a vox pathfinder amp. Since it's my first electric, I really wouldn't be able to tell if it's perfect, but yes, it sounds great. Neck single coil on tone setting 1 sounds nice and mellow, humbucker on bridge on 10 gives a great "twangy" sound that works great for fast stuff. Guitar Center didn't give me a trem bar with it, but it goes slightly upwards for rising fun...(I just plant my palm on the bottom of the bridge). I don't exactly play with much distortion, so packed with my ibanez super chorus it just gives out a heavenly lush tone when I need something slow, and a neat fast rhythm when I need to jam.
I love this thing.

The action was nice and low, compared to my f-310 acoustic. Frets are set up perfectly, nice and low, so that you can slide really easily. The neck is nice and smooth, and as long as your hand isn't totally wet from sweat, you can go from 1st to 22nd without even blinking. Humbucker is sort of loose, but it's probably set that way. And like everybody else says--this thing's built like a tank. First I took it home in a car without any protection (I was too cheap to buy a gigbag from Guitar Center, and decided to use the Musiciansfriend one I'd bought two days ago), and left it in a car trunk for two hours in 100 degree heat (luckily it was a covered parking lot). And I took it on the plane with me in nothing but an acoustic (read--DREADNOUGHT!) gigbag stuffed with packing peanuts, and it came out of 20 hours on a 747 without any harm at all (except for the fact that it was a little out of tune, probably knocked around by the peanuts)
Strap buttons are nice and strong, won't fall off anytime soon. (Try 50 years!)

Like I said--Built like a tank!
I haven't actually performed in front of a live crowd yet, but I doubt this thing would conk on me.
Mine is a darkish natural wood finish (I chose it because I figured it'd last longer than black, and it wouldn't chip easily). I was mostly right. It hasn't gotten a scratch anywhere on it since I got it 2 weeks ago (well...the film on my pickguard is shot, but it still doesn't have a single hole in it)

Guitar Center was o.k., Yamaha's a nice company, but since my guitar's perfect, I doubt I'll have to deal with them.

I've been playing for a total of six months, and this is my second guitar, but man, this thing's good! My F-310 sort of disappointed me in terms of Yamaha quality (Indonesian acoustics must not be too good, but what can you expect for $90?), but this thing's just the best! I was thinking of getting myself an Ovation Celebrity Deluxe, but with a shortage of cash, and the revelation that I needed to learn electric, I picked it up...and I'm still smiling. This guitar is probably the only strat I'll ever need. It plays smooth, sounds great, and is just a whole bunch of fun (and stringing won't be a problem thanks to the slots on the back). If it were stolen, hey, I wouldn't buy one...mainly because by then, I'll have honed my stuff, and probably be performing. I'd buy two, if I had the cash. Weight wise, it isn't exactly feather-light, but hey...it's a strat, not a parker. And for a strat, it's light. Let's see what happens in 20 years. It'll probably be just as nice, and out there sounding just as good as it did the first time I played it in the store.

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Just an update... I dumped a Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro in the neck position, and a Fender Tex-Mex in the middle, and the guitar seems to be reborn. Whereas the stock pickups had no character to them, and had a hollow ringing sound, these two single coils have personality and TONE. Nomore shall I put my guitar down in frustration because I can't achieve the tone I want.

Another update... I've found that the volume pot tapers way too fast. Putting it on 9 is a whole lot different than putting it on 10. You can barely hear the single coils on 9. If anyone has suggestions for curing this problem, please e-mail me. I suspect I need a higher/lower (not sure which) value pot. Also, I fitted an 82pf capacitor to the volume pot to act as a treble cut (couldn't get my hands on a .01uf, which is what I'm supposed to use) but I haven't noticed that big a difference. Maybe if I used the right capacitor value.....

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Seymour Duncan pickups rule!!

This is a Yamaha Pacifica 112, made in Japan, that features a rosewood fretboard, maple neck, alder (?) body, one volume, one tone, s/s/h, and a tremolo bridge. Mine is an attractive clear finish. It has a 22 fret neck that feels amazing (more on that later). For the most part, the parts on the guitar are average: decent tuners, average bridge, passable pickups, etc. I got mine without a single accessory, except the tremolo arm...

It only gets better from here. Straight out of the box, one can easily believe this to be a budget electric. HOWEVER, with a set-up and a little patience, this thing begins to sound better and better. I started out playing this guitar exactly as I got it through a Crate solid state 15 watt piece of crap. Since I was into Nirvana and Green Day at the time, I always used the humbucker, never the single coils. This soon changed, though. I gradually got into Led Zep, and from there springboarded into the blues. I realized I needed to use my single coils more, and once I did, my guitar sounded better. After a while I upgraded to an Ampeg Reverborocket 50w tube amp, and the guitar sounded absolutely beautiful through it. By this time I had done various things to the guitar, such as filing down the frets, adjusting the pickup height (the single coils sounded much better after that), setting the intonation (although it was decent to begin with), and changing to a heavier gauge string. All these factors contributed to improving the guitar, and it now sings and screams when I want it to. It now has a nice, rich sound in the neck position, a good quack in the combination position, and good crunch in the humbucker. With pickup changes, I expect this guitar to improve even more.

