Yamaha Pacifica Series in general

I'v owned this guitar for a very long time now, and its been bumped, knocked over, used at gigs, taken to umpteen band practices and left lying around. And it still sounds great!!! This is an awesome guitar. Its ideal for beginners and intermedieate players, and there are a few professionals who own it as well. for the money, there is no alternative. Granted, there are a few shortfalls but you really cant expect more for a guitar in its price range. Yes, there are a lot of better guitars, but not for less than £200. Lets have a look at it then... LOOKS Not the best, but it does look good with the ...  Read the complete review

When I first showed an interest in learning to play guitar about nine years ago my parents were keen to get me my own guitar to learn on, (primarily so I'd stop pinching my dad's), without spending an absolute fortune for it. My guitar-playing brother was given instructions to find me a reasonable quality guitar that didn't cost a bomb. The Yamaha Pacifica 112 is the guitar I was given. The Pacifica is a double-cut away electric, similar in style to the classic Stratocaster. It is solid-bodied and comes with three pick-ups, a five-way selector, volume and tone controls and a floating bridge, (Don't worry non-guitarists, I'll go into these in more detail later ...  Read the complete review

The Yamaha Pacifica 112 plays like a dream. It probably won't appeal right out of the box to those who like wafer-thin strings and hardly any action, but if, like me, you like to really be able to get your fingers round some big frets and big strings and really feel what you are playing - the 112 feels great as soon as you pic it up - no extra set-up required. Of course, all these things can be tinkered around with later, but what you can't change in a guitar is the sound. Fortunately then, the 112 also sounds great - with some very Strat-like sounds to some more flexible ones, depending on where you position the 5-way toggle. And all this for only £200! I've ...  Read the complete review

I've owned my Yamaha Pacifica for nearly two years now...and I'm still crap at playing it. Not that it's anything to do with the guitar, though. It's beyond reproach. Ah yes...a nice sunny day in 1999. I walk into Gamlins music store in Cardiff and a half hour later walk out with a Yamaha Pacifica and a Peavey amp for under two hundred groats. A very low price indeed. Not that the cheap price is an indication of poor quality. Not at all. I recently tried a friends Fender Stratocaster which he parted four hundred notes for. In my opinion my Yamaha was even better than the Strat, the only thing letting it down being the absence of a ...  Read the complete review

Before i bought a Yammaha Pacifica i didn't have much knowledge about the guitar, i knew how it worked and what ti did (obviously) lol. But i couldn't really play and everytime i picked a guitar up, i only ever seemed to make the most disgusting sounds ever. But i was becomign very interested in the guitar as i have been getting into rock music more and more lately then i ever had been. So i thought 'hey lets have a stab at playing', as i thought it would be somehting to do in my spare time and would be something to relax me. And guess what i was right, i love sitting with my Pacifica when im depressed and bummed out. I can't play very well ...  Read the complete review