« Yamaha PAC 112 »

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


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.


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.



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.


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.


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