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The black hardware running throughout — bridge, tuners, pickup rings, switch tip — cuts against the vivid color without competing with it, the roasted quartersawn maple neck glows in warm caramel contrast against both the body and the black headstock, and the black Onyx dot inlays trace the fingerboard with a quiet precision that grounds the whole visual composition. No pickguard — nothing between you and the finish. This guitar is as much an object of art as it is an instrument, and it arrives having already made a statement before a single note is played.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe Studio Elite HDX is Tyler’s more sophisticated performance platform — wider in its switching capability than the Classic LAX, with three function buttons that go beyond the mid boost alone. The Tyler Mid Boost is here as always, the anchor of the system and the circuit that made these guitars the choice of LA’s studio elite for decades, but the HDX adds an Add Neck\/Bridge button for Telecaster-adjacent neck-and-bridge combinations and a Series\/Parallel Bridge control that gives the “Super” bridge pickup two distinct voices in the same position. JTS5500 single coils at neck and middle deliver Tyler’s characteristic clarity and chime, and the stainless steel Wide\/Tall frets across the 10\"–12\" compound radius fingerboard add durability and a silky, frictionless feel that nickel-silver frets can’t match. Gotoh G2TS tremolo, locking tuners, ST59 neck at .825\"–.915\", 1 5\/8\" nut — the Tyler platform executed at full specification. 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