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Fast Attack and Clear Response with Modern Tonal Flexibility
Yamaha Pacifica SC Standard Plus is designed for players who want a guitar that reacts immediately to picking dynamics while covering a wide tonal range. The Reflectone pickup set, developed with Rupert Neve Designs, delivers tight low frequencies, detailed mids, and a bright, articulate top end that keeps chords defined even with added gain. The bridge single coil produces crisp attack and clear separation for rhythm work, while the neck humbucker adds depth and fullness for lead playing. The Focus Switch changes the single-coil response to a thicker, more overwound-style voice, increasing midrange presence and output for driving an amplifier harder.
The alder body is shaped using Yamaha’s Acoustic Design technology, where carefully engineered routing improves resonance and vibration transfer through the neck. That construction gives the Yamaha Pacifica SC Standard Plus a lively character, with notes sustaining naturally and responding well to subtle picking changes. The satin-finished Rounded C maple neck and 12 inch maple fingerboard provide a fast, smooth playing surface, while medium jumbo stainless steel frets maintain a consistent feel and durability through extended use. Gotoh locking tuners and the compensated three-saddle brass bridge keep tuning stable while supporting strong string energy transfer.
At Riffs & Licks Music, we think Yamaha Pacifica SC Standard Plus suits players who want a responsive electric guitar that blends fast attack with flexible tonal control - the resonant alder construction and expanded switching make it easy to move between articulate cleans and heavier driven sounds.
Specifications
| Feature | Specification |
|---|---|
| Body Shape | Telecaster-Style |
| Body | Alder |
| Body Finish | Gloss Polyurethane |
| Neck | Maple |
| Neck Finish | Natural Smooth Satin / Polyurethane |
| Neck Shape | Rounded C |
| Scale Length | 25.5" (648 mm) |
| Fingerboard, Radius | Maple, 12" (304.8 mm) |
| Frets | 22, Medium Jumbo / Stainless Steel |
| Nut, Width | Graph Tech TUSQ, 42.0 mm (1.654") |
| Machine Heads | Gotoh Locking Tuners |
| Pickguard | 3-Ply Parchment |
| Pickups | Reflectone EH7n Humbucker (Neck), Reflectone HT7b Single Coil (Bridge) |
| Controls | Master Volume with high-pass circuit, Master Tone (Push-Pull Focus Switch for Single Coil), 3-Position Lever Switch |
| Bridge | Gotoh BC-TS1S (chrome) with compensated 3-brass saddle, 10.8 mm (0.425") string spacing |
| Gig Bag/Hard Case | Gig Bag Included |
(VHM1520)
| Body Shape | Stratocaster & Similar |
| Left / Right Handed | Right Handed |
| Series | Yamaha Pacifica |
| SKU | VHM1520 |
| Barcode # | 4957812710626 |
| Brand | Yamaha |
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