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Yamaha FGX800C opinions
A friend of mine is learning guitar, wants to buy one. Seems like the FGX800C is a good buy for about $300. Any thoughts? What about the system 66 preamp and pickup?
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I have several Yamaha a/e guitars, three of which have the under saddle piezo pick up yamaha uses. Their six crystal piezo pickup sounds more natural to me than most other under under saddle pickups. The basic eq controls on my AC3R perform the same way they would on the FGX800c and they do a wonderful job of shaping the tone plus you get a sweepable mid on the 800, which my one Yamaha has and it even further shapes the tone. You can get all the bass you'd ever want, a nice big mid range tone, or scoop the mids. Great electronics, not as prone to feedback as many other systems.
The guitar itself has a solid top, great neck, decent tuners and the new bracing makes the thing sound amazing unplugged. I always upgrade my nut and saddle with Tusq and my bridge pins to rosewood to go with the rosewood bridge. But right out of the box the FGX800C is a terrific guitar.
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Thanks for the feedback!
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I'm also interested in this guitar. Any and all info/experience would be greatly appreciated.
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I'm a tinkerer and the nut upgrade isn't much more difficult than shaving and dropping in a new saddle. Anyway, the O.E. Yamaha strings are good when new but not so good when well played. I bought my FGX730SC and took it out of the box myself and the strings were decent, but surely a nice set of Aluminum Bronze Ernie Ball will sound better.
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