Essential So-Cal Sonic Style
Since the sunniest days of Charvel’s San Dimas, California roots, high-octane performance has been integral to the company’s ethos, and the Pro-Mod So-Cal Style 1 supplies time-tested tone crafting via Charvel’s innovative super-shredder foundations. An assemblage of alder, maple, and rosewood tonewoods comprises the bedrock of your sound, while a pair of prismatic Seymour Duncan pickups invoke myriad shades of searing sonics, with further sound-shaping tools to hone your tone. This Pro-Mod’s neck blends speed and stability with graphite reinforcement and a hand-rubbed satin urethane finish; its compound-radius fretboard features meticulously rolled edges for seamless access to every note. Combining this all with the elegant contouring of the body and treble-side cutaway, the Sweetwater Guitar Shop was left aghast at the exacting attention to detail paid by Charvel’s luthiers. And with the explosive expression of the onboard Floyd Rose 1000 double-locking tremolo, the Charvel Pro-Mod So-Cal Style 1 is ready to ignite the main stage, night after night.
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Crafted for tour-tier excellence
For more than half a century, Charvel has supplied rockers, shredders, and myriad music makers with the aural weaponry needed to blaze trails across genres and styles, and this Pro-Mod So-Cal Style 1 is a culmination of these decades of design and experience. The sonic cornerstone of this 6-string is its alder body, which is used by guitar makers worldwide due to its resounding character, structural stability, balanced sound, and overall brightness. The maple neck brings a refined, focused heat to your playing, revered for its inherent note-separating attributes that ensure every string is voiced with distinction, across chords, riffs, solos, and licks. A rosewood fretboard completes the guitar’s foundation. Revered for its lustrous appearance and tonal clarity, rosewood adds richness and depth, tempering harsh highs while reinforcing low-end warmth without clouding the mix.
Powered by Seymour Duncan
The time-honored twinning of Charvel craftsmanship and Seymour Duncan circuitry has empowered countless guitarists throughout the decades. For this Pro-Mod So-Cal Style 1, Charvel endowed the instrument with a classic combination: JB and ’59 humbuckers. The bridge-mounted JB — one of Seymour Duncan’s most popular pickups — utilizes an Alnico V bar magnet to deliver a flexible yet focused higher-output sound. The versatile JB marries pristine highs, robust basses, and an emphasized upper-midrange peak that keeps heavy chords and raucous riffage crispy and crunchy. Likewise, your solos and leads sing with dynamism and distinction. The neck-mounted ’59 — also equipped with an Alnico V bar magnet — fuses lauded PAF-style power and vintage-style coil winding with methodical engineering to reimagine the '50s-inspired sound for the modern player, with a touch more compression and a brighter, sparkling top-end. Add in the push-pull coil splitting of the Volume knob and the No-Load Tone-knob pot, and the onboard tone-sculpting capabilities of this voltaic 6-string mean uncompromising sound that’s near-endlessly personalized.
Primed for soaring solos and lightning leads
Whether you need a solid studio standby or a robust road warrior, the Charvel Pro-Mod So-Cal Style 1 is armed for endurance. The satin-finished neck champions speed, control, precision, and comfort in equal measure, giving you plenty of in-hand heft and satisfying tactility. The weight-relieving and structure-reinforcing properties of the neck’s graphite reinforcements mitigate shoulder fatigue and prevent neck-diving tendencies. Thanks to the compound 12–16-inch radius of the fretboard, the 25.5-inch scale deftly supports multitudes of performance preferences, while the onboard Floyd Rose 1000 unlocks extreme aural altitudes of soaring sonic expression, with vault-grade tuning stability in tow.
Charvel Pro-Mod So-Cal Style 1 Features:
- Alder body anchors your sound in a lightweight, resonant, and balanced profile
- Maple neck provides spectrum-spanning brightness, sparkling warmth, and excellent note-separating articulation
- Rosewood fretboard supplies shimmering depth, crystalline character, and glass-like presence that never compromises on definition
- Seymour Duncan JB and ’59 humbuckers utilize Alnico V bar magnets for an out-of-time sound that mixes vintage-inspired style with modern tone-sculpting tenacity
- Volume knob’s push-pull coil splitting and Tone knob’s No-Load pot give you immense sound-shaping versatility, right at the source
- Hand-rubbed satin urethane finish on the neck delivers comfortable support, high-speed playing, and comprehensive control
- Rolled fretboard edges and meticulous heel and body contouring ensure unencumbered access to all 22 frets spanning the compound 12–16-in. radius and 25.5-in. scale
- Graphite neck reinforcements reduce weight and augment structural rigidity, mitigating neck diving and shoulder fatigue
- Charvel-crafted tuners and a Floyd Rose 1000 Series trem guarantee serious sonic stability and prismatic pitch-warping wizardry
