This thing punches waaaaay above its weight class in terms of price to playability. It is actually stupid how much better it is than my LP. Neck heel is beautiful, completely open access to the upper frets. A nice, chunky, matte neck, too.
It also has a coil-tap-but-not-coil-tap on the tone knob push pull that gives a little more bite and chime single coil character but with minimal output loss.
Another thing I really appreciate is that Yamaha took the time to wire the pots correctly so when I turn them “forward” (counterclockwise), the volume goes up. Some other, bigger companies do not always take the time to do this.
All in all, a solid guitar for a great price. Highly recommend giving it a look if you are in the market for a versatile HH guitar.
They sell them with P90s, too, and the Revstars also have a very fancy chambering system. I played one in a shop a while back and it felt fantastic. I wasn’t really getting the greatest tones out of the shop amp they had, but I probably could have dialed in some greatness if I’d fiddled with it a bit longer. They always sound fantastic in the demos I’ve seen on the YouTube.
Nice get!
Love P90s, and probably would have gotten one if it was available. But when you’re a lefty, you take what you can get, lol.
That being said, the “dry-knob” (coil-split-but-not-coil-split feature) does a pretty good job at adding that single coil bite.