Yamaha NCX3

About the Yamaha NCX3

The NCX3 pairs a solid spruce top with solid walnut back and sides - a less common tonewood pairing on classical guitars than cedar/rosewood or spruce/mahogany, chosen by Yamaha for a brighter, more even tonal balance. A single cutaway gives access to the upper frets on a body built to classical dimensions (490mm body length, 94-100mm depth), with a mahogany neck and ebony fingerboard at a traditional 2 1/16-inch (52mm) nut width and flat fingerboard radius, unlike the fusion-neck classicals aimed at steel-string players. The headstock is slotted in the traditional classical style rather than a solid paddle head.

Electronics are Yamaha's Atmosfeel system: a combination of an undersaddle piezo pickup, a soundboard transducer, and an internal microphone, blended through a 3-band preamp EQ to approximate a close-miked acoustic tone rather than the harder attack typical of piezo-only pickups. Hardware is gold-finished, with an ebony bridge.

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Sound character of the Yamaha NCX3

The solid spruce top keeps the attack bright and defined, and solid walnut back and sides sit tonally between mahogany and rosewood - a balanced, moderately complex overtone profile - while the three-source Atmosfeel electronics (piezo, soundboard transducer and microphone) preserve more of that natural acoustic character when amplified than a simple undersaddle pickup would.

Technical data for the Yamaha NCX3

Price history for the Yamaha NCX3

Cheapest seen: 578 EUR  ·  Most expensive seen: 1.323 EUR

The history of the Yamaha NCX3

The NCX3 sits in Yamaha's NX/NCX electro-classical range, positioned for players who need reliable stage amplification - Yamaha's Atmosfeel electronics were developed specifically to reduce the artificial, quacky tone that undersaddle-only piezo systems produce on nylon strings.