What's the Deal with the Yamaha Pacifica?
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- Опубліковано 20 тра 2024
- Today we're diving into the Yamaha Pacifica electric guitar-- specifically, the PAC612VIIFM. This guitar is a great option for anyone looking to switch up the typical S-style electric and add some extra flare. Take a listen to the demos and let us know what you think!
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Went to buy a contemporary Squier strat.
Came back with a Pacifica 611HFM in black. I’m in love.
I kept my Pacifica. 30 years of service and a lot of travelling. It certainly is not my main guitar but the old girl is staying. Robust, reliable and comfortable.
It's priced $100 below the Fender Player and PRS Silver Sky SE, but should be part of the comparison conversations.
They should do a shootout here. That would be magnificent 👌 😀 😍 👏.
Pacifica is too far away on sound compared to those guitars.
@@BkBk-gy6vrpacifica is my choice Iverson those 2 ANY Day
They’re not 100 bucks less in the UK. These are £850ish
@@Allguitarinfo Sucks for you
Pacifica is underrated. I think it should be anyone intermediate choice
Lower model - 311 with humbucker & P90 is mindblowing. Locking tuners, tusq nut, string through body and split coil. For this price & specs it is comparable to more expensive guitars.
What's the deal? The PAC612VIIFMX is awesome, that's the deal! As good as or better than your MIA Fender for a lot less. (also has Graph Tech nut & string trees)
Extremely underrated guitar. 611 is great also.
Got the exact same guitar/colour as here, fantastic guitar did you try the trem arm in at all …it’s sooooo smooth best I’ve ever used and stays in tune. Pickups are quality as is the whole guitar.
You are seriously one of the best guitar players I have ever heard in my life. Everything you play sounds so precise yet sweet. You are incredible.
That is very nice of you-- thank you so much.
What is the name of the song that you play at the beginning? It sounds so nice
I'm a Yamaha fan. I have 3 acoustics and one of my 3 electrics is an old Yamaha aes800 series. Yamaha is very underrated in my opinion.
They’re very well-know for “bang-for-buck,” so I’m not sure how Yamaha guitars are “underrated.”
theyre not just good for the price .. the guitars themselves are very good..
I chose the same bridge pickup with a couple SSL-6's in my Sterling Cutlass and wired it so position 3 is bridge and neck. With the coil split positions it's the most versatile guitar I have. The treble bleed curcuit, orange drop cap and hand picked DiMarzio pots that are quite a bit under .500k have balanced the tones out very nicely.
that thing looks frickin amazing!😍
I think I heard somewhere that some slow-hand axemen (axe-persons?) on limited incomes have been buying modestly priced Strats and then pimping them out with premium accoutrements. Isn't this what Yamaha have done here? So you get a brilliant guitar at a very decent price. Fun fact: Kurt Colbain had Seymour Duncan pickups on all his guitars - although, he smashed many of them up on stage (it had been done already by Pete Townsend)
Johnny Guitar from KCHU-Valdez, AK recommended Yamaha when my youngest and I were considering an acoustic for her 4-H music camp during elementary school. She still has that Yamaha FG730S twenty years later ($300 then). Nice hardware on that Pacifica!
Great playing 👍. I’ve played a few, these are really solid. The neck profile is great for my hands.
Excellent guitars. I have myself a 112 in Sonic Blue, and play it almost daily.
Loving all of your guitar review videos ❤️
Bought one of these for my youngest son. My oldest son had a classic vibe strat. I honestly preferred the pacifica.
Well considering the Pacifica is a higher grade guitar and several hundred more 95% of the time I’d hope it’s better
I have this exact model and love it. It is a very nice versatile instrument played by f.e. Matteo Mancuso. When i saw him playing I knew i had bought the right tool to get better at guitar playing.
Nice video. Great playing. Being a previous PACIFICA owner, I was hoping YAMAHA would update these PACIFICA fingerboards & make them 12" radius like the updated REVSTARS, & change from "MEDIUM" to "MEDIUM JUMBO" frets. Hoping they will soon.
I played the same model at my local store, and was really impressed by it. Although, their PAC 611 with a humbucker in the bridge and a P90 neck pickup is more my style. Underrated guitars!
