• As Good As It Gets

  
  As reviewed by Ethan on 12/13/2010

  This is an amazing guitar. Frets, fretboard, and neck are very smooth, and the cutaway is such that it is no problem both reaching the 24th fret. This guitar is very fast and I find that I am able to sweep pick very easily on it. The edges on the guitar look a little sharp in the picture, but it is actually very comfortable to play both sitting and standing up. The paint job is very glossy and does not scratch easily. The custom Invaders are great pickups - very versatile since it has coil tapping. They have a great rhythm and lead tone, and when split, a beautiful clean tone. The Floyd Rose tremolo is awesome, you just have to make sure you have it set up right if you are changing up the tuning or string gauge. But once you have it set up properly, it practically never comes out of tune - mine stayed in for four months straight with me playing on it for at least an hour every day. The only thing I would change about the guitar is that it should come factory tuned to Drop D (because that's what Avenged Sevenfold pretty much always plays in) with Ernie Ball Skinny Top Heavy Bottom strings, but otherwise it's perfect.

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• This is a Masterpiece

  
  As reviewed by THOMAS NEILSON on 1/11/2012

  I had been wanting to buy this guitar for about a year when I finally bought it. And nothing about it disappoints me (except how long it takes to tune, since it's a double locking Floyd Rose). But once you are finished tuning, it will stay there no matter how much you abuse the tremolo. If you like playing metal or punk, or any of their many subgenres, this guitar is perfect for you. This guitar plays fast. The strings bend far effortlessly, even in Drop D tuning. It's easy to push the strings down. The Seymour Duncan Invader pickups are so brutal, especially in the bridge pickup position. They are not muddy sounding AT ALL. And when you switch to the neck pickup with distortion, it creates a beautiful tone which is great for melodic soloing. The pinch harmonics are easy to hit, and sustain well. And it sounds great clean, even if it's not plugged into an amp. The tremolo is one of my favorite things about it. Just hit a harmonic and mess around with the tremolo to hear some screaming from this guitar. This guitar is surprisingly light. And the finish just looks incredible. I am a huge Avenged Sevenfold fan, but I didn't just buy it because Synyster Gates uses it. I tried out many, many guitars, and watched so many videos before finally deciding that this was everything that I wanted. If you buy this, I would recommend keeping at least one other electric guitar without a tremolo system, so you can keep this one in whatever your most used tuning is, and use the other guitar for different tunings.

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• This Guitar Kicks Any 6 String in the balls With a Steel Toed Boot.

  
  As reviewed by The MetalManiak on 8/8/2011

  I waited on Schecter for 7 months to recieve this guitar and wow, worth every second. The floyd is so easy to do squeels and dives with. I've had this guitar for 6 months and when i got it I was at intermediate level of playing. Now sweeps are a breeze, Tapping is second nature, and alternate picking is faster and more articulate than ever. The action MAKES you WANT to practice. I have owned an Ibanez RG Prestige and I sold it after I got this. And just yesterday I changed the strings for the first time and thats 6 months of hard practice and abuse. Plus the strings took me 10 minutes to change even with the Floyd. Its amazing and I can safely say I will never play another 6 String besides Schecter. P.S. Its good for ALL playing styles besides country and pop because if you play pop go buy a gibson.

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