Yamaha Revstar Standard RSS02 Sonic Blue electric guitar with deluxe gig bag

General

Yamaha presents its redeveloped Revstar II line including the Revstar Standard RSS20. Like the previous models, here you are dealing with an electric doublecut, but the body is a touch larger and has been redesigned via Yamaha's own special Acoustic Design process. This means that the mahogany body has been cambered in specific places, allowing you to enjoy a more lively base tone, a lighter overall weight as well as better weight distribution on this guitar. The glued guitar neck is made of 3-piece mahogany and also features 2 carbon rods, providing unprecedented stability. By the way, you can safely store and carry this RSS in the included deluxe gig bag.

Revstar Standard RSS20: highly resistant stainless steel frets on a neck that feels like home

Whereas the body has a high-gloss finish, the neck has been given a silk-gloss finish for extremely comfortable playing. The 22 jumbo frets contribute to this and are made of stainless steel, ensuring that they are highly resistant to harder playing. In addition, they are extremely long-lasting and this Yamaha RSS20 will most likely never need a refret. With its 12-inch fingerboard radius and 41.9 millimetre nut, while playing guitar it will undoubtedly feel like coming home from the first fret on this modern, yet timeless doublecut. Your striking hand can rest solidly on the tune-o-matic bridge just in front of the stoptail tailpiece in between.

3 familiar humbucker sounds, 2 out-of-phase sounds plus a focus push/pull switch

To boost the resonant acoustic sound of the chambered body and the warm foundation of all mahogany parts, Yamaha opted for 2 humbuckers on this Standard model in the Revstar II series. To be able to go a little wider sonically, you have access to a 5-position switch. Besides the familiar guitar tones in position 1, 3 and 5, positions 2 and 4 offer a mixture of both pickups. Here, 1 of the 2 elements comes in delayed for 2 particularly useful out-of-phase sounds. Using the focus push/pull switch under the tone knob, you can double this sound palette with a slightly bolder boost in the low and midrange, where the highs come out a lot darker.