Yamaha AC3R A/E guitar
Yamaha AC3R All-Solid Spruce/Rosewood Concert Acoustic/Electric - Vintage Natural
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Condition: Used, pro set up, new phosphor bronze 11-52 strings
The AC3R ARE concert cutaway guitar features all-solid rosewood back and sides and a Sitka spruce top with original Yamaha A.R.E. wood-torrefaction technology. Natural, dynamic, plugged-in tone from the SRT pickup system perfectly suit your performance on stage.
- Concert Body Cutaway
- Solid Sitka Spruce Top with A.R.E.
- Solid Rosewood Back and Sides
- Scalloped Bracing for Louder, Richer Acoustic Sound
- Natural, Dynamic, Plugged-in Sound
- High-Comfort Neck Profile
- Simple and Distinctive Looks
The all-solid Sitka/rosewood AC3R might be called a concert, implying a smallish body, but the rims are actually a few mm deeper than the corresponding dreadnought's, and allied with a near 15-inch lower-bout span, the soundbox is quite capacious.
Trim-wise, you get a mahogany and rosewood-inlaid soundhole rosette and an ebony bridge and fingerboard, the latter being bound with rosewood. The back also carries a wood (mahogany?) center strip. The neck configuration, finish and string spacing are dead ringers for the dreadnought's.
There's plenty happening on the System 63 SRT preamp. Apart from three-band EQ and the pickup/image blend control, there's a selector for the three mic images (Neumann U67 and KM56, and Royer R-122) with a choice of 'focus/wide' (far or close mic'ing) for each; a five-band AFR anti-feedback filter that can be triggered progressively and which proves mightily effective; and a resonance rotary - dedicated to the image signal - which in practice subtly adds lower-end warmth and body.
The tuner usefully mutes the system and can also be recalibrated between 438Hz and 445Hz for accompanying instruments that are slightly off concert pitch. Handy.