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PT Baritone needs to come in a 7. For sure. I'm always harassing the Reverend livestreams for a baritone tele 7 and they always go "hm...nah we'd still rather not" lol
Sweetwater rocks. Especially when buying a guitar with a wood grain finish, where you can see your exact guitar before ordering. My sales rep has taken good care of me over the years, too.
I'm old enough to remember when Hamer had a couple models with a Triple Coil (might have been a Mighty Mite Motherbucker, which they developed back in the 70s) in them (I believe the Prototype and the Phantom). I seem to remember being unimpressed and thinking of it as a gimmick (but you could turn each coil on and off and change phase, so it was a lot like having a bridge humbucker and a middle single coil on a Strat).
From the wiring diagram it seems that’s basically what this is too, just a middle pickup but much closer to the bridge. I think that could be pretty cool to jump between bridge hum and then just get a slight tone shift adding the extra coil that’s not quite a middle
Schecter isn’t killing it “right now”. Schecter’s been killing it for like 20 years now at least, probably longer, but I’m not complaining that they’re getting all this positive attention
Ive been eyeing the Schecter Miles Dimitri Baker 7 myself and really if they had more floyd option on the the Keith Merrow I would go that route myself
I noticed you was taken back by the narrow frets on the freeze bass. I think it is a jazz or slap style thing. A lot of old school bassists who tend to slap like narrow frets.
You're not insane. Schecters are my favorite guitars. Not only are they spec'd out and priced right, their customer service is top shelf. They literally have a guitar or (10) for anyone and any style. Thank you Mr. Fish for another excellent video.
They make guitars for genres other than metal, too! Their Corsairs and Coupes are just a few examples. They even have some more classic-spec Tele and Strat-style guitars.
My Pops just picked up the Nick Johnston HSS (strat style) and it kills. Ridiculously playable neck and fit/finish all around. I'm probably going to pick up a PAF style bridge pickup for him. The stock one is very nice with clarity and dynamics, just more my style than his. He's into blues and classic rock and he loves the guitar. After playing Fenders, G&L, PRS, Sterling by Music Man, Squier and a few others in the $1,000ish price range he didn't find anything he liked better.
I wish ESP would buy Dean. I say that every time everyone gushes on Schecter...Hisatake-san, if you read any of these things *please Buy DEAN* so we can get new kickass stuff from them too.
My Diamond with sustainiac completely died out within a year. The Schecter tech was a complete tool on the phone. He wouldn't honor the lifetime warranty on my Diamond because it was "strictly an electronics problem" as he said. Lol. Yeah. On my electric guitar this was the excuse I was given. 1300 down the drain. Never Schecter... never again.
Dude, same here. Played and owned lots of brands...Fender, Gibson, Ibanez, etc. Bought a Schecter Reaper 6 FRS a couple years ago and just recently a Nick Johnston signature strat style, and I gotta say, they are hands down the best guitars I have ever put my hands on. I am definitely a Schecter fan boy now.
Bro I love my guitars, my all time fav is my Mick Thomson sig jackson. But i own more schecters then any other brand because they have reliability, build quality, and great specs for the price.
Ff 13 was the last game that felt like final fantasy. 15 was too modern and 16 was too western(it was a great game though). I really hope they remaster the game and expand the controversial hallway type maps that people complain about. If they can make it more explorable and revisitable areas then people cant complain. Love that games vibes.
It's funny... I was just watching Rob Scallon's 2 hour long video on building a guitar in Schecter's workshop and when they got to the characteristics of 1 and 2 coils, I wondered if anyone has done three coils... A few days later, I found out!
I'm sure someone has said this, but Ibanez did the whole triplebucker thing in the late 70s. The first Iceman guitars had a triplecoil that was on rails so it could slide. Like into neck or bridge position.
A sliding pickup?! That's an pretty interesting idea. Not sure how practical though...would have to be well built to stay reliable. But certainly could be handy to find the perfect position for the best sound, or for a more comfortable playing position (I'm getting used to an Ibanez AZ I got recently, that has HSS and 24 frets...so having to be a lot more accurate with my picking or I end up hitting the middle pickup).
Finally! Been waiting for this video to go live!! The sunset series is insane I don’t think any import guitar company other than cort/Harley Benton has sub USD 1000 with such great specs and I mean SS frets
One of my first guitars from almost 15 years ago is a omen6. It was like 300-350, I don't remember. Anyway I also have a Sterlings a Fender an Ibanez and LTD, and some other stuff the only guitars I like better than my omen are my Reaper 7 and my Banshee gt6fr. Schecter or bust if you ask me.
I'm saving to buy a schecter e1 VSB to play pantera like stuff... Do you think i made a good choice...? Just love that look... 😊Pickups can be changed later if i really want to...
