A3M ARE Acoustic Electric Guitar Vintage Natural

If you're looking for an acoustic-electric guitar with a powerful, warm and well-balanced sound, the Yamaha A3M ARE Acoustic-Electric Guitar is an excellent choice. The A3M ARE features a Traditional Western cutaway body made from solid mahogany and a solid Sitka spruce top featuring updated A-Series scalloped bracing and Yamaha's original A.R.E. wood-torrefaction treatment. The larger body makes the A3M ARE ideal for powerful strummers who crave volume, projection, and warm tone. It sports an ergonomic High Comfort mahogany neck, an ebony fingerboard with comfortably hand-rolled edges, an ebony bridge, and die-cast chrome tuners. The A3M comes equipped with onboard SRT2 System electronics featuring a piezo SRT pickup, EQ controls, and Blend control/Mic Type switch for incredible plugged-in sound and performance. Includes hard bag.<br><br><span style="font-weight:bold;">The Yamaha A-Series: The Next Level</span><br>Designed to be the ideal performance acoustic guitar, the Yamaha A-Series is crafted from the ground up to be perfectly suited to life on the road. With natural, dynamic plugged-in tone and stage-ready simplicity from the SRT2 pickup system; played-in comfort out of the box thanks to hand-rolled fingerboard edges on a straight taper neck; a custom designed scalloped bracing pattern for a powerful, expressive acoustic tone and Yamaha's legendary road-ready construction to make sure it's ready when you are, night after night, the A-Series is the perfect guitar to take your playing to the next level.<br><br><span style="font-weight:bold;">SRT2 Electronics</span><br>SRT2 is a pickup system developed independently by Yamaha, and optimized for stage performance. From a piezo sound that cuts 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. What's more, the ability to select from two different mic types lets you choose the optimal sound for your playing style and for the song you are performing.<br><br><ul><li><span style="font-weight:bold;">SRT Pickup:</span> 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.</li><li><span style="font-weight:bold;">Controls:</span> Volume, Treble, Bass/AFR (Auto Feedback Reduction) [PUSH], Blend/Mic Type Switch [PUSH]</li><li><span style="font-weight:bold;">[A5R/AC5R/A3R/AC3R]:</span></li><li style="text-indent:10px;">Mic Type 1: Neumann U67 Large Diaphragm Condenser Microphone</li><li style="text-indent:10px;">Mic Type 2: Royer R122 Active Ribbon Microphone</li><li><span style="font-weight:bold;">[A5M/AC5M/A3M/AC3M]:</span></li><li style="text-indent:10px;">Mic Type 1: Neumann KM56 Small Diaphragm Condenser Microphone</li><li style="text-indent:10px;">Mic Type 2: Royer R122 Active Ribbon Microphone</li><br><br></ul><span style="font-weight:bold;">Powerful Acoustic Sound</span><br>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&amp;D Division. Their analysis led to the development of the updated scalloped braci

• Body
  Body type: Dreadnought
  Cutaway: Single
  Top wood: Solid Sitka spruce
  Back & sides: Mahogany
  Bracing pattern: Info not available
  Body finish: Gloss
  Orientation: Right handed
  Neck
  Neck shape: Info not available
  Nut width: 1.69" (43 mm)
  Fingerboard: Ebony
  Neck wood: Mahogany
  Scale length: info not available 23.65"
  Number of frets: 19
  Neck finish: Matte
  Electronics
  Pickup/preamp: Yes
  Brand: Yamaha
  Configuration: Piezo and mic
  Preamp EQ: 3-band
  Feedback filter: No
  Tuner: No
  Other
  Headstock overlay: Ebony
  Tuning machines: Die-cast chrome
  Bridge: Ebony
  Saddle & nut: Urea
  Number of strings: 6-string
  Special features: None
  Case: Hard Bag
  Accessories: Soundhole cover, hex wrench
  Country of origin: China
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