Yamaha AC5R VN A-Series Concert Cutaway 6-String RH Acoustic Electric Guitar Vintage Natural

YAMAHA AC5RVN DETAILS

Handmade in Japan with select tonewoods and premium build quality, Yamaha's AC5R Concert acoustic-electric guitar offers a vintage look with enhanced volume in the low-mid ranges, due to new scalloped bracing for the top and shorter bracing on the guitar's back.

With a solid Sitka spruce top and solid rosewood back and sides, this concert-sized guitar sounds fantastic. The Yamaha AC5R takes full advantage of Yamaha's unobtrusive and versatile SRT2 pickup system for recording and stage performance. You get volume, treble, and bass controls (with auto feedback reduction), and blend control allows you to balance between the piezo and SRT2 preamp, for your own distinctive tone.

Modern audio engineering with vintage style
While the Yamaha AC5R has a traditional western body cutaway, its lows and highs resonate even more fully than those generated by conventional designs, thanks to new scalloped top bracing and shorter back board bracing. These modifications allow the top and back to resonate more naturally and with greater volume in the low-mid ranges. The western cutaway gives it a classic look, but an all-new brace design definitely brings the Yamaha AC5R into the twenty-first century.

Quality woods plus innovation equal brilliant sound
Sitka spruce is highly valued for guitar tops - and for good reason. This select grade of stiff but elastic softwood is equally suited to aggressive strumming, flatpicking, and even fingerpicking styles of play. The Yamaha AC5R features a solid Sitka top. The Yamaha AC5R's solid rosewood back and sides also produce warm, balanced tones from low to high. With its traditional western cutaway and ebony fingerboard and bridge, this is a guitar that looks, plays, and sounds great.

Studio sound onstage
Normally you can best hear an acoustic guitar's subtle nuances in the studio while it's miked, but the Yamaha AC5R has Yamaha's SRT2 pickup system, which brings those wonderful, authentic sounds to the stage. With blend control, you can balance the output from the under-bridge piezo pickup with the modeling of either a Neumann U 67 large-diaphragm condenser mic or a Royer R-122 active ribbon mic, creating your own unique tone with natural clarity.

Features:

• 6-string concert-sized acoustic-electric with traditional western cutaway in vintage natural finish
• Solid Sitka spruce top and solid rosewood back and sides for bright, warm tone
• SRT2 system allows you to blend between piezo and SRT2 preamp signals for a personalized sound
• Handmade in Japan for unparalleled build quality and attention to detail

Specs:

• String Type: Steel
• Number of Strings: 6
• Body Shape: Concert Cutaway
• Left-/Right-handed: Right-handed
• Color: Vintage Natural
• Finish: Gloss
• Top Wood: Solid Sitka Spruce
• Back & Sides Wood: Solid Rosewood
• Body Bracing: Scalloped
• Bracing Binding: Mahogany
• Neck Wood: African Mahogany
• Neck Shape: Straight
• Taper Radius: 15.75"
• Fingerboard Material: Ebony, rolled edges
• Fingerboard Inlay: Snowflakes
• Number of Frets: 20
• Scale Length: 25.6"
• Tuning Machines: Gotoh chrome open gear
• Bridge Material: Ebony
• Nut/Saddle Material: Tusq/Tusq
• Nut Width: 1.6875"
• Electronics: System 71 SRT2 preamp with SRT piezo pickup
• Strings: Elixir NANOWEB 80/20 Bronze Light

Solid-top Japanese acoustic-electric with vintage vibe and a big voice.