Here’s your timestamps: 00:00 Hello! 00:17 Intro and what we’re doing today 01:50 Revstar Element specs and info 03:24 Element tones and discussion 06:29 Revstar Standard specs and info 08:04 The inside of a Revstar body! 08:27 Standard tones and discussion (humbuckers) 14:12 Standard tones and discussion (P90s) 18:23 Revstar Professional specs and info 19:46 Professional tones and discussion (humbuckers) 21:47 Professional tones and discussion (P90s) 23:27 Which Revstar would Leigh buy? 25:01 Final conclusion and goodbye Enjoy!
Thank you so much for having me on the channel once again! Always an absolute pleasure to make videos with you! I wish we lived closer so we could do this more often!
Glad you enjoyed it! I'm very happy Leigh and I took the chance to do this, as like you say, there's no other videos out there that take in the entire range. And hey, guess which Revstar I now own? A Standard with P90s ;) Top choice! And next I'll grab an Element. They're incredible value for money!
I actually bought the green glittery standard with the humbuckers. I am loving it as a nice contrast to my Dinosaur Jr Jazzmaster. Thanks for helping me out with the differences, Rich! Greetings from your x-colleague!
Hey Markus! The Green one is lovely - there was one at this event too. That and the Swift Blue are my two favorites :) I bet it is a perfect foil to the J Mascis, yes. You have developed a great taste in guitars, it seems!
First time watcher. Excellent video of the revstar range. To be honest when the video first started playing I thought it was an andertons video with different staff...... good video and I'm now a subscriber 🤘
Cheers Russ, really happy you found my little channel, and thanks for the sub! It's much appreciated. Maybe one day Andertons would like to let Leigh and I do a few videos for them ;) These Revstars are excellent, by the way - my find of 2022 for sure. Thanks again and rock on!
Oh yes 😎 There’s always room for more Yamaha and for more Leigh on my channel! I’m big fans of both, and I do agree that Leigh and I work well on camera together. More to come!
Glad to hear you’re enjoying your Revstar as well, and thanks for watching! I’ve always got time to listen to Leigh’s lovely playing 😊
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@@RichWordsMusic you did great with the explanation of the specs of each model! And of course Leigh just hits a home run(Baseball term) with his guitar playing! Thank you for a very informative and entertaining video post!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! You must be chomping at the bit in anticipation for yours to arrive now. I hope you love it when it does, and I’m fairly confident you will! Cheers for watching 😊
I think this is really well done. Not too much 'standup', which can be a tad annoying when what one really needs is solid analysis and proper sounds from the guitar! I'm getting one of these, when they're in stock! I just don't know which one yet, sigh.
Thanks a lot, glad you found the video interesting and useful! And yes, plenty of great choices in the Revstar range… the next one for me to try in detail is the Standard with P90s, and I’m thinking that could be the one that suits me best! I love the Element too, though. Let me know which one you end up going for!
@@RichWordsMusic I'm gravitating toward that same model too! But they aren't in stock at Thomann. My only real criticism, in one can call it that, is that they don't have much... 'charisma' compared to the classic shapes of Fender and Gibson. It's an aesthetic thing, a design problem. Objectively they are excllnt guitars, only people don't buy guitars based on logic.
@@michaelk5507 it’s well worth the wait. I put my name down for a P90 Standard fairly early and I’ve had it for just over a month now. An absolute beauty to play, and incredibly versatile live. I don’t bother switching between Les Paul and strat at gigs now, the Revstar covers it all. Enjoy
@@michaelk5507 I know what you mean! But I think the Revstars will develop that charisma over the years, as the other models have through being played by the rockstars we all look up to. But you're totally right about the decision-making process of the guitar player ;) I know it all too well!
@@GazP23 Sounds great! I'll be getting a P90 Standard to try next and I can't wait... like you say, I believe that guitar has the chops to cover all the standard 'classic' humbuxcker/single coil tones. We'll see!
I have an RSS20L in Swift Blue (left-handed Standard with Humbuckers). Very good guitar for the money. The gig bag is quality and even the stock strings are Elixir. I have swapped out the tuners for Gotoh locking machine heads but unusually for a sub £1,000 guitar there is not a lot else I would want to upgrade ( maybe a bone nut).
Great to hear yours is a good one too. I really think the gig bags are decent on the Standard models (and I wouldn't need/want the Professional's hard case). Like you, though, I might consider locking tuners for a Standard model, but that's about it! These are excellent guitars, indeed. Enjoy yours!
