This Guitar Has SCIENCE Inside! | Yamaha Revstar ft.

Guitar design can be scientific - Yamaha use 3D simulations, modal analysis and vibrational testing to design their Revstar range, implementing interesting chambering and carbon reinforcement to achieve a specific sound and performance.
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[@ScienceofLoud]

Guitar design can be scientific - Yamaha use 3D simulations, modal analysis and vibrational testing to design their Revstar range, implementing interesting chambering and carbon reinforcement to achieve a specific sound and performance. Get your own Yamaha Revstar: thmn.to/thocf/21ze2hv008 More info from Yamaha: uk.yamaha.com/en/products/musical_instruments/guitars_basses/el_guitars/rs_2022/index.html Thanks to @KrenarCilkuGuitar for his excellent playing and insight. This video was filmed at 42 Gear Street, an event sponsored by Yamaha. More details on how CSGuitars implements product promotion - www.csguitars.co.uk/disclosure #42gsfour #yamaha #revstar More from CSGuitars: Gain access to exclusive content at: www.patreon.com/csguitars Join CSGuitars Discord - discord.gg/csguitars Buy CSGuitars Merchandise - www.csguitars.co.uk/store Website - www.csguitars.co.uk Contact - [e-mail] ____________________________________________________________________ *Description contains affiliate links. Purchasing using one of these links will generate a small commission for CSGuitars at no additional cost to you.*

[@EbonyPope]

But the question is if you can perceive any of these alterations. Have you watched Jim Lill's channel and his experiments shit tonewood? Highly interesting. I really recommend your watch it. He made some amazing experiments.

[@MarkGutierrez]

@@EbonyPope 100 percent agree. Jim Lill's channel is a must watch to gain a different perspective about solid body electric guitars. Yamahas weight relieve makes a lot of sense in terms of neck dive but every thing is pure marketing.

[@georged9615]

@@MarkGutierrez Jim Lill's experiment was not science. It was a fun demonstration, but no objective measurements. The conclusions were flawed because the design was flawed to begin with. The question "Can you hear a difference between two sounds after the sound is processed several times and compressed and decompressed to get to your ears over YT?" is a totally different question than "Is there a difference between two sounds?"

[@couthlazer]

@CSGuitars what's a tri sonic pick-up? I was introduced to them through brian may from Queen and I've been wondering what the difference is

[@ClementSanMartin]

@@georged9615 you greatly underestimate audio compression algorithms. Of course lossless formats are great to listen to with a pair of monitoring, but anyway the music the guitarist will play will either be live (and the acoustics of the room will not be "pure") or recorded and listened to in mp3 99% of the time... If it sounds good in 320kbps mp3, that's more than enough!

[@hawshimagical]

the best thing about this guitar is that even if you dont believe or care about the chambering science, the price pretty much matches with any other normal guitar that doesnt have this feature anyway

[@xneurianx]

I see a scotsman on a sun lounger in actual sun, I click like. Once, maybe twice in a lifetime experience.

[@18hot30]

Yamaha has always been top notch in my book. basses, pianos, guitars, amps, drums, cars, bikes, I mean these guys are on top of their game and have been for the past 80 yrs or more

[@Coppertunes]

Correct, any live studio with a house piano, like Jools Holland show etc, will 99% of the time be a Yamaha. Probably the best value instruments on the market.

[@briano.1503]

Absolutely, I've been a Yamaha fan my whole life.

[@keithferris9574]

Also big band and marching band instruments. It's really amazing.

[@captainkthebassplayinpirate16]

Don’t forget trumpets, trombones, tubas, saxophones, and flutes

[@anthonymorales842]

their baby grands ouch ,they sound so good

[@jacob_krause_official7286]

Absolutely love the Revstar. It's hand's down one of the most underrated guitars out there.

[@KrenarCilkuGuitar]

Colin! Thanks for having me on, mate! It was an absolute blast doing this; hope to see you soon and have fun in the Philippines, cheers! P.s sorry for saying "dry switch" instead of "focus switch"... my bad...😅

[@mattastic247]

Great playing Krenar! You did a great job showing how dynamic and rich sounding these guitars are and you're a total shred lord! You need to get your hands on that Pro gold top model with the P90s. Cheers!

[@thb-music]

Beautiful playing!

