News| 01/22 | Yamaha Guitars Celebrates 40 Years Of Music For 40 years, Yamaha Guitars has been a driving force in the music industry by pioneering manufacturing techniques and innovating revolutionary designs. Through innovations such as the APX acoustic/electrics, Drop 6 semi-baritone scale, the Silent Guitar, and RGXA2's A.I.R. technology, Yamaha Guitars has been able to sustain 40 years of continuously growing success. From Woodstock to Live 8, Yamaha Guitars have been there to help define generation after generation of music. “Yamaha Guitars have paralleled music trends since 1966,” says Tom Sumner, vice president and general manager, Yamaha Pro Audio & Combo Division. “Innovations that we created have helped shape the guitar industry as we kn | | 10/05 | Yamaha SV200 Silent Viola Strings Instruments Yamaha has introduced a family of new and re-designed silent instruments that offer the flexibility of silent play to string and brass musicians. With the addition of the Silent Viola, it is now possible to have a string quartet composed entirely of silent string instruments. Yamaha SV200 Now, with the inclusion of the viola, the series, which features violin, cello, bass and brass instruments, enables musicians and composers to practice and perform in complete privacy at any hour, using headphones, without compromising their desire for traditional feeling, performance, and sound. The instruments are perfect for every type of artist in any location where silence is necessary—musicians in apa | | 03/07 | Yamaha BBT500H Digital Bass Amp Head built into BBT500-115 Speaker Cabinet The BBT500H is the world’s first all- digital bass amp head, delivering 500 Watts of power (with two cabinets), and offering a total of 11 vintage and modern amp sounds ranging from a fat tube rig to a 1960’s fuzz. It can be used with electric, upright or Yamaha “Silent” bass products, and has built-in dynamics and amazing tone shaping capability that are a testament to Yamaha’s history of DSP technology. Onboard processing includes a 5-band variable tone control, single-band, fully parametric EQ, compressor and programmable effects blend. Other features include an effects loop, MIDI in/out and five user memory locations. Connections include 1/4” line and balanced XLR outputs, two 1/4” speak | | 02/05 | Yamaha BBT500-110 first all Digital Bass Amp Loud and lightweight design with killer, versatile bass tone. That’s what the new Yamaha BBT500-110 (10” speaker and compression driver) and BBT500-115 (15” speaker and compression driver) bass combos deliver. Both models incorporate the groundbreaking digital amplification and preamp technology from the new Yamaha BBT500H digital bass amplifier—with a speaker—in a single cabinet.The BBT500H is the world’s first all- digital bass amp head, delivering 500 Watts of power (with two cabinets), and offering a total of 11 vintage and modern amp sounds ranging from a fat tube rig to a 1960’s fuzz. It can be used with electric, upright or Yamaha “Silent” bass products, and has built-in dynamics and | | 02/01 | Practice in silence? Introducing the SLG100N Silent Guitar |
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