Like I said before, the guitar wasn't that spectacular out of the box. I've actually owned two of these guitars: I had one with a warped neck for a day or two, but exchanged it for a better one. The nut height on it is good, I haven't changed it since I got the guitar (although the nut should be made out of something other than plastic). The height of the single coils was far too low when I got the guitar, but raising them easily fixed that. I've had no trouble with the tuners. The bridge floated far too much for my taste (about 1/4 inch) when I got it, but another spring fixed that problem. The action on the guitar was good when I got it, and I don't recall having changed it. At any rate, it's good now. With regards to fit, this thing is great. The neck feels *SO* good. It's not exactly a thick neck, but it feels nice and full in my hand. It's comfortable and easy to play. When I play other people's guitars, such as at friend's houses or guitar shops, I always marvel at how great my own neck feels once I pick up my guitar again. The body is comfortable, and the guitar just plays well.

This thing has been totally reliable. Back in my grunge days, I would play it real hard, but you couldn't even tell that now by looking at the guitar. The only flaws in the body are belt scratches (more like small indentations) and 1/2 dent in the guitar near the pickup selector switch from when my friend pushed a symbol stand at me, and I blocked it with my guitar. I haven't abused my guitar, but I'm sure it could stand abuse. It's great for playing anytime, live or at home, and I would definately gig with it without a backup.

Never dealt with them.

I've been playing for about 5 years now, and this is the only electric I've owned. The only other guitar I've owned is a Hondo acoustic, but I got rid of that to pay for my amp. I LOVE THIS GUITAR. If it were lost or stolen, I'd pick another up in an instant, provided I have the money to. I love the feel of this guitar, the playability, and the overall tone. My only gripe is the pickups, but I plan to replace those with Seymour Duncans soon. One of my favorite features of the guitar is the ease with which it can be modified. I view it as an empty palette that's just waiting for me be creative on it. I never compared this guitar with any other guitar, I mainly bought it because I liked the natural finish. As I've progressed, though, I've come to realize what a great guitar this is, and how lucky I was that I got it. My only wish is that it came with two tone controls instead of one master tone conrol, but hey, it's no big deal. If you see one of these guitars for cheap, I highly recommend that you buy it. You won't be disappointed.

This is just an update on a previous submission. All I have to say is that this guitar is the s**t when it comes to reliability. I can't count how many times I have smashed it of the ground, and it still plays like new. Way to go Yamaha!

I think this one was one of the first 112's that came to sales. Japanese guitar built in Taiwan I think, 22 frets, SSH with 5-way selector. You can't expect more features for that price. (It's one of the cheapest in Finland)

The sound is pretty good, althoug the parts are shit. My guitar suonds the best when playing hard rock etc. style of music. Still the humming of the probably cheapest mics ever made is a pain in the ass. It hums with every working microphone, no matter of amp or cord. But if it wouldn't I'd put a good word for it.

When I bought it I didn't understand much about guitars. I played a couple of years with the factory set-ups and then I adjusted the mics again. It also loses tune quite easilly, but otherwise very well finished.

Well, I had to change the middle mic, wen it went totally broken. I wouldn't depend too much on it, cause it sometimes loses the sound and tune.

No experiences.

I'm just about to buy a new one, probably an Ernie Ball Music Man (Axis, Silhouette or Luke). I've been testing them quite much lately andwhen I compare them to this Yamaha, it's like heaven and hell (Music Man is of course heaven). But, always have to remember the price, and I think this has served me much better than I expected. The neck is very good, although a bit lousy with .009 sized strings, so use the .010's. Better mics and locked tuners, and it would be 9.

This is an addition too my last posting, I rated it a ten before, but I gotta change that. I've gotta rate it a hundred, cause I've have litteraly thrown this guitar to the groung numerous times (I have soom personal problems) and the guitar still plays well. For $300, what more can you ask for

1999 Japanese Guitar. Nice. 22 Frets. Solid-Top. You get volume and tone controls. Only one tone though, compared to the fender strat with 2 tone controls. It is a SSH pickup configuration with a surprisingly good sound for a guitar this cheap. I have no idea who made these pickups, and they're not the best, but for the price, they are. It has a white fretboard, dunno what that is though. It is a strat style body. Locking tuners. No accessories except a cable.

I love the sound of this thing, it does everything from Tom Petty to Creed to Metallica and back to Brian Setzer, it is a very versatile guitar. The only bad thing is my amp, some cheap 10-watt Crate. But I used my friend's Mesa-Boogie with tons of stompboxes and it was great.

