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Schecter BlackJack ATX C-7 Electric Guitar Aged Black
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Great Guitar for Metal!!! 
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I grabbed a pair of new Schecter 7's last spring.
One of these and a C7 Hellraiser.
Amazingly, even though in spec they appeared fairly similar, they were drastically different animals.
The Blackjack ATX was fairly dark sounding acoustically, which translated a little bit to the plugged in sound, but the Seymour Duncan Blackouts really F'n amazing for distorted playing.
Cleans were decent, but if you buy a guitar with Blackouts it's not for playing clean.
They really have a ton of balls but aren't over the top,which actually kinda suprised me a little bit.
I used these for my metal band & for other much more subdued, but still distorted lead playing gigs thru my old road tested live rig of a BOSS GT8 + Peavey Windsor Tube Head + Hughes & Kettner 4x12 and not suprisingly it kicked ass.
While the cleans were kinda dull, I was so knocked out with the tone of the Blackouts on High Gain settings I honestly didn't care.
The added scale length of 26 1/2 really tightened up the low B for those of us who tend to use lighter strings and normally have to deal with a floppy Low B string.
The Tone Pro's bridge is about as stable as it gets.
Not a ton of tonal options with the 3 way blade style switch, but honestly I didn't buy this guitar for it's amazing versatility. I bought it to kick mucho distorted ass.
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| Action, Fit, & Finish |
Out of the box, the set up was pretty spot on.
Binding looked great, it has a durable matte finish which looks great no matter how many gallons of sweat you drip on it,Nut was cut great, pretty much a big thumbs up all around.
An interesting note, the nut slots on the ATX & Hellraiser were cut slightly to different nut widths.
The Hellraiser with a thinner string spacing & the ATX to a wider more metal approved string spacing, which honestly I preferred more.
Not a big deal, but definately worth mentioning...
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| Reliability & Durability |
Used for one full metal show with my band Ritual Fixx & a couple more low key events where I was just kinda the lead player in the background.
At the metal show I easily had one of the best rhythm tones I have ever had in my life and the leads were equally as good.
Clean tones, decent but not great...
Had the Hellraiser as a backup never needed it.
The finish absolutely durable.
This is a pro quality guitar boys & girls...
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| Customer Support |
Schecter customer service is great & probably the best I've ever dealt with and answers pretty much any question within a couple of days.
Pretty cool bunch of guys..
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| Liked about it |
1.Great Distorted Tone
2.Great Playing Guitar
3.Cool Looking Finish/Look
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| Didn't like |
1.The addition of a 5 way switch w coil tapping would make this infinately more versatile & IMO one of the best 7's out there..
2.Although the pickups do sound great, I hate batteries & having to remember to unplug my guitar...
Yeah I know this is a minor gripe, but I'm REALLY trying to find negatives here...
Unfortunately I really can't find another thing I don't like...
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5.0 |
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great quality guitar for the price
| Sound |
very dark sounding guitar, this is a metal guitar
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| Action, Fit, & Finish |
came outta the box with no issues, bit of fret buzz but I changed the string gauge and that fixed it
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| Reliability & Durability |
very reliable guitar have a loomis 7 and would definitely use this as a backup
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| Customer Support |
N/A
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| Liked about it |
seymour duncan blackouts sound awesome
mahogany body with ebony board
satin finish feels almost like natural wood
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| Didn't like |
inlay looked cheesy, no locking tuners
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| Overall satisfaction: |
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4.0 |
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