Back in 2011 when I was in high school, my mom gave me a choice of getting a class ring for my birthday or a new guitar. We couldn’t afford both, so I chose the guitar. It was a white Charvel So Cal (Japanese made) that we found a good deal on. 10 years later it’s still main main workhorse and a was way better choice than a dumb class ring.
Fender was very clever absorbing and beign partner with different guitar brands. If you want vintage stuff you got Fender, vintage style with modern features? Charvel got you back and if you are full on metal, Jackson has more than enough pointy guitars. Ohh and if you're are an VH junkie , EVH has some killer stuff too ;)
Spot on analysis. I can’t go back to a strat after playing the effortless neck and almost non-existent heel joint of a Charvel. It’s like night and day difference with the strat’s gigantic heel
Love what Charvel are doing at the moment. In my opinion the HH series/parallel switch is the best coil split sound out there. And compound radius! Guthrie and Rick Graham both play Charvel - not many better endorsements than that
I actually just sold my DK24, but I had it for two years when these newer pro mods came out. Unbelievable guitar for the money, and I plan on picking up another one in the near future. I'm hoping Charvel releases one with a floyd, ebony board, and roasted maple neck. I'd be all over it.
I have the matte gray but the finish wears off easily. I love the neck so much, I'm having the body repainted and upgrade the pickups... Will eventually upgrade the frets to stainless.
Honestly man, I own this same one Ola is playing, as well as the Dual humbucker orange quilted maple top mahogany body pro mod. The white one obviously doesn't have a Floyd, the orange maple top does. But I have to say man, even though I'd play either without any complaints, the Gotoh 510 2PT bridge on this one, the Pro Mod DK24 HSS, I truly believe is an even better bridge than the Floyd. Love the Floyd on the other one, but the combo of the Gotoh and locking tuners on this white one is just magic. I love it so much.
This is one of the not so many 'modern' guitars that really impressed me checking guitars in a music shop! The neck profile, wood, pickups, two point trem, ergonomics, ... pretty much anything is on point!
Is it versatile? I am comparing it to Prs SE Custom 24. They are both beautiful guitars, but the Charvel looks more straight forward and less pretentious.
@@biohazard8295 yeah! It can do pretty much anything. Meanwhile Harley Benton has released their take on this model. If you want it for a bit cheaper, you can go that route and just replace the electronics ;)
@@NathanSidF thanks for info. Actually i am saving some money and wanted a good guitar. P.s. i already have a harley benton, they are extremely good for the money, but still it feels a bit cheap, also it has poor resell value.
Played the dual humbucker version with the blue burst, this is the best all around guitar I've played. You can go from metal of all kinds to R&B to country, to reggae.
Yeah I have a Pro Mod DK24 and a Player Strat and I love them both. In fact I bought the Player series because I already had the Charvel and knew that if it was made in the Mexican factory the Fender would be great too.
I have a Charvel Pro Mod with a Floyd, it’s just a maple neck but it’s the same profile and I can honestly say it’s one of my favorite neck profiles to date, especially with the unfinished maple, it feels so clean and quick yet somehow lived? Great guitar (though I did swap the pickups, not huge on the Duncan JB/59
I just recently got this guitar (in the shell pink) and it is AMAZING! Build quality, features, playability and MANY tone possibilities - from full shred to tele clean to lush. I LOVE this guitar, thanks for the great vid!
It's just the neck that has hum right? It looks like the middle 3 positions are all pairings of single coils, which I'd assume are hum-free tones? But I can't find out if they're parallel or series.
Love it! Glad that Charvel listens to people on Social Media, and took the colour options seriously. The white and gold combo reminds me of the Dave Navarro signature. Good Taste!
