Xotic XSS Super S-Style electric guitar

AS FUNNY AS this sounds, when a brand sends me a new guitar model outfitted with only one pickup, I say to myself, “That’s bold.” Releasing a spartan guitar like the Xotic XSS Super S-Style seems like such a throwback to a time when a guy with the initials EVH changed the entire guitar-world landscape by playing guitar with a solitary humbucker and making every guitarist around the globe realize that might be all we need.

- Paul Riario

Be that as it may, today’s players crave switching options and multiple tonal colors achieved by having more than one pickup.

That being said, I’ve spoken too soon. Even though the guitar I received is an H-model, fortunately, the Xotic XSS is also offered in two other pickup combinations (HSS and HSH) for the more discriminating players. But as it turns out — after putting this remarkable performance machine through its paces — the Xotic XSS Super S-Style guitar proves that one humbucker may be all I need. It’s that good.

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