Proud owner of 4 Schecters in my collection and they all are phenomenal. My Schecter E-1 and V-1 custom's are basically spec'd very similar to a Gibson Custom shop without that 4-5k price tag.
Great video and yeah I have owned two Schecter basses in my day. Scorpion was used, and the stiletto extreme 4 came perfectly set up and ready to play. I would looooove to get my hands on one of those lefty Sunsets. Really any one of those lefties they offer would rule!!
Fender did a very similar thing to the sunset guitar about 10+ years ago with the modern player Marauder. It has a tribucker in the bridge and a jazzmaster pickup in the neck. 5 way switch with pretty much the exact same pickup configurations. I own one and to be honest I don’t really use the tribucker engaged all at once because it has much lower output than the regular humbucker position or even the jazzmaster pickup. Interested to see what the tribucker sounds like fully engaged on the schecter tho.
I have the dimension bass from that series which also came with the tribucker and a 5 way rotary switch...the bass itself is rock solid, but that tribucker was complete garbage, I realized immediately that pickup had to go
I don't think there's ever been any question about the quality of Schecters. I do agree they were basically doing the same stuff from 2005 up until 2015 and there was nothing new in their lineup aside from the sustantiac models. I've been playing Schecters almost exclusively for nearly 15 years. I own 5 of them. A C-7 Hellraiser Special, C-1 Hellraiser FR, Tempest Custom, Omen Elite-FR, and my first, a Schecter Gryphon. I have an LTD and Ibby which I also love, but there's a reason I have 5 Schecters.
I would love to see Electric Callboy signatures from Schecter! I have SLS Evil Twin and damn, this is the only guitar I have that can compete with my Majesty which says a lot, and by "a lot" I mean $3k price tag difference.
I have a Schecter C-1 Blackjack that I bought about 18 years ago and it's amazing. What they are doing now is over the top and spectacular quality. But when you factor the cost, they may just be the finest and best playing guitzrs for the money on the market. The C-1 FR-S SLS Elite is number 1 on my list of wants right now.
I think people are moving more to bolt-on because modern bolt-on joints and heels can offer the access advantages of set or neck-thru designs, and it’s FAR easier to replace a broken neck if it’s a bolt-on, while a set-in neck will take more time and skill, and forget about fixing a neck-thru. Plus bolt-on guitars are generally cheaper than their other neck construction counterparts. Here’s what I say: Taylors are all bolt-on guitars and you rarely hear people talk poorly of their sound, even if they say they prefer other brands.
I have 2 Schecter's. The C-6 Elite in Silverburst (first one) and the Omen Extreme 6 (second one) in Trans-Pink Burst and I love them both. Personally I love the pink one more because it's a bit heavier and feels more premium than my Silver one. But both are fantastic.
Just bought a T5 Studio to go with my Omen 5 and it's a beast. Have an Omen Active and C1 platinum as well. I only own one non-schecter guitar, and that's the les paul I just bought today. Very surprised with the range the new instruments can play. It's not all just hammer smashed face anymore.
I absolutely love the Synyster gates custom pickups. I put them in a semi hollow Ltd (funky combo) and the sustain is pretty epic. It’s really easy to get a good variety of different tones with them. Similar to an invader I suppose, but cleaner maybe. Hard to explain
This probably happened too late to be in this video, but Browne also posted a new variant of his TAO signature in his instagram stories yesterday, it's a solid color light blue variant.
I love Schecter!!! I currently play a see through black matte finish C-1 Platinum with the 81/85 EMGs. I play that guitar everyday for hours on end with the Mammoth Slinky's & it's definitely a drop B metal machine. Bottom line if your a fellow metal head you can't go wrong with Schecter.🤘🎸
That triplebucker guitar is the most interested I’ve ever been in a Schecter guitar. It’s so extra, but also kinda classy. I need! I may even go for the 7 string variant as my first 7!
Triplebucker looks similar to something Stonewall pickups I believe did first check out their Third Eye single coil, I have 2 and they're fucking insane LOL it sounds more like a Stratocaster than an actual Fender Stratocaster glassiest strat tone I've ever heard, but all the low ends and mids are very present but still very clear and pleasant me personally, I hate humbuckers but Stonewall have the best P90s I've ever heard
Schecter are just great playing guitars. The QC has always been great too. I have 3 of their guitars, and feels better than my $900.00 Jackson, or my Ibanez . Just comfortable to play.
I have an older Schecter 'Abalone Explosion' baritone. It weighs a ton, has a stripey top and many, many abalone died to make it pretty(or tacky), depending on your taste. But most of all, It sounds great. Looks like Schecter is still killing it.
I became a Schecter guy this year. Then did it again because I loved it so much. Now the very proud owner of an Aaron Marshal AM6 and Nick Johnston HSS. Never looking back. I’m a Schecter guy now.
