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Charvel’s Pro-Mod So-Cal Style 1 HH electric guitar hearkens back to the superstrat movement of the 1980s. A pedigreed shredder, this axe epitomizes the Southern California look and sound with its hot-rodded Seymour Duncan pickups, familiar body style, and silky compound-radius fingerboard with rolled edges. The So-Cal boasts a genuine Floyd Rose double-locking tremolo that can handle the gnarliest of dive-bombs without wrecking your tuning. If you’re in the market for a stock guitar that blazes with punk, hardcore, and metal vibe, Sweetwater guitarists are quick to recommend the Pro-Mod So-Cal Style 1 HH.





Plays like a custom superstrat





The Superstrat craze of the 1980s inspired guitarists all over the country to Frankenstein their beloved axes with faster necks, hotter pickups, aftermarket hardware, and bold custom paint jobs. The Charvel Pro-Mod So-Cal Style 1 HH carries on this tradition with vintage-styled appointments and clean modern electronics for high-gain attitude and authoritative looks.





Inspired by 30 years of customer requests





Charvel was one of the first guitar companies to manufacture superstrat-type guitars. With 30 years of customer feedback, Charvel was able to make the So-Cal play and sound like a pawn shopper’s dream. The stock Seymour Duncan Distortion pickups deliver a total of six humbucker/single-coil tones (via the push-pull volume control), perfect for everything from brutal crunch to scorching leads.





Floyd Rose locking tremolo adds texture to chords and leads





A dependable tremolo is requisite to the superstrat appeal. The So-Cal’s Floyd Rose 1000 series locking trem moves between subtle vibrato and dive-bombed EVH-style leads with the natural response and tuning stability you expect from a Floyd Rose.





Charvel Pro-Mod So-Cal Style 1 HH Left-handed Electric Guitar Features:


Familiar alder body gives an unmistakable California sound


Compound-radius fretboard (12-16-inch) gets flatter and wider up high


Seymour Duncan TB-6 and SH-6N Distortion pickups deliver hot-rodded tones


6 different tones courtesy of 3-way blade switch and push-pull coil tap unlock brutal humbucker and sweet single-coil sounds


No-load tone pot won’t color sound when run wide open


Knurled speed knobs resist sweat slippage


Floyd Rose double-locking tremolo squeals and dives without wrecking your tuning


Die-cast matching tuning machines