Schecter STC-Shaped Guitars

Bought at Music Gear in Westminster, MD for 450 bucks. Cool finish on it. Headstock is a little different from the typical fender copy everyone does. Strong hardware. Stays in tune pretty good. There is lot I don't like about this guitar. First the pickup have NO tone what so ever. The neck pickup and bridge pickup sound exactly the same. You can't play anything with feeling. It all comes out sounding very very trebley. (I guess that's a word) The neck feels like a toy. Any gauge string set higher than 10 will warp the neck big time. Don't let some salesman tell you this guitar can be used for anything. It is a heavy metal guitar and its not even good for that kind of sound. Body is solid. Neck is very small and doesn't feel very strong. Fingerboard is not comfortable. Electronics seem to be ok. I wouldn't recomend this guitar unless you were going to play only metal music and nothing else. And even for metal I'd suggest an ESP or an Ibanez first. This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

I bought the Schecter C-1 Elite from Guitar Center about four months ago for $537. I felt a bit slimed by the guys at GC and wouldn't purchase from them again, merely use them for price comparison and bargaining. I would however go out and get a C-1 Elite again. I absolutely love this guitar. I'm not a great player, but this guitar makes me feel like one. I owned a cheap Epiphone when I was in high school that was difficult to play and sounded awful. It turned me off, and eventually I lost interest in playing. When I picked up the Schecter, I knew that I was hooked again. The neck feels great in my hand, and the shape of the body feels great against my strumming arm. The humbucker pickups sound great through my Peavey Classic 30 - fat and warm. I ditched the strings that came with it immediately - they are almost worthless. As others have mentioned, it's shiny as all heck, and prints up pretty quickly. It seems solidly built. When I tried other C-1 Elites in the store, there were some that had very dusty volume controls - scratchy, you know. Also, I wouldn't buy the ones that have the gold tone to the pickups and tuning knobs. One that sat in GC for a few weeks quickly lost its nice gold tone - cheap plating, I guess. My chrome pickups are still as gorgeous as the day I purchased it. If you like an electric with a Les Paul style of neck, without the immense heft of an original LP, this is a great alternative. The inexpensive overseas manufacture, allows for some high quality parts and details at an affordable price. This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

I got this off eBay for $230US including a bag and strap. I heard very good things about Schecter Omen 6s (and other Schecter guitars for that matter) from my friends and tons of other guitar reviews, so I got one myself. It kicks ass. It's great in dropped tuning, can play anything from clean to heavy metal. Except Indian and cult music. It has great playability, pretty good pickups (H-H configuration), great looking satin black finish. The tuners are excellent as well. I can play for days without tuning it. I mean her. It sounds excellent for music like Metallica, Blink 182, Sum 41, Disturbed and bands like that. Since it has 24 frets, you can play many solos other 21 or 22 fret guitars can't. I raised my bridge pickup with those to height adjustment screw things (those who know what they are will know what I'm talking about) and ever since then, I have loved my guitar more than ever. And I didnt think that was even possible. Without raising the pickups, they are a bit weak, but still sound great. Since the body is made of basswood, it is pretty heavy compared to most guitars. Also, as cool as the satin black looks, it's also kinda bad because fingerprints show very easily on the finish. Nothing really "bad" about this guitar. Schecter is known for good construction and quality. The finish holds up pretty well. I've had my guitar bumped around a bit, and little or no damage has been shown. However, since it was shipped, the idiot post office people were probably playing catch with it or something, so I had to fix some of the wiring when I got it. Anyway, all in all, it's great quality and construction. It should outlast me. This is a great guitar. It sells at $300 at musiciansfriend.com, why not buy it? It costs around the same as a Fender Strat, and hell of a lot better. There's a reason why Terry Corso from Alien Ant Farm, Tommy Lee, Rob Zombie's bassist, the bassist from Stone Temple Pilots, Jerry Horton from Papa Roach and many others play Schecter. Great guitar, great price. What more could you ask for? This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

