Schecter Omen-7

I bought this guitar, used, at a local guitar center.
I paid $200.

I wanted a seven string guitar.

I like the overall construction. The hardware is great. The arched top strat style body is comfortable to play.

The sound is fine. It's a basswood body with stock Shecter humbuckers.

Seven strings take time to get used to.
The neck is wide, but in time, I'll be more accustomed to it.

Please see "likes."

I'm satisfied with my purchase.
Shecter makes a quality guitar!

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Schecter has always been a bit hit or miss on the quality control department, but this guitar was pretty bad in some areas. The guitar features a basswood body, a bolt-on maple neck with a rosewood fretboard, 24 frets, dot inlays, a hard tail bridge, two humbuckers, one volume, one tone and a three way switch.

UTILIZATION

The first thing I noticed was that this guitar weighed a freaking ton. I'm not a big fan of super heavy guitars as I tend to find they're more dead sounding than not. I also have a bad back, so the heavier guitars doesn't really gel with me to begin with. The fretwork on this was pretty bad. The frets weren't perfectly level, and the edges were very sharp. You could definitely tell that this was a budget guitar. The hardware was real cheap, and the rosewood was super dry on this thing. It needed a setup badly... worse than most guitars I see out of the box.

SOUNDS

First of all, the guitar didn't really resonate when I played it unplugged. It just kinda sounded dull. When I plugged it in, I was pretty shocked as to how bad the pickups sounded. You could tell that they're really cheap import pickups that simply are meant to fill some space in between a wood cavity. The cleans were super bland, the bridge was harsh, yet muddy and lead tones on this thing were pretty grim. The neck was much the same way, but it was even muddier than before. The tone knob only made things worse, so I don't recommend messing with that thing that much, unless you're playing doom/stoner metal.

OVERALL OPINION

The guitar is not something I would recommend. Spend the extra money and get the Hellraiser C7. You'll get a much better value guitar than this thing. These are just cheap beginner 7 strings for people who don't really play guitar that often. There may be a few good ones, but more are awful than not.

Made in South Korea.
Schecter Omen-7 Left Handed Guitar

CONSTRUCTION / SCALE: Bolt-on / 26.5 "
BODY: Basswood
Neck / Fingerboard: Maple / Rosewood
Frets: 24 Jumbo
INLAYS: Dots
PICKUPS: Diamond Plus
ELECTRONICS: Vol/Tone/3-Way
BRIDGE: TOM w / thru-body
BINDING: None
TUNERS: Diamond
HARDWARE: Chrome
COLOR: Gloss Black (BLK)

Interesting feature found on bcp guitars of this type (2 HH). The 3 position selector suits me well (set metal type). Some prefer a 5-position ...

Through-string: Pretty good for a 7-string entry to sustain.

UTILIZATION

The handle is quite large, it's a 7 string, but I find it rather pleasant Malagasy everything, especially that I did not hand imposing.

Access to acute is correct, though I go pretty soon.

I do not feel that this guitar is very heavy ... I am a good bass player at the base so I used to have weight on the shoulders, but his weight does not seem to be a handicap for a 7-string. Balance of the guitar. Taking no hand is good.

SOUNDS

For sound, two HH config allows for very powerful sounds typical metal, what I wanted. I could try it on a small peavey rendering is not great, but on this mesa is already doing more!
But then it depends on what you want. For the price, the microphones are correct ... if you want a good guitar, a change of micro can do the trick. Especially the 7 strings Left do not run the streets. With microphones OCCAZ (or new) if we can do it, it cost between 100 and 150 euros. In a luthier about 200 euros. I wanted to do, but I prefer to focus on bass.

So if you want a small 7-string for micro enough itches. For a guitar that sends best ben mics needed a change.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 7 months.

What I like is being able to play on a 7-string left not too expensive. I bought it in order to compose guitar parts on compounds (guitar pro discount then).

For comparison, in 7-string I did not. Compared to other models in the same price range (6-string, in Yam, Cort, Ibanez ,...) I think she seems stronger, better finished, a cranc above. Good for mics, I'm not a pro, but in this level range is often the same, there are rarely any kind of quality microphones Duncan or Dimarzio.

The price / quality ratio is really good for the price of sale to US, or 350-400 euros in Europe ... 7cordes + Left>>> it raises the price easily, so it's a good value for money. The prob is that it is not distrib Fr not even in stores VPC so important obligation. The price increases to 450-500 euros, which is correct for a left-handed but fatally 7cordes qd is even less attractive: /

For a 7-string not too expensive, I do it again the same, simply because it is the only available. Well it must be said that the look of the Schecter is not displease me. So yes my choice Repport on this model (or model-C1 EX Baritone, but this is almost 800 euros).

If one day available for 400 euros in Fr, where it will be a very good price / quality ratio.

Korean
Modern Standard Stratocaster
CONSTRUCTION / SCALE: Bolt-on / 26.5 "
BODY: Basswood
Neck / Fingerboard: Maple / Rosewood
Frets: 24 Jumbo
INLAYS: Dots
PICKUPS: Diamond Plus
ELECTRONICS: Vol/Tone/3-Way
BRIDGE: TOM w / thru-body
BINDING: None
TUNERS: Diamond
HARDWARE: Chrome
COLOR: Gloss Black (BLK)



UTILIZATION

handle large but surprisingly pleasant

strat shape is versatility by exelence easy access to acute but I'm not big fan of solo nothing to say the above
sound level I used it in several of my amp see my profile and the sound is very proper for this price for a 7 string and for a lefty.

SOUNDS

Lack of accuracy but its very powerful at the same time but just hop on the changed and we will say good c emg kit 707 to less than 150 € that's what I'm doing but I have ordered the edges of micro suitable notice before only problem is that we fucked the box so we forget the good warranty but having the handle it could not move so soon

if not for the clean sound it sounds very good range Audible both handle and an easel
distortion in one part of a crunch sound has a sound very metal already with these micro although we regret the lack of precision micro schecter

OVERALL OPINION

I bought this guitar because I wanted a 7 string.
good violin! good finish! good handle at first sight!
It supports different tuning or adjustment without friz stick.
between this one and a model above http://www.htd.fr/presse/images_pr/Octobre2008/schecter_demo7_grand.jpg which was then mounted EMG but price difference of 296 € for this one has a 800 € least bit ready for the version in EMG was added 500 € is not so bad a choice I probably would do for the utility that I have for now