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Yamaha LS-TA TransAcoustic Vintage Tint Electro-Acoustic Guitar

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Yamaha LS-TA TransAcoustic Vintage Tint Electro-Acoustic Guitar
Product no: 9000-0025-9290 Bax Music Warranty: This product comes with a 3-year warranty.

General

The sound of an acoustic guitar being played in a room with great acoustics is hard to beat. Unfortunately, most us of us don't have access to such a room, however, which is where Yamaha's LS-TA Triple Oh electro-acoustic guitar comes in. It features a TransAcoustic system that gives you a wonderful acoustic sound by sending the preamp's signal back into the body of the guitar for reverb and chorus effects without the need for an amp! No wonder Yamaha is referring to this as a (r)evolution in guitar design.

Construction

Naturally, Yamaha weren't going to put their new TransAcoustic technology into any old guitar. The LS-TA has a solid spruce top that 's been treated with Yamaha's Acoustic Resonance Enhancement process to give it a richer vintage sound. The sides and back are made of solid rosewood to add warmth to the spruce's brightness, resulting in a well-balanced sound, which is completed by a 5-ply mahogany and rosewood neck featuring an ebony fretboard. Reverb and chorus effects are down to the System 70 TransAcoustic preamp along with the piezo pickup.

Yamaha TransAcoustic

Being able to play a guitar in a room with great acoustics is a fantastic and all too rare experience. That's because houses aren't really built with acoustics in mind, unfortunately. With Yamaha's TransAcoustic guitars, however, it'll sound like you're playing in a specially-designed concert hall no matter where you are. This is achieved by the use of a digital preamp that produces reverb and chorus effects. If that doesn't sound all that unique, once you find out it does this without the use of an amplifier, you'll realise just how remarkable it is. By sending the signal back into the body instead of an amp, a wonderful acoustic sound with reverb and chorus built in is right at your fingertips.

Specifications

Product features

Number of frets 19
Number of strings 6
Body construction all solid
Cutaway no
Sustainable product not specified
Electro-acoustic yes
Pickup type piëzo
Acoustic guitar size compact
Wood type (back) rosewood
Fretboard wood ebony
Wood type (soundboard) spruce
Wood type (sides) rosewood
For playing style fingerpicking
Includes cover yes
Includes case no
Built-in electronics preamplifier
Acoustic sound rich and tight
Colour wood/natural
Left-handed no
Body type 000 / 0M / orchestra / auditorium

Weight and dimensions including packaging

Weight (incl. packaging) 6,6 kg
Dimensions (incl. packaging) 119,0 x 59,0 x 20,0 cm

Product specifications

  • Yamaha electro-acoustic steel-string guitar
  • model:
    • series: Transacoustic
    • colour: Vintage Tint
  • body
    • shape: Triple Oh
    • top: solid Engelman spruce top with A.R.E treatment
    • sides and back: solid rosewood
    • finish: high-gloss
    • binding: maple/black
    • sound hole rosette: pearloid
    • bracing: X-bracing
  • neck
    • joint: set-in
    • 5-ply mahogany and rosewood
    • finish: high-gloss
    • profile: C
    • scale length: 25.6"
    • fretboard: ebony
    • radius: 15.75"
    • binding: maple/black
    • number of frets: 19
    • fret type: medium jumbo
    • string nut material: urea
    • string nut width: 1.75”
    • position markers: dot, pearloid
  • truss rod: single-action
    • hardware
    • bridge: ebony with urea saddle
    • hardware finish: chrome-plated
    • machine heads: sealed self-lubricating
  • electronics
    • preamp: System70 Transacoustic
    • pickup: SRT Pickup
    • controls: Reverb, Chorus, Volume
  • included: soft case, hex adjustment key, x2 AA batteries

Details:

  • The System 70 TransAcoustic preamp transfers the signal to the sound box instead of just to the amplifier it's hooked up to, allowing for a spacious sound in any environment.

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Yamaha LS-TA TransAcoustic Vintage Tint Electro-Acoustic Guitar

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Deze gitaar is een welkome aanwinst. De hals speelt licht. De body is van een prettig formaat. Niet te log of te klein. De klank en voorL de resonantie is buitengewoon geweldig. Een heldere volle warme klank. Deze gitaar is een ware aanwinst als je van kwaliteit in geluid en verfijnd speelplezier wenst. Probeer hem uit bij Bax in een oefenruimte.

Musikmesse 2016: Yamaha TransAcoustic - Revolutionary

Friday 8 April 2016 By Richard | Bax Music

Of the many new products presented at the Musikmesse in Frankfurt, some, like this new acoustic guitar from Yamaha, are real standouts. Yamaha themselves refer to the TransAcoustic system as revolutionary and it's not hard to see why. The Yamaha LL-TA dreadnought and the LS-TA triple oh models produce a sound that'll make you think you're playing in a room with great acoustics no matter where you are. And they do this without the need for an amplifier.

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