Yamaha AES820

Piano black, perfect finish, retrocool with high-tec features. Not just a guitar but an instrument!
I've played blues to metal for the past 23 years and with this guitar you can pretty much get 'em all. I play through a 5150 signature. No effects.

I first played this guitar in my local guitar shop in about 2002. It was a D-6 but I wanted a normal scaling. That day I bought a Fenix Telecaster (pre-lawsuit, see reviews on Harmony Central). Still have it and beats most Fenders. However through the years the AES820 linguered in my mind and in 2006 I bought one new from a music shop through mailorder. I played it for about 2 months and then I had to sell it because I really needed the money. I sold it to a guy who wanted to learn how to play. The moment I put it on the mail I knew I was going to be sorry. And I was! For the next two years I frequently searched the internet for another but NEVER encountered one. Until december '08. I looked for Sperzel tuners to put on my Fenix and there it was...the same AES820 I sold to this guy. I immediately put a bid out and emailed him that I was the guy who sold him the guitar 2 years before. He accepted and I finally had my AES820 back. I will never sell it again, in fact, I'm going to try to buy more!!

Looks good, plays good, sounds good. Like I said, it's an instrument. Everthing is well thought-through and well built. My experience over the years is that, no matter what Yamaha makes, (from mopeds to saxophones), they make well. This guitar is even above that.

Why in the name of Zues's BUTTHOLE (thanx Nicholas) doesn't it come standard with a hardcase!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Just play it and find out why it's so great.

So happy to have it back. Can't stop playing it.

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I got this unit from Music Park (A guitar store who a friend of my dad owns)

This was a great guitar the sound is awesome and the pickup on it is amazing and i really have had no problems with it!

The fact that it only comes in about 3 colors

The Guitar Is of the best quality and i give my congratulations to the yamaha team for the excellent job they did in designing it. - It plays like a dream.

This was the best guitar i have ever played it even beats my maton 30 year old acoustic even thought it doesnt have the rich acoustic sound.

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I won this guitar directly from Yamaha in their "Beyond Tone" sweepstakes.

It plays like a dream. The action is nice and low.
I like the fact that you can split the coils on the humber dimarzios without picking up a lot of hum.

The only thing that I was disapointed in was that it only comes in three colors.

This guitar is really well built. It has a solid feel, but not too heavy. The finish is beutiful. The hardware is very solid and tight. The pickups sound great.

I would recommend this guitar to anyone. I seem to get what ever type of sound that I need. I will be playing this one for a long time. It is definately in the leauge with Les Paus and Strats. Check one out for yourself!

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The basic configuration is not too bad it is finished ..........

UTILIZATION

The handle is rather large it's hard at first but then one would do with a good adjustment strap is ergonomically ...........

SOUNDS

Of course if you buy this guitar is good for very low down in the tuning at the base it comes in so that if you do it if you drop it and pulling of 64 for the worst, the sound is is rather heavy, clean and full, but I changed the pickups by EMG 81 bridge anyway because the microphones are poor based ..........

OVERALL OPINION

Very good value for money through a good instrument ..........