I've been playing and working on guitars and basses for over 30 years, and I build custom instruments, and I love my Schecter JL-7. It's a neck through, but I do love playing, and building, bolt-on neck instruments.
I've been a schecter guy since Sean Danielsen started playing them 20 years ago. Never been disappointed, can't wait to grab a triad and also jump on the baritone bandwagon.
My first guitar was a '72 Gibson SG that someone had taken a hacksaw to, removed the mini humbuckers and put a Schecter triple-coil in the bridge and a regular humbucker in the neck. I paid $250 for th SG, in 1981.
I got a Banshee GT in Purple 2 years ago - amazing guitar, and honestly basically Is what my dream guitar would have been, as a teenager first getting into guitar I love it, SO much
Ibanez used a Triplebucker triple coil bridge pickup on some of the old 540P / 540PII models, back in the late 80s, from memory. Alvarez also used one too, on their Dana Scoop models back in the day. I'm surprised it took this long to come back around again. I remember being a teenager in the 80s and thinking a triple coil humbucker would be the best sounding pickup ever. Now I'm approaching 50 next year, I much prefer single coils to humbuckers these days. I find they are much better for articulation, attack, clarity etc. These Schecters look great quality and the specs are top notch. Enjoyed the video mate. You have a new subscriber. Carlo 👍🏼🎸
Schecter has always been killing it. For every buttrock monster energy drywall Kyle thing they release, there are like 10 really good value for the price guitars. My only issue with them is occasional QC, but they're great for the most part.
I never thought in 1 million years that I would say this, but my favorite guitar in my collection is my Schecter. I do everything from indie to punk to R&B and Pop and the TS/H1-B can really do it all. I’m also throwing in a Fishman powerbridge for a piezo tone
My first schecter was the Damien SBK. The Matte black guitar with the bat inlays. I think a lot of people sleep on this guitar because of the bats but mine has schecter heretic pickups, a hard tail bridge, and a coil split. I bought mine for $500. I've written 3 albums on this guitar. It is my go to for everything. My second schecter was the silver mountian blood moon 8 string. I was unimpressed. First of all, I hate gloss necks. I had to buy a guitar with a gloss neck to find out lol. And the pickups were pretty muddy in my opinion. But the tuning stability was absured. That guitar sat in its case for 6 months, I pulled it out, perfectly in tune. They make the best shit, the pickups on that guitar were lack luster though
Shecter did nothing new here. Ibanez did the same triple Humbucker Pickup in 1987 with the "540S-TC" The Pickup was manufacted by DiMarzio like most Ibanez PUs back in the day.
I have a decent collection which includes a 55 les paul special (best tone of all my guitars) and a prs custom 24 ( best playing guitar) but my old schecter c-1 still blows them all away with the overall tone and playability and I have never changed anything in it (stock Duncan design pups) I’ve got other schecters as well and in my opinion you can’t beat the quality for the price.
The triad seems... gimicky... aimed at guitar players who play with too much gain and no mids. They seem like they'll be on the shelf at guitar center for years, constantly on sale with 'okay' fretwork.
What Schecter is doing apparently is skipping all QC. Recently bought a Reaper 6 Elite returned it due to electronic issues Got the replacement and that had a set screw in the bridge cross threaded and stripped so one saddle was stuck way up with no way of adjusting it. Should have never left the factory like that Now that Schecter is sending out hot garbage I have to figure out what to get when this drama is over
The triple coil pickup isn’t exactly a new idea: in the 90’s, Alvarez Guitars had introduced an Electric Guitar line, The Dana model, which - and this was partly why the line didn’t succeed - had a bizarre cutaway (went under the neck pocket) and, in a first, a triple coil pickup.
That sunset-7 in grey ghost is looking REALLY good, really considering picking one of those up. That or the Jackson Josh Smith sig (being a northlane fanboy). Someone please help me choose 💀
I got a PT Special from Sweetwater earlier this year. The open pore satin finish on the swamp ash is drop dead gorgeous. Looks, plays, and sounds amazing. Schecter makes something for everyone.
Schecter makes awesome guitars. I have one of the hardtail Sun Valley Super Shredder Exotics and I'm thinking about putting in some Bare Knuckle Warpigs in it.
I don't think it matters that Schecter don't show EQ curves for pickups because there isn't much evidence to show that pickups have a noticeable EQ curve. Don't get caught up with how a pickup might potentially sound when differences are minimal and external EQ is free. :P
Maybe a few years ago when Chuck was still running Sweetwater, the 55pt. inspection was actually something tangible. I'm not sure that's the case anymore? I've gotten multiple guitars from Sweetwater with all kinds of basic QC problems recently. It's just not the same anymore at Sweetwater.