Happy new guitar day! Yes, the Revstars are excellent guitars indeed - well made, great to look at and fantastic tones to boot. Rock on and enjoy yours!
Great Review! Yamaha has knocked it out of the ballpark with the RevStar line! Rich always gives in depth reviews of products! Leif’s playing was great! Thanks
I totally agree - I think everyone should give these Revstars a try. All of the guitars I’ve tried in the range have been excellent. Now more people simply need to discover them too! Glad you enjoyed this collab with me and Leigh - more of those to come in future 👍
Thanks a lot, glad you enjoyed it! Ha ha, you're totally right... I should've made him take it off ;) Would terrify me if those were my guitars. Happy new year to you too - maybe 2023 is the year you get a Revstar or two...
My Yamaha Revstar RSS02T Swift Blue arrived today after a 5 month wait. What a great, beautiful guitar. The feel and the sound is like a guitar well over 1000€uros. If anyone is looking for one Thomann is a very good store with excellent customer service. GET ONE, it will totally cure your GAS.
Happy new guitar day! And you got the best color AND the P90s - well done! I hope to get this exact one for some tests soon. Really happy to hear how good your experience was, and hope you have many happy years of musical inspiration and great tones with it. Rock on!
@@RichWordsMusic Thank you very much for your kind words. The colour is beautiful, initially I ordered the sunburst but I didn't want to wait until 2023 for it. So I called Thomann and I asked for the Swift Blue which is gorgeous. I even checked the serial number and mine is August 2022 and think that may be the reason why they are so hard to come by. When you receive yours you won't regret it and those P90's, I just love them. I had a Gretsch with P90's way back in January but for me I think they sounded a bit sterile so I traded it along with a couple of other guitars and got myself a fender strat American professionnel one sunburst, another great guitar and a definate keeper.
@@marksystemed4678 That's great to hear, and that was some great service indeed. I'm really excited to get stuck into the P90s as well... I'm a huge fan of them! Couple your Revstar with the American Strat and you basically have two guitars there that can play literally anything! Enjoy your Revstar :)
@@marksystemed4678 That's the fun part, enjoy! And of course, having guitars that you love and inspire you will make you want to pick them up and play every day...
I still think that the Element pickup´s sound better than de Standard and Professional. The sound is more "aggressive", and the Dry Switch is fenomenal how it sounds.
Totally agree about the Dry Switch! The aggressive nature of the pickups is also lovely too, and depending on what sounds you're after, it can be more suitable than the ones in the Standard/Pro guitars too. Goes to show what excellent value the Element really is!
Unless I missed it, you didn’t mention one of the most important features of these guitars. The stainless steel frets! If you haven’t ever played a guitar with SS frets, you are in for a treat!
That's the Japan-made Professional one in the Crisp Gold color - this one, to be precise: thmn.to/thoprod/539412?offid=1&affid=1250 We do actually play it at 21:47, have a watch... it was Leigh's favorite Revstar.
I just bought a new gold top straight from Ishibashi Music in Japan. It is supposed to arrive tomorrow n 4 days DHL shipping. My wife actually just found this on a Google search. They were selling it new for $1600 plus shipping, but the shipping was $350. So it came in under what I was going to pay Sweetwater and now I don’t have to wait for summer.
@@michaelhimes8778 Oh, amazing! I hope it's now arrived and you're loving it... happy new guitar day! That's a great deal on one of the Professional models too. They are truly exquisite instruments. Enjoy it :)
@@RichWordsMusic well- it’s killing me because I have a few more days to wait due to traveling. But I’ll have to post back. Based on all the feedback it is going to be incredible.
@@michaelhimes8778 The waiting is the hardest part, as they say! Looking forward to hearing what you think when you've finally managed to give the guitar a play :)
Oh yes indeed! Just saw them live again for the first time in years at the weekend too… one of my all-time favorites. They make great shirts as well 😉 Cheers and rock on!
I do wonder about that, but I guess it's because they want to keep the P90s as classic/vintage sounding as possible. Or perhaps they don't want to spend more R&D cash ;) Either way, though, I love these P90s and the noise is never really a problem for me personally because I'm not a super high gain player. You'd need a noise gate if you were.
Sorry Mark, sometimes on these events where time is of the essence we forget the odd thing... and I guess it was a case of being close enough that in the room we didn't notice that one or other guitar may have slipped out of tuning. I have actually already made a checklist for next time I'm on something like this - and TUNE THE GUITAR is on it in big letters ;) Cheers!
