Yamaha RS420 REVSTAR Series - In-Depth Demo!
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Balance is a simple concept that is often difficult to achieve, but the RS420 combines outstanding performance with a character all its own to hit that elusive sweet spot for a guitar that walks it like it talks it.
Drawing from the stylish lines and honed performance of the Café Racer bikes that graced the streets of 1960s London, Revstar embraces the concept of being stripped down, tuned up and dialed in.
Pickups:
Designed from the ground up, Revstar features specially-wound YGD pickups that are perfectly matched to each guitar. More than 50 prototype pickups were tested featuring different combinations of wire, windings, magnets and base plates. Eventually, a spec was settled on for each guitar model and the Revstar pickup series was born.
Dry Switch:
Designed especially for Revstar, the Yamaha proprietary Dry Switch gives you the versatility of a coil split, but with tone that's miles ahead. Using a passive filter circuit painstakingly designed to give the perfect frequency response, the Dry Switch filters out low frequencies to give the punch and clarity of a single-coil pickup without the inevitable hum and hollow tone often associated with split humbucking pickups. The Dry Switch works on both humbuckers and P90s for a totally unique, usable tone.
Custom Hardware:
Inspired by the stripped-down, custom Café Racer motorbikes popularized in the 1960s, Revstar hardware captures their high-performance and individual character. From their unique pickup covers and raw copper scratchplate on the Revstar Professional to the custom, floating aluminum tailpiece on the RS502T, each and every component is perfectly calibrated for great performance and unmistakable style.
Comfort-Contoured Body:
Revstar is a workhorse through and through, but that doesn't compromise its comfort and playability. With every contour designed from the ground up to look and feel great, the Revstar body features a deep belly cut, hidden forearm contour and a newly-designed neck joint for outstanding upper fret access.
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Amazing sounds. Even better guitar faces.
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It looks beautiful and sounds good, I didn't realize that Yamaha made electric guitars.
They have for awhile.
Great value for money guitars. I have a baritone, an electric 12-string, and a 6-string electric. Very satisfied with all 3.
I just bought one and I absolutely love it. Everything about it feels great and it’s so cool looking.
Yamaha has made electric guitars since the '60s and musical instruments since the late 1800s.
I bought a 420 in red. It really is a fabulous guitar. Such an adaptable guitar for any genre. The neck on the 320 and 420 have the thinner necks...which suits me better.
Lovely, smooth tone.
Hi bud, nice review! How far is it from Les Paul?
Thanks for the great review. I am waffling between the Revstar and the Pacifica 311. The Revstar sound reminds me of my old ES335, but with a bit more zing. ( Should never have sold that one!)
I'm also torn between these two.
In case your conidering a Revstar, my 502T Revstar came from the factory with sharp frets. Yamaha Australia authorised a repair through their luthier network. The luthier turned my meticulously maintained 502T into a RELIC - File marks all across the fretboard, discolored my ivory binding (blackened it) and also left cracks along the binding. Yamaha's national service manager (AU) , Drew Morrow, was indifferent and basically told me to suck it up. Will never recommend or buy Yamaha instruments again. Their warranty counts for nothing, and management staff treat you with contempt, forever using rhetoric to evade their obligations.
Feel for you and comprehend your bitterness. The core of the problem in this country lies with Yamaha Australia Head Office management and immediate subordinate attitudes. Won't name names, but in my dealings, perfidious and manipulative are the two words which come to mind. IMPE their "integrity" is only as sincere as the size of the *metaphorical* gun you can put to their head. Won't relate my own awful experience, but the words "victim blaming" as in your own experience are salient. Their behaviour makes a mockery of Yamaha's advertising promises. Such a shame, as when a good example is received, Yamaha's product lives up to its reputational mythology. Definitely worth the effort of a well worded but factual all stations broadcast email to Yamaha international management.
I'm actually really impressed Yamaha even responded to your complaints about fret work on a $600 guitar, let alone paid for fret work to be done! It sucks the work was done poorly, but that's more on the "luthier" than Yamaha.
@@ehmmmjay9907 Don't be ridiculous. Apart from yours being a straw argument -the price is irrelevant, the RS502T is close enough to being a $1000 guitar. Current price new where stock is available $979).