[@sprintingforsigns]

your playing was beautiful

[@neilwinkelmann8540]

Amazing playing. Wonderful insight.

[@gibsonprs]

Dude I think you liked that dirty tone more than you want to admit lol you had that look on your face like fuck yeah I nailed that and it sounded sick lmao

[@str11pes]

Krenar really makes the guitars come alive with such a beautiful voicing.

[@Giitzerland]

When you remember how Yamaha is a masterful source of high level tuning in everything from exhaust systems to concert piano's, it's easy to understand how that experience, and technology would translate into their guitars, as well.

[@allanflippin2453]

Colin, A few folks have taken apart the Revstar (in particular Phil McKnight). The boost seems to be done with a transformer to increase the output voltage (higher voltage at higher impedance). The only drawback is that loading in your pedals or amp may muddy up the high end.

[@GCKelloch]

It apparently uses the low level signal from whatever preamp it's plugged into to increase output. It reduces the high and anyway, so I don't know if the loading matters. It may even isolate the pickups from the effects of cable capacitance.

[@paulw.3967]

@@GCKelloch Huh? What kind of signal do you get from the input side of a preamp

[@mcswordfish]

The Revstar's a guitar I've only been aware of for a short while, mainly because Chris Buck plays one and he's a pisstakingly good player so it definitely piqued my interest. This is pretty damn cool - absolutely overkill but overengineering the shit out of things is fun

[@russellzauner]

Hal-Ca also plays a Revstar.

[@stefangeschke7604]

And Matteo Mancuso!

[@turntablesrockmyworld9315]

I have two and they are now my favourite newish guitars!

[@mattastic247]

I have a previous gen Rev Star with humbuckers and have to say it's a shockingly good guitar with a very unique and distinctive sound. The fretwork is great, build quality is great, they're balanced and comfortable to play. It was really cool to see what the chambering looks like inside and the process they use to design the guitar. Cheers!

[@stephen3164]

How is the previous gen different?

[@mattastic247]

@@stephen3164 Main difference is some older ones used a TonePro bridge without a tail piece. These new ones all have a Tune-o-matic or the longer tailpiece. I think the electronics are slightly different too, the push pull knob is more of a darker sounding boost, where the older one I have cuts some low end and a little bit of volume to emulate a coil split without the noise.

[@stephen3164]

@@mattastic247 - I wish they offered the humbucker version with the fancy tailpiece. I’d take that green with black stripes and large chrome “archtop” style tailpiece.

[@Merjia]

Legit, the Revstar range are some of the nicest guitars on the market today. Those necks are immaculate.

[@trialbystone2532]

I love the "I don't play with gain very often" into ripping a sweet Eric Johnson lick combo.

[@williambock1821]

Yamaha is the People’s instrument company. They’ve been making fantastic affordable instruments forever. Still make the best sounding drum set for under a grand too. Even their entry level acoustic solid tops are great. $250 gets you an incredibly good sounding and playing dreadnaught. I’ve had my eye on these Rev Stars for a while.

[@Fantasmas333]

Which drum model are you referring to? I’m interested in checking them, thanks btw and yes, i love their basses, the cheaper ones are absolute tanks and sound amazing!

[@williambock1821]

@@Fantasmas333 The Stage Custom birch series. Fantastic sounding 5 piece drum set for around $800. You can get them used for much less than that even. If they’re in good shape, totally worth up to $500.

[@johncollins5552]

@@Fantasmas333 Presumably Stage Custom , I like the fusion size one with 20 inch bass drum, punchy sound and makes it easier to set Tom's lower than a 22 BD. 10,12, 14 Tom's.

[@thesaj1110]

I Just received mine. Absolutely worth every penny! Killer design, balance, feel and above all TONE!

[@NicholasGreenwood]

I'm an engineer and work in the aerospace industry. This kind of 3D stress modeling is used ALL the time there. So I'm happy to see a guitar builder apply the same tools and concepts to achieve a particular end. I'm surprised that there aren't more guitar companies already doing this. I've always admired the design of the Revstar. This video gives me one more reason to pick one up someday.

[@TheDogPa]

Well, they would have to convince a 'guitar player' not the highest IQ group around...lol 🤣

[@GCKelloch]

Can't really work with wood, though. Wood structure is too inconsistent for the specified results of the chambering, but it doesn't really matter with a thick solid body guitar anyway.

