Schecter Blackjack ATX C-1

It is black satin, so do not leave fingerprints. Body and mahogany set neck, nickel sound, ebony fingerboard, a real comfort for the locking tuners and fixed bridge game for easy tuning and without adjustment. There is a 3 position switch, 2 volume knobs (for each of the microphones) and 1 tone knob to a range of sounds.

UTILIZATION

No need to advertise for Schecter, the brand is very good products violin even in lower ranges.

SG type form can have it in hand very easily and the balance is really perfect.

The handle is nice with a good performance and allows access to acute smoothly. The hardware is beautiful and perfectly done its job.

Excellent finishes!

I will not elaborate more on this topic, its use is perfect.

SOUNDS

If you like powerful sound with high output pickups Seymour Duncan assets (Blackouts), often compared to EMG active pickups (81 and 85), will amaze you. Oriented primarily of rock and metal, Blackouts pickups have a little more medium. I bought this guitar to record an album black / death and have his own without editing. The pure sound that emerges is incredible. Sustain, harmonics huge!

OVERALL OPINION

I have the last few months and this guitar is a killer.

Its overall shape is sober, elegant, imposes and is lighter than it may seem. Very important detail when playing long standing.

I tried a lot of guitars (about twenty) before acquiring it and none satisfied me.

I currently sell this guitar for 800 euros. It is like new, not a single scratch. I separated because the album was recorded only planned our project. I sincerely hope she will be happy, because this has been the case for me.

Made in South Korea and finished / set in the U.S. (like all of the diamond with Schecter)
Body and mahogany neck, all stuck with an appearance of driver handle.
Ebony fingerboard
Tonepro locking bridge, string through
mechanical Schecter locking, inspiration (even from the same source?) Schaller

graphite nut

handle attuned 25.5, thicker hair and narrower than standard shred

AHB1 seymour duncan pickups, active then. The bridge is ceramic handle Alnico V

Traditional routing, with a micro volume, one tone, a three-position switch and basta.


UTILIZATION

In terms of approval, I found all the qualities of C-1 diamond series (see my review on the hellraiser C1).

There is thus a great violin, both balanced, not too heavy (this is a guy who plays guitar SG No. 1 said that you), with access to acute absolutely perfect (it's a type that plays SG etc etc ...).

perfect for me handle (big palms, large short fingers ...) and interesting for its hybrid side: it is fast enough, especially in the treble, but keep this round in hand that makes you want to go to games sometimes more roots, the rhythm, or riff ...

the hardware is largely the road ... It's beautiful and reliable.

The finishes are very good, although a tad short of the hellraiser-I had a few years ago (imperfect trimming plate truss rod a little fast finish angle-head nut, with adjustment bof factory, as the assembly of the original strings). It is nevertheless still seriously nail into the cavities, whose covers are shielded ...

little quirk in the routing: the volume of pickup which is the closest of the fingers, and that the handle is in the middle ... not shocking, but I did not used to.

This guitar is unique in sound already very strong ... Empty! whole instrument vibrates, the sustain is huge and harmonics come naturally!


SOUNDS

First recall my two configs:
> An apartment config: Line 6 POD HD 400, is released in the headphone or on the Mac
> A config group: electronics AMT SS-11A + + EHX 44 magnum cabinet orange PPC 112

Let's start by stating the obvious:
This guitar is a killer in the hard / metal records.

Microphones bring a lot of gain, but still defined. However, they are significantly warmer and organic than the EMG, which in my opinion is a plus when it comes to break into a mix.

In addition, they manage to shake a little amps to achieve a truly sharp distortion: my SS-11, version A, comes out of the hi-gain quite musical and defined with this guitar!

But I was also surprised to see that the excavator can do much more than the area in which you tend to confine:

> Clean sounds are not anecdotal or synthetic ... Based attacks it will occasionally drop by 20-30% the volume knob to avoid cruncher on muscular right hands, but subject to that, it's pretty warm and round, regardless of the position. In any case this is music! In a little bossa amp should be able to jazz up even on the neck pickup is saying.
> If it is difficult to speak of light crunch (SRV friends or Peter Buck, do not buy this guitar), the crunch a little overweight limit distortion (AC / DC, ZZTop) are all but ridiculous! it's full, it's dynamic, it's alive ... What is beautiful.
> Distos the rock with heat are his kingdom, at least as much or more than the metal!

An anecdote:
for my first repeat in a group, finding my fellow guitarist "funny when I close my eyes I feel you play on a gibby les paul with Burstbucker".

This is the best description I think this guitar in addition to its metal shovel side, it also actually sounds very Gibson, very organic .... Very short fat rock.

The sound consists of both microphones certainly HiGain active and quiet, but also warm, musical, violin and full mahogany + ebony. The pickups do not betray the violin, the violin does not spoil the rendering microphones ... It is the combination that gives the sound and that's good!



OVERALL OPINION

I left at the beginning of the idea of ​​a Gibson Les Paul Studio 93-97 years, with a predilection for guitars and mahogany set neck. Nevertheless I had excellent memories of guitar Schecter has been a hellraiser C1, excellent shovel to my taste was faded by EMG that made caricature.

received earlier in the week, I had the opportunity to play in quite different contexts and rigs, and both say that I'm really delighted with this ultimately much richer and music that his first guitar the marketing target suggests at first.

The question is not "would you do this choice" but rather "why this choice does-it will not happen soon"!