Schecter Omen Extreme 6 STBLK

Mooie afgewerkte gitaar, frets zijn en klein beetje scherp, maar niet vervelend of enig iets in die vorm.

Kleur valt wat groener/ grijzer uit, en persoonlijk vindt ik het mooier dan op de foto's van Thomann.

Klank is erg goed voor een gitaar in deze prijs range. In vergelijking tot m'n Jackson dxmg met passieve pickups, heeft de schecter veel output volume, maar ook meer definitie.
Enige nadeel in klank vind ik het grote verschil in klank tussen de hals en brug element. Beide zijn goed bespeelbaar, echter is het verschil wel te groot om er samen tussen te switchen.

Gitaar kwam prima afgesteld binnen, en is zeker een aanbeveling wanneer je opzoek bent voor een high gain gitaar.

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.