Kramer’s Original 1980s Classic
The Pacer Vintage is a spectacular tribute to the Kramer’s original shred-style axe. Thanks to its familiar double-cut body and historic beak-style headstock, picking up a Pacer Vintage is like stepping right back into 1982. This solidbody electric guitar was built for high speed and high performance. All-maple construction gives it a bright sound with long sustain and enough bite to penetrate a busy mix of drums, bass, and guitars. Its ruler-flat 14”-radius fingerboard ensures lightning-fast playability. And paired with a dimed British-style stack, the Pacer Vintage’s Seymour Duncan pickups dish out classic hot-rodded humbucker tones. Treble-bleed controls and push/pull series/parallel taps round out to this guitar’s premium features. And since no guitar would be shred-worthy without a double-locking tremolo, the Pacer Vintage comes armed with the gold standard — a Floyd Rose. If you want to get your hands on a hard rock classic, pick up a Kramer Pacer Vintage.
Feature-laden, high-performance shred machine
Boasting Kramer’s original 1980s design, the Pacer Vintage is a feature-laden, high-performance shred machine. Its maple body exhibits a mega-bright sound with super-long sustain and truckloads of mix-penetrating bite. Its hard-rock maple neck features a lightning-fast 14”-radius fingerboard with a 25.5” scale and 22 medium-jumbo frets. The Pacer Vintage sports a historic beak-style headstock.
Seymour Duncan hot-rodded humbuckers — built to rock hard
Kramer’s Pacer Vintage was built for hard rock. And it rocks hard, thanks to its Seymour Duncan humbuckers. Its JB bridge pickup is one of the most popular in the world, serving up the classic sound of a hot-rodded humbucker. You know, that sound — the one we've all loved for the last 30 years. This guitar’s JN neck pickup makes a perfect complement to the JB, yielding traditional warm humbucker tones for full, yet clear, rhythms and silky-smooth leads. From bluesy crunch to harmonic-laden grind, these humbuckers deliver the goods. To top it off, each pickup boasts its own volume control with a push/pull series/parallel tap and a treble-bleed mod to maintain shimmering highs at low volumes. The Pacer Vintage also includes a master tone control.
Floyd Rose tremolo for twisting, bending, and dive-bombing
Do you dive-bomb? Shriek? Squeal? Flutter? Of course you do! Otherwise, you wouldn’t be on Sweetwater.com looking at shred machines like the Pacer Vintage. Similar to other high-performance solidbody electric guitars, the Pacer Vintage comes equipped with a rock-solid Floyd Rose double-locking trem. It can be used for subtle vibrato or full-blown dive bombs — the choice is yours. Either way, you’ll experience the same response and tuning stability that you'd expect from a Floyd Rose. Whether you use it or abuse it, you'll have trouble knocking the Pacer Vintage out of tune.
Kramer Pacer Vintage Features:
- An homage to the original 1982 Kramer
- Maple body exhibits a bright sound with long sustain and plenty of mix-penetrating bite
- Maple neck features a lightning-fast 14”-radius fingerboard with a 25.5” scale and 22 medium-jumbo frets
- Seymour Duncan JB bridge humbucker boasts plenty of output without sacrificing tone
- Seymour Duncan JN neck humbucker yields traditional warm humbucker tones
- Each pickup boasts its own volume control with a push/pull series/parallel tap
- Treble-bleed mod maintains shimmering highs at low volumes
- Floyd Rose 1000 Series double-locking trem for dive-bombing, shrieking, squealing, and fluttering
- Rock-solid Kramer machine heads with a 14:1 turning ratio
- Eye-grabbing beak-style headstock with a historic Kramer logo