Guitar was set up fine except for the pickups, i had to adjust those myself. The top notes were too drowned out by the lower notes. Other than that, no flaws.

this guitar can withstand a steam roller. Kidding. It is about as versatile as a strat, and those are very versitile. The hardware seems like it will last forever. The finish will never come off, you can be bad to this guitar, and it is very forgiving. The strap buttons seem to project from the body, but no big deal. I would use this guitar at a gig without a backup, mainly because I don't have a backup.

haven't dealt with em yet

nutty

a Strat style guitar with Passive Sing/Sing/Hum configuration, traditional trem, one tone, one volume. Seems to be alder body with nat. finish, white pickgaurd, maple neck (presumably Warmoth) with rosewood fret board. Non locking tuners, slim neck. Simple and effective.

Suits my rock style well. microphinic at high gain levels, but good dynamics. 5-way switch is very versatile, but it could benefit froma pickup change. Slim neck has great feel.

I do my own set up. I use light top heavey bottom (.010-.052) strings, and the neck feels great. brige saddles break alot of strings though.

look, feels solid. I'd use it on a bunch of gigs.

Never had to deal with them-very reliable

I would def. buy yamaha again in the future.

Well lets see, its a 1998 model and it was made in Taiwan. It has 21 frets and is a solid top. Only has singel volume and another single tone control. Pickups are S/S/H. Has a beautiful Alder wood body with a satin poly finish. Neck is a light wood (blonde)with dark fret markings. Basically a Strat type finish with a nice alteration by Yamaha on the cutaways and the bottom of the body. Got it with cord and gig bag.

Nice sounding guitar has a good reach from blues to heavy metal. Even has a clear clean sound when playing country or lighter tunes. Been playing with a 15 Watt Randall amp so I can't go nuts.

No mechanical/electrical problems. Light action all around. No adjustments required. Nice matchbody to neck. Had a problem getting the plastic protective film off the pick guard. One small finish mark on the top of the body (very light) smaller than an eraser.

Seems solid in its construction. Hard ware is nice/looks sturdy. Finish doesn't show wear easy. Looks clean even after heavy handling. Strap buttons appear to project a little, but are very solid. Dependable I wouldn't need a backup. Pretty new but using it alot.

Never needed. But it has a lifetime warranty

First Electric. I have an Alvarez Accoustic and a Hofner classical. Wish I knew what type of wood the neck was made of. Shopped around ALOT. This a best buy in price and quality. I stronly urge first time buyers to seriously look at this instrument. If it was stolen I would hunt the fool down, beat him, and get it back! If I knew someone looking for a beginner guitar I would have him/her look at a Pacifica. Beautiful guitar...It grew on me. I looked a Hamer, Squier, Dean, Johnson, and several other entry level guitars. Yamaha put them to shame. Wish it had dual tone controls (like a strat)and better looking pick guard (Maybe something I'll get later) I didn't love the white plastic.

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Well, I've gone off the sound of this thing since I got my 50s Reissue Strat. I bought this second-hand for under #100 with a Crybaby thrown in for free, so it was a bargain. The sound? Well, I like a strat to sound, well, like a strat. And this doesn't. Aneamic sound, with little sustain, and I really hate that bridge pick-up. The other PUs are OK, I guess, but the clean tone, which I'm getting more into these days, is pretty weak. Good for the price, though.

Well, pretty much faultless, again for the price. In fact, most fenders aren't set up this good. Lovely neck, extremely fast and playable. Action is better than my Fender... very very low with no buzz. But since I discovered teh joys of Fender baseball bat maple necks (and maple fretboard) I hardly play the Yamaha anymore. The natural finish isn't that durable, scratches and dings quite badly. But hey, it was #90.

Gets a 7 for the finish. Otherwise, a rock. I gig with it.. I use it for alternate tunings on some songs I wrote back in my trying to sound like Pavement/Sonic Youth phase.

Never dealt with them

I thought it was stolen when I bought it, but subsequent talks with the seller proved otherwise.. I was just lucky to bump into him on the tube at 10:30pm one night when he was coming back from trying to trade it in for something in London.
If it was nicked, I wouldn't get another... I'd hunt down another 50s or 60s Jap strat in the unfashionable colours that get discounted heavily over here (Hey, I like Shell Pink! Who knows, Seafoam Green might grow on me too).
A nice guitar, excellent neck, but nothing spectacular. Oh, blows anything in its price range away, apart from dodgy-coloured Fender Strats and Teles.
Gets a clear, solid 10 for it's sheer quality and value for money. I know it appears I dissed this thing a little, but I still think it's hard to beat. Might get new pickups when I have money ...

As far as features go, this is a fairly plain guitar. It's got everything you would expect of a standard contemporary strat guitar including: 22 frets S/S/H passive pickup configuration (with 5-way selector), Fender-style vibrato system and non-locking tuners. Since I like my guitars to be as versatile as possible, my main gripe with this axe is how easily it goes out of tune with whammy use. I'll probably invest in some better hardware in the future to remedy this problem. The bridge on these guitars can be adjusted so that there is a little room for "upward whammying", which is essential for being able to perform natural-sounding vibrato. I think that the 112's S/S/H configuration gives it a considerable edge over Mexican Fenders, which are probably the most popular guitars in the 112's price range. I only give the guitar a 5 in this category because it really doesn't have any extra features; only the ones I absolutely must have in order to play the average gig with my band (pop music).

