C-1 Sgr by Schecter Beginner Electric Guitar Review

I have decided recently that it would be a skilful idea to review the entire guitar related gear that I own or have ever owned. Therefore, there will be a lot of reviews coming up on this site. One the first reviews I volition be doing is a Schecter C-7 SGR review. This guitar was bought for me by my girlfriend last Christmas. Yes, I know – how lucky am I that my girlfriend buys me such things as guitars, let alone seven-string guitars!

The version I have is a superb looking matt blackness one with a finish that I absolutely love. This gives the guitar an edgy, modernistic feel and is a world away from some of my more archetype looking shiny/glossy guitars.  The expect alone makes the guitar stand up out a mile.

The SGR branding is part of Schecter's upkeep co-operative merely don't let that fool you, this is a pretty good guitar. It is a Superstrat style guitar with two passive humbuckers, 24 frets, and a pleasing 26.75 inch calibration length which is great for detuning. The principal aim of this guitar is to please modern hard rock and metal guitarists and then the scale length is peachy. I've found that tuning to my regular G# on the seventh cord works well on this guitar.

You don't get much in the mode of bells and whistles in terms of hardware. The aforementioned two passive humbuckers are solid, but not groovy. With any guitar in the sub £500 ($840) price range, a change of pickups is a great investment, (if the guitar is worth it of course).

The bridge pickup is what I use generally every bit I like a cutting, edgy sound, merely unfortunately the stock pickups don't quite give it to me. They do handle the high gain sounds that I get from my Marshall 8100 pretty well, but compared to the Seymour Duncan JB I have in another guitar, they just don't compete.

At the nearest opportunity I am going to bandy the bridge pickup for a Bareknuckle Aftermath or maybe a Juggernaught. The cervix pickup is pretty dingy sounding and can really only exist used well for clean sounds. I tried going for some stoner stone-esq Queens of the Rock Age stuff with information technology, but information technology lacks the power to make it work.

I don't usually spend a huge amount of time on the cervix pickup, then swapping this isn't really worth it. (I never get why a lot of guitarists swap out all their pickups when they religiously utilise just one, why not invest that extra money into getting the absolute best pickup for the position you employ most?)

The cervix quality is a definite highlight of the Schecter C-vii SGR equally it is dead straight and a joy to play. I dear a guitar that just inspires me to play and the experience of the neck has a lot to do with this. The activity is smooth and easy. Fast, silky runs are a cakewalk which makes technical/progressive rock and metal a joy to play.

My principal gripes with this guitar (autonomously from the pickups which I'm non lament well-nigh for the cost) is build quality is relatively poor. Whoever or wherever these guitars were assembled were done by an amateur. The join of the cervix to the body is poor and it isn't a smooth fit. Thankfully, this doesn't affect whatever function of the playability which is very surprising. If I'chiliad honest, I recollect I accept got lucky with this guitar.

Every bit the guitar was a gift, (I had it ordered for me). The first guitar came, only was damaged (the supplier or distributors fault), the second had an electric outcome which meant no audio was available and the third is the 1 I have got now, which also had a slight electrical issue (which meant every now and and then the sound would drib). Quality control doesn't seem overly high at the SGR factory to me!

I'm glad I have it sorted now, but information technology was a frustrating couple of weeks getting it sorted. Since getting one that works however the guitar has been keen to play. Due to my slightly unusual tuning of G# C# Yard# C# F# A# D#, I had to put heavy gauge strings on and tweak the setup. The guitar sounds and plays fine after doing that. I have just got to club the crawly Bareknuckle pickup now!

The Schecter C-seven SGR is a good quality guitar, but I would urge you lot to try before you buy. This isn't like buying a loftier end Gibson, where you know all the guitars (barring a freak!) will be fabricated and synthetic to a very high standard.

Play 1, if you like information technology, get it, alter the pickup(due south) and you volition be on to a winner. Just don't club online!

Features

4/5

Sound Quality

4/5

Build Quality

2/5

Playability

v/v

Value for Coin

v/5

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