@@RichWordsMusic Fair play Rich as I said I was afraid of being overly critical but given the focus of the channel I thought it was important to point out as it would be something that for me would make me immediately scroll onwards. Thanks for taking it in the positive way it was intended. 🤘🏻😎
@@markbolton6200 Yeah, no worries! I am always happy to receive constructive criticism... helps me make the channel better, as you say. And it will! So please, continue if there's ever anything else you spot, good or bad ;) Cheers!
In the sense that I only make videos about guitars and gear that I personally own and/or like and borrow, you're right! I'm not a paid reviewer, so I pick and choose what I feature on my channel.
Ha ha, sometimes when Leigh plays he is so at one with the instrument that I felt it needed to be stated ;) They are separate entities! In other news, I love the vagaries of the English language sometimes :) Cheers!
Here’s your timestamps:
00:00 Hello!
00:17 Intro and what we’re doing today
01:50 Revstar Element specs and info
03:24 Element tones and discussion
06:29 Revstar Standard specs and info
08:04 The inside of a Revstar body!
08:27 Standard tones and discussion (humbuckers)
14:12 Standard tones and discussion (P90s)
18:23 Revstar Professional specs and info
19:46 Professional tones and discussion (humbuckers)
21:47 Professional tones and discussion (P90s)
23:27 Which Revstar would Leigh buy?
25:01 Final conclusion and goodbye
Enjoy!
Thank you so much for having me on the channel once again! Always an absolute pleasure to make videos with you! I wish we lived closer so we could do this more often!
Always a pleasure my man! Would love to do more :)
I ordered the standard P90 version in Hot Merlot..can't wait to get my hands on it!
Awesome, I have the Swift Blue P90 model and love it! Really hope you enjoy yours :)
I haven’t seen all the Revstars compared. It was really helpful. Thanks for a great vid. I’m wanting the Standard with P90’s 👍
Glad you enjoyed it! I'm very happy Leigh and I took the chance to do this, as like you say, there's no other videos out there that take in the entire range. And hey, guess which Revstar I now own? A Standard with P90s ;) Top choice! And next I'll grab an Element. They're incredible value for money!
I actually bought the green glittery standard with the humbuckers. I am loving it as a nice contrast to my Dinosaur Jr Jazzmaster. Thanks for helping me out with the differences, Rich! Greetings from your x-colleague!
Hey Markus! The Green one is lovely - there was one at this event too. That and the Swift Blue are my two favorites :) I bet it is a perfect foil to the J Mascis, yes. You have developed a great taste in guitars, it seems!
First time watcher. Excellent video of the revstar range. To be honest when the video first started playing I thought it was an andertons video with different staff...... good video and I'm now a subscriber 🤘
Cheers Russ, really happy you found my little channel, and thanks for the sub! It's much appreciated. Maybe one day Andertons would like to let Leigh and I do a few videos for them ;) These Revstars are excellent, by the way - my find of 2022 for sure. Thanks again and rock on!
Yes! More Yamaha :). You and Leigh are great together!
Oh yes 😎 There’s always room for more Yamaha and for more Leigh on my channel! I’m big fans of both, and I do agree that Leigh and I work well on camera together. More to come!
Me and Rich are going to start a double act... we're going to be like Ike and Tina Turner... Beavis and Butthead... Wayne and Garth... and more!
@@LeighFugeGuitar Laurel and Hardy or the Chuckle Brothers was what I was thinking, but yes 😎
@@RichWordsMusic To me... to you!
I love my Revstar! Good to see Leigh playing those Yamaha's! A good post!
Glad to hear you’re enjoying your Revstar as well, and thanks for watching! I’ve always got time to listen to Leigh’s lovely playing 😊
@@RichWordsMusic you did great with the explanation of the specs of each model! And of course Leigh just hits a home run(Baseball term) with his guitar playing! Thank you for a very informative and entertaining video post!
@ Thanks Jose! Glad you enjoyed the playing! Really appreciate the kind words!
The sunset burst with P90s is the one for me :) That Pro model is beautiful but it’s over 3k here in Australia 😮
Lovely review! I'm still waiting for my lefty RSS20L in Swift blue I ordered in April and all of the reviews really have me excited.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! You must be chomping at the bit in anticipation for yours to arrive now. I hope you love it when it does, and I’m fairly confident you will! Cheers for watching 😊
I think this is really well done. Not too much 'standup', which can be a tad annoying when what one really needs is solid analysis and proper sounds from the guitar! I'm getting one of these, when they're in stock! I just don't know which one yet, sigh.
