Fender Could NEVER Make This Guitar....But SCHECTER Just Did!
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- Legacy makers up-charge for their name, and skimp on the features...This guitar is definitely different!
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Yes! I love PRS guitars! Great video!
You should definitely a PHX TL1 Telecaster. I have fenders and Gibs and that one is way, waaay better constructed and playable than the big ones (and costed me around 170 bucks, really).
Hey i'm starting to like this channel.
I bought my first Schecter (Omen Elite) a year ago after watching many of your videos on the brand. You really do get a lot of bang for the buck with Schecter.
Thanks for another great video.
Wow Cort has massive bot spam on a video that doesn't have a guitar from Cor-Tek - so many comments about PRS guitars when it's a Schecter demo lol.
Schecter Diamond Series, if they're built in Korea, are built at World Music (WMIC).
ESP, a privately held company owned by Hisatake Shibuya, brands are: ESP (now USA), E-II (Japan built, previously ESP), LTD, Edwards, Grass Roots, Navigator...and...Schecter. So Schecter instruments are built at ESP-contracted or owned factories, and you'll never see a guitar from any ESP brand built at Cor-Tek. Ever.
Honestly, I have wished a long time for ESP to buy up Dean's brand and bring Dean Zelinsky on board for refreshed/new lines with the same awesome treatment Schecter has had since they were picked up. Schecter PT models were the company's first fully built production guitars - the brand has existed since 1976, beginning as repair and OEM Fender replacement body/necks; PT is their first model and it's a signature model - Pete Townshend.
Fender and Gibson are great for name recognition, but so many other companies are making great instruments for a lot less cash.
Exactly!
Schecter really is an established brand too, it's not like Sire being a newer brand.
I don't think you can go wrong with the made in Korea or Japan models. China and Indonesia do some good work too. I have two tiers of guitars, the good quality USA and Canadian made (Godin) or the high quality Asian imports. I skip the in-between USA stuff, usually eclipsed by the Asian imports.
The Player series is just under, and for some models now over, $1000.
Yes indeed. Check out a Cort G290. Insane guitar.
Schecter does it again, DARRELL. Love their innovation, quality, features and price points! Over the years, truly never got a dud from Schecter. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Fully agree PRS make the best modern guitars!
I bought a Schecter diamond series guitar from a pawnshop. I love it its beautiful an plays an sound's awesome .
From Leo: That Schecter looks like a nice guitar, I have a G&L tele with a humbucker and single pickups. I added the coil split. It is a very versatile guitar.
Thanks to your review of the Schecter Solo ii, Darrell, I picked one up (same gorgeous black and gold finish you showed us) a couple years ago and I absolutely love it. So playable and great value. Thanks, Darrell!
I own a 3 pickup Tele that Dave Schecter hand-made for me in 1982. Solid Koa body with a Pao Ferro neck. It sustains forever.
There is a separate on/off switch for each pickup giving a full range of both Tele and Strat sounds. And, it has a whammy bar too. I lucked out that I met Dave through my git teacher.
that is super cool!
would be lovely if You post playing it on Your channel, I would love to see and hear it :)
Hi Darrel, you Always do an amazing and thorough job of critiquing a guitar in ways most of us would not think of, and I am in awe at your playing ability, especially your clean playing, you encourage me to want to try, even at 65 and battling a rare form of Parkinson’s, I will keep watching my friend !!!
This guitar is top notch, I’m blown away by those pickups and it looks so beautiful. I’m not a big Telie fan but I love the value proposition.
I mean the design is so beautiful, really exquisite, The fact that it’s a schecter is really the biggest plot-twist. They did an amazing job 🔥🔥🔥🔥
the reverend gristlemaster is a great Tele too
Schacter makes the best guitars for the money.
Schacter's pretty good fr
Gretsch and G&L also. Those two are more my style but Schector is branching out from the nu metal company they were known for and I appreciate that. I haven’t played any of their newer guitars
I really like Schachtore guitars
Check out a top of the line Agile
I’m a Fander man myself.
I bought a Squire T-style with humbuckers and installed PAFs and coil spits. Great guitar.
Thanks making great videos. Tried watching some other channels and I had to come back here for some good content. No rambling. No annoying voice. Great playing. Getting to the meat of the guitar with great editing.
Reminds me of a G&L Blues Boy. For alternate Tele neck pickups, Mini-Humbucker (I put in one from Rio Grande with a custom pickguard to mount it to)really works great, (I put in a higher output stacked bridge pickup from Seymour Duncan to better balance the volume, and split both of them for single coil mode.)