[@martinkrauser4029]

@@GCKelloch works with carbon fiber, though.

[@GCKelloch]

@@martinkrauser4029 Could even work with engineered wood. The '70s era Gibson Howard Roberts guitar (with the oval sound hole) was designed by Bill Lawrence with engineered plywood so the top and bottom vibrate in phase, making it acoustically loud and with strong bass.

[@michael1]

Yeah Dave Lister's guitar in Red Dwarf was actually a Revstar because it was the only guitar that the aerospace industry would allow onboard a spaceship.

[@Kestrel-zc1du]

I worked all my prof life on structural modal analysis, i am a guitarist too, i know very well the goodness of Yamaha design approach! beautifull guitars, revstars

[@PooNinja]

Holy chambering Batman!!! As I’ve said before, if it has the triple pitchfork on it it’s probably awesome.

[@PooNinja]

Great playing Krenar 🤘🏽

[@epiphonium]

Fully agree !

[@griffinc466]

I have no doubt that they've successfully tuned these guitars' acoustic resonance, but I have a hard time believing it really matters when the wood's acoustic resonance is barely even a part of an electric guitar's sound compared to pickups. Would be curious to hear your thoughts on Jim Lill's video where he does a lot of experimentation related to that idea.

[@virtualfrog2000]

Agreed. A whole lot of focus for

[@rmaxtpmx]

Well you can think of it in terms of pickups being highly customizable with a few minutes of work and an inexpensive tool. The body is what it is, without hacking away at it. It's fair to say they wanted to focus on what the player isn't going to change.

[@griffinc466]

@@rmaxtpmx The body is less customizable, but again, makes such a small difference in terms of whole sound that doing this much work on it is is pointless overengineering IMO.

[@dinkaboutit4228]

God just please don't. There are forums for this. Go to one of them. Don't forget your eye protection.

[@ObeseChess]

@@griffinc466Yamaha overengineers everything. That’s why they’re cool.

[@dorfsteen]

I got turned onto Yamaha at an early age with their motorcycles everything Yamaha builds is great.

[@corymull5754]

Would’ve really appreciated a blinded side by side testing sort of play through. Try a few of them that are chambered and some that aren’t, and see if you can tell a difference without knowing which is which.

[@EbonyPope]

You would have to swap the pickups and tone pots too. Especially the pots vary in resistance and therefore affect the tone quite significantly. A pot may say 500k Ohms but it's actually 475 and the next one is 515k Ohms. To exclude this factor it should be the same strings, same pick and same electronics. Have you seen Jim Lill's tonewood experiments here on KZbin?

[@corymull5754]

I haven’t. There’d certainly be a lot of variables to isolate, not the least of which being weight as a dead give away for what you’re playing.

[@masterofreality230]

Yea, and maybe even hear it without a bunch of reverb also lol

[@GrimYak]

Yeah, this seemed like an ad for Yamaha and not the Science of sound

[@mattastic247]

All of the Revstars are chambered so a blind test wouldn't achieve much.

[@V4Victory93]

Bought a revstar guitar recently, I was blown away by the feel and the tone.

[@guitartec]

Even with the chambering, it's actually still a fairly heavy axe, like LP Studio heavy 7-8lbs. I was surprised

[@dr.strange714]

Yamaha is, and always will be, one of the most valuable and incredible company ever. Everyone that have played a Pacifica knows that. And the Revstar is another example of their good intentions when you think about guitars. You can play everything with this, and in a fantastic way!

[@ja8ames]

Beautiful guitars and really nice, chill video and playing demo. Good work guys.

[@paulneeds]

I’ve eyeballed these since they came out - and I would get one if I were still gigging. Everything I’ve seen and heard endears me more and more towards them. As for the video - what a lovely player!

[@Terry3Gs]

Awesome & with @krenar !! :)

[@SunTzuBean]

Do the focus switch next! Fascinating how it uses an inductor to passively boost the signal

[@mikedamisch]

They are actually wrong in this video. What they have is the focus switch and not the sry switch like they say.

[@akrmfk]

Just subbed to krenar few months ago, great player. Thanks for the vid colin!

