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Description

Solid Sitka Spruce top, Mahogany back & sides, System 66 Analog SRT pickup and preamp

The Yamaha A1M features hand-selected premium solid Sitka Spruce top and Mahogany back and sides. Yamaha’s original dreadnought body style perfectly complement the A-Series elegant looks while the System 66 preamp and SRT pickup ensure solid plugged-in performance.

The A-Series is built to perform. Whether that means live or in the studio, unplugged or amplified, these guitars were built to deliver the tone and playability you’ve been searching for.

Thousands of hours of development, prototyping, evaluations and field-testing combined with more than 50 years experience in crafting guitars has produced the A-Series, a guitar that gives you technology where you need it and tradition where you want it.

Experience a new Yamaha. Experience A-Series.

Look
Compromise was never an option with A-Series – on every level, this guitar is built to be the one you want to own. Real wood binding, original wood inlays, a new and distinctive headstock and a scratchplate with a story. The look of A-Series is the definition of elegant – simple, but powerful.

Feel
The natural feel of perfectly finished wood. A neck shape that feels like you’ve known it for years. An action that is somehow effortless, yet still rewarding. These are the things that add up when you just know that a guitar feels ‘right’. These are the things that make an A-Series feel the way it does. Extensive research with players, luthiers and techs has given A-Series the feel and playability that today’s acoustic-electric players need and want whether that means switching from electric to acoustic on-stage, recording a session with intricate open tunings or practicing at home.

Sound
The A-Series construction was designed with one thing in mind – tone. Deep, rich lows, open, detailed midrange and clear, musical highs give your music room to breathe while underpinning your sound with an unmistakable, timeless character. Yamaha’s trademark ultra-thin finish and handselected tonewoods combine with craftsman-designed construction to create a guitar with incredible resonance and personality. The A-Series doesn’t just have tone, it has life.

Pickup and Preamp
Using advanced Digital Signal Processing and real-world insight into audio technology and recording techniques, Yamaha have developed SRT – a pickup and preamp system capable of delivering an amazingly natural, studio-quality acoustic guitar tone. Sounds that were, until now, only attainable by professional recording engineers using expensive vintage microphones in world-class acoustic spaces are now easily recreated by any player, on stage or in the studio. SRT does not artificially create a guitar tone, rather it creates a faithful reproduction of the other elements that make up a great guitar sound – the subtle ambience of the real space between instrument and microphone, the characteristic EQ voicing of a great sounding vintage mic, the different resonances captured when you move a mic around a guitar. And because SRT uses your guitar’s natural tone as a basis for this process, the result is phenomenally realistic

SRT Pickup
Yamaha’s proprietary SRT pickup design uses individual elements for each string to give an ultra-clear, ultra-wide bandwidth signal with far better dynamic response and tonal accuracy than a regular, ribbon-type piezo pickup.

Product Details:

• Top Solid Sitka Spruce
• Back Mahogany
• Side Mahogany
• Neck Mahogany
• Fingerboard Rosewood
• Bridge Ebony
• Nut Width 43mm
• String Length 650mm
• Tuners Die-Cast Chrome
• Preamp System 66 Analog
• Includes Yamaha Hiscox Hard Case