Yamaha Review: Pacifica

History:

Purchase: I bought this guitar from Musicians Friend for about $140. I was just learning to play guitar and I needed to get a cheap yet reliable and good sounding guitar. I had played other guitars for about the same price, but they just seemed to be TOTALLY crappy sounding and were quite ugly too. I looked around and found this guitar highley recommended by many different sites and people so I decided to order from MF because of the sheer price difference. Most other places listed this guitar for about $250, which I was just not willing to play as a beginner.

What I Like About This Yamaha Pacifica: This is a very sturdy guitar, it has a simple 2 knob control system (master volume and master tone) and a 5 position pick-up selecter. It also features good sounding pickups, including a hum-bucker, instead of just a cheezey slanted single pickup. The guitar does not even buzz when you are using overdrive and are not touching any strings, which is always a plus. It also comes with a screw in temelo arm, which sounds and works good (for a screw in type). The guitar also holds it's tune very well for not having a string locking system.

What I Do NOT Like About The Yamaha Pacifica: I have no real problems with the guitar except for the fact that it has a back feeding string system so you must fish the string through the back and try to get it in the hole of the bridge, unless you want to remove 6 screws to take the plate off.

Yamaha Pacifica Quality Rating: This is a very high quality guitar, with a GREAT Paintjob. It can take bumps and dings without splitting or cracking at all. The paintjob is also a multi-layer finish so it is very hard to scratch the paint off and is almost impossible to scratch it with your pick.

Review Summary: All in all this is your best bet for a guitar weather you are a beginner or an intermediate guitar player or anywhere in between.

Rating of this Yamaha product: 5

This Yamaha Pacifica Electric Guitars Review Submitted By: Brian Noll

Review Date: 2002-07-21