Yamaha Pacifica Standard Plus PACS+12M Tobacco Brown Sunburst Electric guitar

Professional-Grade ST-Style Electric Guitar with Rupert Neve Designs Pickups

The Yamaha Pacifica Standard Plus PACS+12M Tobacco Brown Sunburst is a professional-grade ST-model electric guitar built for working musicians who need tonal range and modern playability. A newly designed alder body built with Yamaha Acoustic Design technology provides a resonant foundation. The slim C-shape maple neck carries a natural satin finish and a 350 mm fingerboard radius, giving players a fast, flat surface suited to modern lead work. This right-handed model ships with a gig bag, ready for studio sessions and club dates from day one.

Reflectone Pickups and Acoustic Design Technology

What separates the PACS+12M from earlier Pacifica models is the collaboration with Rupert Neve Designs on the Reflectone pickup line. Yamaha's Acoustic Design technology uses 3D-modeled wood-routing patterns that improve vibration transfer between neck and body, delivering strong lows and sparkling highs across the HSS layout.

Alder Body and Bolt-On Maple Neck — Built for Hours of Playing

• Body Material: Alder — balanced tonal foundation with clear mids and tight lows
• Body Finish: Gloss Polyurethane — durable surface protecting the Tobacco Brown Sunburst finish
• Neck Construction: Bolt-on Maple — bright attack and stable feel
• Neck Finish — Natural Smooth Satin Polyurethane keeps the hand moving freely during fast passages

Maple Fingerboard with Stainless-Steel Frets — Modern Feel, Long Life

The maple fingerboard delivers a brighter tone and snappier attack than rosewood, pairing naturally with alder for articulate clean tones and defined lead work. Medium stainless-steel frets resist the divots and flat spots that wear down conventional nickel-silver wire, keeping the playing surface smooth through years of heavy use.

• Fingerboard Material: Maple — bright, snappy response with clear note separation
• Fingerboard Radius: 350 mm (13.75") — flat modern profile suited to bending and lead playing
• Frets — 22 Medium Stainless Steel frets resist wear and hold bending pitch
• Nut: Graph Tech TUSQ, 42.0 mm width — self-lubricating material that improves tuning stability

Reflectone HSS Pickups and Gotoh Hardware — Stage-Ready Performance

The HSS layout pairs a Reflectone HH7b humbucker at the bridge with HS7m and HS7n single-coils in the middle and neck positions, switched via a 5-position lever. A push-pull coil split on the Master Tone unlocks single-coil tones from the bridge humbucker, while a high-pass capacitor on the Master Volume preserves top-end clarity as volume rolls back. Gotoh hardware anchors the strings and keeps pitch stable through aggressive vibrato work.

• Pickup Configuration: HSS — HH7b Humbucker (bridge), HS7m Single-Coil (middle), HS7n Single-Coil (neck)
• Controls — Master Volume with high-pass circuit, Master Tone with push-pull coil split, and a 5-way selector
• Bridge: Gotoh 510T FE-1 tremolo with 10.8 mm string spacing
• Tuning Machines: Gotoh Locking Tuners — fast string changes and reliable return-to-pitch after heavy vibrato use

Working Guitarists Who Need Pro-Grade Tone and Playability

The PACS+12M in Tobacco Brown Sunburst is the right choice for working guitarists, session players, and serious hobbyists who need a flexible HSS electric guitar with high-end hardware. Players moving up from entry-level Pacificas will appreciate the alder body, stainless-steel frets, and Rupert Neve Designs Reflectone pickups as meaningful upgrades in feel and tone. Cover-band musicians benefit from coil-split versatility covering glassy cleans to thick humbucker leads without switching guitars. Studio players tracking multiple genres will find the 5-way selector and push-pull tone split cover a wide stylistic range from one instrument.