I have been playing my middle grade Revstar lately. The amount of tones is crazy. The fingerboard is really fast. In fact, all the Yamahas I try are fantastic, especially the acoustic line. Looking for a LL16 but can't find any locally.

Awesome job on this !!! :)

@650thunderbird5

Жыл бұрын

Cheers, Tezza!

The Revstars have been a GREAT line of guitars for Yamaha!

@theblytonian3906

Жыл бұрын

Been great for end users/consumers too. I have three different PUP config versions of the originals bought over the past 3 years. Prefer them to the G2, and particularly their previous pricing. Wouldn't swap 'em for quids. They'll be with me until I'm in reduced to ash and bone in the furnace after which my wife can do with my music kit as she likes. I think she mentioned something about an axe, and I don't think she was using the term as a metaphor.

@DMSProduktions

Жыл бұрын

@@theblytonian3906 OH!

Hello, I noticed you have the Epiphone LP Special in the background. I was trying to find a comparison between this Revstar and LP Special for a while but didn't find any. I tried Gibson LP Special in a store sometime ago and fall in love with the sound, since than I want a similar guitar with P90s and mahogany body and neck. I shortlisted these 2 guitars you have in the video because Gibson is expensive for me. But in the country I live I can't try the Revstar, I can buy it here but can't try in a demo room anywhere, for some reason Yamahas aren't popular here. Would be great to know your opinion on the differences in sound and ergonomics.

@650thunderbird5

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment, Ringer1982. I must buy most of my guitars online, so I would feel more comfortable buying the Yamaha "sight unseen", but, I buy most of my guitars, lately, from a shop that pleks all guitars over a certain price, for free. You will have a lot more choices of tones with the Yammy, but sounds are so subjective, IMO. Ergonomics: I think the Yamaha will be suitable for more people, more of an "everyman guitar". If you are a traditionalist, you will go for the Epi. All factors add up to which you will most likely pick up off your guitar stand. Feel free to comment further, if I haven't been clear enough.

@650thunderbird5

Жыл бұрын

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@Ringer1982

Жыл бұрын

@650thunderbird5, hi, thanks for the reply. Among the variety of sounds, can the Revstar sound like the LP Special? How is the neck feel on the Revstar compared to the LP? Is it narrow like on a Strat? Which one has a better ballane when played seated? Does any of them have a tendency to slip backwards if you don't secure it with your elbow?

@650thunderbird5

Жыл бұрын

@@Ringer1982 There are so many settings on the Yamaha, I really don't have the time to spend comparing. Revstar neck is thinner than Epi neck. Both balance well in lap, Epi slightly better due to body thickness. Neither slip backwards, on my examples.

The colour choice is extremely disappointing on the new Revstars

@randalljwarren151

5 ай бұрын

I actually have this very model. I find the colour to be brilliant! But to each their own…

@toneranger

5 ай бұрын

@@randalljwarren151 sure, happy for you but that's just one colour in a very limited colour palate, maybe NAMM this month might see more options.

@dustinadair7893

3 ай бұрын

I dig all the colors. Weird how many people hate the colors and the tail piece I think they’re great

@toneranger

3 ай бұрын

@@dustinadair7893 Not enough choice and too conservative, look at Gretsch their colours are cool

@dustinadair7893

3 ай бұрын

@@toneranger they’ll probably eventually come out with more, but who knows maybe not.

As a Yamaha aficionado and multiple original Revstar owner not hoodwinked by the pizzazz surrounding the launch of the G2, tMV G2 Revstar was clearly redesigned with a few glaringly obvious objectives in mind. 1. Appeal to and so penetrate the US marketplace, and in so doing 2. part of this was to make the guitar liveries in American Kitsch feel and sound like like a double cutaway version of a Les Paul or Gretsch. May as well just buy a solid body (chambered) Gretsch or Les Paul instead. Who the fu¢k plays a Revstar in the seated shitty Les Paul in the groin stance! Seriously? 😏 The changed G2 fingerboard radius and neck profile is such an act of obsequious fawning to American market familiarity and bias, a betrayal of Yamaha's difference & innovation. Revstars demabnd was already outstriping supply. Hence he real reason for so many of the increased production facilitating changes and "G2" margin remarketing. They've effectively doubled the price of the RSS02T over its RS502T predecessor. Dealers of course love this. For this, a singular pragmatically worthwhile upgrade. Stainless steel frets on the Standard. All the other changes are slick marketing spin, which sadly but unsurprisingly is working exceeding no doubt even Yamaha's initial expectation. Of course, if one wants a new Revstar, the G2 is it, and if wanting the P90 version one of the most popular original Revstars, it's available as the Standard only at a premium price point. Currently AUD$1249 at the apparent source of this example. I paid significantly less for both my new Gretsch G5232T and Ibanez AF93FM. Yamaha truly has lost the plot with G2 AFAIC.

@650thunderbird5

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment, I think?

@theblytonian3906

Жыл бұрын

@@650thunderbird5 The only one who has to love your new guitar is you. That''s what is important. I have the basis of comparison and hopefully bring balance to the understandable G2 pizzazz and buyer excitement. If that's rain on your NGD parade, sincere apologies, but buyers need to be informed and offered perspective. Then they can make up their own minds from a position of 'informed bias'. Although a Revstar (original) aficionado, it's pass for me on these. I bought a new both a Ibanez and a new Gretsch instead of another intended Revstar purchase. I won't be trading my three beloved original Revstars for any of these. YGD VP90s are great though, and I'm a particular fan of their VH3s, which unfortunately of fortunately as one might interpret it, the latter are only available in the Element segment.

@starflyer4660

Жыл бұрын

The new revstars blow the old revstars away 😂

@theblytonian3906

Жыл бұрын

@@starflyer4660 No, they don't Mr. Superficial follow the latest fad.