I have had one of these 611 model they're great it's just the neck too wide and chunky.couldnt play comfortably so I had to sell it unfortunately
I have the PAC611 in the dark red burst color, with some choice pedals and a Yamaha THR10 personal amp. It is a great quality set up I can take anywhere although I am usually an acoustic guy. I am so happy with these tools, when I upgrade my acoustic I will be looking to Yamaha. Perhaps a trans-acoustic.
I have the PAC311 I luvit.
Thanks for this. Do the locking tuners help prevent the strings from going sharp after using the trem bar? Or is it just to keep the guitar in tune generally? I've been half shopping, thinking of buying this model. I've got an older Pacifica that I absolutely love that I've had for 25 years.
The Pacifica range of guitars are generally consistantly decent instruments that offer good value for money at their relevant price points. I have played several Yamaha guitars and basses and have always felt that what I got was a lot better than I would get from other brands for the same cost. Their consistant quality levels is a big part in why they used to be the main reccomendation of guitar teachers around the world.
They used to be? What are the new recommendations from guitar teachers nowadays
@@Jason22Douce Reading it contextually, pretty sure his clause was an inadvertent alternate figure of speech rather than saying 'have always been' or 'are' rather than its literal implied past tense. To clarify, Yamaha's Pacifica still is. There are other potential contenders from several other brands today, but Yamaha's Pacifica is the easy sell without need for elaboration or rationalisation to the student because of its profile, legendary reputation, overall suitability, versatility and excellence in respect of all of those qualities.
Nice review , thanks
I noticed Yamaha upped the street price for the 612 models on April 1 (Q2 2022) from $680 to $750. So I bought a used one online that same day! The 612 series still has more to offer and at a lower price than a new Player series Fender: (1) HSS->SSS coil split, (2) locking tuners, (3) pop-in whammy bar/tremolo arm, and (4) Graph Tec nut & string trees, all with top brand parts. (I see Alamo still has this guitar for the lower price. Someone should grab it!!! It's a beauty!) The 212 series has not experienced a price increase (...yet, still at $380), but those don't have these upgrades. It's still a great bang for the buck.
I personally love the shape of a Pacifica more than a stratocaster. They play incredibly well. I just wish they had better colors! I love the stuff on the 112v line, but once you get to the higher end models, the colors start to look a bit funky for my tastes.
Share your perspective re the shape. Yamaha fixed Fender design aesthetics and functionality they would have in Stratocaster v2 were they able. Fender have been and are stuck between a rock and a hard place making changes lest they p1ss off the stuck in the mud traditionalists. The VIIFMs of the 600 series have been largely superseded in 2022 by the predominant opaques and opaque metallics of the 600 VIIX series. Love the 600s in their FMs (disclaimer I have one in TBL). Not a huge fan of their current colour range of opaques in the 600 Series. Not traditional, but you might like one. I think Vintage White or Old Violin Sunburst would go down in the range, but then they wouldn't be distinguishable from the lower segment's 112V or 311H, and people are snobs. Most elegant, tasteful traditional livery in the 600 Series for my money is the 611V in Tobacco Sunburst. Not available in the 612 sub-series unfortunately.
I was surprised that I prefer the 112v tone over the 612. I'm thinking it must be the high output of seymour Duncans compared to the Alnico V's in the 112V, which has more of the classic Fender chime to it. It's shocking how much value is still in the 112V. I think I'd prefer it over my MIM strat.
Yeah kind tacky gaudy finishes
I have the 112j, it's more similar to a normal strat than the one in the video, it's a pretty nice guitar. A very good entry level electric guitar
Thats why i also love schecters they simply just give you everything you could want
Dang! I swung by your store on Memorial Day Weekend and got a nice Squier Contemporary strat but a month earlier, I had bought a Pacifica from a local Houston dealer! They're both great guitars! Only downside (for the Pacifica, not your store) was that I had preordered it in March or May 2021! Yamaha electric guitars are nearly impossible to find right now!
This was a really excellent and interesting video for me. The reason is that I believe I may have had a Yamaha strat copy in the mid 1980s at school, but I just can't remember. I do have a couple of photos of me in my band but you can't read what is on the head. It would have been the cheapest model available, not great, but I had a lot of fun with it. Would Yamaha have done other strat copies in the 1980s with a different name? Anyway, it was really interesting to see how good these sounded and wow - it's amazing what teenagers have available to them for a very reasonable cost, which is great too.
