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Product Description

The Jackson X Series SLX Soloist is a high-spec, premium instrument that punches far above what its price-point suggests. With a neck-through construction, compound radius fretboard, Duncan-Designed pickups and a Floyd Rose Special tremolo system, this guitar is built for performance.

Construction

The X Series SLX is formed of a Basswood body with a neck-through Maple neck. Basswood may be considered a less glamorous tonewood compared to others, however its light weight and balanced tonal qualities make it a great, practical option. Adorned with a Spalted Maple top, you can be assured to get plenty of attention onstage, with its stunning appearance inspiring you to just pick it up and play!

The Maple neck offers a bright and articulate tone, delivering a snappy response with a fast attack. This is great for tight palm-muted riffing in particular, but the vibrant tone can also allow lead playing to cut through even the heaviest of mixes. Reinforced with Graphite, this neck will remain stable even in differing temperatures and conditions, meaning you won't have to adjust your setup very often at all. 

A compound radius fretboard is another amazing, high-end feature of this instrument. Rounded at the lower end of the neck to make chords easier and more comfortable to play, the fretboard flattens out in the higher register to make shredding a breeze. This also helps to prevent notes from fretting out when performing string bends, making it a very ergonomic design.

With a neck-through construction, this guitar has a truly elegant feel and look. But the perks aren't purely aesthetic, as with a neck-through design you can expect better sustain and a warmer tone overall.

Electronics and Hardware

This high-performance instrument is powered by a pair Duncan-Designed humbuckers, versatile enough to handle high doses of gain whilst also offering warm, luscious tones with clean settings. With a three-way switch you can get the pure, unbridled bite of the bridge pickup, the smooth and creamy tone of the neck pickup for leads, or a combination of both for balanced cleans.  

A double-locking Floyd Rose Special tremolo will keep this guitar in tune incredibly well, no matter how extreme your Van Halen-style divebombs may be! 

Here's what Jackson say about the X Series SLX Soloist in Spalted Maple:

Distinctive and affordable, Jackson’s X Series Soloist™ models are built for speed, and loaded with purebred Jackson DNA.

The X Series Soloist™ SLX features a basswood body with a beautiful spalted maple veneer top, through-body maple neck with graphite reinforcement and tilt-back scarf joint headstock, and a 12"-16" fully bound compound radius dark walnut fingerboard with 24 jumbo frets that curves more dramatically at the nut for easy
chording and flattens out as it approaches the neck joint for low-action bends without fretting out.

Duncan Designed™ alnico HB-103N (neck) and high-output ceramic HB-103B (bridge) humbucking pickups power this metal beast, which also includes single volume and tone controls, three-way blade switching and a Floyd Rose® Special double-locking two-point tremolo bridge system.

A sleek and stunningly elegant guitar, the SLX is available in Natural with black hardware and pearloid sharkfin inlays.

Specifications

  • Series: X Series
  • Body Material: Basswood with a Spalted Maple Top
  • Body Finish: Gloss
  • Neck: 1-Piece Through-Body Maple Speed Neck with Graphite Reinforcement and Scarf Joint
  • Neck Finish: Gloss
  • Fingerboard: Dark Walnut, 12” - 16” Compound Radius (304.8 mm to 406.4 mm)
  • Frets: 24, Jumbo
  • Position Inlays: Pearloid Sharkfin
  • Nut (Material/Width): Floyd Rose® Special Locking, 1.6875” (42.86 mm)
  • Tuning Machines: Jackson-Branded Sealed Die-Cast
  • Scale Length: 25.5” (648 mm)
  • Bridge: Floyd Rose® Special Double-Locking 2-Point Tremolo
  • Pickguard: None
  • Pickups: Duncan Designed™ HB-103B Humbucking (Bridge), Duncan Designed™ HB-103N Humbucking (Neck)
  • Pickup Switching: 3-Way Blade: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge and Neck Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup
  • Controls: Volume, Tone
  • Control Knobs: Dome Style
  • Hardware Finish: Black
  • Strings: NPS, .009-.042 Gauges
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Trusted Customer23rd Apr 2020

Excellent guitar. Floyd rose special a better trem than expected. Not hugely versatile outside of rock and metal...just my opinion, but I knew that and that's why i bought a Jackson.

Value 5Looks 5Durability 5Sound 5

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