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A Premium Acoustic-electric Guitar From Yamaha





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When you need a guitar with exceptional tone and playability, check out the Yamaha LL6M acoustic-electric guitar. Part of Yamaha's legendary L Series, the LL6M uses a hand-selected solid Engelmann spruce top and mahogany back and sides to give you a rich, warm-sounding guitar with full-range response. The 5-ply mahogany/rosewood neck sports not only a smooth-playing rosewood fretboard, but also a new, slimmer neck shape and an enhanced fingerboard edge. A passive SRT Zero Impact pickup uses six separate elements to detect each string and give you authentic plugged-in tones. The updated Yamaha LL6M delivers killer tone and playability in a premium acoustic-electric guitar.





Innovative construction to build a better guitar





The great tone and smooth playability of the LL6M are due to Yamaha's never-ending search for perfection. The recently developed A.R.E. (Acoustic Resonance Enhancement) process gives your guitar a broken-in and aged tone. By controlling the atmospheric pressure, temperature, and humidity, the molecular properties of the wood are manipulated to mirror those of a guitar that has been played for years. Each L Series guitar also sports a modified non-scalloped bracing that enhances the guitar's low end. And the 5-ply mahogany/rosewood neck, after re-evaluation of string height and spacing, has a new design for improved playability. The Yamaha LL6M utilizes newly developed advances in guitar construction to bring you an amazingly playable and great-sounding instrument.





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Hand-selected spruce top for great tone





Sweetwater knows that the choice of top wood can have a strong effect on the sound of an acoustic guitar. For the LL6M, Yamaha chose a premium, hand-selected solid Engelmann spruce top. Chosen as much for its look as its tone, solid spruce has a well-rounded, articulate sound with excellent projection. Its mahogany back and sides provide exceptional bass and powerful projection. And because it's a solid wood top, the tone will age gracefully, with enhanced harmonics and greater tonal balance as the years go by.





A full-range passive pickup system





The passive SRT Zero Impact pickup was designed by Yamaha to deliver a faithful reproduction of the LL6M's natural, dynamic sound. It was also designed to minimize the impact on the guitar's looks and tone. The passive design doesn't use a bulky preamp that's routed into the body to hamper the instrument's look or resonance. Each string has its own piezo element for a full-sounding and accurate sound. Because this is a passive pickup system, you'll need to use an external preamp when you want to plug in the Yamaha LL6M.





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Yamaha LL6M Acoustic-electric Guitar Features:


Innovative guitar design gives you an amazing-playing and sounding instrument


Hand-selected solid Engelmann spruce top and mahogany back and sides provide rich tone and projection


A.R.E. process molecularly ages the wood to match guitars that have been played for years


5-ply mahogany/rosewood neck has been redesigned for today's guitar player


Updated non-scalloped bracing pattern delivers a fuller low end


Passive SRT Zero Impact pickup uses individual piezo elements for each string