Holy crap I didn't know it had so many different kinds of sounds to it! Most of the videos I found only showcased the more classical side of it. This video really helped me to see this guitar for it's full capabilities. Thank you for making this!
The guitar itself only has plate reverb, room reverb and a chorus for built in effects, but you can plug it into any effect unit to get just about any sound you want. Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching, Josh
Dang! This review has me sold on that thing, sure beats lugging my solid body Charvel & case over my 66 yr old shoulders 5 nights a week. Great review!
I have a 1st gen steel string strung with electric strings - sounds fantastic plugged into my Fender, Marshall, or Roland - makes no diff if I use lots of gain or overdrive. So much fun, and so versatile.
Cool! I don't use steel string acoustics so it is nice to have your comment here for others who might be wondering! thanks for watching and commenting. Best, Josh
You are very welcome! It is noisy at high gains as you can hear but like I said, if you stick a noise gate in front of it - it should be silent until you play. Good luck.
This is actually pretty neat. I have a classical guitar that I use for playing metal and stoner rock in low tunings. I like the dynamics from a classical guitar for those hard styles of music- provides a nice "bloom" effect for example for doom riffs. But its hard to bring out those dynamics with amplification and pedals. There aren't many examples out there of players using classical guitars with effects/distortion. There are more for steel string (ex Billy Strings). I've been wondering what pickup or combination of pickups to use for my classical. Usually when you play acoustic guitar through amps/effects you lose certain frequencies and get too much of others- it doesn't respond like an electric guitar. But this sounds pretty good. I will use this to inform my sound!
I see a new steel string silent guitar in my future. Right now I’m using my thumb to strum a 3/4 parlor guitar to avoid upsetting my condo board, but that doesn’t teach me how to use a pick which would get me evicted. Plus my thumb is bleeding. Now I just need to find one. Thanks for the great video. 🩸 🎸 🩹
Glad this video might have helped in that decision! I believe the original concept behind the Silent Guitars was for folks who live in situations where sound related to practicing/playing would be disturbing - apartments/condos/dorms.......I hope it works out for you. Thanks for watching and commenting! Best, Josh
Thanks for the Video! Im 65 and decided to learn guitar... I was going straight for aa Les Paul Studio not a traditional choice I know. Then I cam across this Yamaha. i like it. To learn and to grow for my personal enjoyment. What do you think.?
Thanks for watching and Commenting! I have never been a fan of heavy (weight) guitars! The Les Paul is heavy - 8-10 pounds or so - about the same as my Schecter ( 8ish pounds) which I bought while my Parker (4 pounds) was getting frankensteined! The Yamaha Silent Guitar is around 4 pounds as well. Very light, easy on the shoulder. But you should get a guitar that is going to give you the most music options - if you like playing rock and blues styles - get the Les Paul, but if you want to play classical finger style music - then the Yamaha is the way to go. Hope this helps.
Dude, thanks for the video! My steel string version will be here any day and I was curious how it would sound with distortion, and how it would sound amped with an electric amp. Very cool 😎
You may have just sold me on the steel string version. I couldn’t find any info online about pedals. I’ve had a spinal fusion and I need a light guitar. I’ve read this one weighs 4.6 pounds. What’s it feel like to use for long practice sessions? I’m looking for one I barely know is there. :) Thanks in advance.
Doesn't have to be the Yamaha Silent Guitar, I have never played the Donner so I can not speak to how it will work with pedals, ect... Thanks for watching!
you forgot to test Chorus effect....anyway... due to the number of pedals you tried and the box. I imagine that a chorus must be heard great. Thanks, this is very useful
Yeah - I guess I did! The guitar has Chorus built in as choice along with 2 reverbs (plate and room). The chorus is nice and it sounds great with chorus pedals as well. Thanks for watching! Josh
@@ShavasanaKitty Surely. From the amount of effects you tried on the guitar, it was assumed that a chorus was going to sound very good. Thanks for your video. It is very simple and well explained.
Interesting! I have a serious nickel allergy and this might be the only way I can play electric guitar. All the strings I've tried contain nickel including stainless steel. The only issue I see with this guitar would be the frets which are likely nickel.
It is possible they are nickel, I actually can't tell you, but my other guitar's frets are stainless steel, so maybe they are too - I can't tell from the specs. I suppose if you really wanted to, you could get it refretted with stainless steel frets and maybe that would help. Best of luck! Thanks for watching!
