Yamaha FSC-TA RR

The Japanese brand Yamaha is one of the leading innovators in the field of musical instruments, so it is not a complete surprise that this company has come to the market with an original concept - a series of acoustic guitars TransAcoustic. These instruments offer a rich surround sound with a natural echo of large rooms, even in acoustically uninteresting environments (your home, office and generally smaller spaces) without the aid of external sound systems or pedal effects.

The FSC-TA is an electro-acoustic guitar with a more compact Concert body. The front of the guitar is made of solid spruce, while the back and sides are made of overlaid mahogany. The acoustic properties are elevated to a higher level by a new design of reduced X ribbing that maximizes the vibration of the soundboard.

A rosewood fingerboard fitted with twenty frets is glued to the nato neck, which is attached to the body at the fourteenth fret as standard. A lower cut-out of the body facilitates the fretting at the higher positions of the fingerboard. The strings are held in place over the saddle and the Urea plastic zero fret in the company's Die-Cast tuning machines and rosewood fingerboard.

An active member (Actuator) installed on the inside of the instrument's back plate reacts to the vibrations of the strings and transmits the vibrations further into the body - in this way creating authentic reverb and chorus effect sounds directly in the body of the guitar. The chorus and reverb controls are discreetly placed in the back of the instrument, and pressing the third control (TA Switch) activates the TransAcoustic mode.

The guitar also offers a standard external PA option (SYSTEM70 TransAcoustic electronics with piezo pickup), with the TA Switch acting as an output volume control. A handy slide-out battery box is located next to the output jack (battery not included).