American EDM and heavy metal-blending guitar player Sullivan King has actually partnered with Schecter for 2 blood-splatter-style signature guitars
Readily available as 6- and seven-string designs, the Sullivan King Banshee FR-S sets an overload ash body with a three-piece, ultra-thin C-shaped maple neck and ebony fretboard.
The DJ-guitarist, who is set to visit with Avenged Sevenfold later on this year, increased to popularity through his electronic-infused metal playing. His most current studio album, Thrones of Blood landed in March in 2015.
Throughout a profession that discovers him meddling both metal and electronic circles, he has actually remixed tunes by Asking Alexandria and Atreyu, and formerly dealt with Kayzo and Papa Roach.
The 6- and seven-string designs use a 12-16″ fretboard radius, along with a Floyd Rose 1500 tremolo and locking system. King has actually gotten rid of a tone knob, leaving a three-way pickup switch and volume control with coil tap on the guitar’s bloodied body.
The guitar’s neck-through building, which hosts 24 X-jumbo stainless steel worries, is enhanced with a carbon fiber rod to avoid it from contorting. In a noteworthy modification to the basic Banshee designs, King’s functions a reverse Schecter-style headstock.
A blood-red Sullivan King logo design sits at the 12th fret, whilst the word ‘RAGE’, in an antiquated scripture-like font style, can be discovered throughout worries one to 4.
Normally, Banshees are made from mahogany however have actually been developed with nyatoh and overload ash bodies before, with the Mach-6 sporting an overload ash body and Evertune bridge.
The Banshee is among Shecter’s flagship design templates, so it’s not a surprise to see lots of permutations of the Stratocaster-like shape on the marketplace. The King signature contributes to that.
For its pickups, King has actually gone with an active Sustainiac in the neck and a passive Shecter USA Apocalypse in the bridge.
Shecter states the mix serves “endless sustain and harmonic material” and “a metric lots of compelling, high-output tone” by means of its particular pickups. Stylistically, the brand name has actually set out to develop a guitar efficient in genre-bending à la its signature artist, whilst likewise priming it for low-tuned metal playing.
Its additional functions are triggered by 2 mini-switches discovered on the bottom of the guitar, beyond the Floyd Rose. The very first switch turns its sustain-delivering superpowers on or off, whilst the 2nd deals 3 various modes.
Of those, the very first position provides an EBow-like sustain of the worried note with routine overtones. The center position feeds back the played note with a harmonic, whilst the 3rd deals a high-pitched overtone.
The above specifications lead to 2 guitars that Schecter states are both “noticeably smooth and aggressive”.
“Sullivan King has actually drawn attention for his uncommon mixing of EDM and electrical guitar-centered heavy metal efficiency,” states Schecter, “making his live programs among the couple of locations where kandi-coated ravers and metalheads socialize.”
King has actually been flaunting his signature construct on phase for a while, consisting of at efficiencies at the Lost Lands and Electric Daisy Carnival celebrations last summertime.
This isn’t the very first signature design Schecter has actually launched this year, either. There was, naturally, the Gatling gun Kelly razorblade signature guitarwhich lots of believed to be a Chibson stunt.
There was likewise a double whammy for Glassjaw’s Justin Beck, who was bestowed signature guitar and bass designs
The brand-new guitars cost $1,899 and $1,949 for the 6- and seven-string designs, respectively. They’re readily available to purchase now.
For additional information, head to Schecter