All user reviews of 5/5 for the Yamaha Pacifica PAC112V

Asian manufacturing (of course, at this price ...)
handle "Strat", so highway
21 frets
volume, tone, 5-way switch (2 single coil, 1 humbucker house)

UTILIZATION

motorway run, pleasant touch
fairly well polished frets
access to acute necessarily easy for the stratoïdienne form
easy to play, slightly

SOUNDS

excellent versatility for micro config: everything passes (blues, fund, rock and even nag with the humbucker)

OVERALL OPINION

that was my first guitar, and she gave me want to continue to nab at least once a day; Q / P ratio is great, much greater than the entry-level Squier and other moldy chinoiserie (lol)

For the features of this guitar is the best selling entry level Yamaha electric guitars, I do not believe it because they are now well known.

UTILIZATION

Nice handle, guitar not too heavy and very ergonomic.
I wanted a guitar with Strat sounds typed and from this point of view no surprises.

SOUNDS

This is an extra guitar for me to have cristalins sounds so typical single coil pickups for Strat. I easily found the sound I was looking to play pots and funk rhythms but also solos clear with a slight crunch.
I play on a Roland Cube last generation and this guitar blends perfectly with him.
I'm a little less enthusiastic about the spit bridge pickup because I find the sound a bit feeble and twangy but I also think we should dig out the possibilities of the guitar before making a final judgment.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for a week so my opinion may change again.
Initially, I thought point me to a Squier Classic Vibe and after testing in a store, I preferred the Pacifica.
When I saw the promo on a well known website I did not hesitate for long especially since I do not care about the color.
I confess to being amazed to have a guitar of this quality for such a low price, so I do
not regret my choice.
I think Yamaha makes guitars and basses in a very good quality and very good value for money.

I've bought this piece of quality gear in Dowsons in Abingdon. It was brought over from another shop within hours. I paid 169 GBP for it and bought Marshall 30 MG with it

It realy does the trick, the distinctive 5 position switch gives clearly different sounds in all positions, the humbucker is perfect. The neck I believe is black rosewood, really nice, and it is very easy to play. I've always wanted an electric guitar that can be used fo all different styles and friends recommended this one for a start. I reckon this is one item that will stick to me for a long time

It seems that the high pitch notes and the thin strigs are not loud enough but then I bougth a very light gauge. I plan to change the strings in a few day anyway.

It's colour called 'translucent dark green' Unfortunately the did not have it in Sunburst. When I first saw it, I could hardly take my eyes of it, the finish is absolutely gorgeous and

Very good value and quality guitar to start with and to play all styles. Highly recommended.

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I got this guitar for my birthday second hand but would be approx £200 new. when I bought it, it had a few dents and scratches in the wood but otherwise good condition.

I really like the wooden finish but it shows up scratches a bit. The varnished neck feels nice for slide guitar especially. It also stays in tune very well.

I had a problem with the jack socket at first but it was just a loose earth wire. t
The wood dents quite easily but its not very noticeable. The whammy bar does take it out of tune alot but it is easy to tune again. nothing very serious.

Nothing has ever fallen off or broken on the guitar so I guess its strong. When it comes to taking the back off the electrics are all fine but putting the back, back on the screws can cut new grooves in the wood. you just have to be careful.

Its a great begginer or intermediate guitar and great value for money. I play it through a Squier 42 watt amp and sounds great for rock, blues and heavy metal. Its great!

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This was my first electric guitar, I got it from Hooters in Watford for £299 including a Marshall MG15DFX amp and all the accessories.

Everything! It's great having a humbucker as well as two single coils so there is more choice (unlike a Squire or Fender Strat) - the humbucker has a really cool distorted sound. The neck is nice and thin, and I like the look of the headstock - much better than Fenders. Also the body shape is much curvier and nicer than Strats. I don't really know if it would be better to have two tone knobs (as most people say) but one is fine for me. I can play all sorts of music on this from Pantera (full distortion) to Stereophonics (acoustic mucic), but IT IS AS IMPORTANT TO GET A GOOD AMP AS IT IS TO GET THIS GUITAR!

WEll, there isn't really much to not like. I suppose nothing really.

Good hard construction I haven't really tested it yet but so far it is fine (of course I take loads of care with it but there is the odd knock). The paint job is really good, the scratch plate is fine, and the neck looks like it will hold up to almost anything.

A great guitar, you have to get it as long as you get good accessories otherwise you can't make it soud good. If you're looking for a beginner guitar, definitely get this one.

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I brought it from Sound Control in Birmingham and paid £179 for it. Not only did I get a decent guitar but some cracking advice along with it as well.