[@fistovuzi]

wow. a new design that is properly original, designed with science, sound and looks unique and good, *without looking like it's from a sci-fi movie* something that's sets it's own standard legitimately i didn't think it was possible, but Yamaha actually did it. good for them, they earned and deserve this. this model has a big future. BIG, big.

[@Mezziah777]

Tried one of these in a shop a while back, and my first thought picking it up was that it was noticeably heavy for a chambered guitar. Seeing this video I can understand why.

[@LeviBulger]

That "dry switch" just sounds like maybe a parallel/series switch. That's exactly what happens when you put pickups into series. They get louder and lose a ton of high end.

[@killacoiler1707]

On the standard and professional models activating the focus switch seems to work almost like a mid boost circuit where it tapers some of the high-end, tightens up the bottom, and boosts middle range forming a warmer overall sound. I am super impressed by these guitars and have to admit that the standard range is probably the best value in a do-all gigging instrument. I have the luxury of working in the guitar retail industry and it affords me the opportunity to test drive tons of guitars on the daily. That said I had been deliberating between an Epiphone modern SG and the Epiphone prophecy series modern Les Paul as a new purchase to add to my ever growing collection of mid range instruments; that was until a Flash Green Revstar RSS 20 came through my station yesterday. I could not stop gushing over the instrument (I have a thing for all things green, preferably in a deep emerald hue). Anyway, once I plugged it into a little Orange 20w combo to give it a quick run I was beyond amazed at just how dynamic the sound was. It is one of the most articulate and resonate guitars I have ever played. I decided then that I needed a much better amp and some effects to really see what the limits were on this thing. Long story short, I was unable to find the limits. It was like a starving pig it just gobbled up every thing I threw at it. It does not get uncomfortable in any genre of music. I even went as far as experimenting with some alternate tunings and found that I didn't need to reintonate it for a DADGAD tuning. I was shocked to say the least. I have to say that the cavitation of the body does something mesmerizing to elevate modulation effects and accompanies stereo chorus and flanging effects wonderfully. I have to wait another 30 days to utilize my employee discount, but I already reserved a RSP 20 for when that 31st day comes around. What a stellar instrument!

[@crossbones911]

That part about unwanted resonance is true. I've had a few guitars that I couldn't deal with because of weird resonance issues. You hope it's just the bridge or tuners that need adjusting but even that doesn't help sometimes.

[@Ten80pete]

Love seeing guitar nerds interacting with eachother. Reminds me of the social version of Ricky Bobby going "I don't know what to do with my hands." That's why I generally just talk to my guitars. They only respond with what I want them to. No, I'm not lonely! Why would you ask that?

[@iainjohnston9833]

Nice! Really want one with P90s - almost certainly my next purchase. Great demo thanks

[@tite93]

Yamaha RS-320 is my first electric and it's amazing for the price! Doom machine if you set it up right, can do anything from blues to rock and metal

[@mikedamisch]

I'm somewhat of a doom player and the rss20 (new standard one) is my no1 guitar now. Just love it.

[@steveschenker1380]

Thanks! The jazz playing is I needed to hear! I'm sold on this box.

[@FunkyELF]

These things came out a while ago. I saw Andertons was using them in a recent video as well. Yamaha must be pushing these hard again.

[@congoose100]

Love my Revstar. It's my favorite guitar.

[@grayaj23]

Argh. JUST when I convinced myself to tighten up the budget, you remind me that I've always wanted one of these with the P90's and the tailpiece.

[@50gary]

At about 10:43 he goes to the neck full on and wow I hear a David Gilmourish tone for sure. I would really like to have one of these Revstar guitars.

[@gsbguitarsgsb679]

I’ve got my eye on a couple of those cause I have to have a humbucker model and a p90 model. Every demo of those just seals the deal. Not a single bad review, they all are highly spoken of and that can’t be a bad thing… lol… thanks very well done. Even if I am late to the party. lol…

[@ericjauregui3089]

That guy has an excellent right hand picking technique.

[@shalabazertheboltstruck8645]

Rocking an early 90s attraction base cheap model and that thing is still ripping. I love it to bits. Yamaha allways has a special place for me

[@IsabellaCatherine19XX]

This was a great video, Colin. Thank you.