Great commentary btw
I didn't know alamo sold Yamaha..awesome 🤘
Just played a used 611FVM at GC. Wow. Great guitar for $550. Looking for a mid-guitar to jumpstart my interest in playing again. Love Yamaha products. This might be the choice.
I have one in my lap. the strat is unhappy right now and is awaiting a pick guard. perfectly happy with the Pacifica. look in the way back years when Silverstone was all you could afford: this guitar came from heaven
I have the PAC612 VII FMX red flame maple edition.
And honestly, this is a very very very amazing versatile guitar hands down.
Me too! The guitar is excellent! Only problem was that mine took an entire year to ship!
@@tomaslopez2940 Luckily I live in Indonesia, basically yamaha guitar's basecamp.
Not to bash on fender, but price per performance, yamaha will bash the player series just from the specs itself.
It's good for someone who yet have a limited budget.
@@jakamahadika7605 lol I have both and I love both of them. They have strengths and weaknesses but my Fender is a limited edition with an ebony fingerboard so it’s very different from the other normal players series guitars
@@tomaslopez2940 correct, fender will still be fender, and yamaha will never get to that point.
Even I myself still want a good vintage original fender just because it's too iconic to not having it.
Well it means that I need to work harder 😌
@@jakamahadika7605 Yamaha is at that point, just not in electric guitars, but in pianos and motorcycles
Im trying to choose between this Yamaha vs Ephiphone Les Paul Modern vintage because the Yamaha is a little bit more expensive any advices would be appreciated so my question is how good Is the Wilkinson tremolo of this guitar?
About 5 years ago I was in local music store and I was in there looking at this PRS SE Santana it was one of the older ones that was silver and I had never seen one in that color and one of the guitars that was in there was this little Yamaha Pacifica natural wood, I think it was only like $100 used something like that I picked it up to check it out and I almost bought that over my Santana I ended up getting the Santana but man that Yamaha felt so comfortable and it played so nicely that I was willing to reconsider buying that Santana model.
Praise God for your life for making this review. is this yamaha PAC612VIIFM will match with a fender player series? highly appreciated if we could see a comparison. thanks alamo music center!
What were you playing in the clean demo, it sounds so good!
For the price of 1 American Performer Stratocaster, you can buy 2 Yamaha PAC112Vs, a Boss Katana 50, a Mackie Thump, a Shure SM58, Boss Loop Station, Boss Vocal Processor, and cables for everything.
Beautiful tones out of that pacifica
I kinda like the laurel but it really doesn't matter... A lot of good stuff out there... Only reason I watch is to hear the great demo licks and I was not disappointed! 👍🤘🎶🎵
Great Playing by COOPER!!!
Noob question, what is the style of music he is playing in the opening of the clean tone section? I always hear it in bars and such and love it, but don't know what it's called.
I have a 611 with a P90 and it sounds amazing ... fit and finish makes my Heritage H150 blush ... my only wish is a ever-so-slightly flatter and wider neck ... but it plays beautifully
Same here.
611 is just….wow. Blew me away after comparing it to a Squier contemporary strat.
Clean tones were awesome please compare to a comparable prs strat copy, and fender player strat.
Many are trying to decide between these three under a thousand strat style guitars.
Great value.
Thanks.
I have the black flame one, awesome guitar. I play it through a Vox AC10, a Mesa Boogie Mark V 25 and a Tone King Imperial MK II and it just sounds solid and professional though all three, I love it! I also have a $7,000 Rick Turner Model 1 Deluxe and the $750 Yamaha holds it own without a doubt. If you're thinking about buying one of these just go for it, I doubt seriously you will regret it.
Tommy Brown ...Wow. 7k. You are a serious player! Thanks for commenting. I'm looking for the everything do all guitar... a versatile combo of a Les Paul on the right and a Stratocaster on the left with a screaming shredder in the middle. I'm open for anyone's input!!
Yamaha's problem with the Pacifica is that it has become viewed primarily as a strat for beginners, no matter the quality of the Pacifica in question. This one has nice pickups, for example, and is obviously a decent guitar. I personally don't like guitars that look like jeans, but I'm sure this does the job.