I have played Electric guitar before but i had hit a crossroads with the one I had. I was playing through a keyboard amp, the tone was terrible and the whole setup was just not encouraging me to pick it up and play. I went into Sound Control told the man my budget and the pacifica was the first guitar I picked up. It has a great Wood effect finish, and the tone on it was superb. To get the sound I wanted out of the guitar though I had to buy a decent amp, plugged into a Fender Champion 30 amp, and I couldnt stop playing it. It sounded a brilliant setup and after about 30minutes of playing I decided to buy both the guitar and the amp

Not found anything yet.

The one I have has a wood effect finish, which I believe helps shine through the quality of the instrument. It really looks the business. The quality of both the guitar and the amp i brought has really shocked me, i thought I would have to spend a lot more to get this sound but its fantastic.

The amp is as important as the guitar, advise to test amps before you buy. I brought both together and spend £320 on my setup, with the amp nearly costing as much as the guitar. I know now though that I have a decent setup that will encourage me every day to pick it up and keep learning and improving technique. I really cant recommend this guitar enough.

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I got my Pac. at a local Ohio pawn shop, I traded my trombone in for it. The price was $180 , I chose the Pacifica because it had a bridge humbucker, and I thought it was sexy.

This guitar is a work of gods! I play for a hard rock band called spearfinger (www.spearfinger.com), and WOW!!! This guitar isn't costly, it plays better than my friends American Strat. I've droped it down the stairs, out of windows, and it stays in tune, and still sounds amazing!!
I am going to buy another one so I can have the same sound in a lower tuning.

Its almost toooooo awsome.... I love everything about it.

This Axe is solid, light, well balanced. It does not matter what style of music you play. I can play everything from blue-grass to nu-metal.

If you dont have one, get one!! They are only around $200 at the most, and sound better than any other guitar I have played. GET ONE, OR TWO, OR THREE!!

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I got mine at Long and Mcquade's instruments at Ellesmere Rd. in Toronto Canada, about 8 years ago, and it ran about $200 something canadian.

I have played numerous other Pacificas.

Well at it's price it's main competition would be the fender squire. One of the main reasons I would pick this up over a squire would be the pickups - It's got a bridge humbucker, and middle and neck single coil pickups, and 5 selector positions, a squire you has three single coils (some versions have 2) now those of you have no idea what that means are probably like so? How would that make it better than the squire? Simply put the Pacifica has more options on the sound of the guitar with the pickup switch than a squire would ever have.

Personal things is that the neck is a bit thinner and the strings are a bit more compact than the squire strats(easier to reach, and move faster for me).

As for the body, squire and pacifica are roughly the same design, sturdy as a rock, either can take a beating really well, both balanced in weight and design(won't lob down on one side).


If you are planning on buying a pacifica there is one thing to look out for, one or two pacifcas I have seen had a heavy buzz on the low E when played open, other pacificas don't have this problem at all, it's weird, all I can say is play before you pay. Other than that there isn't much else that you could call a problem, only personal preferences.

For the price, there is no other guitar you could buy new that would be better. Like what has been metioned before in other reviews this can take quite a beating.

Noramally you wouldn't think the words 'Made in Taiwan' would be found on anything of quality, but this is certainly more than an exception.

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I bought this from sound control in Leeds for £180. I had being playing acoustic for a year previously and decided it was time to move on to a begginers electric guitar.

The thing that appealed to me the most was the fact that you get a quality instrument for a suprisingly affordable price. Also the 5 way pickup selecter switch to give it that inbetween sound.

Very little. It would be perfect if it had another control knob but thats just my preference. also id didnt come with a whammy bar but that was an error of the shop.

Great, can play for hours and it hardly goes out of tune. its built VERY solidly ive hit it against things, expected a dint in the wood and nothings there! its well built.

This guitar is perfect for begginers as it can play all types of music from blues to heavy metal. a good all-round guitar. Mine has no paint job which i like because you can see what wood it is and really get a feel for it.

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This Guitar Was bought for me from Bristol for Christmas as i wanted one for some time. I think it costed £179 quid just for the guitar and the old man probably talked him into giving him his wife and pet dog, but not a bad price. The guitar was bought for me because i've wanted to play for ages and this seemed to be the perfect instrument for the job.