Love it! I've got 3 telecaster style guitars all with the same setup. Can't go wrong with a humbucker in the neck, best of both worlds!
This is the first time I have heard a very distinct tone from 1 guitar, and it sounds BEAUTIFUL!!! It's totally worth the price !!!
The single coil neck pickup on Telecasters is a big reason why it’s my main guitar. I usually put a humbucker in the bridge position on most mine (got one with a DiMarzio Super Distortion, one with a Seymour Duncan Little ‘59 and others with budget parts) but I love being able to switch to that neck pickup that I consider one of the cleanest sounds.
Fender did make one of these years ago. I've got a 1996 Mexican Fender telecaster special which has the same spec. It has a 5 way switch instead of the push pull pot but you get the same split coil on the humbucker. It also has a TBX tone control,21 frets, maple board.... cos I'm a traditionalist.
I had one, too! Black, with maple fretboard. I liked it.
This is why we love Schecter 😍
Schecter always makes great stuff. I owned a c1-blackjack back in the day and loved it.
Last year I got the Nick Johnston HSS “Strat” version of this guitar, and it is stellar! But…. my fret ends were nothing like the ball ends shown in this video. I had watched a LOT of reviews of the guitar before I bought it, and one of the many items that everyone raved about were the frets. Mine were level, smooth, and polished, but I certainly wouldn’t consider the ends smooth. In fact they are just a straight bevel with obvious tooling marks. I must have gotten a “Covid era” fret-end dressing on this one. That being said, the rest of the guitar is flawless and I would do it again in a heartbeat!
Is that the guy from The Jonas Brothers? :-p
@@standinsilence If he is, he's got the wrong last name!
Thanks Darrell. That Tele knocks it out of the ball park. That’s a “boutique” spec guitar.😀
Dang, wish I knew about this guitar when I bought my first one (Fender Player Telecaster). If I was buying today, I'd happily grab one of these instead.
I got mine several months ago.
It’s a fantastic guitar. The front pickup is a tad dark and the electronics are a little noisy.
But, overall, it’s twice the guitar than any Fender in that price point. It’s a keeper.
I have a Fender Fat Tele which was part of their short lived California Series from about 1997/98, and is similar to this Schecter except that it has a maple f'board and non-locking tuners. It does have a 5-way switch though which is very useful. It weighs only 7.4lb.
I'm saving money atm, but the amount of great guitars coming out under 1000 is torturing me.
Instead of a push pull switch, a 5-way master switch is also good.
1st position bridge,
2nd position bridge+ neck HB(humbucker),
3rd position bridge + Neck SC(single coil),
4th Neck SC,
5th Neck HB.
We did that on our PT Van Nuys. It also has a trem. This is a signature model so it’s spec’d to Nick’s liking
Hey Darrell, I saw this while looking to buy an Epiphone something. I'm not great at playing but learnt to buy the best I can afford if I want to enjoy the thing. I can't put this down!! I don't need or want a Fender or Epi or Gibson from now on. Great and accurate review. Thanks heaps.
That is really a sweet looking guitar with some great specs. I love the 14" neck radius. I find the Fender radius uncomfortable to play anymore. Looks like an Indonesian Cort build.
The black one (atomic ink, which seems to be a little different than normal black) looks incredible. The Strat version as well!
Bought one of these after taking the tour at Sweetwater. Tested it back to back with player series tele and it was a no brainer! This guitar is so much better sounding!
Im doing the same right now and i actually feel that the player tele's pickups are better balanced together.. But the Schecter is a firebreather. It growls and screams without barely touching it and the playability and quality of the intrument itself is way better then the Fender.. My biggest issue with the Schecter is that i find that neck pick up to be ridiculously dark.. Im not sure why it didnt sound that way in this demo.. But yea, im very torn. The Schecter is almost like a hybrid of a metal guitar with a tele where the Fender is just a classic and awesome Fender tele.
I have never wished I had locking tuners.
I can't understand why all tuners don't have split shafts.
To me, the best functional tweak here is the truss adjustment.
Sounds great. I've had an early Schecter S style since 1984.
Split shafts are great. On bass that's the standard, we just insert the string and tune, string locks itself. Yeah, I don't know why that's not normal on guitars.
Dammit Mr.B...I took the pledge...no more guitars in 2023!! But I do lurv my Teles....got a great deal on one at GuitarGuitar in the UK, had to have it!!! (Good job I'm single....ok, maybe it's this sort of thing that's the reason I'm single!!!)😃
Remember the American fender fat telecaster, I bought one years ago, around when they were discontinued. It became my number one, after I added a middle pickup. I ordered one of these, for a backup, and more specs that I like, namely the flatter radius.
