This Guitar Has No Body...and it Sounds GREAT! 

I spotted one on your wall just over a year ago (during your 700K give-away) and was hoping you'd do review but couldn't wait ... bought my crimson beauty during Black Friday sales 2021🤘

There is no microphone.

@@I.M.Guitar-Nerd You are correct. It is a model based off of a microphoned acoustic guitar - simulated but very good.

Sounds BEAUTIFUL!!!

@@sleemajd It is an amzing sounding simulation, they used a high-end Yamaha acoustic for the modeling but the exact model escapes atm. I'll keep mine forever. From Yamaha: SRT Powered is a new system designed to recreate the body resonance of an acoustic guitar in a bodiless guitar. Yamaha developed SRT Powered, collaborating with recording artists to create a system tailored to the unique properties of the new SLG body and modelled after the tones of a high-end Yamaha acoustic guitar captured using a carefully selected microphone in a professional recording studio environment. By actually reproducing the sound of an acoustic guitar-right down to its natural sustain and decay-Yamaha lets guitarists experience the genuine body resonance, body tone and ambience of an acoustic guitar. SRT Powered sound can even be mixed with the sound from the instrument's piezo pickups, allowing guitarists to be even more flexible in their creative endeavors. Because the SLG can virtually reproduce the sound of a guitar recorded with a microphone, players are free from complicated procedures involved in mic-ing up a guitar when recording at home or in other settings.

and not only. yamaha makes pianos, violins, flutes, drums, mixing boards, motorbikes, speed boats, synths, you name it. and they're top notch and among the leading names in every single department. that's something.

@@Tryggvasson Exceptional company. Other companies worldwide could learn a lot about serving their customers and running a highly successful business by studying Yamaha.

@@Tryggvasson Indeed, Yamaha makes all kinds of great stuff, but this is a guitar video on a guitar channel, which is why I addressed the quality of Yamaha guitars in my comment.😉

Yamaha also make great brass - trumpets tubas etc. I have a Y tuba and piano and used to have a great Y bass guitar.

Can the action be adjusted to have the string height really low like those on Spanish nylon string flamenco guitars?

Yes, I had mine adjusted and it plays perfectly. Love my Yamaha nylon guitar.

@@paulysguitarjournal thanks. Was it a simple truss rod adjustment or did the bridge and nut need adjusting as well?

I tried the nylon version in a shop and wasn't super impressed by it unfortunately... the neck felt cluncky and the sound wasn't exceptional. Construction was passable - I can see the sprues and support structure on the injection molded pickguard and the side rings made of wood didn't feel that solid.

@@allboutthemojo I had the bridge adjusted as well. I’m assuming he adjusted the nut.

I recently bought one, and it is indeed an excellent piece of kit (like everything Yamaha), BUT I find the string tension quite high. What string guage are you running?

@@feddomeijerwiersma6955 I use Elixir Nanoweb Light 80/20 Bronze Acoustic Guitar (11052) Gauges: .012, .016, .024, .032, .042, .053

@@feddomeijerwiersma6955 I have mine setup with electric strings for less tension and it still sounds awesome and bends for blues playing. I pipe backing tracks into it from my ipad and listen through over the ear headphones and it’s a bit addicting.

@@shaneroberts9466 I'm glad to hear it can handle 12's. I see it comes with 11's. That's like hairs to me lol. Still like it?

@@robland4812 What gauge nickel strings are you using? I use 12's on my Hollowbody.

I've had the same model as in this video for just over a year and the body is quite resonant and you can feel the vibration travel through the frame. It is slightly louder than a solid body electric unplugged, but quieter than a thin semi-hollow body electric. Silent no, relatively quiet yes.

Did you watch it through?. He did play it without the amp towards the end.

Mine literally sounds just like an unplugged electric. Also unfortunately for me (and no disrespect to the other commenter) I just don't really feel any vibration or resonance through the body at all which is my only drawback to this amazing and totally fun to play guitar. That was the one thing that I immediately noticed when I got mine, sounds like an acoustic but feels like I'm playing an electric as far as the feel with lack of vibration. It took me a bit to get used to lol.

just about the same as an unplugged electric 🤘🏻🤘🏻

It's a clown guitar. 🤡

Me too.

but did not make Formula 1 race car?

When Darrell shows the close up shot of the controls, the blend pot is marked with "Mic". Does the SRT system not have an actual microphone inside the body to get the mic tones? Do you know how it works if there is no microphone inside? Does it use a transducer in place of a microphone? Mine sounds very much like a mic'd acoustic when it is dialed to full "Mic".

it makes sense, since there's no cavity to place the microphone in, and it sounds a little overcompressed and slightly artificial in the microphone setting. it's probably an emulation. but very useable.

@@k9er233 It's a simulation. Yamaha used one of their high-end acoustics and some mystery microphone to create a model of that guitar, that modelled guitar is what you can blend into the sound of the peizo pickup in the SLG200.

@@I.M.Guitar-Nerd Thanks for the information. Even without an actual mic, the tone is very pleasing to my old ears.

@@k9er233 The are fantastic guitars, play one if you can.

It's a clown guitar. 🤡

@The_Darrell_Braun_Guitar did I really win a gift or is this a scam buddy?

@@welder062 these are always a scam. Anyway the only Amazon warehouse inventory looks to be cosmetically damaged from the description. I want to try one but they are a bit pricey for me.