[@chipevans1939]

You peaked my interest on the Revstar. Love my "77 SA1000

[@babalaughing]

An '83 SA800 was my main guitar for many years... sold my 335, the Yamaha sounded better. It was made with nontraditional woods-- the top was laminated Birch with a Beech core, the sustain block was alder. They really know what makes a semihollow tick. Even back then, Yami was serious about the science.

[@davidgood6744]

I wanted one of the last generation Revstars, so I jumped on the new version. I have the RSS02T just like the one in the video, and I think it’s great. It is a little heavier than I had hoped-even with the chambering.

[@mikedamisch]

It's not super light, I agree. A lot lighter than my Les Paul though.

[@jwf2125]

How much does it weigh? Does the neck dive?

[@Macho-Sasquatcho]

My Sunset Professional P90 Revstar is just absolutely PHENOMENAL. It's the most resonant guitar I've ever owned.

[@simon-gw8qh]

It is beyond me why Yamaha electrics aren't more popular and mainstream among pros like Fender or Gibson. They are excellent and gorgeous. I would actually prefer one over those brands if only for its uniqueness.

[@hellreiser6663]

That's really cool. Didn't know this. Thank's for the info

[@buzzburb1]

on the Standard its a Boost switch and in position 2 it puts a minute delay between the neck and bridge, in position 4 it puts the same delay but between the bridge and neck, this is all done via a small transformer in the circuit

[@erikolsen1333]

🎉🎉🎉🎉 just got one!!!

[@damham5689]

I have a Revstar and love it, but wish Yamaha would add to their Line 6 Variax modeling guitar line up, I'd add it to my collection for sure. In fact Id probably sell my Variax JVT 59 since I think the revstar is a much better made guitar.

[@AaronsRandomLife]

Nice way to show how if I use a ton of reverb, almost any decent guitar sounds good.

[@georgemeller4074]

The idea behind this guitar seems awesome. Then again, is anyone surprised? Yamaha, the same company that tuned the Lexus LFA's intake manifold, and built resonating chambers so that the driver / passenger could hear the engine rev at two different octaves... Yamaha has a ridiculous amount of amazing engineering credentials under their belt; I was wondering when I would see it applied to instruments. ...but this doesn't really do much aside from tell us that it's there. Give us DI's, oscilloscope data, phase-cancelling versus other instruments, etc. etc. etc. If I wanted to watch people play smooth and inoffensive good-sounds through an amp, I'd check out literally any dealer-sponsored """review""".

[@vulcandj]

I bought a standard blue with the racing stripes. The guitar chose me. It plays and sounds fantastic. It’s a style I normally wouldn’t be drawn to, but as soon as I played it there was a connection. To me, that doesn’t happen all the time with a guitar.

[@Insert_Bland_Name_Here]

This video really made me appreciate the Revstar series a lot more than I did already. I mean, it's a Yamaha, so it's obviously high quality (the Pacificas are amazing as well), but the design always put me off a little. Might just have to try a Revstar myself at some point. And I can now imagine my bank account screaming in agony as I bleed it dry for yet another guitar 🤣

[@staylofordo7111]

I don’t have anything against China or the people of China. But the quality invariably takes a serious dive, as cheaper, faster becomes the rule. I would consider the Revstar from Japan, for sure. Good video, by the way. Thanks

[@starry_lis]

Why do I get the feeling that you could fill her up with porridge and she'd still sound the same?

[@TaxEvader420]

They're nice guitars but I really don't buy that all this resonace stuff matters in any audible way. Whatever, hope my man got paid well for this

[@mikedamisch]

I agree on that. But what does work is those carbon fibre roda in the neck. Mine is insanely stable.

[@alexshevchenko7568]

In the Standard and Professional models the push-pull is not the Dry-Switch, they call it Focus Switch. It's a passive low and mid-boost.

[@jakewilson7211]

These guitars are bloody amazing and for £399 no less

[@lodrezzon]

I have the lowest cost Revstar. It can sound like my Les Paul, my Strat, and almost my 335. When I want to take only one guitar to the gig, it's always the Revstar.

[@redhorsereincarnated5040]

Meanwhile Jim Lill slaps some hardware on a two by four and it sounds great. :)

[@dylanlamarre3768]

If you have played an amazingly lively guitar that's been marred by a dead spot, you'd understand how exciting this new Yamaha research and implementation is.

[@jackrichards1863]

Cranar proves my point I believe. A fabulous player with a guitar that does exhibit his talent and artistry on the guitar ! 🎸.

