Yamaha LL16D ARE Original Jumbo - Black Review

LL16D ARE

I received this gem on Saturday 10-2. As usual the team a SWEETWATER was professional. From Bart in sales to Christopher who did the initial inspection and check, to Don P. who did the custom set up. This is without a doubt the best playing and sounding guitar i own. I have yet to plug it in but I'm sure it will sound great.thanks again to the Sweetwater crew.

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Great for gigs and home play

This is the first guitar I've purchased without playing first. It doesn't disappoint. The sound is awesome. I have a Taylor (414ce) that I play at home and I can pick either the Taylor or the Yamaha and I'm equally satisfied with the sound and playability; they're different...but I'm still just as satisfied. I also do some gigs and this guitar really shines at gigs. The look… read more is spectacular and the audience can see the reflective top from the back of the room. Not having to mess with a battery is awesome too!

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Some like it loud

I raced to SW a couple years ago when the LL16 B first became available. My initial thought was to obtain a black all solid wood acoustic guitar. Not easy to find for under a thousand dollars. I have a lot of acoustics all are solid wood with many different wood combinations. My LL 16 does not take a backseat to any of them in terms of volume. It is one of the loudest acoustics… read more I have ever played. Probably due to the aging qualities that the A.R.E. provides. You can put .011 or .010 strings on it and it will likely have plenty of volume for you. In that vein the passive pick up can be set up to sound very good. A little experimenting and you should be fine. The five ply neck is a bit baseball batish but it stays put. You would do well to play one somewhere before buying. The overall sound is exactly what you would expect from a 16" boot acoustic with East Indian Rosewood and Englemann spruce. One final note; make sure you get the arched hardshell case as pictured on Yamaha's web site (Sweetwater also pictured it at the time I bought mine). It is a much better case than the one that they sent me. Sweetwater gave me the upgrade at no extra cost but I had to ask.

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My Second Yamaha Guitar

Ive played a few martins a few taylors, my first guitar was a 300 dollar yamaha that i got as a gift, I live in queens and had 3 guitars a ltd ex 50, a jackson professional RR japan import from the 90s that was my bread and butter and a alvarez black acoustic, all of them got destroyed when my basement got flooded by hurricane sandy, since then I dint own a guitar because I was… read more devastated, I got this one as a gift to myself because I have been wanting one for a very long time, right out of the case it was amazing the way it sounds and plays just feels right, I will take care of this one for as long as I live and hopefully pass it down. To sum it up its simply an amazing instrument and worth every penny, very enjoyable as I train myself to play again.

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Yamaha Convert

I"m 55 years old, played in s band for 20 years, and have owned so many guitars it"s a little embarrassing. I"ve owned several Martins (still have 3) and Gibson"s (Hummingbird, Stage Deluxe Rosewood, Keb Mo Bluesmaster). I was in my local store playing a D18 I had been lusting after when I picked up this Yamaha LL16D. After strumming a few chords, it was game over. I put that D18… read more back on the wall and bought the Yamaha. I sold my Gibsons and have bought a few more Yamahas since. If you want to "up your game", stop paying ridiculous prices for those headstock decals and try a Yamaha. Don"t believe me? I don"t care. I"ve seen the light and that"s all that matters.

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