Schecter Hellraiser Hybrid C-7 - Trans Black Burst Reviews
You asked for it, and Schecter is all too pleased to deliver the Hellraiser Hybrid C-7: a 7-string solidbody electric guitar with all the features serious aggressive guitarists have been asking for. It all starts off with a set of extra-hot EMG active humbuckers — the perfect basis for brutal tone. A delightfully balanced mahogany body topped with quilted maple offers up a tried-and-true tonewood combo, your fingers will positively fly down the Hellraiser Hybrid C-7's compound-radius fretboard and slim SLS neck, and you'll love the tuning stability you'll get from the Hipshot hardtail bridge.
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Highest Rated Reviews
Amazing
The best spec's you can get for the price. Everything is rock solid and plays amazing.
Excellent!
These guitars are simply excellent. Very comfortable neck and some really cool features (like the glow in the dark i lays). The body work is gorgeous on these as well.
I also really like the EMG 57/66 set in this guitar. I'm personally a Blackouts fan, but these are kinda like an 81/85 but a lot smoother and a bit fatter due to some lower midrange going on that 81s don't have.
Overall, I'm very happy with this guitar!
Beautiful guitar
Pictures don't do it justice. I now have 3 Schecter guitars. This is my first 7 string. Can't wait to get in the groove with it. Adding the 7th string was just what I was missing. The weight is nice. Finish is beautiful. Neck while a little thicker than 6 string is still very comfortable. So far this guitar seams very versatile in tonality.
More beautiful than the pictures.
Just came yesterday. It is even prettier than the pictures. Haven't had much time to play it yet, and this is my first 7 string, but it sounds amazing. I definitely needed the 7 string for the tone! Neck is a little fatter than on my 6's but that was expected. I can't wait to have some time with this thing this weekend.
Absolute Monster
I have had the 6 string version of this guitar for about 4 years. Everything about this guitar is stunning from the carbon fiber binding to the satin neck and gorgeous finnish. The Emg pups are the icing on the cake. This 7 string guitar is very hard to put down. Easy to play fast as lightning and the TONE! Im so impressed I want the 8 string of this exact guitar now lol
Schecter hellraiser hybrid c7
I absolutely love this guitar. When I received this guitar via FedEx I inspected every square in of it and it was absolutely flawless. I love everything about this guitar and it's sound is very impressive, I think I may buy another one very soon.
Good first impression, but...
I've had this guitar for a little over a week now. Appearance wise this guitar is a thing of beauty, and the EMG's sound good, not great. Action was sky high out of the box, which I kind of expected, so I had to do some bridge adjustments. I got a slightly different string gauge set than what it came with, and I tuned down a half step to A# so I did a little truss rod tweaking. To my horror I noticed a few hairline cracks in the fretboard today, I wasn't too forceful with the truss rod I don't think, so I'm assuming the fretboard was really dry. All in all I'm a bit disappointed
Those rave reviews are questionable
I mean, it's okay. It's not terrible, but it's not as amazing as people made it out to be. The tone's average. The play is average. For the price, I expected more. Other instruments I've bought for less are dramatically better. I'll use it for the project I needed then get rid of it. I don't think it's worth more than $700.
Good guitar... But not for the price
This is easily one of the better Korean-made guitars that I've played in a while. The EMG 57-7H/66-7H set is killer, and sounds like a ballsy set of passives, great for the mid-heavy tone used by many modern prog musicians. Amazing dirt and clean alike, which is surprising for active pickups. Hipshot bridge is stellar, and Schecter locking tuners are as good as any aftermarket set - I'd choose them above some other brands. The guitar itself is great, too. The carbon-fiber binding looks very modern and the knobs and pickup selector feel very sturdy. The compound radius and thin-but-round neck profile feel great. Though some may believe that the compound radius concept is a gimmick, I will contend that this is not so; chords really did seem to come more easily near the lower end of the neck, while playing fast on the upper frets was as easy as it is on any Ibanez I've ever played. Glow-in-the-dark side inlays are very cool, too, and are bigger than normal inlays, so you can see them very easily, light or dark. The see-thru black finish is beautiful, and this is coming from someone who hates black guitars; the wood grain comes through beautifully and in person, the guitar I got has a dark gold glow to it.
Sadly, this is where the good stuff ends. Underneath the finish of the guitar on the lower-left side, right where you can't quite see clearly in SW's photographs, the guitar I ordered had a strange anomaly. It looked like a sticker was partially ripped off and stained black when they went to finish the guitar. The finish inside the pickup cavities was poorly done and the wood clearly showed through. This was not done in a clean way, but a very haphazard, sloppy fashion, and really makes the guitar look cheap. The carbon-fiber binding between the fretboard and the neck pickup looked rough and almost ground-up and looked very low-quality. Now, this may all seem very superficial and appearance-based, but when you pay a grand for an axe, generally you don't want it to look like a botched Squier. One final complain - the guitar did NOT "feel" like a thousand-dollar instrument, either. I paid half for my two Epiphones, both of which feel more solidly-built than this Schecter. I can't say why; it's certainly not the hardware, or the design, as this guitar trumps them both in every regard there. There's just something about this guitar that really puts me off and makes it feel low-quality.
TL;DR - Would be great for maybe 3/4 the price. As it is, it's just average. Plays great, sounds awesome, feels mediocre at best.
