My review of my Yamaha Revstar RS820 guitar

Yamaha is a great company that makes superb guitars for rather inexpensive price.

The Yamaha Revstar RS820 is discontinued but you can get a similar sound from the newest production line they manufacture and sell.

Here's a photo of my Revstar and I'm very satisfied with the quality, sound and play-ability!

Tone

I love the tone of this guitar. It can do many genres - blues, rock, fusion, metal, etc.

The pickups shine with medium gain/ distortion tones. If you are interested in progressive metal, it can do it with some tone tweaking. But it's quite hard to do very heavy metal because I feel that the pickups are not suited for that.

The pickups are mostly suited for rock I guess.

Btw, it has two humbuckers. And I love that.

I mostly choose the neck position pickup configuration. It sounds more balanced than the bridge pickup.

Play-ability

The built quality is great too for an Indonesian made guitar.

It's not perfect (if there is such a thing) but I don't have any big issues with the comfort of playing this Yamaha Revstar RS820 guitar.

The neck is well-made and smooth - not too fat not too thin.

Frets are polished okay, action is just right.

I'm not too much of a fast shredder but I guess you can shred on this guitar easily. For example, Matteo Mancuso played for a while the RS820 a couple of years back. And he's quite a technical player and a fast player. Check him out here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe3wjMScMjI

Body is not too heavy for me too. It resonates well and I like the wood combination.

Built Quality

It is made in Indonesia and I have no big issues with that.

But there are some little flaws with the Revstar. For example, the connection (the screw) for the input jack gets loose very frequently. I have to use a screwdriver often.

The tuners are also flawed - the guitar gets out of tune quite often.

Other than that, everything is okay for me.

Quick summary

I love this guitar but I would like another guitar that does heavier gain sounds more easily as the RS820 doesn't go too much into that tone.

As I said, the dual humbuckers are more suited for less gainy tones - rock, blues, fusion. But if you want a djent tone or modern prog metal, you have to look for a backup guitar.