Yamaha FS800 // Review (Small Body Acoustic)
In this video we listen to the Yamaha FS800 – a concert style solid top budget guitar.
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Suena como un piano viejo
Bought this guitar 2 months ago to play as my 'couch guitar' (in Nov 2025)…thought I would get accoustomed to the narrow string spacing, which is 10mm between strings. Couldn't adapt to narrow spacing so gave guitar to Luthier who increased the spacing to 10.8mm. This job required a new saddle (bone saddle), and while doing this job also changed the nut to bone, and also fitted ebony bridge-pins. These minor changes transformed the sound and I am amazed how such minor changes transformed a relativley 'cheap' guitar into something which now sounds triple the original price – It really is an exceptional insrument and I would recommend purchasing this model before any 'L' series. Following the small hardware upgrades this guitar now sounds easily comparable to my LS6, if not better . ..IMHO the FS800, for the money, won't be bettered – using D'addario XS strings.
Wow, this guitar sounds amazing. ????????
It's nice that it's cheap, but it's definitely made
of the cheapest wood, laminate and plastic
parts. How expensive is bone? Yeah, it can't just
be extruded but it's an animal byproduct. We
literally have to look up every spec these days to
see where companies have skimped. They could
atleast go back to the bone nut and bridge add
$5 to the price if needed. Silly to buy a whole
guitar and have to replace those two cheap a
parts. Nice video and sound! Thank you!
FS800: 2.0 string spacing at the bridge. Crazy narrow, and not suitable for fingerstyle, many experienced players would tell you. FG800 is much wider, and would be fine.
Nice…for 200 bucks jeez…just get it.
It's a thin sounding guitar. It's almost like a scooped sound. UPDATE: Thank you guys for responding. I have to say that after owning this guitar for longer period of time, I have grown quite fond of it. Also, the stings have aged and have mellowed a bit. So part of the scooped sound that I was hearing is just characteristic of the brightness of new strings. I now view this guitar as fairly well balanced in sound, and great guitar.
Thanks great review! I have an FSX 800C, it sounds great. I'm taking to a luthier to do a pro setup strings are way to high at the nut and all the way down. What string do you recommend for this smaller body guitar? I'm learning bluegrass. I put the EJ-19 bluegrass springs and they are too hard to play for this 65 yo man!
I'm a 6'1" man with 10" hands and even I feel like dreadnaught style guitars are uncomfortably large to wield. If you have never owned a guitar of this size, give it a try. I just got my Yamaha FS800 – it's decent, but mine needed string height adjustments at bridge and nut to make it more playable.
Is it better a yamaha FG830 or a big baby taylor?
Can i use a medium gauge for the Yamaha fs800?
This is one really comfortable couch guitar
I am a HUGE Yamaha fan and you have a new subscriber! The sound of this guitar is kind of thin but yamaha undoubtely rules in this price range. The high-end series from yamaha 26, 36 (and, why not, 56) sound like a piano : engelmann top and rosewood back and sides. Good projection and a complex harmonic texture. Unfortunately there are not that many reviews about them.
Very nice????????!!! You are missing out = Promo`SM !!!