Very nice and informative video man! Thanks a lot! One question: with distortions, have you used with SRT turned on? What amount of blend do you set it? I really appreciate your response!
The SRT is when the headphones are plugged in or line out- so I think it is always on. I didn’t use any onboard reverb and I blended the piezo and mic setting to about 2 o’clock. The headphone jack to a stereo plug is something I haven’t tried - just seems impractical for what I use the guitar for. Maybe I’ll do a follow up video. Thanks.
Hi, im extremely new to everything so sorry if its a complete noob question. So i have the yamaha silent guitar and i would absolutely love if i can make it also sound somewhat like an electric guitar. I realize i need an amp for that but i dont know anything about them lol. Do i need a specific type of amp for this to work? Or will anything do? Do you have any recommendations that are more budget? Any help is really appreciated❤️👨🦯
What type of Amp you use will Depend on what kind of sound you want to achieve. Because I want as clean a sound as possible, I use the Bose S1 with the guitar going straight into it. But for the video I wanted to show how it behaves when it is run through distortion pedals...ect. so I plugged the guitar into the Boss GT-1 and that into the Bose. But you can plug it into ANY AMP - a Crate or Fender Practice Amp will work in getting an "electric" guitar sound but it will still sound like Nylon Strings going into that kind of Amp. I hope this helps.
CS - I did not change the action on my Silent Guitar at all. It was very similar to my classical, I so I had not reason to. If I wanted to though, I would take it to a luthier and have them do it. I have lowered the action on previous classical guitars in my life and it can fiddly work. Hope this helps, Josh
I didn't touch it. I bought mine through Sweetwater, so it arrived set up well. It plays very similarly to my handmade classical (Alan Harold Chapman). I did change the strings so they were the tension I am use too but other than that, I left it alone. Good luck!
Hi, I have one too. I lowered the action quite a bit. I simply removed the saddle and sanded it, put it back, done. Works perfectly. I changed the strings with the Thomastik KR 116. They are steel strings with very low tension (same as nylon ones)
@@42obv Interesting about the strings. I will look into them. I found I had nearly 1mm at the first so I had to reduce the nut as well as the bridge. I’m fair happy with it now. Thanks all.
That is a blues/rock style accompaniment a la Johnny B. Goode - basically I am playing a power chord on A (5th fret low E string) and hammering on E to F# on the A string. Then I move the chord to a D power chord (5th fret on the A string) and hammer on A to B on the D string. These chords represent the I and the IV chords of a blues progression - if you slide the D power chord up 2 frets to E and do the same hammer on move, then you also get the V chord. Thanks for Watching and Commenting.
Tio - I am running it through a Boss GT-1 and a Bose S1 Pro speaker at the beginning of the video. Later I switch to the Marshall JVM 410H through seismic cabinet. Basically, you can run it through anything.
@@Therapyxx The RME Babyface is an audio interface, so you would need a distortion pedal of some sort, any would work, I am using a Boss GT-1 for this video. Hope this helps, thanks for watching and commenting!
It's exactly the video I was looking for. Thank you for making it. ❤
Awesome - glad you found it!! Josh
Holy crap I didn't know it had so many different kinds of sounds to it! Most of the videos I found only showcased the more classical side of it. This video really helped me to see this guitar for it's full capabilities. Thank you for making this!
The guitar itself only has plate reverb, room reverb and a chorus for built in effects, but you can plug it into any effect unit to get just about any sound you want. Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching, Josh
Dang! This review has me sold on that thing, sure beats lugging my solid body Charvel & case over my 66 yr old shoulders 5 nights a week. Great review!
Thanks for watching and commenting! I am glad it helps! Good luck!
I have a 1st gen steel string strung with electric strings - sounds fantastic plugged into my Fender, Marshall, or Roland - makes no diff if I use lots of gain or overdrive. So much fun, and so versatile.
Cool! I don't use steel string acoustics so it is nice to have your comment here for others who might be wondering! thanks for watching and commenting. Best, Josh
After many, MANY videos, this is exactly what i was curious of. Thank you sir!
You are very welcome! Glad it was helpful and that you found it. Josh
Thank you 🎸❤
I'm looking for video like this
You are very welcome! Thank YOU for watching and commenting!
Was just thinking about buying one of these for metal, thanks so much for the pedal demo.
You are very welcome! It is noisy at high gains as you can hear but like I said, if you stick a noise gate in front of it - it should be silent until you play. Good luck.