My wife picked this guitar up for me at Guitar Center after I had been looking at it for about three months. Got a great deal on it for 650.00 This guitar surpasses all guitars on the market right now. I used to work for GC and know the quality that some guitar makers are known for. The neck through body, cream binding, arch-top, grover tuners, and the inlay on the neck makes this guitar absolutely stunning to look at. The pick-ups are an added surprise as I usually swap stock pick ups out for something more custom. These pick ups are great. Just put on a set of heavy strings and tune low and your in for a crunch fest that you wont forget. The guitar feels great to play and no matter what you run it through it will sound great. Schecter is definatley on the rise and people owe it to themselves to check out the quality on this guitar. The price that these guitars go for almost make one feel guilty. Awsome guitar. Without a doubt, there is nothing that I would change about this guitar. 1st class superb quality. Solid feel and design with all of the class of any guitar that one would pay a couple of grand for. Absolute best guitar that money can buy. After playing mine I would pay twice what I payed for another Schecter. This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

I got this guitar at East Coast music mall in Danbury CT. The guy gave me a great discount, making the guitar $485, instead of $530, the musiciansfriend.com price. The guitar is beutiful. Its 2 duncan designed humbuckers sound great, clean or distorted. The thin neck makes it easy to slide up and down. I could not find any problems. Mine is vintage sunburst. The finish is great. It is a one piece guitar (no bolt-on neck). I am pretty sure it is made of mahogony. The neck slides very easily and is very slim. This is a great guitar, and if you are looking in the 500 to 600 dollar range, look at this one. It is a lot for your money. This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

I recentely acquired my Schecter at the local IPA. I was looking for a new guitar and I stumbled across this one. I believed I paid around 450-500 dollars for it. I like the tone that comes out of the stock Duncan Designed pickups. I like the sleek body styling and color. Mine cam in sparkly silver. It has a good neck with great reach in the upp frets (goes to 24). Most of all I like the ability to stay in tune that it has. I will play it for a couple of hours and only have to do slight fine tuning. O and i forgot I like the tune o matic bridge and string thru body design. There isn't much I don't like. Basically the worst thing about it is that the cover to get into the back of the guia is hard to get off after it is unscrewed. The quality of this guitar is better than most of the guitars I own. I cam set up with little fret buzz out of the factory. I haven't had any paint chips o scratches and the neck is very good quality for a bolt on. the bottom line is this is the best guitar for the price. If you have the money and you are looking for a quality guitar purchase a Schecter C-1 Diamond Series. (Schecterguitars.com) This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com

Shecter guitars are a guitar company that prides itself in the budget friendly guitar instruments but also the playability factor is highly usable. They've really been able to meet a market that needs a good workable recording and gigging instrument that has budget friendly prices. Many of their guitars look pretty funky and the cosmetic design of this is a guitar really goes in line with the other products that this company produces. UTILIZATION Construction: Bolt-On Body: Basswood Neck: Maple Fingerboard: Rosewood Frets: 22 Jumbo Scale: 25 1/2 in. Inlays: Dot Bridge: Tune-O-Matic w/Thru Body Tuners: Diamond Deluxe Hardware and Finishes: Satin Black w/Satin Chrome Hardware, Vampire Red Satin w/Black Hardware Pickups: Diamond High Output Electronics: Vol / Tone / 3-way SOUNDS The 006 Deluxe guitar features to humbucker pickups with a volume control knob and a tone control knob. The one thing I hate about this guitar is that it features basswood on the body. I've never like the tone of the basswood because it just doesn't right. Something about it just seems off. If you've ever played a mahogany, alder, or an ash wood guitar in the basswood is going to feel tremendously different. The shape of the guitar is somewhat of a super strat, but the curvature of it is pretty peculiar. The color of this guitar is somewhat at a red and black mixture of the paint. It has a bolt on neck which allows it to be pretty strong. Overall this is a decent guitar for the money but I certainly would buy this guitar primarily because of the basswood feature. OVERALL OPINION These guitars have been discontinued for a while now but you can find them somewhere online new for right around $600. You can cut that in half if you find one on the used classifieds section. This is not that great of a guitar in my opinion and I would pretty much bypass it altogether. Schecter does make some good guitars for the money and this is not really one of them. I would suggest going with an Ibanez or another Schecter guitar for the money.