EVERYTHING. The guitar is a beuatiful instrument. I like the fact its not another Strat clone, other guitars should be cloneing this its wonderful. It has such a wide range of tones from rock, metal, blues, jazz, to the popes voice, i love it. The single coils are emense and far better than any i've seen (compared to my freinds mexican fender strat and my other mates strat copy)and it has a humbucker which is fantastic, im gonna get it put into a les paul when i get one, becuase the sound and its white which will look great on a black guitar. I'lkl stop now before i get to exited and emotional i love this guitar, far better than guitars twice or even trice the price.

Didn't you read what i said above!!!!

Fantastic quality, the best, comparable to any guitar on the market, i play mine in a band that plays all sorts of music and its perfect (very good at playing nickleback, hendrix, blink 182, ash, feeder and all american rejects)for what i need it for and what anybody wants a guitar for. The construction it fantasic, everythings were it should be. BUY ONE, IF YOU'VE GOT A BUDGET TO £1000 QUID BUY A COUPLE. ITS THE DOGS BOLLOCKS!!

I never hear enough about these guitars and i find it impossible to over rate. You should be shaging your mother in law to get one of these. There fucking graet, i play mine through a marshall mg and it realy is the fucking buissness, i use the marshall becouse its the best and it goes up to 11 (bit of spinal tap for you there) and its the only amp company good enough for this guitar .

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I got it online at www.musiciansfriend.com as my second guitar for 180 bucks.

This is a guitar thats worth at least twice what its sold for. Its a great guitar, and i know ill never sell it. I got it in the vintage white, and looks great. It plays like a beast! i love the humbucker pickup on the bridge, and since im in the punk scene, i dont use the 2 single coil pickups, but they sound great to me. The neck feels great, and its very light too. This is a perfect first guitar, and also a sweet second guitar. sure it doesnt have a name like fender or gibson, but hey, im the kinda guy that says "f*ck conformity" and i like being a bit original. this is the guitar to do that with.

Hmmm, what i dont like...well, there was a buzz on the open g, but i think that was a problem only with my particular unit.

Like i said, there is that problem with the g, but everything else is fine. And i think i forgot to talk about the neck. its a great, comforatble, easy to hold neck with a nice fretboard. but my recommendation, dont get the maple fretboard, get the rosewood. maple fretboards tend to stain from the oil on your fingers, and after awhile, they get all nasty. but on the rosewood, it doesnt get discolored.

BUY THIS GUITAR! you'll feel good about it.

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Purchased 2 years ago for £180 at PMT Southend on Sea Essex England. Purchased as my first electric.

It has a bridge Humbucker and 2 single coils on a 5 way selector so you can get quite a few different sounds out of it.
The action is increadible low and smooth. I've friends who have a friend who has a Mexican srat and a les paul studio, I would love a both, however when ever I visit he always seems to end up on my Pacifica, I don't mind I get to play on stuff I can't afford. He's now going to get one as a back up for his strat.
There is plenty of cutaway to get to the uncharted territory on the higher frets and the sound does'nt break up too much when you get there. The trmolo arm works ok as well not that I often us it.
The headstock seems to go on forever which means the strings are'nt bent up there and put under extra stress.
All in all it's comfortable to play, the angles on the body make it nice to hold to. It's taken me from amatuer to much and I still really enjoy playing it. In my opinion you can't beat it for the price, it compares with strats but is almost half the price.

Sometimes I notice that the pick ups are lacking a little something, but then again for the price they're not bad.
Only haveing a master tone and volume is a bit annoying but with 3 pick ups I think 6 nobs would make things a bit crowded. However I do think that the volume nob is in a very bad position, if your playing leed or picking rythem no problems but as soon as you start going a bit heavy on the strumming you start knocking the volume up and down.

The body is of five piece construction, not too sure what wood but I know it's not expensive stuff though, I went for the natural finish. The neck is a single peice job and the fret board holds the standard 22.
All in all very sturdy even if it's not made from solid woods?

For the price you wont find a better electric, it's comparable to the stats. If you're serious about the guitar but don't have a lot of dosh, you could do a lot worse than this.
I would say 4 and a 1/2, there is'nt that option 4 is too low so it can have a 5.

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micro Alnico V
rosewood fingerboard

UTILIZATION

Light, comfortable, pleasant handle, ... nothing wrong for the price
Finishing really correct

SOUNDS

The violin is very good quality for the price, it's a Yamaha Poas for nothing.
Micro side, more than the entry level, but it is quite suitable for train home
With the humbucker split or not the two + simple, we're going from clean (a little loud tone of max.) For a more Classic Rock.
I changed the neck pickup DiMarzio DP186-a Cruiser with its slightly beefier and more acute fzutrés, the guitar very well supports this upgrade.

OVERALL OPINION

No surprises.
Ideal to start.
Very good value for money