[@randelcross]

HAA! Great review... I saw the early tech on these and ordered one, SIX MONTHS AGO!!! LOL. Still waiting, Looking forward to putting this through the musical paces. Cheers!

[@tomaszmazurek64]

Huh, looks like Yamaha kicked up its higher range guitar marketing effort in the last few months - first Bocchi the Rock product placement, now KZbin sponsored events. Cool video, I've been curious about the Revstars, they always looked interesting, but I was wondering if there is anything special about them besides their looks.

[@BenRad]

Beautiful guitar, but will they ever be available? I ordered mine last year in March and I'm still waiting.

[@hollandguitars7620]

Great sounding guitars and cool technology!

[@TheZenguitarguy]

Really appreciated all of the information about the science behind it but then the first time you play the guitar you bury the sound of the instrument in a deep reverb? I don’t get it it seems like there are a lot of options of how you could demonstrate the instrument by having different styles, and approaches to how the instrument could sound but it’s impossible to tell what the instrument is doing with that much reverb. Thanks for the informative video.

[@MarcusMoji]

I picked one up 6 months ago. It’s all I play now. It holds tuning so well….I’m afraid my Gibsons are second favourites currently.

[@BkBk-gy6vr]

I agree all my other guitars including my Les Paul are not being used as much.

[@SlyHikari03]

Pretty neat. And this is being built by the people who made one of my favorite pianos.

[@arronhartley2606]

I work at a music store and I am convinced that this is one of the best sounding guitars we have. the green one and purple are my favorite. I almost bought one but the blue one is just hideous to me.

[@VanjaSpirin]

I have to many guitars, but i would like to have this one. Price is right and it is some kind of improved LP.

[@SB-qi7mv]

All of that technology poured into their guitars and Yamaha's guitars still won't get much respect.

[@JohnnyArtPavlou]

That’s probably true… But this line has been a pretty big success for them. And this is the second iteration of the red star line… I think they started about three years ago and then they revamped them. Some people actually prefer the older ones.

[@SB-qi7mv]

@@JohnnyArtPavlou Don't get me wrong, I would like to see this guitar take off, but as I watched the video I started to cringe. I don't know if Yamaha sponsored this video but either way it seemed to paint them into a very niche market. You have market giants out there (strat/Tele & Les Paul) and they say in the video that it doesn't sound like either. They also brought in a jazz player for the video. Most jazz players prefer full hollow or semi-hollow (tough sell). I really hope it takes off though.

[@JohnnyArtPavlou]

@@SB-qi7mv Yes, it was super-sponsory. Apparently, there are some jazzers who like telecasters. One day we’ll know who built the pyramids and how they did it. In one way will understand everything there is to know about tone wood. I mean, you know, there’s that thing where a lot of guitars player say, about a solid body guitar… That if it sounds good unplug… And if it feels resonant, and all of that crap, then they know it’s gonna sound good plugged in. Which might be true. But you could also make the argument that if those strings are causing the body to vibrate… That some of the vibration that could go to keeping a note, sustaining longer is being lost in the body… Or dampened. And of course, sustain is its own stupid argument. It’s kind of cool to have a lot of staying yada yada yada but you can get all of the stain you want using your whammy bar or your vibrato technique or any of 1 million pedals. It’s all good… The thing that most guitars seem to want least of all is a guitar that has too many tones in it. Did rather have five guitars with one tone each, than one guitar with five tones in it.

[@40footswell]

“I’m gonna try to play with gain…” he says (and proceeds to melt my face)

[@Bob-of-Zoid]

No such thing as a passive pre-amp. It's most likely just a more advanced passive circuit and probably on a circuit board, and maybe therefor where the misunderstanding is. You cannot have amplification without adding energy, and in electrical terms that means a power source like a battery is needed.

