2022 Yamaha Revstar Standard RSS20 | The best workhorse guitar for under $1000? Review & Demo

This is the 2022 Yamaha Revstar Standard RSS20 in Sunset Burst!

The middle tier instrument of the three 2022 Revstar models, the Standard will set you back around $799 or €780, and this guitar is specced pretty amazingly for that price.

Get the Revstar Standard here: https://thmn.to/thoprod/539446?offid=1&affid=1250

Underneath the beautiful burst finish, the Revstar Standard has a chambered mahogany body and a maple top. The neck is mahogany too, and it’s reinforced with carbon fiber. The 12” radius fingerboard is rosewood, and you have 22 jumbo stainless steel frets.

Sounds-wise, there’s a pair of Yamaha’s VH5 humbuckers fitted, and a Focus Switch on the push-pull tone pot. The Focus Switch is effectively a passive boost – it subtly boosts your signal, shaves off some highs and boosts your mids and low-end. The Revstar Standard also comes in a pretty decent and well-padded gigbag.

Now, I’ve already tried the more affordable 2022 Revstar Element model and was blown away – so this video is all about seeing how well the Standard guitar performs given its increased price and improved specs on paper. In the video, I test the guitar in as many different musical styles as I can, from country, folk and indie, to pop, rock, punk, metal and more – and we test out that Focus Switch as much as we can too.

Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:

00:00 Hello!
00:14 Introduction to the Yamaha Revstar Standard
01:44 Specs and info
05:11 Today’s rig and plan

Clean Sounds
06:03 Clean tone reference chords on all pickups/Focus Switch options
07:03 Clean tone samples
10:39 Classic rock tones
11:57 Indie tones
14:22 Hard rock tones
15:52 Punk rock tones
16:47 Modern alt rock tones
17:26 Metal tones

19:07 My thoughts
19:28 First impressions of the guitar and the gigbag
20:47 Weight
21:13 Build quality and playability
22:01 Sounds and the Focus Switch
25:53 What competition is out there for the Revstar?
27:53 My conclusions on the Revstar Standard
28:28 Who is the Revstar aimed at?
28:57 Revstar Standard vs Revstar Element
29:26 Thanks and goodbye

Watch my Revstar Element video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJVQVsed-Vw

More info on the Revstar Standard model – and more chambered body pics – are here:
https://yamaha.io/3JIjkwn

My setup was as follows: I ran the Revstar into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head, also using my Greer Lightspeed for the overdrive and my Revv G3 for the heavy distortion sounds. The amp went from the Red Box DI straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That's it. No post-processing on the sounds was done.

Here’s some links to those bits of gear:

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H&K Black Spirit 200 head: https://bit.ly/HKBS200rwm
Greer Lightspeed: https://bit.ly/GreerLightspeedRWM
Revv G3: https://bit.ly/RevvG3RWM
Focusrite 4i4 (this is the newer equivalent of my 2i4, which they don’t make any more!): https://bit.ly/Scarlett414RWM
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Enjoy!


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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley – TrackTribe.

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