I first picked up this guitar as I was trying out a Hot Rod DeVille in a local music store (yes, I know you're supposed to use your regular guitar when testing an amp). I basically used it only because it happened to be right next to where the amp was, so I wasn't expecting much. Boy was I surpised! It sounded so great, I thought that the Hot Rod Deville was making it sound that way. After playing it through several other amps, however, it became clear that the guitar was an absolute steal. The stock pickups sound great. I've played quite a few American Strats, and I'd say that in all positions where single coils are selected, the 112 sounds as good as any one of them. The neck and neck/middle positions yield particularly full tones, with just the right amount of single coil sparkle. The humbucker is also nice for most applications, but it doesn't cut as well as I'd like it to through heavy (Peavy 5150) distortion. On the other hand, it's lack of cutting ability means that it isn't too trebly when played clean, or with crunch distortion a la AC DC.
I play all sorts of music, but I would say that the 112 is best suited to blues and rock. It sounds amazing clean through my blackfaced Bassman and also dirty through my 5150 (except at extreme gain settings)
I give this guitar a 10 in this category because, although it doesn't do everything (and what guitar does?), it does blues and rock as well as any other guitar I've played that cost less than a grand.

My 112 played well right out of the box. Actually, I didn't even have to tune it before plugging in! Before this guitar, I've never played a new one that I didn't have to adjust to my liking. The action was set just right - at that level where fretting is easy, but big bluesy bends are still possible without catching the other strings. Fit and finish were both satisfactory for a non-custom made guitar. The neck plays wonderfully! Maybe I'm just used to playing guitars with wide necks and Floyd Roses, but man this thing seems easy to play.
For a guitar in its price range, it deserves a 10 in this category. It's no PRS with bird inlays though.

I gig quite a bit, so I'm hoping that the guitar will hold up in this category. This remains to be seen, however. I'm a bit nervous because I can't believe that this axe can be as good as I think it is and yet be so cheap. I hope and pray that this thing won't fall apart on me, but I have no reason to believe that it will. As I have no previous experience with Yamaha solid bodies, I can't really offer a valid rating for this category.

Never dealt with them, hope I never have to.

I've been playing for 8 years, and I enjoy playing everything from the Beatles to SRV to Pantera (as well as my own music, of course). I've checked out most of the "must play" axes - (Fender, Gibson, PRS) as well as your typical shred guitars with Floyd Rose tremolos and the like. My Pacifica 112 would stand up respectably against any one of those guitars, although it wouldn't beat any of them at its own game. I love the fact that it sounds fantastic, and yet costs so little. I got it because it's the best guitar value on the market in any category, bar none. If it had a tremolo system that stayed in tune after heavy abuse I would be even happier than I already am. If this thing were stolen/lost, I'd get another one, and if I walked into the music store with a grand I would still probably walk out with a Pacifica 112. What a deal!

Don't know when they made it. For features see the other reviews.

Play all kinds of music. This guitar does a good job on sounding like a strat guitar should.

This is the strong point. This guitars are very consistent. I compared five of them in the store and they were all about the same. I can't say that form Fender's American Standard Stratocaster. This guitar has one of the best strat-necks you can buy. It plays great, fast and confortable, low action, no string-buzz. Right out of the box, I didn't have to adjust nothing. The finish had no flaws either. Tight neck-joint, no bow, well dressed and polished frets.

No probs. Stays in tune.

No need.

I play since 25 years. IMO too many people are spending too many bucks for solid-body guitars. I don't see any reason to pay 1000 - 3000 $$ for a solid piece of wood. If you don't have your chops together even a Custom Shop dream guitar won't make you sound better.
For its price the pacifica is one hell of a guitar and I would buy it again in a heartbeat.

It was made inTawain, which is labeled on the back. I have a natural wood finish with a white pickguard, 22 frets, 2 single coils and a humbucker, locking tremolo, one tone and one volume with a five way pickup adjuster. It's basically made like a strat. If you want any more info on this guitar, I suggest visiting the yamaha website on www.yamaha.com under musical instruments and then under the electric guitar section. Just letting you know. I actually wanted to submit my opinions to first say that researching on this database helped me chose my first electric guitar that was inexpensive but also a good quality guitar. I ended up with this one because frankly, it's the best $300 axe. Oh and the reason why I got this guitar so cheap is beacuse they had an inventory sale.

Well, I am a die hard Metallica fan. Most of the time I play songs from Metallica especially the instrumentals and it has a nice, clean sound when you want it and can handle distortion pretty well. I use a Metal Zone MT-2 distortion pedal and it has a great sound, very heavy and loud...Very Cool. I've tried other guitars around this guitar price range and nothing quite has that quality than the Pacifica. It also sounds good unplugged. I also play some Megadeth, Def Leppard, Iron Maiden, Testament and Beethoven, Yes Beethoven! Try the Moonlight Sonata on this thing. It's incredible!