Bloody great vid. Im just about ready to switch from left to right hand, just to purchase this unit. Thanks for the demo Bro, love your work.
Thank You! Glad it helps! Good Luck!
i always curious about this, and now i have the answer. finally i can sleep
Glad you can get some rest!
@@ShavasanaKittyyeah, thanks mate
This is actually pretty neat. I have a classical guitar that I use for playing metal and stoner rock in low tunings. I like the dynamics from a classical guitar for those hard styles of music- provides a nice "bloom" effect for example for doom riffs. But its hard to bring out those dynamics with amplification and pedals. There aren't many examples out there of players using classical guitars with effects/distortion. There are more for steel string (ex Billy Strings). I've been wondering what pickup or combination of pickups to use for my classical. Usually when you play acoustic guitar through amps/effects you lose certain frequencies and get too much of others- it doesn't respond like an electric guitar. But this sounds pretty good. I will use this to inform my sound!
Thanks for watching and commenting! I hope you are able to get some good sounds out of your rig - nylon string guitars are truly amazing sounding.
I see a new steel string silent guitar in my future. Right now I’m using my thumb to strum a 3/4 parlor guitar to avoid upsetting my condo board, but that doesn’t teach me how to use a pick which would get me evicted. Plus my thumb is bleeding. Now I just need to find one. Thanks for the great video. 🩸 🎸 🩹
Glad this video might have helped in that decision! I believe the original concept behind the Silent Guitars was for folks who live in situations where sound related to practicing/playing would be disturbing - apartments/condos/dorms.......I hope it works out for you. Thanks for watching and commenting! Best, Josh
Amazing man. Thanx for posting this!
You are very welcome! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the Video! Im 65 and decided to learn guitar... I was going straight for aa Les Paul Studio not a traditional choice I know. Then I cam across this Yamaha. i like it. To learn and to grow for my personal enjoyment. What do you think.?
Thanks for watching and Commenting! I have never been a fan of heavy (weight) guitars! The Les Paul is heavy - 8-10 pounds or so - about the same as my Schecter ( 8ish pounds) which I bought while my Parker (4 pounds) was getting frankensteined! The Yamaha Silent Guitar is around 4 pounds as well. Very light, easy on the shoulder. But you should get a guitar that is going to give you the most music options - if you like playing rock and blues styles - get the Les Paul, but if you want to play classical finger style music - then the Yamaha is the way to go. Hope this helps.
Thank you! I have an slg200s and have a new amp on the way. Was searchin to see if anyone gets it chugging without it blowing up lol.
So glad it helped! Happy playing!!
Dude, thanks for the video! My steel string version will be here any day and I was curious how it would sound with distortion, and how it would sound amped with an electric amp. Very cool 😎
Awesome! Hope you like your steel string silent guitar as much as I like my nylon silent guitar! They are treasures. Josh
You may have just sold me on the steel string version. I couldn’t find any info online about pedals.
I’ve had a spinal fusion and I need a light guitar. I’ve read this one weighs 4.6 pounds. What’s it feel like to use for long practice sessions? I’m looking for one I barely know is there. :)
Thanks in advance.
Yes. SIR! Thank you
You are very welcome! Glad it can help.
Great!! Thank you.
You are welcome!! Thanks for watching!
Sure it will work with Donner hush-1 too.
Doesn't have to be the Yamaha Silent Guitar, I have never played the Donner so I can not speak to how it will work with pedals, ect... Thanks for watching!
Good vid 😎
Thank You! Hope it was helpful. Josh
you forgot to test Chorus effect....anyway... due to the number of pedals you tried and the box. I imagine that a chorus must be heard great. Thanks, this is very useful
Yeah - I guess I did! The guitar has Chorus built in as choice along with 2 reverbs (plate and room). The chorus is nice and it sounds great with chorus pedals as well. Thanks for watching! Josh
@@ShavasanaKitty Surely. From the amount of effects you tried on the guitar, it was assumed that a chorus was going to sound very good. Thanks for your video. It is very simple and well explained.
Interesting! I have a serious nickel allergy and this might be the only way I can play electric guitar. All the strings I've tried contain nickel including stainless steel. The only issue I see with this guitar would be the frets which are likely nickel.
It is possible they are nickel, I actually can't tell you, but my other guitar's frets are stainless steel, so maybe they are too - I can't tell from the specs. I suppose if you really wanted to, you could get it refretted with stainless steel frets and maybe that would help. Best of luck! Thanks for watching!
