NGD: Schecter Omen Extreme 6

Dave Sloven

Dave Sloven

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Newest addition. Replacing the Peavey Predator, which is going to my little cousin for his 12th birthday (his dad is buying it from me together with a Fender Mustang 1 amp for $300). Picked it up in a car park trade tonight for $300. Haven't plugged it in yet but I think it should be okay.

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Here's a video that convinced me that this is a good budget guitar:

 
Wow...that guitar is sweet looking and I really like the flame top sunburst. I also like the string-thru-body approach compared to a stop-tailpiece which sort of looks bulky on a Strat style guitar. The guy in the video really ripped up the guitar near the end and got some real sweet tones out of it. Does the guitar have two volume knobs?


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I had a quick play of it earlier today. Yes there are two volume controls. The one closest to the bridge is the bridge pickup volume control, the one behind it is the neck pickup control. The last one is a shared tone, which is a push-pull for coil splitting both pickups at once. The selector switch pushed toward the strings/neck is the neck, the opposite direction the bridge. With the selector in the middle position turning either volume down to zero kills the sound for both.

The neck feels quite nice, chunkier in profile than the almost wizard neck on the Stiletto. You do notice the neck heel after playing the Stiletto or my set-neck guitars but it is no worse than that on the Peavey Predator. Scale is 25.5" I noticed some pinging at the nut when I tuned the B string, and there is intermittent scratchiness with the tone pot as you adjust it. The neck angle is quite Gibsonish with the tune-o-matic bridge up fairly high compared to the lower neck angle on Schecter's FR guitars.

Overall I'm pleased. String-through is a great feature.
 
Robert Herndon said:
Schecter quality has been really consistent. I bought a brand new C1 Hellraiser in 2005. Excellent build quality.
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The only dip since then was the cheap 'SGR' range, but that didn't do so well and has disappeared. The only real issue I've seen with other Schecters is the poor quality of the licensed Floyd Rose bridges they used, and some wobbly tuners, but in general the necks have always been finished really nicely and the setup has been really good, except for the SGR models. The exception on the 'licensed Floyd' thing being the Stiletto Classic (the neck-through model), which had the Gotoh bridge
 
Dave Sloven said:
I had a quick play of it earlier today. Yes there are two volume controls. The one closest to the bridge is the bridge pickup volume control, the one behind it is the neck pickup control. The last one is a shared tone, which is a push-pull for coil splitting both pickups at once. The selector switch pushed toward the strings/neck is the neck, the opposite direction the bridge. With the selector in the middle position turning either volume down to zero kills the sound for both.

The neck feels quite nice, chunkier in profile than the almost wizard neck on the Stiletto. You do notice the neck heel after playing the Stiletto or my set-neck guitars but it is no worse than that on the Peavey Predator. Scale is 25.5" I noticed some pinging at the nut when I tuned the B string, and there is intermittent scratchiness with the tone pot as you adjust it. The neck angle is quite Gibsonish with the tune-o-matic bridge up fairly high compared to the lower neck angle on Schecter's FR guitars.

Overall I'm pleased. String-through is a great feature.
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For the nut problem try some pencil lead shavings. If it's a bone nut it will discolor it.
 
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