I just bought a beautiful Fender Tele with Black block inlays, a maple fretboard and neck. And i started watching your videos again and i’m glad i did
The Schecter PT is on my want list. Very high quality and features exceed Fender. Nice review. Kerp up the great videos and demos.
One note, Pau Ferro really is a great wood. I have a custom bass with a Pau Ferro neck and fretboard. A raw Pau Ferro neck really feels great, and its more stable than my roasted maple neck.
got my eyes on the PT Special that has a P90 in the neck, plan to grab one in the next month or two
@@enderman_666 the p90 looks nice.
Thank you for the high-quality informative video. Every time you present on Schecter, I find myself asking why I don't own one...
I ask myself the same question. They are very nice guitars.
Great video as always! I checked out the Strat variant at Andertons and I loved all the specs you highlighted here which were great to see. I was somewhat disappointed that the fretboard edges were quite hard. Would have been nice for them to be slightly rolled. Still a great guitar for the price point, and rolling the edges is an easy enough mod to do at home, but just something that I thought was odd. Roasted maple is such a trendy appointment I would have thought that rolled edges would have been a natural partner to that.
Off topic: It was largely based on your review that I bought a PRS Paul's Guitar SE last year. It may not be the best guitar ever made, but it's a damn good one and the best value I could have hoped for. Thanks!
SOLD! I bought the NJ Strat recently bcoz I always hated where the volume knob is on a traditional Strat. I can’t stop playing that guitar now! It’s exceptional! Getting this one this week!
The weird thing about Fender is that they often release squires with novell or unconventional layouts like this, with lower quality parts at affordable prices. At the same time, they dont offer the same setup on Fender branded guitars without requiring you to sell an organ to the custom shop. They appear to, on one hand make cool distinct things at the budget level then give you the option to spec a guitar accordingly at the super expensive level.
I just got an American pro Ii and the schecter Nick Johnstown for $899 beats the $1699 strat by leaps and bounds. It’s insane the quality and tone. Lol
I have an Am Pro II Tele and its neck feels the best out of all my guitars. But then again, I bought what I liked.
Love the blue and the cream pick guard... Roasted neck..
I love my Schecter! Best bang for the buck out there. I have played lots of guitars over the last 3 decades and my Schecter is my "do all" guitar. Sounds great clean but but Sounds even better when really playing hard and dirty. Absolutely love the Fishman Fluance pickups it has! Such a comfortable, enjoyable to play and crisp sounding instrument.
(Schecter KM7 mk2)
I have a US made Fender Tele. It came with a Shawbucker neck pickup which has coil tapping via the push/pull tone knob.
I've always wanted one NJ signature (for 1, it's a great guitar and 2, I'm a huge NJ fan), but this Tele... It's just amazing. I must have one.
I have spent many days learning the piece starting at 5:15. It has taken a while, but has improved my playing. Thanks.
Dude your interpretation of Sweet Home Nova Scotia on that tele was super authentic. As a Jacksonville, FL, home of Skynyrd, area resident, it gave me shivers.
Ive been looking to purchase a schecter, possibly a demon or omen but this guitar has changed that. I will be purchasing this thing very soon
The one thing I personally don’t like about most modern guitar brands is that they use the push-pull knob to split the coils, and that’s not how I’d prefer it, especially when it comes to the issue of dealing with abuse/long-term use.
I’d much prefer a single switch that is just “split coil on-off.”
Just wish the fingerboard was a smaller radius
Definitely a great Tele Style guitar. I have 3 Schecters and each one has had great necks and fretwork. I have a Fender Player series Stratocaster which is a great guitar but It needed some fret end dressing and polishing. Its neck is great and has a beautiful Pau Fero fretboard but not ebony! Schecter continues to impress me. Great video and playing. Will you be keeping this guitar?
a humbucker and an ebony board? I'm in. Those frets look great too...fat and nicely polished.
I sprang for one on Reverb ($667 total, shipping and all) and I'm looking forward to getting it. I'm going to actually play SONGS on mine. Ed Bickert played a tele with a neck humbucker-all the endorsement I need.
This has everything I'd want from a Tele (not made by Fender.) I like that the bridge plate doesn't have the ashtray sides, the neck humbucker, locking tuners, roasted neck, ebony board and coil split, etc. Sounds great too. Nice.
Watched this review, bought the Atomic Ink (black) version of this guitar, it's fantastic, first T-style guitar I've ever owned, plays amazingly and sounds great. Thanks for the video.
