On the Pacifica 120S adds two meaty humbuckers plus the added versatility of a three-way pickup selector that gives an excellent, ringing rhythm sound in the middle position.
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flea214, on february 10, 2005 1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Price paid: $ 170
Purchased from: n/a
Features: Well this guitar is ok. I owned it for two years and I can say the features are great. It comes with 22 frets, a 3-way selector neck, a Strat neck, a Telecaster body, and a rosewood neck. // 8
Sound: It fits my music style great! I normally play blues and I have been playing for 5 years. I also play emo rock and its great for it. It has a really great sound for my price range and I can easily mistake the sound as a Gibson anytime. This is how great the sound is but I am sure Yamaha can do better. // 8
Action, Fit & Finish: I bought it brand new and the finish is kinda good. I bought it off a music store and it was obvious that the store kept it like gold. I was drooling all over this guitar in the window for weeks until I decided to buy. And I can say there has never been a guitar made more perfect. The pickups were adjusted to perfection and the bridge was properly routed. And don't even get me started on the action I felt like a protege when I held this guitar Yamaha really out did themselves when they made this guitar. // 10
Reliability & Durability: This guitar was built to last. Evertything is solid except the strap buttons which came loose since I like jumping around during gigs and jamming sessions. I have complete confidence in this guitar but I would not use it without a backup since I sometimes get carried away with the strumming. I still take excellent care of this guitar I never let this guitar fall even when I feel that the strap buttons are coming losse I quickle Switch to my Fender Strat. // 8
Impression: I normally play blues and emo. I have been playing for five years and I can say this is one of the best guitars I have played with tis price range. I honestly cant believe this guitar only cost $170 if I would sell it I would sell it for over $500. If it was stolen I would buy another one and I would give this as a gift to all my musician friends. This guitar is alot better than the Fender Strat. // 8
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GuitarGuruGurl, on january 23, 2008 0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Features: The Pacifica 120S features an alder body, bolt-on maple neck and a 22-fret rosewood fingerboard. The guitar body is Strat-stlyle with a high-gloss satin finish with a fixed bridge. Only two controls are given, master volume and master tone. The guitar has four pickups, but they are situated in such a fashion that some guitar players may need to adjust their playing to avoid striking the pickup. The guitar comes with a gig bag, neck strap, digital tuner, basic amplifier and amp cables. // 8
Sound: The guitar produces little variation in sound, due to the lack of controls. Using the amp provided at purchase, the basic clean, distortion, bass and treble settings can be adjusted. Despite this, teh guitar has a good, clear tone and and can be distorted to suit nearly any style of playing. It makes an excellent guitar for any beginner to experiment with differnet genres of music to play. // 8
Action, Fit & Finish: The guitar has great action, and requires very little adjustments or maintance. However, it has a tendancy to go out of tune relatively quickly and if not tuned for even a few weeks, it can slide hopelessly out of tune, even by several notes. Besides the oddly placed pickups, the guitar has no flaws that interfere with playing. // 10
Reliability & Durability: This guitar is very durable, and would most defitely be reliable as a Live performance guitar, though this may be unadvisable, given the instrument's small range of controls. It is capable of being handled roughly with no I'll effect and there seem to be no issues with "tempermental" wiring (that is, the sound never cuts in and out). The strap buttons themselves are solid, and stable, but the neck strap provided is considerably less reliable and may slip off the pegs. The durablility of the guitar is once again, best suited for a beginner to guitar, as it can be dropped and banged and still work without flaw. It could be used to play a gig, buut another model would be recommended. // 10
Impression: This guitar can be used to learn any style from pop to heavy metal and still be perfectly suited. It was great for my first electric guitar, both in quality and price. I myself ahve been playing for just over a year and purchased this guitar several months ago, and so far I haven't regretted my decision to go with this model. The only drawbacks are the irritating placement of the pickup and lack of specialized controls. However, I do love the fact that it requires no maintance and has so far proven that it cna survive minor damge with no I'll effects. Overall, I am very imopressed by this inexpensive guitar from an unassuming maker I would definetly recommend it to anyone just starting out and looking for an affordable, quality guitar. // 9
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ninjasushi, on june 14, 2004 0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Price paid: $ 59.25
Purchased from: Used
Features: - 22 frets
- Telecaster body, with a Strat neck
- 2 knobs, 1 master volume and 1 master tone
- 3 way selector Switch
- 2 humbuckers, both which are ceramics
- Strig-thru body, with a bolt-on neck
- Rosewood neck // 10
Sound: This guitar is perfect for hard rock, no doubt about it. The bridge pickup is amazingly powerful (it's also raised a little for my taste), and it is the perfect guitar for palm-muting. Now, I had 2 problems with it. The neck (rythym) pickup is too bassy for the kind of music I play (its good if u play rolling stones style stuff), and the sounds wen the Switch is set in the middle is too simmilar to the bridge pickup, not giving much variation. But if you want a good lead guitar for hard rock, this is it. // 8
Action, Fit & Finish: I bought the guitar used, so I had to take it to the shop, and they did a good job setting it up. For a banged-up guitar, it was good, and it plays just fine // 10
Reliability & Durability: This guitar has been through a lot, I know the original owner, who used it as his main guitar for 2 years, and then the next owner who had it for about 6 months, and didn't use it much. There are a lot of scratches, and some marks in between the pickups. I would use a backup during a gig, but only beacuse this guitar is not good for trash/punk, or if I had no time to tune it on-stage. But if I had to use only 1 guitar, it would suit me well. // 8
Impression: It is the only electric guitar I own, and it serves me well, I don't think I will need another guitar (excep a Gibson Flying V, b/c they are so comfortable). I just wish there was a little more variation on it, but its good for what it does. // 10
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: I`ve got this guitar for 3 years now, I`m hoping that in the near future to buy a new guitar, which definetely will be another brand.
The weakest point of this guitar is the frets.
They are made of some kinda softer metal than they should, and they wear off after a short time.
The only thing I am satisfied on this guitar is the tuners. They are not some cheap crap, and are very accurate.
The alder body with the neck bolt on doesn`t provides much sustain and that`s something I`we always missed.
The pickups suck. They-re humming, their sound is not clear, but dirty(in a bad way).
Another thing that is good about this guitar is the neck- it`s comfortable to play and it`s straight as it could be(never had to adjust it). POSTED: 10/07/2009 - 10:08 pm / quote|
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