I found that my axe was set up pretty well, unlike other guitars.... As far as tremolo and pickups were concerned, I believe they could have been better, but that's easy to fix, I'll just have 'em exchanged and put in better ones. I'll do that for Christmas, treat myself to customize my 'ole axe. I didn't really like the natural finish when I first bought it since it seemed too plane, but under the light, it looked so sleek & shiny and under a dimmed light, it was even better. It can get scratched easily if you leave it lying around but so far I don't see anything wrong with it.

I've had this guitar for less than 6 months and I'm in no position to say how durable it is, especially with me. I'm the type of person who is very careful in handling it and I get hella pissing if it gets banged or has the slightest scratch on there. You won't see me banging it, but I take people's word that it's durable. I bet if I did accidently drop it, it'll still work good. It's real tough and solid, that's for sure. Yeah, I'd use it gigging. Strap buttons are secure. I give it an 8 cause I never really banged it to see how much abuse it'll take.

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Alright, I've been playing for 2 years on acoustic and transferred to the electric and have been playing with the Yamaha for less than 6 months. It is soooo... much better on electri, I mean try playing a killer Metallica song on acoustic, it ain't good, but I'm so much happier now with all those effects. It works great with my DigiTech XP - 100 for all effects. I love the neck, and the feel of it is truly amazing. If I had it stolen, yup, I'd buy it again. Sure you can get another guitar like a Les Paul of a Fender Sstrat, but a Yamaha is a good investment. It sounds just as good as those solid body electrics and sometimes even better. Some people just blow their money off on those name brand electrics without doing their homework. Just research on the guitar of your choice and see if it's as good as they say it is. That's the best word of advise and the smarter thing to do. And in the meantime, check out the Pacifica for yourself and you be the judge.

Nice guitar for being the first electric I've had, same basic features as said before, SSH pickup configuration, vintage tremolo (that goes out of tune unless used very, VERY properly), 22 frets, one volume, one tone, five way strat-style pickup selector, passive electronics. Strat style body, don't know about neck scale, although I think it's 25"1/2. Mine came in vintage white (makes me feel like Hendrix) With a gig bag, cable, tools. Basic normal everything!

I like to play blues/rock stuff, it has a very bluesy/vintage sound that I just love, my friends studio Les Paul doesn't sound as good and it cost a lot more. I've played through a Marshall valvestate (sorry, valve amps in Mexico are quite rare)It has a lot of sounds, from almost acoustic like, for rhytm, to very skawky for cool solos (if you play rhytm with that, it sounds like reggae)

This is were I'm a little concerned, it came very weirdly setuped at the factory, with a lot of intonation problems and fret buz on the low strings ( can anybody mail me and tell if they have a simimlar problem and how to correct it?) It's very cool wood, alder for the body, as a strat, and maple neck and finger board (love it, very sleek, the other day I was playing a tele with some red wood like mahogany and I couldn't do anything with it) Very nicely painted exept for the inner parts, but you never see them anyway.

Very solid, even though I've only hit it twice, but the electronics are the same

Never dealt with them, I should though.

It's great, I've only played once live in a musis festival, so I can't say anything about giging, but if I started now I would still take a backup, but only because of the string (i don't mind old strings except on acoustics)
Get it if you can, good investment!

Pretty basic. This is an exelent Guitar for beginners, so being basic is a good thing. I love the natural satin finish on pacifica's. The tuners are quite good but the tremolo could be better ( but still good for a low price axe ). The volume and tone controls work well. The pickup selector switch makes a bit of noise though. I changed the Bridge humbucker as the origonal broke. The intonation is average. The best feature of this guitar though is the NECK. I have not yet found a neck that felt or played as good as this one.

I play a lot of different music from hard rock to classical. I love the bluesy neck pickup. I stuck a Dimarzio humbucker in at the bridge for playing Zeppelin and other rock. The middle poostions are too weak for my liking but the neck only and bridge only positions are really good for a cheap instrument.

Intonation was pathetic when I got the Guitar, but that is because I bought it used from someone with no idea how to set it up. The action is exellent and every thing is simple to adjust. The finish used to be exelent, but I've dropped twice and banged and knocked it quite a lot. When I got the pickup repaired (the standard one before I put in a Dimarzio) they scratched the back of the body quite badly, so I compained and got the service for free. I was still anoyed though. Every Guitarist should try one of these guitars just because of the neck. It plays so well. The black wood colour of the neck is wearing away on the first four frets.

This guitar is one tough mother. I've dropped it twice, the strap leather got worn and became soft, and all that happened was that it went out of tune. The tremolo is reliable until you try and play some Van Halen ( which I wouldn't play until you get a Floyd Rose, those things are mean ). The finish is already wearing which is my fault as I have only cleaned it once in 2 years. I use .009 strings with which I often break the high E string ( espetially when playing the outro in "all along the watch tower"). This Guitar is very reliable and it is my back up Guitar for giggs. I would never play a gig without a back up as that is just tempting fate.

I havent dealt with Yamaha directly. The shop I got it repaired at were a BIG dissapointment, you should see the mess of scraches on the back of my 112. I was so pissed off. My friend has once dealt with yamaha about a keyboard and he says that they were helpful.

