Yamaha Electric Guitars Pacifica012 Red
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A Pacifica Designed to Focus on the Essentials
The Pacifica series has established itself as a Yamaha benchmark for its logic: comfortable ergonomics, immediate playability, and sound versatility covering the essentials of current styles. The Pacifica 012 follows this spirit with a very popular pickup configuration and reliable craftsmanship, designed to support the first years of playing without frustrating the guitarist.
For Which Guitarist and Styles?
The Yamaha Pacifica 012 is primarily aimed at beginners and intermediate players who want an electric guitar that is easy to set up and understand, while retaining enough character to explore various genres. Thanks to its three pickups and 5-position selector, it is well suited for pop, rock, blues, funk (crisp clean sounds in intermediate positions), and thicker bridge pickup tones for more energetic rhythms and leads.
The Sound
The mahogany body provides a warm foundation, with present mids and a pleasing roundness, while the maple neck contributes to attack precision and clarity. The ceramic pickups offer a strong output level and clear response, useful for maintaining bite in both clean and overdriven tones. The HSS configuration allows for thicker and more powerful sounds with the bridge humbucker, while keeping brighter and more defined tones with the single coils (neck and middle). The intentionally simple electronics (Master Volume, Master Tone, and 5-position selector) make it easy to quickly find the right sound, and the vintage tremolo adds an expressive palette for subtle or more pronounced effects.
Recommended Compatible Accessories
To complete a reliable playing setup, you can add a tuner (clip-on or pedal), a standard strap, and plectrums suited to your picking style. As replacements, a set of 0.009-0.042 gauge strings matches the original string gauge.
Technical specifications
| Electronics: microphone configuration | HHS | Bridge / tailpiece | Tremolo |
| Category | ST | Electronics | Passive |
| Left handed | No | Electroacoustic | No |
| Strings | Steel | Color | Red |
| Nbr of strings | 6 | Finishing | Glossy |
| Nbrs of frets | 22 | Hardware | Chromed |
| Scalloped | Double | ||
| Overall construction | bolt-on | Thickness (1st fret / 12th fret) | 20.9 mm / 0.82"; 22.9 mm / 0.90" |
| Body material | mahogany | Bridge | Vintage Style Tremolo |
| Body finish | glossy polyurethane | Tremolo arm | screw-in, diameter 5.2 mm / 0.20" |
| Neck material | maple | String spacing | 10.5 mm / 0.41" |
| Neck finish | satin polyurethane | Tuners | covered |
| Scale length | 25.5" / 648.0 mm | Pickguard | single-ply white |
| Fingerboard | rosewood or walnut | Neck pickup | single coil, ceramic |
| Radius | 13.78" / 350 mm | Middle pickup | single coil, ceramic |
| Frets | medium | Bridge pickup | humbucker, ceramic |
| Number of frets | 22 | Controls | Master Volume, Master Tone |
| Nut | Urea | Selector | 5-position lever switch |
| Neck width (nut / 12th fret) | 41.0 mm / 1.61"; 51.4 mm / 2.02" | ||
Questions frequently asked
Is the Yamaha Pacifica 012 suitable for beginner electric guitar players?
Thanks to its bolt-on maple neck and Master Volume and Master Tone controls, this model is designed for easy handling. The 648 mm scale length and 22 frets provide the standard layout of an ST-style electric guitar.
What sounds does the Pacifica 012's HSS configuration produce?
The configuration combines two ceramic single-coil pickups in the neck and middle positions with a ceramic humbucker at the bridge. The intermediate positions deliver clear, defined tones, while the bridge pickup offers a thicker response suitable for rhythm and lead playing.
What is the neck profile of this Yamaha guitar?
The maple neck measures 20.9 mm thick at the 1st fret and 22.9 mm at the 12th fret. Its width goes from 41 mm at the nut to 51.4 mm at the 12th fret. The fingerboard is available in rosewood or walnut, featuring a 350 mm radius.
Is the vibrato included with the Pacifica 012?
The Vintage Style Tremolo bridge comes with a 5.2 mm diameter screw-in tremolo arm.
What string gauge should be used on the Pacifica 012 Red?
A set of steel strings in 0.009-0.042 gauge matches the original string gauge. A standard strap, picks, and a clip-on or pedal tuner can complete the setup.
