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Guitarist december 2018

SCHECTER C-6 PRO

£599

WHAT IS IT? A modern shred

machine that punches above its

price in looks and performance

first play

SCHECTER C-1 FR S SLS ELITE

£1,399

WHAT IS IT? A tone-timber feast

playing host to a groundbreaking

pickup and inﬁ nite sustain

nce upon a time, there were three

golden rules for builders of shred

guitars. One: the whole guitar

shalt not exceed the weight of a newborn

Daddy Long Legs. Two: when it comes to

the neck, anything thicker than a splinter

shall be considered excessive. Three: thou

must equip said beast with overwound

humbuckers that would challenge the

magnetic field of an exploded supernova.

30 years on from the original heyday of

the shred machine, many of us still hold

these clichés to be self-evident. In truth,

though, modern rock, metal or shred guitars

– however you like to pigeonhole them –

are much more complex and diverse than

their first-run ancestors.

Fresh from the drawing board at Schecter

HQ, the Indonesian-built C-6 Pro and

Words Ed Mitchell Photography Olly Curtis

Pete Townshend and Mark Knopfler may have put

them on the map, but Schecter’s latest combine shred

guitar performance with old-school tonewoods

Timber

Kings

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Summary of content (6 pages)

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f i r st p l ay Schecter c-6 PrO £599 WHAT IS IT? A modern shred machine that punches above its price in looks and performance Schecter c-1 Fr S SLS eLIte £1,399 WHAT IS IT? A tone-timber feast playing host to a groundbreaking pickup and infinite sustain timber Kings Pete Townshend and Mark Knopfler may have put them on the map, but Schecter’s latest combine shred guitar performance with old-school tonewoods Words Ed Mitchell Photography Olly Curtis O nce upon a time, there were three golden rules for
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Schecter C-6 Pro & C-1 FR S SLS Elite first play december 2018 Guitarist GIT440.rev_schecterx2.
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first play Schecter C-6 Pro & C-1 Fr S SLS ELitE 1. Take a closer look and you’ll see that the C-1 FR S SLS Elite’s neck pickup slot is occupied with a Sustainiac unit. This offers infinite sustain – until the battery runs out 1 2. The C-6 Pro’s USP is its arched burl top. Burl, or ‘burr’ as its better known ’round these parts, is a cut of deformed wood. Here, it plays host to a pair of direct mount Schecter Diamond Decimator humbuckers 2 3.
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Schecter C-6 Pro & C-1 Fr S SLS ELitE 3 The metal-knobbed volume control also functions as a push/pull coil splitter for both pickups. The C-6 Pro’s three-piece bolt-on maple neck has a Fender-like 648mm (25.5-inch) scale length and is held fast to the body’s sculpted heel with five-screws. In classic rock/metal/shred guitar style, the wenge ’board has a flat 355mm (14-inch) radius and 24 extra-jumbo frets.
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first play Schecter C-6 Pro & C-1 Fr S SLS ELitE coil-split modes. The neck pickup has bags of clarity and wails beautifully when you offer up some overdrive and your best blues rock licks. Now, the star of the C-1’s line-up is the Sustainiac. There are two switches you need to know about. The first toggle simply turns the Sustainiac circuitry on and off. The second switch offers three modes: Fundamental, Mix and Harmonic. The first simply sustains the note or chord that you’re playing.
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Schecter C-6 Pro & C-1 Fr S SLS ELitE Schecter C-6 Pro 6 Verdict There’s probably more chance of POTUS Donald Trump getting his face chiselled into the side of Mount Rushmore than the C-1 and C-6 making the scene at a country gig. That’s not to say that these things wouldn’t cut the mustard in such a scenario, but, let’s be honest, they have been typecast by their looks. Then there’s the feel.