Anybody wanna spend $3700 on a Pacifica?!?

[Boudoir Guitar]

An MIJ RGZ was my first real guitar, so the Yammies pull at my heartstrings. But not enough to get this much cash out of my pocket:

NAMM 2024: With the $3,700 Pacifica Professional, Yamaha is hoping to prove the beginner workhorse has thoroughbred potential. Can it persuade players to pay custom prices for an entry-level name?

The firm's new Japanese-made Professional and Standard Plus models are challenging perceptions of the enduringly popular Pacifica

www.guitarworld.com

 

[DrewJD82]

Suppose I didn’t see that one coming, there’s that.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Rupert Neve, that well known pickup guru?

 

[Stone]

Having owned a Revstar they are awesome guitars

The new Pacifica's have 2 tiers the standard not so bad pricewise $1,349.00 USD

Yamaha PACS+12 Pacifica Electric Guitar - Ash Pink, Rosewood Fingerboard

Solidbody Electric Guitar with Chambered Alder Body, Maple Neck, Rosewood Fingerboard, 1 Humbucking Pickup, and 2 Single-coil Pickups - Ash Pink

www.sweetwater.com

 

[Stone]

Rupert Neve, that well known pickup guru?

Microphone and pickups are not that different

both taking vibrational energy and converting it to electrical signal and amplifying them

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Microphone and pickups are not that different

both taking vibrational energy and converting it to electrical signal and amplifying them

Rupert Neve, that well know microphone guru?

I love Yamaha guitars. I like the chambered body idea a d curious to see weights of actual instruments. Might be interested in one of the non-Mauve colored Indo models. But the price tag, some of the marketing and the “aren’t these like 4 years too late?” Timing are all weird.

 

[Iron1]

Thought you meant a Chrysler Pacifica and I thought "No way it's worth anywhere near that much..."

 

[norminal]

I do t think Yamaha expects to sell too many of the $3,700 models. The $1,349.00 model will be their sweet spot. Having owned an Indonesian Yamaha bass, they should be fine at that price point.

 

[Alex Kenivel]

How many left testicles you got to give up to get some stainless steel Frets up in this muv?

 

[the-trooper]

Me: silverburst is the ugliest finish.
Yamaha: hold my beer

 

[JiveTurkey]

Me: silverburst is the ugliest finish.
Yamaha: hold my beer
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Either is cool on it's own. Both together are

 

[laxu]

I love Yamaha, but that's asking way too much. The finish choices are also really pedestrian, except that weird pink and blue burst abomination.

The 600 line is already really well built so I feel like for MIJ you aren't getting that much extra value here. I think they would have been way better off looking at their past models like the Floyd equipped 1421/1412/1121/1221 series to make these clearly different spec.

 

[Rickboot]

Either is cool on its own. Both together are

The spray can ran out of paint.

 

[aivoryuk]

double string tree = no thank you

 

[2112]

Beach blurst

 

[TJontheRoad]

They should given this another name. Weird branding "strat"egy. Most brands are top down. Taking a long known entry level brand name such as Pacifica and trying to upsell it isn't the way it's normally done. It's confusing to buyers. I predict you can look for price blowouts to come in a year or two.

 

[SKU]

Sorry for the useless post but all I have to say is: LOL

 

[laxu]

They should given this another name. Weird branding "strat"egy. Most brands are top down. Taking a long known entry level brand name such as Pacifica and trying to upsell it isn't the way it's normally done. It's confusing to buyers. I predict you can look for price blowouts to come in a year or two.

The Pacifica range has just been their Strat and Tele style guitars for decades, with several high end models in it too. It has never been a strictly entry level range, even though most people know the low end Pacificas because those are the most commonly found on stores.

Yamaha is a bit weird that even in Japan it's surprisingly hard to find their electric guitars.

Here's some higher end models they used to make in the range.

 

[Stone]

Well if one buys a Guitar based on name alone .....I dunno
I had a Yamaha PAC510V which was like way way better than my Fender Start in every way
The quality control, the hardware, how it arrived from the factory was top notch, and was also like $300.000 less than that shitty Fender
So folks who want to buy on name alone, sure go ahead

 

[TJontheRoad]

The Pacifica range has just been their Strat and Tele style guitars for decades, with several high end models in it too. It has never been a strictly entry level range, even though most people know the low end Pacificas because those are the most commonly found on stores.

Yamaha is a bit weird that even in Japan it's surprisingly hard to find their electric guitars.

Here's some higher end models they used to make in the range.

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I like these better