I agree completely. I've bought 8 from Sweetwater and Thursday got a new Schecter Reaper-6 Elite, 55pt insp., plek'd, setup and polished. Probably went through 5 professional guitar guys and it has a 6" paint flaw that I saw in 2 sec. after unboxing. You can feel it, it's that bad. I don't think they give a crap anymore. No way does this get through any QC dept. anywhere. I am so pissed off with them. It was pushed through and every one of them saw it. Those cardboard cards mean nothing! Of course, they're out of stock now till who knows when, so they couldn't ship out a new one, they gave me some money off but I guarantee they didn't lose any.
@@mattnelson8325 Sounds like business as usual there. You've always gotta remember that a certain percentage of ALL the guitars they get brand knew have problems. They will keep trying to sell those guitars over and over till some fool comes along that'll accept the damn thing. Imagine how many guitars they have right now "in stock " that have been returned at least once already just sitting there waiting for the next unsuspecting dreamer. I'd bet at least 30% of their stock has been returned once already. Gotta be a real stickler sometimes when dealing with cocky sales people. Otherwise they'll walk all over you if you let them.
I've always loved the look of Schecter and I got a Schecter as my first 8-string. I fuckin adore this thing outside of one housekeeping detail (buzzy bottom string), it's super comfy to play with my giant bass hands and the sound is nothing short of thunderous. It's a lot of fun, and, as I think is the most important thing with my instruments, it's incredibly inspiring.
In my experience, Schecters play and sound great, but they're virtually unplayable out of the box. I have 3. • Sun Valley Super Shredder FR S LH: bought used, fucking amazing, but the EMG Retro Active in the bridge doesn't suit my playing at all (probably going to swap it out for a Duncan Blackout or something. • E-1 Special Edition FR S LH: bought new direct from a dealer (factory sealed box), was literally just assembled and thrown into the box. Floyd was nowhere near intonated or had it springs/height adjusted, truss rod wasn't set properly. • Banshee GT LH: bought new direct from a dealer (factory sealed box), the Floyd nut had about .025" extra flashing in the D string slot, luckily I had a USA Floyd nut kicking around, since yes, Schecter replaced it, but it took about a month to get to me. I swapped out the EMGs (I hate EMG guitar pickups) for Fishman McRocklin pickups to match the purple vibe. Two brand new guitars, two absolutely unplayable messes. The Banshee GT is one of my "bad weather gig" guitars, though.
Sold my Schecters years ago.....just bought an SLS Elite cause that cost to value is insane. It shipped today, I'm stoked to receive it. Schecter really been killin it in recent years.
FFS WHO PASSED AN INTERNATIONAL LAW THAT AAAALLLLLL BARITONES *MUST* BE T-SHAPE? "Tele" is my least favourite guitar shape, I@#m getting sooooooo frustrated with it now! NO SALE!
I think Lundgren made some triple-coil humbucker prototypes for Meshuggah back in the day. I don't think there's any videos or sound examples out there tho. There are also other manufacturers who have made triple-coil humbuckers as far back as the 70's (Ibanez, Hamer, Fender, Mighty Mite, Glastonbury Pickups etc). All of EMG's humbuckers that are splittable are also triple-coils (the third coil is just hiding underneath the two main ones). There's probably a good reason as to why triple-coil humbuckers hasn't caught on, but maybe Schecter has finally made these kind of pickups worthwile? I think that they are actually trying to go for a real 80's vibe with this triple-coil + single coil setup. Very 80's Hamer-esque IMO! I have a triple-coil humbucker in my Ibanez ATK300 bass. It doesn't function like a humbucker tho. The three-way switch selects either of the two outer coils as singles, or the two outer coils together in parallel (like a jazz bass). The middle coil is only there to make the pickup noiseless/humbucking in all three modes.
Iv owned several different guitars from various guitar companies and still do I enjoy each guitar I own but I find my self picking the Schecters up more often then my other brands it been that way for years now.
I've never owned a Schecter but damn do they have made me want one for, I don't know, 15 to 20 years now. (I own too many guitars for my own good at this point already) The first one being the C-1E/A. Super cool hollowbody with piezo... And then they did that with the Solo-II series, a hollow body "les paul" with piezo. I was drowning in drool.
I love their quality, specs and value, but no clue why the Schecter's MV-6 isn't being reviewed despite being launched relatively long ago. I'm always on the lookout for something with a bridge that can handle metal but has clean single-coil chime toward the neck. It's supposed to have a better heel than the Nick Johnston too. It's also criminal that their gorgeous classic $1k Custom V with passive pickups has only been available in purple for over a year. C'mon Schecter, I'm buying Charvels lately because of stuff like this (love both brands).