Thanks a lot, glad you found the video interesting and useful! And yes, plenty of great choices in the Revstar range… the next one for me to try in detail is the Standard with P90s, and I’m thinking that could be the one that suits me best! I love the Element too, though. Let me know which one you end up going for!
@@RichWordsMusic I'm gravitating toward that same model too! But they aren't in stock at Thomann. My only real criticism, in one can call it that, is that they don't have much... 'charisma' compared to the classic shapes of Fender and Gibson. It's an aesthetic thing, a design problem. Objectively they are excllnt guitars, only people don't buy guitars based on logic.
@@michaelk5507 it’s well worth the wait. I put my name down for a P90 Standard fairly early and I’ve had it for just over a month now. An absolute beauty to play, and incredibly versatile live. I don’t bother switching between Les Paul and strat at gigs now, the Revstar covers it all. Enjoy
@@michaelk5507 I know what you mean! But I think the Revstars will develop that charisma over the years, as the other models have through being played by the rockstars we all look up to. But you're totally right about the decision-making process of the guitar player ;) I know it all too well!
@@GazP23 Sounds great! I'll be getting a P90 Standard to try next and I can't wait... like you say, I believe that guitar has the chops to cover all the standard 'classic' humbuxcker/single coil tones. We'll see!
I have an RSS20L in Swift Blue (left-handed Standard with Humbuckers). Very good guitar for the money. The gig bag is quality and even the stock strings are Elixir. I have swapped out the tuners for Gotoh locking machine heads but unusually for a sub £1,000 guitar there is not a lot else I would want to upgrade ( maybe a bone nut).
Great to hear yours is a good one too. I really think the gig bags are decent on the Standard models (and I wouldn't need/want the Professional's hard case). Like you, though, I might consider locking tuners for a Standard model, but that's about it! These are excellent guitars, indeed. Enjoy yours!
Just bought Revstar 02T Sunburst, lemme tell you, for guitar at this price range = AMAZING Build Quality and Looks + it sound and feels BEAUTIFUL.
Happy new guitar day! Yes, the Revstars are excellent guitars indeed - well made, great to look at and fantastic tones to boot. Rock on and enjoy yours!
A great Video many thanks,
Thanks for watching Peter, glad you enjoyed it!
Great Review! Yamaha has knocked it out of the ballpark with the RevStar line!
Rich always gives in depth reviews of products!
Leif’s playing was great!
Thanks
I totally agree - I think everyone should give these Revstars a try. All of the guitars I’ve tried in the range have been excellent. Now more people simply need to discover them too! Glad you enjoyed this collab with me and Leigh - more of those to come in future 👍
Sounds so nice
These are lovely sounding and playing guitars and Leigh makes them all sound fantastic!
Great playing and sound testing. I want two of these bad. Happy new year! P.S. friends don't let friends play guitars with jackets on 😉
Thanks a lot, glad you enjoyed it! Ha ha, you're totally right... I should've made him take it off ;) Would terrify me if those were my guitars. Happy new year to you too - maybe 2023 is the year you get a Revstar or two...
My Yamaha Revstar RSS02T Swift Blue arrived today after a 5 month wait. What a great, beautiful guitar. The feel and the sound is like a guitar well over 1000€uros. If anyone is looking for one Thomann is a very good store with excellent customer service. GET ONE, it will totally cure your GAS.
Happy new guitar day! And you got the best color AND the P90s - well done! I hope to get this exact one for some tests soon. Really happy to hear how good your experience was, and hope you have many happy years of musical inspiration and great tones with it. Rock on!
@@RichWordsMusic Thank you very much for your kind words. The colour is beautiful, initially I ordered the sunburst but I didn't want to wait until 2023 for it. So I called Thomann and I asked for the Swift Blue which is gorgeous. I even checked the serial number and mine is August 2022 and think that may be the reason why they are so hard to come by. When you receive yours you won't regret it and those P90's, I just love them. I had a Gretsch with P90's way back in January but for me I think they sounded a bit sterile so I traded it along with a couple of other guitars and got myself a fender strat American professionnel one sunburst, another great guitar and a definate keeper.
@@marksystemed4678 That's great to hear, and that was some great service indeed. I'm really excited to get stuck into the P90s as well... I'm a huge fan of them! Couple your Revstar with the American Strat and you basically have two guitars there that can play literally anything! Enjoy your Revstar :)
@@RichWordsMusic I'll have to practice loads though!