So true what you say about 22 frets for most people.
I just purchased a USED white 112v.
My second pac112v
Out of all 3 of my guitars, Epiphone SG, Epiphone LP & Yamaha Pacifica.. My Pacifica is the most comfortable to play sitting or standing.. My LP is heavy on the neck and lap. My SG is a little long in the guitar neck.... But my Pacifica is just right and the HSS sound blows me away...I also prefer the two button volume an tone system over the four button
"That´s designed to make me mess up the words." - just by this quote alone you earned my like! :)) But the rest of the video is cool, too.
I was able to get a Yamaha at a garage sale for....$25.00!!! It is a black, with tortoise shell pick guard EG 112 C model. I am a singer-songwriter and I do not play lead or much electric guitar. So, I had a friend who is a "real" electric guitarist check out my guitar and he told me it plays very good and it sounded awesome. If I had my choice, I would have the Pacifica CO 12DLX with the sunburst finish and the black pick guard model. As it is, I think I got one heck of a deal in finding what I own now and call "Blackie" as an addition to my guitar collection. Bran with the Manzanita acoustic band.
North American alder and maple and you say the pickups are the best part?
Parents for their teen kid's music or "I want" adolescent beginners with a typical five minutes attention span & enthusiasm before 'the next cool thing', Yamaha;s PAC012 Gigmaker pack is perfect. The guitar actually plays quite nicely, and will definitely get the job done. A 112V or 311H for adults and those with more predictable commitment and cash to spend. Either will take any guitarist well beyond, yet save a ton of cash to redirect elsewhere into more amp or the guitar they know they want for the genre they are interested in once they have some hands on, exposure & knowledge. 600 series is beautiful and capable. Nice to have, but much more than one needs or has to spend to achieve initially. Professional level instrument for a relatively trifling spend. Admittedly I have a positive bias toward Yamaha bias although personally owning and playing other brand instruments too. e.g. Ibanez, Gretsch, Cort.
Anyone tried replacing the pickups with non-staggered or staggered but curved profile? the guitars are great but G way louder than B and E
I wonder if there is a Pacifica that you could add EMG's to?
Pacifica is a NICE guitar.
All in one weapon.
I also sell guitars in a music store and when people ask me what's the best price to performance guitars i always point to the Pacificas.
The Metal Zone is over… 😂. Thank you. Nice playing. Do have any Godin electrics to demo?
Since 1998, I play on a pacifica 821dx model which is dicontinued today. That's the shame with yamaha's: that lack of history. No model seems to pass the decades...😢 Anyway. An incredible rumbling sounding S-style guitar with a thin fast neck, and HSH originals di marzio's pickups with a floyd rose. I simply love it and recomand it. Let's play on pacifica's!!! Much better than fenders except the brand logo in front of the head...
Have you ever listened closely to the rhythm of that quick run in this channel's little intro ditty? There's an extra note in there.
i love my pacifica!
Good video-p
i've only been playing again for like 6 months and I can't stand that my classic vibes 60's strat doesn't have a 22nd fret! Constantly looking for it haha
I want a Pacifica. Just waiting to find a deal from someone used.
No one should be surprised by Yamaha. Just a quality manufacturer of many instruments, not just guitars.
Fender Gibson and a Marshall amp then your good to go but what do i know probably nothing but at the end of the day if a guitar feels good to you and is set up properly for your needs then its all in the fingers
Can you float this trem?
Good playing Coop. Makes me want to throw away my guitars ha!
Are they heavy or light?
I would love to see this with a Line 6 Pod Go &/or Headrush FX5 multi FX shootout - can you reproduce the Stones hard-chrome sound with a Pod Go & Pacifica? Wot about Guns & Roses, AC/DC, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, Led Zeppelin, Beatles, U2, Hendrix?
I use a 112V Pacifica with a NUX MG300, works great.
The problem with most Yamaha's is the weight; they are, generally speaking, HEAVY! The RevStars are great guitars, but they are all HEAVY! If I could find a Pacifica 612, at or under 7 pounds, I would buy it tomorrow...
if you'd like to hear someone make one of these Pacifica scream check out a band called Asterism and their song Church (all over youtube). Not sure what model Pacifica she is playing in the video but she (their guitarist) has melted down a 611 before.