[@stephen3164]

Didn’t realize they were chambered like that. There’s a big price difference to step up to the Pro model. I’d love to check them out in person and play the different models to see which I like the best, but don’t think any stores really carry them around here, sadly. There’s some Guitar Centers a bit further away I can drive to. I actually designed this body shape about 20 years ago on a full size sketch pad. I never did anything with it though, and eventually threw away the giant pad. Would love if someone somehow found it and my sketch became the RevStar, but more likely it’s just a coincidence - since I had started with a typical guitar shaped body but just changed the cutaways. Nothing too ground breaking. Now Yamaha’s take on it IS ground breaking - gotta get my hands on one. Thanks for explaining the routing and difference in the Pro model. I’m a 35 year experienced tone chaser, but I bet the standard model would sound just the same as the Pro in my hands. (Should have spent more of that time actually practicing instead of chasing tone. I’m sure buying another guitar will solve that… hahaha)

[@jarthur1369]

I own the revstar and one complaint and advice to yamaha.... ok so for the nut they are using some kind of white glue. when they glue the neck in, the person who does that is wiping the excess off of the neck and they are getting some into the grain of the wood right under the nut. it doesn't affect playing at all but it is there. It is on my guitar and i can see the guy on the left has the same thing.

[@hellmuth666]

Step 1 : see Jim Lill's videos ; Step 2 : understand that everything in this video is pure Yamaha marketing.

[@bernie_smith]

I have the gold P90 loaded one as demonstrated here, the RSP02T. I absolutely love it. There is such a wide variety of tones. The character of the five way PUP selector tones are very different from those, for example, in a Strat. It is an extremely comfortable guitar to play. I have played Strats predominantly in the 45 years I have been playing guitar and the contoured body on the Revstar is superb and the balance is perfect. Having stainless steel frets is another useful feature. The hard case it came with is excellent too. I have however installed locking tuners on mine. Brilliant guitar. Thanks for this excellent video.

[@gstube1]

Tone science! Love it!!!

[@tchiksguitars]

Funny enough, ever since I started building my own guitars, the Revstar is the only one I'd ever consider buying ...

[@paulwilson8712]

I've got one,build quality is superb, humbuckers sound a little weedy,should've got the p90 version,only real downside is that it weighs a ton!

[@nathaniel_pardue]

Colin. I want to see you talk about synth pedals like the Boss SY-1. I have sommany TATAs about the send/return part if the pedal, applications for metal, etc.

[@carlosgravy7966]

Mind blown!

[@-processdrone-]

argh, I love the shape. I love how clever they are. I even love the sound. Trouble is I'm a baritone player... with 6 Baritones... ("troublesome acronym aside" ) I WANT one, but I don't NEED one. Frustrating for all concerned I'm sure.

[@orryfishburne5326]

I really want a p90 Revstar. They sound great and look great too.

[@HaErBeSo]

Eye opening!

[@jonathanstrand2474]

Yeah, I had to remove the volume knob aluminum cap, right in the way, didn’t like the dry switch either, so I have a stacked vol/tone where the tone was, and a blend for the neck PU. I bought their woodworking and paint, and changed everything else, aluminum is a lousy bridge material if you ask me, the new models are all tunamatic bridge, steel. Way better, I didn’t buy one of the 2017 striped ones, $750, but all my guitars have a stud tailpiece, except trems, and they no longer sell them that way, big attraction for me!

[@musicmnw1982]

Good luck finding one for sale!

[@GrimYak]

Sorry Collin, as this is a science of sound channel we should have had a test in difference between non chambered and chambered bodies and with or without the CF divider. This felt like an advertisement TBH.

[@RobotShlomo]

I have the Element model in swift blue, and it's hands down one of the best guitars I've ever owned, Except... (and you knew there had to be an exception), I absolutely abhor the slider switch. I'm more of a Gibson guy, so I'm used to the 3 way toggle. The "dry filter" switch doesn't seem to do anything, unless my hearing is so damaged that I can't tell the difference or I'm not playing at a loud enough volume to really get the proper effect. And not for nothing, but I'm really starting to detest the color. Seriously, why does the UK/EU get red and the US doesn't? The colors across the entire Yamaha range leave something to be desired. A really nice translucent red and black, and a NATURAL finish would be outstanding for this instrument.

[@alexandrecaxito9101]

The tone is individual different, sweet

[@whssy]

I have a Yamaha SG1000 but the Revstar with P90s is on my bucket list for sure.

[@TheMightymolar]

Sure, sure, sure, but let's get back to the most important thing in that it looks cool as hell.

[@rochestermusicschool7629]

I have the green one they do. its bloody brilliant guitar!

[@rustyshackleford5104]

Excellent use of steamed hams meme.