Schecter makes great stuff. I have one of their original made in Korea 2004 Classic models. Precursor to the C-1. Just amazing. Has the Seymour Duncan USA Hot Rod pups set (Jazz SH2 neck and JB SH4 bridge) with a five way pups selector switch, like a Strat. Looks like a PRS, has that crazy vine of life inlay though the whole fingerboard (sometimes I get lost in it, ha). Neck through, 24 frets, plays and sounds like a dream. It was only $380 at my local GC in very good to excellent condition with the OHSC, so I jumped on it a couple years ago. Steal, esp. since I could slam it on the GC Gear Card with six months to pay. It's alway interesting what might turn up at your local GC. Hope they survive the current debt/interest situation, or get sold to better management. Hate these big slash and burn Corporations that ruin the good stores.
Agreed. Had a top-line Schecter Stiletto 5-string bass about ten years ago. The workmanship, overall quality, fretwork and playability were only a tick below my Alembic Stanley Clarke Signature Standard. It was a fantastic instrument and sounded excellent.
This SCHECTER sounds Fantastic and looks Phenomenal
Darrell... love your channel and love your reviews because you’re one of the most thorough when it comes to breaking down a guitar. With that being said, all of those things don’t mean a thing when the company sends you the guitar. I know a lot if not most of your reviews don’t fall into this category. Do your followers a favor and only review guitars that are picked randomly and not ones that are given the “100 point” inspection by the manufacturer and then sent to you. Thanks.
Own a Schecter Strat with Seymour Duncan pickups. Got me through many a session and live shows.
Man the fret looks pretty good on this one . This guitar seems to have about all the bells and whistles
Ive seen one in local fb marketplace.. just drooling over it. tho in atomic green. wish i can see that blue in person too
Not playing like a traditional/vintage style Fender is a huge bonus
Totally digging this guitar. The specs make me think the guitar was designed by players for players. Cool.
Nice! But a Tele with locking tuners is like a polar bear wearing a fur coat.
I think the hard plucking in the middle coil split position skirted around the quack question and may have masked it a bit. Spanking the strings in HB mode would have the same effect. Still, looks like a great option to Fender. I’d put a P90 in the neck.
I love tele neck pickups (when they are just right). The DiMarzio Twang King is possibly my favorite pickup even tho most of my other guitars and pickups are more shred style
Couldn't agree more on twang king.....
I'm all in on Schecter. I have a Hellraiser Extreme which I love, and I'm eyeballing a Jack Fowler HT as we speak. This may be the 3rd.
That’s a wonderful sounding and gorgeous guitar. Unfortunately, I play left-handed, and I doubt that Schecter makes anything for me along these lines. Can you tell me what amp you did the demo through? The reverb sounds digital, and the overall sound of the guitar on the amp is very pleasing to the ear.😊
My only US made guitar is a mid priced Martin acoustic. I have the PTB, and a 23 year old C1+ Diamond Series. Everyone should have at least one Schecter. My only dislike is the neck width is narrow at the nut. The fretwork is high end. Great presentation DB!
"Fender could never make this guitar"
The guitar: A 6 saddle Telecaster with neck humbucker
Such an awesome guitar. I only wish it would have a forearm comfort cut.
You don't have to be a master wood worker or luthier to put a belly relief
Me too. It restricts blood flow to the hand. So fingers get tired more easily.
I have a lot of guitars, never had a Schecter. Very tempted to pick one up now...
Amazing what a person can find if they ignore the name on the guitar. It's hard for an individual to find a similar quality guitar, as the Schecter, to even add a split pickup and locking tuners to...much harder for the price of the Schecter. Thanks for the review.
Hey Darrell, I picked up a PRS SE McCarty 594 Singlecut Standard and love it!!! Thanks for the review a little bit back.
I have a Fender PERFORMER Tele with that exact single coil / humbucker pickup / split coil / pull switch configuration, rosewood neck.
Hey DB I'm going to get a lefty. Nice Axe 🤠
The contours are nice. That’s pretty essential for anyone who going to be playing solos.
Yeah, Fender would never make it, so I built one myself. Mini-humbucker in the neck, I used a RockRabbit angled mini-toggle switch aluminum Telecaster control plate, a 4-way pickup selector switch for added series/parallel, a push-pull pot for phase switching and the mini-toggle switch to split/tap the mini-humbucker. I also did the "partial coil-split" wiring, using a resistor and capacitor to keep the split position from sounding too thin and weak. I'm really pleased with the way it all came out. There is a very discernable difference between all of the settings, which I had not always experienced before. I also opted for a Warmoth modern construction neck with a compound radius. No more strings choking out when I bend.