The facts are. Yamaha guarantees the quality of its product, with bold claims thereto under a much touted 5 year warranty T&C. They have a moral obligation to honour that with the same commitment they do to their marketing spin, as well as a legal one under the country's overriding warranty laws.
If as a consumer I buy a new Yamaha guitar. I hold a not unreasonable expectation I will receive one of the same quality as used in Yamaha's advertising images and marketing spiel promises. Where it wasn't, I would refuse it with every right to expect it exchanged and replaced with new one which was. Sometimes these things aren't apparent until after delivery, i.e. buying online.
That's where Yamaha's insistence you must buy through their dealer network vs direct falls down. Not all, but in the main IMPE the to many of said network dealers are just box shifting middlemen who do zero predelivery, and worse, frequently abuse that distance sales avenue to offload sub-standard or shop worn demo stock they know they couldn't shift off the floor.
I can also empathise with the OP's gripe and validate from personal experience that the problem lies with a culture within Australian Yamaha HQ management.
Responsibility lies with Yamaha to authorise and delegate warranty work, and as such, ensure said work is performed to a standard in alignment with professional industry practice. Ultimately Yamaha can't benefit from pissing off existing loyal customers, but in this country, you could be forgiven for forming an opinion Melbourne HQ arrogant enough to believe it doesn't matter.
@@theblytonian3906 couldn't have said it better myself. The example I played in the store was fault free. The product I purchased had sharp frets from the factory. This was either due to poorly cured wood or poor fret finishing, either way it's a workmanship issue. I put faith in Yamaha rectifying the issue and they screwed me, then walked away. I'm also reading about workmanship issues with failing tail pieces, and them being glued back together by Yamaha due to issues sourcing replacement parts. Lots of unconscionable practices cited on the Facebook Revstar page that seriously taint the company's after sales service.
I don't get the praise for yamaha, my Pacifica although cheap, came with sharp frets and 2 high frets, i fixed it myself
That switch would allow the bass guitar to be heard more clearly in a band setting. Then when it is time to solo turn it back to normal humbucker mode.
Love the sound
Your playing is outstanding as usual. But you can make even the cheapest guitar sound great which is mind boggling.
When I play cheap and expensive guitars in GC I can hear a distinct difference.
Is the TOM bridge replaceable or is it unique in its hole sizes and placement?
Eye-balling, I think you may be able to replace the bridge and tailpiece with any aftermarket options that are sized for import guitars. So something like a TonePros etc could work. Anything particular like the bridge being mounted too far or narrow would be specific to the one guitar rather than the line. That's my two cents.
great video. wonderful playing. Thinking of stopping by and purchasing one of these.
It's a shame you guys don't have more views on this channel.
Revstar or Pacifica?
Never played one of them but listening to both of them i prefer the revstar both on overdrive and clean channel
@@Basalf17 does revstar have a lot of harmonics in its sound?
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Les Paul Or HSS Strat with split coil? That's pretty much the same question/decision. Make it easier?
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How's tuning stability on RS420?
Pretty good, but the lower you tune it, the less stable it is. I have to retune pretty frequently when I go down to C standard. I still recommend it though.
@@pwnshhhop51 Thanks so much.
@@siricortana9550 You're welcome.
Had mine quite a while. Standard tuning, I can't fault tuning stability on mine. The tuners, bridge and saddle are OEM units rather than custom, and the nut Urea but cut well. There is a lot of nonsense written which is predominantly segment snobbery rationalising the premium spend of the 620, 720, 820 as somehow purchasing something superior.
420 vs the higher segment models? It comes down to the neck and the pickups, whether you prefer the tone and output of the VH3s or the VH5s in humbuckers, and the different neck profile from the 5xx segment up (obviously exclude the P90 versions). Pretty much everything else other than the different bridges (wraparound vs tune-o-matic) is cosmetic (neck binding, inlays, extra body cutouts, flame veneer, satin finish covers and hardware until you get to the custom TonePros bridge of the RS820, and additional differences (e.g. VH7s) on the Japanese made flagship RSP20CR. Build quality and finish on my RS420 is nothing short of astonishing, and I am an attention to detail with high expectation of fit and finish kind of guy who does all my own maintenance and modding.
@@theblytonian3906 Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation.
Now I'm very interested in buying RS420 over the other models!
I like the VH3s and the Gold Top finish of RS420, and it's much cheaper than even RS620 where I live.
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It looks like an affordable version of Brian May’s guitar.