Peavey PXD Guitars: Is Nashville Ready For These Guitars?
With set-neck construction, active EMG pickups, Kahler bridges and a look that says "I don't play anything under 180 BPM," the new PXD guitars from Peavey made an impressive showing at Summer NAMM.
If you're ever challenged by a demon to a shred-off for your immortal soul, this is probably the guitar you want hanging around your neck: even if your picking-tech isn't up to hell-snuff, the lightweight, balanced body design makes the PXDs great for swinging about like a scythe or battle-ax, as Peavey's Fred Poole demonstrates.
FRED POOLE: Hi. I’m Fred Poole. I’m the manager of product development for Peavey Electronics, and this is the new PXD line of Shred Guitars.
PXD represents 43 years of experience building and manufacturing guitars and is the culmination of a lot of our customers that play the 6505 and exists in that particular marketplace, demanding something that they can play and this is it. This is built for those people.
EMG pickups, Kahler trems on the top-end models, set neck which is fantastic, mahogany neck, mahogany wings. This is an aluminum, brushed aluminum pickguard, dual expanding truss rod, and the action that these things come set up and inspected in the United States and are fantastic guitars, made overseas, brought over here, and inspected here 100% at our factories, set up here, and made sure that these things are top shelf. They come with PXD Coffin Cases, the hard shell case that comes with it.
This particular guitar is $899 MAP. The one without the Kahler one snapped down is going for $799, and then we have models that have VFL pickups which is our very own active circuit. Even the least expensive models have active pickups in which is very important. The bolt-on, which is only $399, has an active VFL pickup in it. It comes with a set neck, bridge at $499 and $399 for those particular models respectively.
What type of EMG pickups, 81 and a 60 with an Afterburner, 20 dB of boost. What do you think?
BRITTON WETHERALD: [INDISCERNIBLE]
FRED POOLE: It’s not bad. I mean you can shred all night with this thing, put it around your neck, you know. I’ll try it for you later off camera. [LAUGHING]
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