Schecter Hellraiser C-1 Left-handed - Black Cherry Reviews
Are you ready to rock? With the Schecter Hellraiser C-1 in hand, you are! Rockin' the tried-and-true combination of a mahogany body and quilted maple top, the Hellraiser C-1 sports a big midrange with a sweet top end. All of this tonal muscle is pushed through your amp by an EMG 81tw at the bridge with an EMG 89 at the neck. The 81tw's dual-mode design gives you the classic EMG 81 sound with the addition of a single-coil sound with a fatter tone with punch and clarity. The EMG 89 uses alnico V magnets to give you a powerful EMG 85-style sound. Other cool features on the Hellraiser C-1 are a 3-piece mahogany neck for awesome stability, a TonePros TOM bridge with thru-body construction, and Schecter locking tuners to keep you in tune. From top to bottom, the Schecter Hellraiser C-1 is a whole lotta guitar for the money!
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Great price and well constructed.
Found a demo lefty for a really great price. It was never used but had a slight blemish. I couldn't find it for a few days it was so small. It's well balanced and the finish is great.
Forget an SG...this is what you want.
I actually got this because it occurred to me that after returning my SG Pro due to technical quality issues, my remaining guitars were all floating bridges. I wanted a fixed bridge guitar which I didn't have to struggle to re-tune for odd tunings at a moment's notice if a new song tab popped up and was in something bizarre.
What I got was an absolute joy to play. The photos don't at all do it justice, for starters, as is usually the case with Schecter finishes.
Going beyond that, the tonal variety you can get between the split coil and the individual pickup gains is basically what the SG Pro from Epiphone promised, but failed to deliver. It's also far more playable and enjoyable to fret, in my opinion.
Bends are easier with the fixed radius, although I will say that on the high end of the high strings, it feels more like a Strat in terms of being harder to fret, but easier to bend than the compound radius of its Hybrid C-1 counterpart. I have both, and I like them for different reasons, and they serve different purposes. Even setting this one to the same settings, it sounds -close-, but still different than the Hybrid on the same song, through the same signal chain. It definitely has its own personality, despite being mahogony as well.
This will cover a lot of ground tonally, and is a bit of a cross between an SG and a Tele, depending how you set it, and what you're running it through. (I have a Kemper, so that's easily changeable for me.)
Awesome guitar, and this is actually my go-to general workhorse since I got it. Build quality is excellent, even moreso considering the low price point. No, it's not Epiphone low, but it's also not Epiphone low quality. This feels like a $1500 guitar. I daresay it actually feels better than my $1500 Strat in some ways. Sounds a lot different than a Strat, though.
Don't let the "Hellraiser" label fool you. This is capable of a lot, from clean to shoegaze.
Wouldn't hestitate to recommend!
C-1 Hellraiser Lefty, hell yes
Absolutely a well-built, beauty of a guitar. It is still quite new, so we shall see how it holds up over time. It just feels solid in the hands. Unplugged, the strings ring out when plucked, which is often a sign of a well-made electric. Plugged in, it is a beast. Locking tuners, a great bridge, strings enter the nut from the headstock in a straight line - this is how it should be.
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I got drawn in by the hardware, and construction which is quality through and through. As for the feel and tone that was able to pull out of, it is definitely not in line with a name like Hellraiser. This is my experience with the Schecter Hellraiser. You may have a much better experience.
