Sunday, July 8, 2012

Yamaha: RGXA2... lights

Yamaha's RGXA2 has an on-board light show as seen above. These are actually pickup indicator lights (from L-R):
  • Blue: Bridge
  • Red: Neck
  • Both on
What would traditionally function as a tone control (that knob there with no light indicators) is the guitar's pickup selector switch & that's all it does so any tone manipulations from this guitar, it comes from the volume knob. So now let's think of another Yamaha guitar featuring this light display. Answer: No other model. The implication here is that it's purely aesthetics & it's not that appealing/ practical to be employed in other guitars, that's why it stays put in the RGXA2.

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