Lineup
APX1200II
Colors / Finishes
The pinnacle of the APX series, APX1200 features solid rosewood back and sides, Yamaha’s SRT mic-modelling pickup system and premium appointments including mahogany binding, black button tuning machines, and abalone/mother-of-pearl inlays inspired by the legendary SG3000.
- Thin Body with Cutaway For Excellent Playability
- Solid Spruce Top
- Solid Rosewood Back & Sides
- SRT Pickup/Preamp System for Natural Amplified Tone
APX1000
Colors / Finishes
With hand-selected tonewood construction, real wood inlays and the incredible SRT pickup system the 1000-series redefines performance acoustic guitars. Meet the new benchmark.
- Thin Body with Cutaway For Excellent Playability
- Solid Spruce Top
- Flamed Maple Back & Sides
- SRT Pickup/Preamp System for Natural Amplified Tone
APX700II
Colors / Finishes
The 700 series feature Yamaha’s unique ART pickup system. Designed to capture the guitar’s full body resonance, ART’s ability to faithfully recreate natural tone and body dynamics means that the every nuance of your playing is faithfully reproduced.
- Thin Body with Cutaway For Excellent Playability
- Solid Spruce Top
- ART Pickup for Natural Dynamic Response
APX700II-12
Colors / Finishes
APX700’s ART pickup system perfectly matches the wider range of a 12-string for a natural, open sound. APX’s stage-focused design means that the 12-string model is every bit as comfortable and playable as the 6-string versions.
- 12 Strings
- Thin Body with Cutaway For Excellent Playability
- Solid Spruce Top
- ART Pickup for Natural Dynamic Response
APX700IIL
Colors / Finishes
The 700 series feature Yamaha’s unique ART pickup system. Designed to capture the guitar’s full body resonance, ART’s ability to faithfully recreate natural tone and body dynamics means that the every nuance of your playing is faithfully reproduced.
- Left Handed
- Thin Body with Cutaway For Excellent Playability
- Solid Spruce Top
- ART Pickup for Natural Dynamic Response
APX600FM
Colors / Finishes
One of the world's best-selling acoustic-electric guitars–the APX600 series–introduces an upgraded version with a flame maple top. APX's thin-line body combines incredible comfort, easy top-fret access and natural acoustic tone–giving APX600FM excellent playability that is perfectly suited for on-stage performers.
- Two Colors: Flamed Maple Amber and Tobacco Brown Sunburst
- Flamed maple top wood and nato back and side produces a full and natural acoustic tone
- Thin Body with Cutaway For Excellent Playability
- 25" scale length and narrower string spacing for enhanced comfort
- New bracing pattern for increased bass response
- Abalone soundhole rosette
- Stage-focused pickup system for shaping your sound in the mix
APX600
Colors / Finishes
The archetypal APX, the 600 series combines the outstanding comfort and perfect on-stage tone.
- Thin Body with Cutaway For Excellent Playability
- 634mm Scale Length for Enhanced Comfort
- Narrower String Spacing Makes Stretching for Chords Easier
- New Bracing Pattern For More Powerful Bass Response
- Stage-focused Pickup Sound to Cut Through a Mix
- Inlaid Soundhole Rosette
APX600M
Colors / Finishes
APX Series acoustic-electric guitars are among the world’s best-selling instruments of their type. With its comfortable thinline body, easily accessible upper frets, superb playability, and natural acoustic tone, the APX600M guitar is perfectly suited for live performance.
- Comfortable thin body with cutaway
- Exceptional playability and easy access to upper frets
- 25" scale length with narrow string spacing for enhanced comfort
- Special bracing pattern provides deep-yet-balanced low end
- Stage-focused pickup system lets you shape your sound for live mixes
- Choice of Natural Satin and Smoky Black in matte finishes
Take the stage by storm
As an electric guitarist in the 1980s, if you wanted to play acoustic on stage there were few options for you that really worked. In 1987, Yamaha made the first acoustic guitar that could be taken from a guitar rack, plugged in and played at volume, problem free; no more howling feedback, misplaced mics or the dreaded extended sound check….
The APX series didn’t just focus on sound - every element was tweaked to be an easy switch for an electric player on-stage, from the stylish finishes to the cutaway body and the slim, electric-guitar style neck.
In any electro-acoustic, the combination of the guitar’s acoustic sound and its pickup is the heart of the sound. The latest APX600 features SRT Piezo Pickup – the same pickup as featured in the highly acclaimed A Series range and boasting incredible dynamic range, natural tone and the feedback rejection and mix-friendly sound that guitarists need and want. Yamaha’s legendary active preamp is still a big feature of APX, and being built by Yamaha’s audio-visual division, the sound quality is everything you’d expect from the world’s number one.
Styles have changed a little since 1987, but the essence of APX is the same as ever. Today’s APX guitars boast a more natural look, 5mm deeper body for better bass response and greater volume and, under the hood, a new non-scalloped bracing pattern for a responsive, dynamic tone.
Features
Body depth and Bracing pattern
The APX’s thin-line body offers incredible comfort, top-fret access, and a sound perfect for on-stage use. Specially designed non-scalloped X-type bracing maximizes body resonance for full, natural tone.
APX Soundhole : Oval
The instantly recognizable APX soundhole thickens lower-mid response and gives a more strident, open low end.
Electric system : SRT system for APX1200II and APX1000
Using advanced Digital Signal Processing and real-world insight into audio technology and recording techniques, Yamaha have developed SRT – a pickup and preamp system capable of delivering an amazingly natural, studio-quality acoustic guitar tone.
Sounds that were, until now, only attainable by professional recording engineers using expensive vintage microphones in world-class acoustic spaces are now easily recreated by any player, on stage or in the studio.
SRT creates a faithful reproduction of the elements outside of an acoustic guitar that make up a great guitar sound – the subtle ambience of the real space between instrument and microphone, the characteristic EQ voicing of a great sounding vintage mic, the different resonances captured when you move a mic around a guitar.
And because SRT uses your guitar's natural tone as a basis for this process, the result is phenomenally realistic and full of the acoustic character of your guitar.
Electric system : ART system for APX700II
ART pickup is designed with a multilayer structure consisting of six layers of different materials.
Because the pickups are fitted directly beneath the top board and capture sound from both the guitar’s top and the air inside the body, the natural resonance of the guitar is faithfully reproduced.
Electric system : Piezo pickup system for APX600
This pickup uses individual elements for each string to give an ultra-clear, ultra-wide bandwidth signal with far better dynamic response and tonal accuracy than a regular, piezo pickup.
Gallery
* Specifications are subject to change without notice. The colors and finishes shown may vary from those on the actual products.