I've been playing over 2 years. I have a Hohner amp ( do not buy these ) and a Marshall VS100. I also have a Les Paul standard. I also have a cry Baby wah and a boss ME-30 ( which I reviewed when I was drunk, so please ignore my review of the ME-30). If it was lost or stolen? I'd try the 812 which is gorgeos or the 812 DX which has a Floyd Rose Tremolo bar! I was going to buy a cheap strat but the neck on the pacifica is the best. I even preffer the neck on the pacifica to the neck on the Les Paul. If you are going to buy you're first electric guitar then get a 112. This is the best value for money guitar for begginers on the market. I will never sell mine as I learned to play on it.
P.S. The neck is FANTASTIC.

Made in '96 22 fret alder (solid!) body w\rosewood fretboard, maple(?) neck. s/s/h passive pickups of unknown make. Mine has a natural finish and a white pickguard. The frets are pretty fat, and the trem is pretty basic. Came with a cord and gig bag, but the bag was thrown in by the dealer.

Stock, it sounds pretty decent, although a little too fat for me. Some tweaking with the pickup height fixed that real quick, and you might not want to use this one without an eq.. but as I get used to it, I find it easy to get whatever sound I want from it. My Strat screams better, but I think that has more to do with the pickups than anything. It's easier to play than the strat too.. the neck feels smoother... but I couldn't tell you why. I play it thru a Crate amp with only a chorus, rat pedal, and an eq.. although I'll probably add a tube screamer soon. It's no more noisy then any single pickup guitar I've heard, and it works well with the blues & rock I like to play.. but it really started to shine when I replaced the pickups with some Seymour Duncans... I think I like it more than any other guitar I've played so far

Action was perfect from day one, but the pickups were too low. The bridge was off a little (crooked), but that was easy enough to fix.. and the tremolo was so loose, it was tough to keep in tune. Easy enough to fix.. a pretty short list for a $300 guitar, huh? I had it perfect in a single afternoon, and haven't had to touch it since. Oh, yeah.. the wham bar never did fit in the hole in the tremolo.. but since I hate the damn things anyway, I locked it down and never looked back.

This is one TOUGH guitar. It fell off the hood of my car the first week I had it, and it only got knocked out of tune! It has a very solid feel, and although the natural finish may not stand up for long, I'll bet that is the only problem it ever has. I bought it on the recomendation of a friend in a Country band who used to carry one as a backup, but now uses it pretty exclusively.

Never dealt with them...

I've been playing only about 4 years, and this is only my third guitar... but I see no reason to change. I love strats, but they are too finicky for me.. at least the one I have needs a neck adjustment about once a month or so. If it is stolen, i'd probably buy the Americana to replace it, just for the better hardware, but yeah I would get another in a heartbeat. I was looking for a used American Standard Strat when I bought this... and I have stopped looking.

Made in Japan, this is pretty good for a Yahama. I would recommend it to beginners. One humbucker, one volume, one tone, but it sounds almost as good as a Squire Strat. Five way Selecter, pretty good for playing stuff like Blink 182, Eve 6, that kind of area. It doesn't work for harder core stuff like Jimmy's Chicken Shack. Not deep enough. Mine has an Ebony body, ebony finish, mahogany neck wood, pretty thin frets, no extra stuff except for an extension cord, and pretty much all guitars come with those

The guitar was set up great, but has a problem with scratchiness with the extension cord

Well, if you're gonna perform, don't use this guitar, it screws up quite often, you can't depend on it, and it's unpredictable

They gave me a good price and were very fair

Well, I've been playing for about 5 1/2 months, but i'm trading this in soon to get an Epiphone. If you are just beginning, you'll like this guitar. I wish it had dual humbuckers, another volume and tone button, but oh well

Pretty basic in the features department, alder body, maple neck, and a bubinga fingerboard. 22 frets, with pearl dot inlays. Stock pick ups in a single, single, hum setup. Chrome hardware. I got mine in a wood finish. Good looking guitar for the price. But in a strat copy you aren't looking for too many features.

I play a variety of styles from B.B. King to Metallica and for the price, this guitar suits them all. I use a Crate Gx-212 and a Boss Metal Zone, and it is quiet as anything (except mayby EMG's). The sound is bright when you want it to be ( It is a strat shape after all) but if you need a full sound, it can come through with some work with the eq. The variety of sounds for the price is ammazing. For the price, it's a ten.

The action was a bit high when I first got it, so I set it down a notch and it was perfict. The pickups were set perfectly, the neck was super smooth. Really can't complain to the guys a Yamaha.

I have beaten this guitar to shit and it still sound great. It is real easy on strings, and sure there are a few scratches, but that just adds character.

Never dealt with Yamaha.

I have been playing for about four years and this is my only guitar. One day I will make this thing a mother of shredder. I would say this guitar beats anything in the price range, and is the toughest act to beat in the bussiness.

