First time ordering from Sweetwater. Very impressed. Guitar showed up on time, packed well and it was setup perfectly out of the box! I mean everything was perfect! It has a Floyd Rose and was perfectly in tune right out of the box!

in the last few years I need a Schecter guy and very satisfied starting with my Reaper-6 graduating to the amazing Apocalypse C-1 both "Swamp Ash body, but when I played this and it's Mahogtone with EMG'S active and the grovers I had to have it, plays like butter great for live shows holding strong tones and staying in tune perfectly even when I play hard! this pertucular guitar is now mine and after recording and breaking it in she is part of my Schecter family permanently now, I've played the best guitar's in the world and owned a few, Schecter will hold up to them all and for me it's Schecter all the way

I picked this out bc I love playing songs like Alice in Chains which I practice a lot which include a lot of tonal variety as well as heavy distortion. Cantrell used a G&L Rampage model that is out of production, with a Kahler trem bridge, so I made due on my budget with this.

The satin finish reduces pull from hand moisture or handprints. The heretic pickups sound amazing; I play it through a Vox mini modeling amp into headphones because a mini modeling amp obviously isn't going to do much for loud hi gain settings through the speaker. The coil split sounds wonderful and has a huge contrast when played clean on the neck pickup versus clean non-split bridge. The pickup and splitting options allow you to sound up close and loud or distant and gentle. It creates a huge range of tones.

The only thing I'm not so fond of is that the trem bar fits into a slot on the bridge and can dangle back and forth or even fall out of the bridge. This seems like a questionable design choice to me but I don't know if that's normal or not. I might consider replacing the bridge with an official FR altogether if it will fix this.

Either way, I love playing it and feel it was the right choice for me.

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This axe is a beast, from country to blues to rock and metal, it just kicks ***, it's totally worth checking out.

This guitar is great. It came set up perfect from the factory. There was no fret sprout, the intonation was spot on, the action was nice and low, and there was no finish flaws anywhere. The heretic pickups are very versatile. You can play anything from country to metal on them and they sound great. The Floyd Rose hot rod bridge system will keep your guitar in tune perfect. I cannot recommend this guitar enough. I posted a couple videos on here but there are a couple more on youtube.