Hi can i use yamaha sgl 110S with nylon strings ..and olay classical guitar pieces?thank u
You might want to try! I have strung steel string guitars with nylon strings and it works - low cost experiment! Good luck!
Very nice and informative video man! Thanks a lot!
One question: with distortions, have you used with SRT turned on? What amount of blend do you set it?
I really appreciate your response!
The SRT is when the headphones are plugged in or line out- so I think it is always on. I didn’t use any onboard reverb and I blended the piezo and mic setting to about 2 o’clock. The headphone jack to a stereo plug is something I haven’t tried - just seems impractical for what I use the guitar for. Maybe I’ll do a follow up video. Thanks.
Thanks a lot sir! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Here's a handshake for demonstrating an acoustic guitar through electric guitar pedals,amp and speakers. I'm on this very process as I write this 🤝
You are very welcome! Thank You. Josh
3:28 Metal!
It definitely can be used for metal - it is sludgy - with some tweeking of the settings it could be crisper. Thanks for watching and commenting!
The nylon silent is just about the only guitar most people would ever need....but guitars are nice to own, are they not..!!...😂
Yes they are! I am a little bit of a minimalist when it comes to gear - maybe I'll do a video on that someday! Thanks for watching, Josh
wow
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Hi, im extremely new to everything so sorry if its a complete noob question. So i have the yamaha silent guitar and i would absolutely love if i can make it also sound somewhat like an electric guitar. I realize i need an amp for that but i dont know anything about them lol. Do i need a specific type of amp for this to work? Or will anything do? Do you have any recommendations that are more budget? Any help is really appreciated❤️👨🦯
What type of Amp you use will Depend on what kind of sound you want to achieve. Because I want as clean a sound as possible, I use the Bose S1 with the guitar going straight into it. But for the video I wanted to show how it behaves when it is run through distortion pedals...ect. so I plugged the guitar into the Boss GT-1 and that into the Bose. But you can plug it into ANY AMP - a Crate or Fender Practice Amp will work in getting an "electric" guitar sound but it will still sound like Nylon Strings going into that kind of Amp. I hope this helps.
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Hello, sorry, I just bought this guitar, but mine has the strings too high, did you have to adjust the height? Thank you very much and regards...
CS - I did not change the action on my Silent Guitar at all. It was very similar to my classical, I so I had not reason to. If I wanted to though, I would take it to a luthier and have them do it. I have lowered the action on previous classical guitars in my life and it can fiddly work. Hope this helps, Josh
Did you adjust your action? If so how much? Just got a 200n and the action was through the roof. I’m slowly dropping it down.
I didn't touch it. I bought mine through Sweetwater, so it arrived set up well. It plays very similarly to my handmade classical (Alan Harold Chapman). I did change the strings so they were the tension I am use too but other than that, I left it alone. Good luck!
Hi, I have one too. I lowered the action quite a bit. I simply removed the saddle and sanded it, put it back, done. Works perfectly. I changed the strings with the Thomastik KR 116. They are steel strings with very low tension (same as nylon ones)
@@42obv Interesting about the strings. I will look into them. I found I had nearly 1mm at the first so I had to reduce the nut as well as the bridge. I’m fair happy with it now. Thanks all.
@ShavasanaKitty what are you playing at 1:49?
That is a blues/rock style accompaniment a la Johnny B. Goode - basically I am playing a power chord on A (5th fret low E string) and hammering on E to F# on the A string. Then I move the chord to a D power chord (5th fret on the A string) and hammer on A to B on the D string. These chords represent the I and the IV chords of a blues progression - if you slide the D power chord up 2 frets to E and do the same hammer on move, then you also get the V chord. Thanks for Watching and Commenting.
What pedal do you use?
Tio - I am running it through a Boss GT-1 and a Bose S1 Pro speaker at the beginning of the video. Later I switch to the Marshall JVM 410H through seismic cabinet. Basically, you can run it through anything.
@@ShavasanaKitty So if I only have RME babyface - would it be enought to get similar sound from this guitar? :)
@@Therapyxx The RME Babyface is an audio interface, so you would need a distortion pedal of some sort, any would work, I am using a Boss GT-1 for this video. Hope this helps, thanks for watching and commenting!
@@ShavasanaKitty thanks you for feedback! :)
@@Therapyxx No problem! Good luck!
You’re clearly Walter white
I had to look that up! Kids think I look like Vsauce. Thanks?