Yamaha AC1R Vintage Natural Acoustic guitar

Yamaha AC1R acoustic natural guitar features hand-selected premium solid Sitka spruce tops and rosewood back and sides. Its original concert-size body style perfectly complements the elegant look of the A-Series, while the System 66 preamp and SRT pickup ensure reliable plugged-in performance. This guitar comes with a concert body cutaway, a solid Sitka spruce top, rosewood back and sides, and a cut-through pickup sound. It also features a high comfort neck profile, simple yet distinctive looks, and is fitted with Elixir strings.Designed to be the ideal performance acoustic guitar, the Yamaha A-Series is crafted from the ground up to be perfectly suited for life on the road. It delivers a natural, dynamic plugged-in tone and stage-ready simplicity, thanks to the new SRT2 pickup system. The guitar offers played-in comfort right out of the box, featuring hand-rolled fingerboard edges on a straight taper neck. Its custom-designed scalloped bracing pattern provides a powerful and expressive acoustic tone. With Yamaha's legendary road-ready construction, the A-Series ensures durability and readiness for performances, night after night, making it the perfect guitar to elevate your playing.

SRT2 is a new pickup system developed independently by Yamaha, and optimized for stage performance. From a piezo sound that cut through when in a mix to a warm, pure acoustic sound that is like recorded by using the vintage microphone in the recording studio, SRT2 allows you to reproduce a sound that you can really use on stage. With SRT2 you can mix these two sounds to attain the exact balance you want to achieve a distinctive tone

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.

A new sound has been developed for the A series that is louder and stronger in the low-mid ranges, thanks to cutting-edge acoustic analysis technology developed by the Yamaha R&D Division. Their analysis led to the development of the new scalloped bracing for the top board and shorter bracing than normal for the back board.

Made in Japan, the A5 is the flagship model in Yamaha's renowned A series acoustic guitars. Featuring high-quality binding on both the head and body, all A5 instruments come equipped with Gotoh's renowned open gear tuners, delivering the accuracy and reliability that professionals demand. From cut-through piezo sound to warm, pure acoustic sound, which is like recorded with vintage microphones in the professional studio, SRT2 allows you to reproduce a sound that you can really use on stage

Extensive research with players, luthiers and guitar techs has given A series the feel and playability that today's acoustic-electric players want, whether switching from electric to acoustic on-stage, recording a session with intricate open tunings, or practicing at home. These superb guitars feature a straighter neck taper for easier high-fret playing, and hand-rolled fingerboard edges to achieve a played-in feel.