This review is an update as a result of recent modifications that I thought some of you might find interesting. Read other reviews, including my previous submission, for information regarding stock Pacificas. With regards to modifications; I swapped the neck pickup for a Kinman SCn, the middle pickup for a Kinman AVn63, the bridge pickup for a Seymour Duncan Trembucker TB1, and the tuning machines for Sperzels. I also did a custom wiring job using the 4-pole Yamaha switch and a couple of push-pull potentiometers (available from Stewart-Macdonald Guitar Shop Supply), as well as shielded the entire cavity in copper tape.

This guitar now does everything, from head-banging shredder metal to righteous blues to rockabilly. It will even do light Jazz duty for those of you who, like me, prefer to leave their expensive archtops in the safety of home. The Kinmans are as quiet as any humbucker I've played, yet they sound EXACTLY like vintage single coils. Depending on volume and tone, I can emulate Stevie, Jimi, Eric, etc. The Duncan gets everything from Setzer to Betts/Sanata to EVH brown sound. See my pickup reviews for a few more adjectives.

Same as stock. See my previous review.

Same as stock. See my previous review.

Same as stock. See my previous review.

After an investment of about $250 for the guitar and another $300 in parts, I have an axe that will put any new Strat to shame; it's more versatile, quieter, sounds just as vintage if not better, and has a better neck. As I stated before, I don't know why anybody would want to spend more money on a solid-body. Just buy a Pacifica and leave it stock or, if you want something really special, change the pickups and tuning machines. I've been playing over 20 years and this axe now joins my permanent collection, which includes a Martin jumbo and a Gibson ES175.

My specific guitar is 22 frets on a rosewood or bubinga fret board (maple is available). The neck is made of maple. I believe that the body is solid alder or some other quality solid wood close to it. The pickups are passive in a single/single/hum configuration. It is a semi strat copy, meaning it is not an exact copy, but a better design. The tuners are just standard Yamaha tuners. The finish I chose was ivory white. It had a one master volume and one master tone and a 5-way selector switch. All the basic features you would expect on a guitar in this price range.

It originally sounded good for the price of the guitar. For a beginner in any style it beats all guitars at the same price range and even some more expensive. I have recently upgraded this guitar to meet more of my needs. I installed an EMG select hum and a EMG select single in the bridge and neck positions respectively. I also installed a custom coil tap for the hum and a custom on/on switch for single that allows me to use the hum and neck single together or use all of the pickups at one time. I left the original mid position single, because I really liked its sound. I personally do all of my own electronics work and most of my friends work too, When I opened up the control cavity I was happily surprised of its neat and orderly construction.I use this guitar to play many many styles of music. I play it through many amps including: Fender, Laney, Kent, Hartke, and Peavey.

My guitar was surprisingly well set up when I bought it. The saddles did eventually bother me, so I did replace the saddles with graphite saddles which better served me and slightly increased on the guitar's tone and sustain. The pickups were set up slightly low when I bought it, but were very easy to change with the screw driver that came with the guitar. The neck is probably one of the best I have ever played on a mass production guitar. I personally could not find any flaws. The construction was amazing for a guitar in this price range. The neck joint was great.

My guitar was surprisingly well set up when I bought it. The saddles did eventually bother me, so I did replace the saddles with graphite saddles which better served me and slightly increased on the guitar's tone and sustain. The pickups were set up slightly low when I bought it, but were very easy to change with the screw driver that came with the guitar. The neck is probably one of the best I have ever played on a mass production guitar. I personally could not find any flaws. The construction was amazing for a guitar in this price range. The neck joint was great.

Never had to use!

This guitar stacks up with the best of them in much higher price ranges. If I had it stolen I would buy it again. My favorite feature is the neck. The only thing I sometimes wish it had was a locking nut. Over all one Great guitar!! This guitar stacks up with the best of them in much higher price ranges. If I had it stolen I would buy it again. My favorite feature is the neck. The only thing I sometimes wish it had was a locking nut. Over all one Great guitar!!

This guitar was made around 95, but it is the same as the new ones. It has 22 frets. It has a S/S/H configuration, with a volume and tone knob. It has a natural, unbuffed sunburst.

When I got this guitar, I had only played for a year, so I thought it sounded good. Recently, after my newer guitar broke, I was forced to play it again. It has a really twangy sound, it's really bright. I thing that the pickups are wound up weird, because they all have different volumes. I pumped up the bass on my Crate GX65 combo, and got a little bit more bottom end, but it still can't get a good punk rock or hard rock sounds. It's made for country.

Since this guitar was made somewhere in Asia, it is alot better than most student guitars, namely the mexican ones, but it was surprisingly well set up. The pickups are wound weird, but most beginners can't tell the difference.

It has held up pretty good for it's price. The finish still looks the same. I wouldn't use this at a gig without backup, unless I replaced the pickups with some better versions. The strap cord is pretty loose, and the angle is weird, so I would probably smash a toe or two dropping the damn thing.

I never used it.

I've been playing for almost 4 years, and this guitar has it's advantages over my Samick Radio Ten. The Samick wasn't set up well, it took alot of tweaking. The Yamaha actually was stolen by another member of my old band, or at least borrowed for too long. If anything, this guitar is perfect for a beginner, a much better choice than any Squier guitar, but if you have the moola, I would get an Epiphone guitar. Epiphone makes a Strat copy similar to this, but superior. Hi mom.

