Yamaha Review: PAC 112

History:

Purchase: I acquired this guitar at Toews Music for $300 Canadian. It was a great deal.

What I Like About This Yamaha PAC 112: This guitar is a wonderful buy. Unlike many guitars in it's class, it has a humbucking pickup in the bridge position, and bluesy sounding single coils in the mid and neck position. It stays in tune no matter what you're playing, I've tried all kinds of different blues licks, even some Satriani, and nothing seems to knock it out of tune. It has wonderful sustain, and the amounts of different tones that can be coaxed out of this baby are amazing. I've played everything from metal to punk to blues on it, along with quite a few styles in between. It has one volume and one tone control, along with a five way pickup switch. The finish was a beautiful metallic red, unlike some of the drab finishes on other guitars in its price range. It's an all around great beginner to intermediate guitar.

What I Do NOT Like About The Yamaha PAC 112: The tremolo arm on this guitar is really low quality, it's just a standard screw in, and the saddles of the bridge are a little bit buzzy on the open D, but aside from that, no problems.

Yamaha PAC 112 Quality Rating: The construction is fabulous, with an alder body, maple bolt-on neck, and 22 fret rosewood fingerboard that is lightning fast. The paint job, as I mentioned before, is beautiful, and even using tone altering techniques such as putting pressure on the guitar's neck, I haven't had any problems with anything.

Review Summary: This is a fantastic guitar, especially for the low price I paid for it, and it's just as good as some guitars that are twice it's price. Like I said it's only downfalls are the tremolo and saddles, but aside from that, I'm completely satisfied.

Rating of this Yamaha product: 4

This Yamaha PAC 112 Electric Guitars Review Submitted By: Chris Koltai

Review Date: 2001-07-25