Wow, absolutely insane specs compared to a Player Series. The satin roasted maple neck and the contoured heel joint makes the guitar look really comfy to play. The inlays look a bit weird though, it looks like a drill hole from afar.
Had the Nick Johnston S-Type. Pretty nice, just didn't make the cut when I needed to thin the herd...I didn't care for the cheap finish on the headstock...scratched too easily. This looks like the same finish on the headstock.
I doubt I have as many guitars as some, but I’ve got Gibson and Fender and Schecter. And the two that I pick up most often are the Schecter and my Fender FMT HH Tele. Both great value and play great. Thanks Darrell. Always good stuff.
The commercial just killed this. Goodbye.
Schecters are so nice! I would like to see brass saddles, but the quality likely makes up for that issue.
They have models with brass saddles too.
Sure, Made in Indonesia
Another Great from SCHECTER! 💛💙
I have to say your channel is one of my favorite ones! Great Playing and good explanations. Greetings from Switzerland. My Name is Braun as well due to German Relatives...
That's the best-looking frat edges I ever seen
I played one of the shecter pt guitars my guitar center it's more metal centric with seymour duncan humbuckers but man it played so nice better than everyone of the player series guitars in that store by a landslide when it came to playability and feel almost makes me wish I didn't spend 2 grand on an ibanez AZS but oh well
Fender MIA quality with MIM prices. Pretty cool
This guitar sounds really nice. The deal killer for me is the 14" neck radius. Put a 9.5" on it and I'd be all in.
Ditto man...👍
I bought a Harley Benton T-style when I started playing after 20 year break due to injury. It came with 14” radius and I got use to it. I found playing on 7.5 to 14” made me a way better player! But I understand, love a 9.5 and 12”! Actually Schecter was my first guitar I purchased and it was specked out like a$2,500 guitar, and I think I paid $400 including tax. This was in 2000 though! Darrell gets the best guitars out of any channel to review
I was a bit leery of the 14” radius when I decided to get the Strat version, but I’m actually surprised at how much I DON’T notice it. I’ll be tooling around on my Sire T7 (9.5 radius) and switch over to the NJ “Strat” with the 14”, and it’s just not a noticeably big deal… thankfully.
I see some indents in the fingerboard around the fret ends. Is it possible someone got too aggressive with a fret file? Also, where is this guitar made?
Darrell nice review. Schecter has really been a solid performer for many years now. Always will get a lot for your money. One disappointing aspects is that Schecter used to put out serveral types of necks (radius), but now they seem to almost fully concentrate on putting thin necks on everything. Since I can't play these it is disappointing that with each new guitar they market I have to pass on.
Pt special, pro, hybrid, classic… schecter is killing it!
The closest Fender would be the player plus at 1099 so about $300 more. It has locking tuners, belly cut, noiseless pickups with S1 for parallel/series, comes with a gig bag, made in Mexico. I love my Nick Johnston Strat so if it's similar it's a nice guitar for one made in Indonesia. I will say if the particular specs of the roasted neck, ebony board intrigues you then this is a good option. My only concern would be resale value over time. But my experience with Schecter guitars is great (I own 2).
I love the grit of higher gain Tele. Looks like Schecter made a killer option for $899.
Cort are great guitars also. And yes there made in the Cort factory like many name branded guitars are. Check out the Cort G290 and the specs, An insane guitar for $400. I'm serious
in australia this guitar is 1,600 on sale.. Retail 2,350.. basically after watching every review on this channel and in TH-cam land its a schecter or a sire guitar..!!
thank you for doing this video!
Nice guitar and the NJ models are a great addition to the market. It doesn’t have the tonal character of a Tele in the middle position as currently setup.
Maybe raising the bridge pickup would add sparkle if it doesn’t throw the balance out.
Could just be a minor setup gripe, but I just don’t hear the quack.
For me the combo would be a Rosewood fretboard Nick Johnson H S H strat with this humbucker in on the neck.
Always felt that visible pick guard screws lower the beauty of the instrument. Makes the top look like the underside.
It's kinda interesting, because for all intents & purposes it's not a "traditionalist" guitar. The neck, the pickup config, the locking tuners, roasted maple, radius.. and etc. Yet at the same time they kept the heritage body with no cutaways or chambering. For me it's a bit of a letdown, since i like my guitars to weigh nothing and be as comfy as possible. But on the other hand -i totally get it. It's still packed with great features and this way they don't totally alienate the traditional Tele crowd. Awesome review, cheers!