Yamaha Pacifica 311H VW

Perfect beginner´s guitar

This guitar feels and plays so much better than the price would suggest. I believe this is the perfect beginner´s guitar.

Beginner point of view rating

I can't say much about the sound or the tehnical part since am just a beginner. I will only write here what i've observed. I decided to buy this guitar after many-many-many hours of research especially looking for quality for the price and playabillity. I think for most beginners those are the most important things to look after. Then tone and everything else will make his way later on. First of all many don't know if they like to play guitar since they never played (like me) and i wouldn't suggest to go for a very expensive guitar first.

Something that bothered me when i did the unboxing for the guitar was the tone knob which was very loose and it was spinning continuously instead of having a minimum and a maximum. I tried to tighten a bit but its still a bit loose. At least now i can use it, and stops in the minimum and maximum range, 0-10 range or whatever is called.

Also when playing through a amp its a bit fuzzy even on clean tone (i know p90 has a fuller sound), i don't know if there are some electrical issues but its not that big of a deal since fuzz is almost absent.

So yea, maybe i was a bit unlucky with this one but im still happy about it. Its a bit different but thats why i love it.

Would i recommend this guitar? Well, absolutely yes. The quality for the price is awesome.

Gorgeus guitar

Its very pretty and I love to play it.

Best Strat-like guitar at this price point

First of all the hardware that comes with this guitar is unreal for the price. 1) TUSQ nut 2) Grover locking tuners 3) d' addario stock strings

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PICKUPS

The p90 is very good, with sweet tone and quite high output (the typical p90 hum is there)

The humbucker is not up to par though. Low output compared to the p90 especially when split where the difference is huge. This is MY ONLY GRIPE with this guitar.

PLAYABILITY

The guitar came set-up. Intonation and action were perfect. The neck is satin finished and very fast

LOOKS

Stunning and immaculate!!

I preferred this over the 600 series humbucker-p90 model because of the satin neck against the glossy neck and this beautiful white, tortoise pickguard finish, plus I can change the pickups and have the same quality as the 600 model with less money in total.

TOTALLY RECOMMENDED