Experience Golden Jubilee Glory
Flaunting a head-turning carved top body contour, the Schecter Tempest 50th Anniversary celebrates the brand’s golden anniversary with potent panache. Its radically chiseled double-cut Tempest body melds contoured comfort with subtle Kalamazoo influences, providing you with an updated take on a classic design. Sculpted from layered maple, walnut, and padauk, this solidbody electric guitar’s Ultra Thin C-shape neck offers incredible stability and playability, bolstered by an Ultra Access neck-thru joint and a 24-fret compound-radius ebony fingerboard. Plug the Tempest 50th Anniversary into your favorite amp or modeler, and you’ll experience high-output punch and articulate presence in equal measure, complemented by hot-wound PAF-flavored textures, courtesy of Schecter Sunset Strip Anniversary Edition bridge and Pasadena Classic Anniversary Edition humbuckers. You also get resilient TonePros M Series locking tuning machines and a TonePros TOM-style bridge, priming you for hardcore hardtail abuse without sacrificing your tuning stability. From its legendary Kalamazoo-inspired silhouette to its relentless sonic power, the Tempest 50th Anniversary is a golden-jubilee metal machine with enough face-melting heat to conjure up a sonic storm.
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Performance and panache in perfect harmony
Players with a penchant for high-performance playability will be duly impressed by the Tempest 50th Anniversary. For starters, this sleek instrument is built on a Tempest-shaped drivetrain crafted from a solid slab of swamp ash. The Tempest 50th Anniversary’s Ultra Thin C-shape neck features maple, walnut, and padauk layered for maximum stability, and its 24-fret, compound-radius ebony fingerboard offers next-level playing comfort. You’ll also appreciate this guitar’s neck-thru construction, which provides a remarkably unobtrusive heel shape and unrestrained vibrational transfer. As one of Schecter’s most potent works yet, the Tempest 50th Anniversary has Sweetwater’s Guitar Shop delighted to report that the brand’s historic propensity for pairing performance and panache is on full display, outfitting this eye-grabbing axe with a ferocious foundation.
Golden sonic textures abound
You play the notes; the Schecter Tempest 50th Anniversary’s Sunset Strip Anniversary Edition bridge pickup takes care of the rest. Fueled by a grade-8, direct-couple ceramic magnet, this potent, high-output humbucker combines a muscular low end with punchy articulation, making it a prime choice for modern high-gain applications without sacrificing cleans. Moreover, the Sunset Strip offers a spongy, forgiving feel, maintaining vintage character while providing the crisp clarity modern styles demand. On top of that, the Tempest 50th Anniversary comes outfitted with a Pasadena Classic Anniversary Edition neck humbucker, bolstering your tonal palette with expressive PAF-flavored tones with clear harmonics, slightly scooped mids, and enough output to give your amp a solid spanking. This flexible solidbody electric guitar features Master Volume and Master Tone knobs, along with a push-pull for coil-split single-coil textures and a 3-way pickup selector toggle.
Built for steadfast stability
Courtesy of its TonePros TOM-style bridge, the Tempest 50th Anniversary confidently tackles your most extreme playing with incredible ease. This bridge not only increases sustain and improves tuning stability, but its locking functionality infuses your instrument with rich, vibrant harmonics, transferring maximum resonance from your strings to the hardware to the guitar. In other words, the TonePros bridge allows your entire guitar to ring out as one solid piece. Beyond that, whether you use it or abuse it, the Tempest 50th Anniversary’s TonePros TOM-style bridge will continue delivering the goods with a figurative smile on its face.
Schecter Tempest 50th Anniversary Features:
- A high-performance shredder commemorating Schecter’s golden anniversary
- Kalamazoo-inspired Tempest body sculpted from a solid slab of swamp ash with a head-turning carved top body contour
- Layered Ultra Thin C-shape neck offers incredible stability and playing comfort
- Lightning-fast 24-fret compound-radius ebony fingerboard
- Neck-thru construction provides a super-unobtrusive heel and unrestrained vibrational transfer
- Schecter Sunset Strip Anniversary Edition bridge humbucker combines muscular low end with punchy articulation
- Schecter Pasadena Classic Anniversary Edition neck humbucker bolsters your tonal palette with expressive PAF-flavored tones
- Single-coil tones on tap courtesy of a push-pull split-coil circuit
- TonePros TOM-style bridge increases sustain and improves tuning stability
- Resilient TonePros M Series locking tuning machines