ASTERISM is amazing. And I think it's a modded Yamaha 611
Didnt dig the fuzz hiwever i do love an overdriven blues jr ..but agreed the Pacs a wonderful guitar
Okay this a complex issue. My main blue guitar is a modified Yamaha Pacifica. I left my Pacifica with stock pickups but had extensive reworking with fret works and total electronics replacement. It was the best 500 I’ve ever spent. My guitar from the luthier that worked on my guitar transformed my basic baby into a bad boy and is easily the most beautiful and enjoyable guitar to play. Here is my point; the Yamaha has a-lot going for it initially but the electronics are bad and scratchy, the pickups are fantastic, the neck and body balance are top notch., but my fret design was done by a mega pro and that is the difference. If you can find a top pro willing to modify you’re guitar out there like my Pacifica you would only know the difference, from any other or factory whatever. My Pacifica will play better and be more comfortable than all. Facts top tech well worth the modification process. I upgraded the electronics and the fret work is unstoppable amazing.
It's all in the hands of the master Cooper!!!! You could put strings on a shoe box and make it sound like a Gibson!!!
I PLAYED ONE AT THE STORE. FOR A CHEAPO NEW GUITAR ITS ONE OF THE BEST. (I FOUND THE ONLY FLAW THE NECK BEING A BIT TOO "FLAT". NEEDS SOME "ROUNDING" TO IT. ALL THE NOTES SOUNDED GOOD BUT ITS A BIT MORE "WORK" TO RACE ON?) (GOOD FER "STRUMMER/CHORD PLAYERS"). FOR A "CHEAPO" THOUGH NOT BAD. BETTER IS THE "ERNIE BALL MUSICMAN". BOTH ARE DECENT GUITARS. (NO ONE ON U TUBE CAN EVER BEAT ME ON NOTHIN!...SO I KNOW KIDDIES).
The thing with yamaha is that their instruments are just of the well ingeneered / no BS side of things.
A lot less than a Fender Player. Does it sound like a Strat? No. It sounds better. Thanks for the great presentation, Cooper.
The only "problem" with the Pacifica is that some would prefer the Fender logo, even if it's inferior. ;)
Logos make no sound.
@@hazelisaacs2201the pacifica writing is quite ugly tho imo
Maybe people don’t like the necks? The fingerboard radius is very much on the flatter end of the spectrum.
Superb quality custom hardware fitted guitar for the money.
Is yamaha gonna produce a japanese pacifica?
Idk but I do know that they're making Japanese Revstars.
Wow rosewood and locking tuners. And upgraded pickups for $650
The only valid reason people have to not buy this is the appearance. Everything else about this guitar blew me away when I played it knowing that it was only 200$ (It was different from the one in this video)
Interesting yamaha can play blues❤
Cooper could make a broomstick sound good
This is a better pimped out version of a fender player series guitar
Do they have a Tele style?
Yes but it's a signature model well above $1000. It's called the Pacifica 1611 Mike Stern.
The 612 is a serious downgrade from the earlier 604w that had a two-point Wilkinson trem and Sperzel locking tuners.
I wish they made the 612 in left handed.
Get the Yamaha Pacifica 112 VMX YNS all natural if you can find one in the USA. Why pay $800 for this.
All you need is fuzz.
Fuzz is all you need!
"Mommy? How long until Christmas? "
IF Yamaha made a 24-fret version of the Pacifica, I'd have bought two.
They have in the past. My 1992 821-R has 24 frets. Basically a super strat with a locking tremolo.
Always with Pacificas it's a vintage/modern blend - with every model being dramatically cheaper than the equivalent spec in a Fender.
Yes it's 'inspired by a Strat' like many other brands that people don't feel the need to point it out - like a Music Man Cutlass and many others. The Pacifica has been around now in this same shape since the early '90s and is a classic in its own right.
PAC612VIIFM - not exactly a beginner budget price...
yamaha needs neck thru's
"Brian"...
No boost
no good neck joint
not a perfect wiring
so not perfect !
First off here.
Very underrated affordable guitar 🎸 👌.
@@beautifulguitars3158 yes it is
whats the deal with your haircut
there is no deal, boring cheap guitar