1997 solid body. Pretty generic strat clone. Single coils at neck & middle. Humbucker at bridge.

My style - blues/rock and 'classic' rock - is very well served by this axe. The neck pickup is warm, the middle pickup has great clarity and the bridge humbucker screams nicely. It gets a great strat cluck in the in-between pickup selector positions. (Of course, the single-coils are noisy - it's the nature of the beast.) It's easy to get all the requisite idiomatic sounds out of the Pacifica and a good tube amp (I use a new Fender Pro Jr. and a vintage Bandmaster Reverb); SRV, Jimi, Eric, Buddy Guy, etc. Add an Ibanez tube-screamer and you're in business!

Action, neck geometry and fretwork is where this axe really shines. I actually prefer the feel of the Pacifica to the Amer. Std. Strat. I have the unfinished, natural body and it looks great (although I expect it will show dings and scratches with age).

Seems to be built like a brick. The natural finish may not be as robust as some. Pete Townshend would be able to risk gigging without a backup.

IMHO, too many people spend way too much cash on solid-body electrics. If the wood is resonant and, most importantly, the neck feels good - hey, what more can you want. You can always change the pickups. This guitar is a great buy. It sounds sufficiently strat-like, it feels better than most strats and it's solidly built. If I wanted to spend more, I'd simply add a better tremolo and locking sperzel tuners to the Pacifica 112.

I think Korean made. Excellent neck THe only better neck is a fender Mustang. It has decent tuners with alright pikups (two singles and a humbucker) although I replaced the hmbucker with a Duncan JB in the bridge and now it sounds amazing. It has an alder body. I love the thinness at the nut of the neck. THe best guitar you can buy for 300$

Sounds amazing with the Duncan JB and a Big Muff or a Rat. I play mostly Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Zepplin THe neck is awesome for rythm playing. Has a full =sound because of the solid wood body(most guitars in this price rasnge are shitty plywood).

I didn't have to raise the action. The tuners are pretty good quality. When I first got it the pickups were raised too high so i was getting distortion with the Humbucker and I couldn't figure out what it was since its my first electric guitar. One thing the finish doesn' seem to be too durable(I bang it a lot)

This guitar is built to last cause I've dropped it sevedral times and it's fine It deosn't even go out of tune much when you drop it. I depend on the strap buttons and they havn't let me down. One thing again is the finish doesn' seem too durable. But other than that...most marvelous!!

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This is an excellent guitar. I bought it over a $400 Fender because the tone was so much better and, of course, the neck. This guitar is excellent for heavy alternative like Nirvana or the Foo Fighters Or Zepplin.

1997 strat, 22 frets, Made in Japan?, Passive electronics (S/S/H), Rosewood neck, solid body (unknow wood), non locking tuners, 5 way selector....

I play metal and rock with a Fender Frontman (duh!) and a BOSS HM-2 (cool fx!).
The sound is wonderful unplugged and plugged ! Pickups are noisy (my amp too!)...

Action is perfect ! This neck is one of the best ! You can't have something better than that for the price !
The finish is good (wood) but I don't think it's very durable..

Mmmm.. Live playing with this baby ? SURE !!!!!!

I don't know...

The best guitar ! You can't get something better whitout spending 800$ and more ! But I think I will change the pickups.... Not enough "metal" for me.. ;-)

well it has 22 frets and is made in Korea , it's a solid body (no ply) which greatly helps this guitars' sound, the pickup are 1/1/2 config, the stocks are OK but so far Ive replaced the humbucker with a Duncan Distortion which has made it's way through all my guitars, it's the best pickup ever made!!, the single coils are a bit noisy, i'll replace them soon, this guitar is very strat-like but with greater playablity, vintage trem, normal tuners, the body is alder I think, mine is black

It works well for my uses which vary from Death-metal to neoclassical to Calypso and Reggae, so this is a VERY versatile axe, I use basically a Marshall Jubilee Stack, sometimes a Mesa combo, and it sounds awesome on both, I dont like the trem though wish it had a wilkinson with sperzels, it sounds very rich and full and it can also give yu good strat quack, I use a Digitech 2101 for all effects

it's set up like a bloddy ESP man..perfect..ultra low, I think the neck is worth 10 times the money for the entire guitar...oops hope Yamaha doest read that...decent paint job

This guitar has passed the Shyam test for durability... it was soaked in rain, left in the sun on the beach, my dog pissed on it and it fell off the stack twice....and it still kicks ass!.... I gonna have my mom bake it and see what happens*L*

I dont need any!!!

I've been playing for about 15 yrs..I got a Ibanez 540sLTD, a Ibanez JEM777V, Charvel MOdel 2.....although my other guitars are waay more expensive than the Yam...I say if you need a GOOD axe with a GOOD sound with SUPERB playabilty with LOTS of upgrade options... this is the guitar to get...and It's Cheap too!