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Sure, if you want to damage it permanently.

And get that admitted rapist off your avatar!

I get this too and it's quite annoying. I am playing through an Acus amp. I am wondering if to sell the guitar?

@@markhollis8000 I sold it man. Could not find any alternatives, not even calling Yamaha helped

@@diegobricio96 I think I will need to do the same. I hope you managed to get a better alternative guitar. Cheers!

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I've done it quite a few times. Wasn't aware the manual says that. Of course, I connected it to an MP3 amplifier that is meant to receive signal from headphones jack. I get a fairly good sound from a $50 mp3 amp.

@@BonafideToolJunkie Many Thanks Paul for your feedback. I'm afraid of damaging something ... You should ask an electronic technician, because if I ask the question at Yamaha, they will tell me that it is not recommended, and yet if I plug my iPhone into an hi-fi amplifier, I have never had a problem , and yet it is also a headphone jack ?.

I feel you >.< take care!

Hi thanks for watching! I’d not overthink the extra 2mm (1mm on each side actually). On my guitar the piezo doesn’t extend the full 82mm. I’ve used graph tech saddles in my other guitars and find them a wonderful product in that the difference is tangible. However i suspect the effect would be less so on this Yamaha given the non traditional construction (lack of sound board etc). TLDR I wouldn’t fret it. Just go with what’s available and make some music. 😉😁

@@homecookedmelodies Thank you for the encouragement. I should say that my preoccupation with this subject has mostly to do with the fact that pretty much every review about the 200NW complains that its default action is set too high. (I’m not sure if you felt this was the case on your 200N too.) Now I don’t know if this is Yamaha being overzealous about recreating an “authentic classical guitar experience” or these folks coming from a steelstring background and finding it hard to adapt. Personally I don’t particularly mind the action at all, but this is my first “classical” guitar and I don’t really have a practical frame of reference. This is also why I’m reluctant to modify the original saddle. The fact remains that at the moment the action (at the 12th fret) is 3.6mm at the high E and 4.1mm at the low E. Opinions about what the action on a classical guitar should be seem to be all over the place, and I don’t see anyone talking specifically about these nylon-string SLGs. So as someone who has experience in both these areas, what do you feel is the most satisfactory action on one of these instruments? Thanks again.

Metodi Metodiev 👋 now that you mentioned it I do experience that now and then. Thanks for watching!

Sometimes I'll hear an annoying static sound while listening with headphones. Solved the problem. Don't have the smartphone nearby.

It's perfectly fine. That "Mic" mode isn't a real microphone, but a signal processed from the piezo pickup. The SRT preamp gives the smooth sound of a guitar with a full body without having to deal with the issues of a microphone such as feedback.

@@paulodpereira so if I understand correctly it's using a piezo electric pickup for all strings, I'm confused how it picks up sound from non metal strings. Does it compensate by making the nylon strings ring louder & tone the metal ones down (relatively). Will switching the string from metal to nylon make that string get picked up much quieter compared to how it is now? Sorry for the million questions, thanks for your help so far. I wish someone would do an in depth tech tear down of one of these Yamahas so I could understand better how this thing actually works.

@@ChroniclesofKToyoda Yes, it uses the piezo pickup for all 6 strings. The piezo pickpup only picks-up vibrations, it is mounted under the saddle and captures all the string at once. You can try tapping the saddle you will ear the tapping sound amplified, but if you yell to the pickup your voice doesn't come though, only mechanical vibrations are captured. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. The piezo pickups can have a bit of a harsh sound (subjective). Some electroacoustic guitars also have a microphone inside the body as well as the piezo. Since the yamaha slg doesn't have a ressonance box(body), the microphone would do nothing useful, so they implemented that STR preamp that simulates the acoustic sound (very effectively in my opinion). A piezo pickup is made from piezoelectric material (quartz for example), it converts mechanical energy into electrical energy. There is a brazilian guy on youtube changing one of these on a yamaha silent. You can see the piezo, is that red thing at minute 2.40 in this video: th-cam.com/video/cm3sL79AQs8/w-d-xo.html There are pickups that only work with metal strings. They are called electromagnetic, they're the most used kind in electric guitars, they work by converting oscilations in the magnetic field (caused by the metal strings vibrating) into a electrical signal.

@@paulodpereira Thank you so much, you have been a treasure trove of information. So basically it's not using magnetic pickups of any kind, just pressure sensors, right. This makes a million times more sense now, coming from a background of knowing next to nothing on this stuff your info is helping a lot in making me realize what stringing possibilities I now have. Thanks again!

@@ChroniclesofKToyoda Yes, that's right, just pressure.

Thanks! yea, while I was researching about the yamaha slg, I was constantly wondering if I could practise with it on Dad Duty 😄

Thanks for viewing Joe Mac! I'm curious why you decided not to buy? It'll be great to hear from you.

@@homecookedmelodies I think the main reason is it doesn't look very comfortable for the right arm or sound as quiet as I thought.

@@joeabstractjoe oh, thanks for sharing your thoughts :) I hope you find a great guitar soon!

@@joeabstractjoe Isn't it supposed to be silent, and you can practice while using earphones?

@@joeabstractjoe It's quiet enough - no neighbour has complained yet for my 3 am practice on SLG200N :)

Hi Mikko! Thank you for watching :) Yes, I used the THR10 as the recording interface for the “line in” parts. I think the quality is pretty good actually, as far as TH-cam is concerned. Definitely not as good as “pro” interfaces but I’m not a pro and my wallet is small 😅. For the “Mic In” parts, I mic the THR10 with an AT2020 into my yamaha AG06 Mixer. Also quite good, for TH-cam quality.

@@homecookedmelodies Ok! Thank you for your answer!🙏☺

Thanks! :)