No matter what you choose will be great! Schecter makes super nice instruments. I have been playing my hellraiser for ten years straight and i love it. Great sounds, great playability and rock solid turning stability.
Hi there buddy!! I have a Schecter Hellraiser C-7 (Korean, EMG pickups) and it is certainly a Beast!! Mine has a fixed bridge and locking tuners, I have to say that tuning stability is not an issue at all, stays in tune perfectly and sounds brutal. If you would like to have a deeper insight just let me know, I'm from Mendoza, Argentina. Cheers! 🤘
I bought the SCHECTER KM-7 MK-III Artist in july and droped it by one tone (in A). I really like the sound (I'm still learning but my target it melodic death metal, doom and some djent/prog), it's very nice and easy to play. Even if there was some big variation in temperature, it keeps quite well the tuning after 2 weeks without touching it at all. 3 minor downside for me: I only had some difficulties to tune the 7th string (it may require a guitar tech), battery don't last very long compared to EMG pickups and it seems that when you play standing up, the neck is stabilized at the horizontal instead of the classical metal position. At the end, I don't regreat spending 2400€ in it Unfortunately, it seems the Keith Merrow pickups are discontinued by Fishman Fluence so I guess we won't get a MK4 for this guitar. If interested, you can get several videos of various guitarists on youtube who try it, it may help you making a choice.
Thank you for the feedback! That specific one I'm not considering, as It costs too much for my budget. As for 6 vs 7 string, I can probably tell that I'm going 7 strings, unless I hit a major setback in importing it or stuff like that, which I hope won't happen!
You cannot go wrong with Schecter. I have 5 and I want more lol. Their best value 7 strings right now I think would be the new Sunset-7 Extreme they recently released. It comes at just under 1k with stainless steel frets and Schecter USA pickups. Before, you would have to push 1250$+ from their made in Korea models to have that kind of hardware. It is very much new though, so I imagine it could be hard to find. It is 27 inch scale, if that matters.
Glad to hear from basically everywhere I've read that these guys seem to be really reliable! Did check that one out in Sweetwater, but from what I'm realizing, I don't think I'll be able to choose it because compared to other guitars, the shipping price kinda blows it out of budget. Will keep an eye on it tho, specially If I can find it at Thomann!
Out of Squire, LTD, and Schecter, I’d go with Schecter. I’ve got a Diamond Series that I paid a couple hundred bucks on and it is the best electric in my small arsenal. It’s a solid ax. However, I did a lot of restoration and repair in Nashville and I’ll say if you can find a competent luthier the guitar you already have could be adjusted and tweaked to become the guitar you’re looking for.
Schecter seem to be keepers! And yus! If I could find a luthier then I agree, I'd love to mod the guitar and fix it's problems. Only problem is that I moved to a new city not long ago and don't know any luthiers :D (been learning to set my guitars up on my own because of that, I just don't have all the tools necessary to fix the instrument myself), and just going to the first random luthier I find online could be a gamble. Not sure If I'll sell it or mod It yet, but we'll see whenever I get the new one in!
I thought about buying seven string guitar for lower tuning, but ended up buying DigiTech drop tune pedal instead, plus have ten guitars, I guess another one to my collection wouldn't hurt in the future being seven string.
Don't really feel that I could help you choosing a new guitar... you're supposed to be the expert on that matter and no one better than you to pick up the right one... sorry about that... but, remember, Brian May made himself his own guitar 😊
No matter what you choose will be great! Schecter makes super nice instruments. I have been playing my hellraiser for ten years straight and i love it. Great sounds, great playability and rock solid turning stability.
Hi there buddy!! I have a Schecter Hellraiser C-7 (Korean, EMG pickups) and it is certainly a Beast!! Mine has a fixed bridge and locking tuners, I have to say that tuning stability is not an issue at all, stays in tune perfectly and sounds brutal. If you would like to have a deeper insight just let me know, I'm from Mendoza, Argentina.
Cheers! 🤘
I bought the SCHECTER KM-7 MK-III Artist in july and droped it by one tone (in A). I really like the sound (I'm still learning but my target it melodic death metal, doom and some djent/prog), it's very nice and easy to play. Even if there was some big variation in temperature, it keeps quite well the tuning after 2 weeks without touching it at all.
3 minor downside for me: I only had some difficulties to tune the 7th string (it may require a guitar tech), battery don't last very long compared to EMG pickups and it seems that when you play standing up, the neck is stabilized at the horizontal instead of the classical metal position.
At the end, I don't regreat spending 2400€ in it
Unfortunately, it seems the Keith Merrow pickups are discontinued by Fishman Fluence so I guess we won't get a MK4 for this guitar.
If interested, you can get several videos of various guitarists on youtube who try it, it may help you making a choice.
Thank you for the feedback!
That specific one I'm not considering, as It costs too much for my budget.
As for 6 vs 7 string, I can probably tell that I'm going 7 strings, unless I hit a major setback in importing it or stuff like that, which I hope won't happen!
You cannot go wrong with Schecter. I have 5 and I want more lol. Their best value 7 strings right now I think would be the new Sunset-7 Extreme they recently released. It comes at just under 1k with stainless steel frets and Schecter USA pickups. Before, you would have to push 1250$+ from their made in Korea models to have that kind of hardware. It is very much new though, so I imagine it could be hard to find. It is 27 inch scale, if that matters.
Glad to hear from basically everywhere I've read that these guys seem to be really reliable!
Did check that one out in Sweetwater, but from what I'm realizing, I don't think I'll be able to choose it because compared to other guitars, the shipping price kinda blows it out of budget.
Will keep an eye on it tho, specially If I can find it at Thomann!
Out of Squire, LTD, and Schecter, I’d go with Schecter. I’ve got a Diamond Series that I paid a couple hundred bucks on and it is the best electric in my small arsenal. It’s a solid ax.
However, I did a lot of restoration and repair in Nashville and I’ll say if you can find a competent luthier the guitar you already have could be adjusted and tweaked to become the guitar you’re looking for.
Schecter seem to be keepers!
And yus! If I could find a luthier then I agree, I'd love to mod the guitar and fix it's problems.
Only problem is that I moved to a new city not long ago and don't know any luthiers :D (been learning to set my guitars up on my own because of that, I just don't have all the tools necessary to fix the instrument myself), and just going to the first random luthier I find online could be a gamble.
Not sure If I'll sell it or mod It yet, but we'll see whenever I get the new one in!
I thought about buying seven string guitar for lower tuning, but ended up buying DigiTech drop tune pedal instead, plus have ten guitars, I guess another one to my collection wouldn't hurt in the future being seven string.
I JUST BOUGHT ONE LAST WEEK
but if you say so :)
Don't really feel that I could help you choosing a new guitar... you're supposed to be the expert on that matter and no one better than you to pick up the right one... sorry about that... but, remember, Brian May made himself his own guitar 😊