Schecter Sun Valley SS FR S Birch Green

What we say:

The title of this guitar pretty much summarises its whole agenda: this is a high performance S-type from the era of the gunslingers and hairspray! It’s a speedy-feeling and hot-sounding guitar with a Sustainiac system and a special design Floyd Rose tremolo.

The neck is exactly as you’d hope it to be: thin with a nice flat 14” radius and 24 huge frets! It’s a shredder’s delight here. We also have an active Bridge EMG pickup here: it’s a Retro Active Hot 70s model which has both alnico and ceramic magnets to bring you a hot sound that’s not huge in output but delivers a sound that we’ll say is very ‘VHII’ sounding if you get our inference! This has a special preamp circuit to cut out almost all background hiss and hum.

The Sustainiac is a fantastic device that allows you infinite feedback across all strings. You don’t need to hold onto any additional apparatus and you can switch modes to bring in extra harmonic overtones. It’s a lot of fun and is a very creative invention!

We think the Sun Valley Super Shredder, available here in Birch Green with an Ebony ‘board, is an extremely effective evocation of a halcyon time for fun guitar playing. Fans of pyrotechnic playing will lap this up.