This is a guitar company that makes pretty good feeling guitars for the money. I've always liked this brand guitars because they're very inexpensive and the overall feeling and comfortability of the necks is quite impressive. It has a very good balance throughout the body of the guitar and overall present themselves in quite a good light. This is basically a Fender Stratocaster imitation guitar. It has a great feel and great tone that will get you anything that Fender Stratocaster guitar will get you as far as tone wise. UTILIZATION You have every thing that a normal Fender Strat would have as far as features go. You get three single coil pickups and a 5 way pickup selector. There is the simple tremolo system and that is about it. The guitar has a nice feel and the neck in some ways is a lot more comfortable then many Fender Strats that I have player. SOUNDS If you like the Fender Stratocaster tone and this is good to be a good guitar for you. This is the custom shop stratocasters from Schechter so it's good to have a good custom feel and overall will feel like a good old worn in baseball glove. I've always liked the feel of their guitars in general not just the Stratocastor type guitars because they just feel comfortable to play and whenever you have a good comfortable guitar play then your experience and playing is good to be much more enjoyable. These guitars will go great with any other amplifier that you have or effects that you might have just as much is a general Fender Stratocaster guitar would do. OVERALL OPINION These guitars are the custom shop so they're going to fetch a little bit higher price so I would look at prices probably just over $1000 or so. I seen them for right around $1300 and down to about $1000. These are fun guitars and if you don't want to go to the Fender Stratocaster route and this is a good alternative for you.

This guitar is comparable to an ESP MH-350. It is a basic solid metal guitar. There arent many frills on this guitar but it gets the job done due to nice hardware. The Damien elite is a much better value than the normal Damien due to the fact that it comes with fully active EMG instead of pretend EMG passives. This guitar has a super strat shaped mahogany body with a bolt on maple neck. The neck has a rosewood fretboard with 24 jumbo frets. The guitar has cross inlays similar to the ones on the Jeff Loomis signature guitar. The EMG pickups are a standard set of 81 in the bridge and the 85 in the neck. It has a master volume and master tone with a 3 way switch. At the bottom there is a tonepros tune-o-matic with a string through tailpiece for more sustain. UTILIZATION Schecter playability is more hit and miss than most companies. When you get one you should just assume that it will need a setup. The features on this guitar are pretty good for the price. The tonepros bridge with the string through tailpiece is a nice touch although I wish it had locking tuners. The rotomatics are nice and have a high ratio but locking tuners solves problems better than high ratio tuners. The heel is big and square and it is barely slanted so it will get in your way a bit while playing on the high frets and its perfectly square so the edges are pretty sharp. You will have to check for sharp fret ends. Guitars like these that come from overseas and dont have any binding tend to get sharp fret ends due to the wood contracting during transport. This causes the end of the fret to pop out a bit from the wood. I find that this rarely happens on guitars have have binding on the neck. This guitar does not have any binding. SOUNDS This guitar is saved by the high quality time tested pickups it has. If a set of EMG's cant make a guitar sound good than nothing will. The 81/85 set is well known and well used in the guitar world. It can do any type of music that requires a good amount of gain. The 81 in the bridge is super tight and has over the top gain. It has a top end grind that prevents the sound from becoming muddy. The 85 in the neck is another classic EMG pickup. In the neck is it perfect for fat high gain leads. It is a bit smoother than the 81 so it does the lead role well. It is also good in the bridge if you are looking for a fatter tone overall. EMG active pickups can make just about any guitar sound good and they seem to make guitars easier to play as all the notes and harmonics you are looking for just pop out. OVERALL OPINION This is a pretty decent guitar but for the price and the type of guitar it is I could not recommend this over an ESP LTD. You can get an ESP guitar just like this for the same price and 9 times out of 10 the out of the box quality will be better. Schecter guitars seem to be more hit or miss than other guitars. The quality hardware on this guitar save it overall but you can get a better guitar overall that comes with the same hardware for the same price.