YAMAHA APX600FM (FLAMED MAPLE TOP) ACOUSTIC-ELECTRIC GUITAR

One of the world's best-selling acoustic-electric guitars–the APX600 series–introduces an upgraded version with a flame maple top. APX's thin-line body combines incredible comfort, easy top-fret access and natural acoustic tone–giving APX600FM excellent playability that is perfectly suited for on-stage performers.

• Two Colors: Flamed Maple Amber and Tobacco Brown Sunburst

• Flamed maple top wood and nato back and side produces a full and natural acoustic tone

• Thin Body with Cutaway For Excellent Playability

• 25" scale length and narrower string spacing for enhanced comfort

• New bracing pattern for increased bass response

• Abalone soundhole rosette

• Stage-focused pickup system for shaping your sound in the mix

Take the stage by storm

As an electric guitarist in the 1980s, if you wanted to play acoustic on stage there were few options for you that really worked. In 1987, Yamaha made the first acoustic guitar that could be taken from a guitar rack, plugged in and played at volume, problem free; no more howling feedback, misplaced mics or the dreaded extended sound check….

The APX series didn’t just focus on sound - every element was tweaked to be an easy switch for an electric player on-stage, from the stylish finishes to the cutaway body and the slim, electric-guitar style neck.

In any electro-acoustic, the combination of the guitar’s acoustic sound and its pickup is the heart of the sound. The latest APX600 features SRT Piezo Pickup – the same pickup as featured in the highly acclaimed A Series range and boasting incredible dynamic range, natural tone and the feedback rejection and mix-friendly sound that guitarists need and want. Yamaha’s legendary active preamp is still a big feature of APX, and being built by Yamaha’s audio-visual division, the sound quality is everything you’d expect from the world’s number one.

Styles have changed a little since 1987, but the essence of APX is the same as ever. Today’s APX guitars boast a more natural look, 5mm deeper body for better bass response and greater volume and, under the hood, a new non-scalloped bracing pattern for a responsive, dynamic tone.

Body depth and Bracing pattern

The APX’s thin-line body offers incredible comfort, top-fret access, and a sound perfect for on-stage use. Specially designed non-scalloped X-type bracing maximizes body resonance for full, natural tone.

APX Soundhole : Oval

The instantly recognizable APX soundhole thickens lower-mid response and gives a more strident, open low end.

Electric system : Piezo pickup system for APX600

This pickup 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, piezo pickup.

Specs:

​Body Shape: APX

​Scale Length: 634mm (25”)

Body Length: 490mm (19 5/16")

​Total Length: 1022mm (40 1/4")

​Body Width: 384mm (15 1/8")

​Body Depth: 80-90mm (3 1/8" - 3 9/16")

​Nut Width: 43mm (1 11/16”)

​String Spacing: 10.0mm

​Top Material: Flamed Maple

​Back Material: Locally Sourced Tonewood **

​​Side Material: Locally Sourced Tonewood **

​​Neck Material: Locally Sourced Tonewood **

​Fingerboard Material: Rosewood

​Fingerboard Radius: R400mm (15 3/4")

​Bridge Material: Rosewood

​Nut Material: Urea

​Saddle Material: Urea

​Bridge Pins: Black ABS with White Dot

​Tuners: Die-cast Chrome(TM29T)

​Body Binding: None

​Soundhole Inlay: ABS + Abalone

​Pickguard: None

​Body Finish: Gloss

​Neck Finish: Matt

​Electronics: SYSTEM65

​Controls: Vol/3-band EQ/Tuner/Mid FQ

​Connections: LINE OUT

​Strings: .012/.016/.024/.032/.042/.053

​Accessories: Hex Wrench

Case: None

Product comes packaged with

• Hex Wrench