I have this guitar for more than a year now and pretty much happy with it.
Pros
- The sound is good and quite flexible due to a coil split switch. Sounds good both clean and high-gain. No unwanted noises. Suitable for virtually any kind of music - pop, rock, metal, jazz, etc.
- Neck is ok and, to my personal taste, comfortable enough. 22-24 frets access is good, but with a little of discomfort. Could be personal, because I have small hands and not the best control on higher frets. Also the neck is very pleasant to the touch. I like it.
- Works well with a standard tuning and down tuning as well. I played down to drop-C and the strings tension is still comfortable with a decent attack.
- Appearance is very good too. The top is very dark (almost black), but on a brighter light the quilted maple with a bit greenish shade looks super nice.
- Machine heads and bridge quality is ok. No complains up to now.
Cons
The thing that make me disappointed is a quality of the push-pull and the 3-pos switches.
- The push-pull switch is loose and feels poor. Still works without unwanted noises or so, but this loose feeling is very disappointing and reminds me that it's still a budget model. Could be that it is only on my guitar.
- The switch stopped working in one of the positions after one year. I disassembled the switch itself and fix it by some bending and cleaning. Not a big issue, but also reminds about this is the inexpensive model.
- Also the guitar is a bit sensitive to the humidity and temperature change. I prefer to check the tuning at least once in a couple of days even when practicing at home.
So, all-in-all, I like the guitar and use it 80% of the time. But I really think that if Schecter will start using a bit better quality switches, it will not make the price much higher, but will make the guitars significantly better.