@@marksystemed4678 That's the fun part, enjoy! And of course, having guitars that you love and inspire you will make you want to pick them up and play every day...
I still think that the Element pickup´s sound better than de Standard and Professional. The sound is more "aggressive", and the Dry Switch is fenomenal how it sounds.
Totally agree about the Dry Switch! The aggressive nature of the pickups is also lovely too, and depending on what sounds you're after, it can be more suitable than the ones in the Standard/Pro guitars too. Goes to show what excellent value the Element really is!
Awesome dive into a solid range of guitars, think an alternative to a Gibson for most people.
Glad you enjoyed it, and I have to agree! They are a superb and vastly underrated alternative to something like Gibson.
Unless I missed it, you didn’t mention one of the most important features of these guitars. The stainless steel frets! If you haven’t ever played a guitar with SS frets, you are in for a treat!
Even the element version?
Okay, it's not on the element version. The base one has just the nickel ones. The SS frets start from standard.
What was the one at the back ,? The gold looking one with p 90 s I can never find one
That's the Japan-made Professional one in the Crisp Gold color - this one, to be precise: thmn.to/thoprod/539412?offid=1&affid=1250
We do actually play it at 21:47, have a watch... it was Leigh's favorite Revstar.
I just bought a new gold top straight from Ishibashi Music in Japan. It is supposed to arrive tomorrow n 4 days DHL shipping. My wife actually just found this on a Google search. They were selling it new for $1600 plus shipping, but the shipping was $350. So it came in under what I was going to pay Sweetwater and now I don’t have to wait for summer.
@@michaelhimes8778 Oh, amazing! I hope it's now arrived and you're loving it... happy new guitar day! That's a great deal on one of the Professional models too. They are truly exquisite instruments. Enjoy it :)
@@RichWordsMusic well- it’s killing me because I have a few more days to wait due to traveling. But I’ll have to post back. Based on all the feedback it is going to be incredible.
@@michaelhimes8778 The waiting is the hardest part, as they say! Looking forward to hearing what you think when you've finally managed to give the guitar a play :)
P90'S... Yeah!
Gotta love P90s 😎
👍🏻👍🏻
Cheers my man!
NADA SURF. YES!
Oh yes indeed! Just saw them live again for the first time in years at the weekend too… one of my all-time favorites. They make great shirts as well 😉 Cheers and rock on!
Why Yamaha didn't create their own noiseless P90's like Seymour-Duncan and DiMarzio have is beyond me. If I bought one I would replace with S-D.
I do wonder about that, but I guess it's because they want to keep the P90s as classic/vintage sounding as possible. Or perhaps they don't want to spend more R&D cash ;) Either way, though, I love these P90s and the noise is never really a problem for me personally because I'm not a super high gain player. You'd need a noise gate if you were.
I just received an RSS20 in Flash Green today. Yes, it can metal.
Awesome, happy new guitar day! The Flash Green is a lovely color - top choice there. Great to here it confirmed that it can metal too 😎
Scratch it all up with the buttons. Omg
Ha ha, that's why you'll usually see me only wearing t-shirts in my videos when I've got a guitar strapped on ;)
Sorry for being overly critical lads but Jesus..... Tune the bloody guitars!
Sorry Mark, sometimes on these events where time is of the essence we forget the odd thing... and I guess it was a case of being close enough that in the room we didn't notice that one or other guitar may have slipped out of tuning. I have actually already made a checklist for next time I'm on something like this - and TUNE THE GUITAR is on it in big letters ;) Cheers!
@@RichWordsMusic Fair play Rich as I said I was afraid of being overly critical but given the focus of the channel I thought it was important to point out as it would be something that for me would make me immediately scroll onwards. Thanks for taking it in the positive way it was intended. 🤘🏻😎
@@markbolton6200 Yeah, no worries! I am always happy to receive constructive criticism... helps me make the channel better, as you say. And it will! So please, continue if there's ever anything else you spot, good or bad ;) Cheers!
Your site advertises a million guitars - and surprise - they are all fantastic. This does nothing for the appearance of a conflict of interest.
In the sense that I only make videos about guitars and gear that I personally own and/or like and borrow, you're right! I'm not a paid reviewer, so I pick and choose what I feature on my channel.
Why would you compare guitars to Leigh Fuge? "One is a stringed instrument the other isn't"
Ha ha, sometimes when Leigh plays he is so at one with the instrument that I felt it needed to be stated ;) They are separate entities! In other news, I love the vagaries of the English language sometimes :) Cheers!
That’s a very yellow guitar!
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