Larry Carlton Q7 Metallic Green Metallic Green

Constructed with upgraded components from manufacturing through setup, the Q7 is the flagship model of the new Q series: a reinterpretation of the classic double-cutaway body design from Sire's unique perspective. This guitar offers maximum playability and comfort, with exceptional lightness and guaranteed ease of performance.

• Body: Mahogany
• Maple top
• Set-neck: Mahogany
• Fingerboard: Ebony
• Block inlays in a rounded rectangle shape, made of white abalone/pearl
• Neck profile: "C"
• Fingerboard radius: 10"
• Scale: 25"
• Nut width: 43 mm
• Bone nut
• 22 Medium Jumbo frets
• Pickups: Two LC Q humbuckers
• One volume control and one tone control
• 5-position pickup selector switch
• Wilkinson WVP-6SB tremolo
• Standard sealed tuning machines
• Nickel hardware
• Color: Metallic Green

This model features an exceptionally lightweight double chamber body, ensuring maximum comfort and reducing fatigue during long playing sessions. Its ergonomic design also facilitates access to the highest frets, enabling versatile playing and easy interpretation.

The Sire Q7 is equipped with the LC Q humbucker pickup set (H-H), delivering a powerful and balanced sound with excellent clarity and sustain, suitable for a wide range of styles from crisp clean tones to aggressive overdrive. The 5-way switch enhances tonal versatility, allowing players to explore a broad spectrum of sounds by easily selecting different pickup combinations. Complementing this setup is the Wilkinson WVP-6SB bridge, renowned for its tuning stability, smooth tremolo action, and precision, ensuring reliable performance and expressive playing for modern musicians.

Designed to prevent tuning slippage, Sire's premium locking tuners offer greater tuning stability and faster string changes. These tuners securely lock the strings, reducing slippage during intense playing and ensuring consistent performance, even with frequent bends and tremolo use.

Q Series

The Sire Q series offers modern, lightweight, and ergonomic guitars designed for comfort and versatility. The Q3 features a mahogany body, while the Q7 adds a flame maple top. Both share a roasted maple neck, ebony or rosewood fingerboard, and HH pickup configuration with coil-split options, providing a wide range of tones from clear and defined to high-gain sounds.

The differences between models focus on finishes and hardware details, maintaining the same core specifications. This series is aimed at guitarists who prioritize a modern feel, quick response, and solid quality within an accessible price range.

About Sire USA

Based in the United States, Sire manufactures instruments across all price ranges with highly professional quality and finishes, consistently delivering a highly competitive product. They describe themselves as: "Our bass guitars are made for our friends to delight in playing yet with a professional sound quality".