Charvel Pro-Mod SC ST2 HH HT Sat.Black

Broad tonal palette, excellent playability

Owning and playing this guitar for a year now.

One of the best purchases I ever did.

You get a remarkable broad tonal palette thanks to the excellent two-voiced and splittable Fishman Fluence active humbuckers: set the neck pickup, split, lower volume a little bit and you get the Chic Nile Rodger's tone; than unsplit the bridge, max the volume, switch to second pickup voice and you are in high gain territory retaining a good dynamics (compared to a classic EMG 81).

Playability is very, very good (I own a Fender American Professional II Stratocaster and I can see only minor playability differences.)

Holds the tuning very, very well: I never touched the keys so little as with this guitar.

My go-to-do-it-all guitar by now.

Awesome

The guitar looks fantastic, Sounds awesome, and plays like guitars 3 times the price, amazing value for the money.

Money well spent

I bought this guitar as a work horse studio guitar.

I loved everything about it from the moment I took it out of the box.

The finish was perfect, the frets, bridge, locking tuners, everything was of the highest quality.

I was drawn to it originally because of the versatility of the Fishman Fluence pickups. They did not disappoint. the split coil neck pickup is awesome for those Strat/Tele cleans, the vintage PAF voice is great and the Hot Rodded EMG style voice gives you everything you could hope for and more. All the different voices gives you a great array of lead tones too.

It's been a few months now and I've no desire to put it down. I'm tracking an album with it at the moment, and it's been great. It's tuning stability while tracking is a real plus, even at lower tunings.

I'd never played active pickups before and did have adjust my playing style a little as the high output pickups really pick up every aspect of your playing, good and bad