I wonder if anyone complains about these extremely noisy pickups when noiseless single coils that sound a lot like this have been around for 40 years. For a 'pro mod' guitar, there should be Dimarzio Virtual Vintage or something, or whatever SD makes in that vein, and not these. These are for tone guys, not super strat players
I've got the charvel hh in black and it's an amazing guitar. I've wanted to put it up against an az but I can't ever find one at my local music stores. I really want to see how different the necks are
@@lejeq pickups sound more versatile imo, neck definitely plays faster brcause of the flatter profile compared to the Fender-y AZ...I wished it had stainlesssteel frets though
@@CroneRaven1810 I have guitars with ss frets and nickel frets. I don't notice too much of a difference between them at least when the frets are polished up. Yes the stainless will last longer but nickel frets will still last year's. Fender is just a little late to the party. Not really surprising when a large portion of their customers want a copy of a guitar from the 50s to 70s. They'll come around eventually though
I had ordered the tele charvel and was sent this by accident I love the tele, but this is the next guitar I’m going to get, no competition. It sounds so damn good, and is very comfortable to play
Got a used Charvel Pro-Mod San Dimas Style 2 a year or two ago and its consistently the best sounding and feeling guitar I've ever played. Sounds orders of magnitute better than my Schecter Blackjack Avenger FR-S for reasons I dont quite understand
I absolutely love this however I took it to a setup to lower action and the dude couldn’t do it. Buzzing all over with a low action. Don’t know what is the secret here or is it the shape that is different from standard metal type necks design
Andy Wood has a song called "Shredneck", on his "A Disconcerting Amalgam" album. Probably the last word in chicken-pickin shred. Check it out, it's insane.
Niiiice! Had the Shell Pink..... LOVE it so much... just bought this cuz the white wit gold got me allllll fkd-up! Hadda do it. Thanks, fuckah!! 🔥🔥🔥💨💨💨🍺🍺🍺🤟🤟🤟💯💯💯
Great looking guitar but I don't care for the Full Shred in the bridge, those are better in the neck position because they are scooped with a big treble spike. Strat style guitars need mids.
It's funny you say that because so many people complain that it's way too bright to sounds good in any situation, i guess the amp setting have a lot to do with the trble of it. But if i can use a single coil tele to chug then the sh10 will also be adequate
@@eliasmsv3156 i don't know what those people are smoking tbh, sh4, sh5 and sh6 are all brighter sounding pickups in my experience. especially the sh5.
I'm glad this has a full shred in place of something a bit more traditionally metal than shred. One problem I've always had with HSS guitars is the pickups don't balance. For metal, I prefer HSH or HH anyway but HSS is generally very versatile and again the Full Shred is more inline with how I'd use this guitar than say a JB - plus it sounds better in alder.
Ola why have you not tried the Laney black country customs Tony Iommi boost???? If you could I'm sure a lot of us would appreciate it👍. If you want to borrow mine and autograph it haha I wouldn't mind 😃.
I bought the red ash dk24 fully expecting to swap out the full shred having heard mixed things about it - but damn if it doesn’t sound good. Super crunchy with my mark V and not at all overly bright as the critics suggest
Their pink sparkle super strat with the special edition 80s Floyd rose, banana headstock, and Seymour Duncan humbucker and cool rail is just beautiful. And I don’t even like Floyd rose guitars.
I have a Bare Knuckle Cobra bridge single coil (the Cobra-T telecaster version) in a (shielded) Squier Contemporary Telecaster RH and it is not noisy like that, I was really surprised. Must be to do with the unusual magnet and blades setup in it. The single coils on this Charvel are much more typical.
Anyone have an opinion on the bridge? Just curious how much you can beat the hell out of it and still stay in tune. They have the military green model in my local music store…the neck is straight butter!
I have looked at a shit ton of info, videos, reviews about this guitar. Mine arrives tomorrow. Some people are saying that the trem is going out of tune if you really get on it, but an improvement vs most classic trems. I decided to go with the newer model that has the Floyd. Unfortunately it doesn't have the roasted neck. I think they realized it didn't look right with infinity blue. The blue is very eighties looking especially with a Floyd. That's what I thought was cool. Too bad everyone is saying the SD shred pick up in the bridge is very high in treble. Makes it sound harsh when you crank the amp up loud. I already know about highs being a problem at loud volumes so my treble is way down on my amp. The presence is moderate. So maybe it won't be so bad.
I have the black HH version and absolutely dig it. Yet, as I am playing mild crunch in an indie pop band, I swapped the pickups to SD Pearly Gates. Now it's just a perfectly comfortable, insanely sleek and elegant guitar with low output hummies, which you wouldn't think when you see it. Not your typical "indie" guitar, but that is exactly what I like about it ;-)
