my drummer in my old rock band purchased
a Schecter Omen 6 (in satin black. not made anymore, sadly enough.
) to upgrade from his crappy Peavey Predator II, and it was the last guitar that we really needed as a band. It stood up to all three of us in the band using it, abusing it, and regularly putting it through all the paces we could on live gigs and recording sessions. For $400 someodd at the time (now a bit less), it was on the level of a PRS in my book. Of course it plays a bit differently, but the quality and tonality was there. We *never* used a clean tone with the Peavey, we always used some sort of effect on
the Zoom GFX707 we had, such as Detune, which was our "clean tone", it made the peavey sound aight... the Schecter stood out as a shining, bright, and colorful personality of a guitar, and we loved it. I'll suggest Schecter to anyone, any time. I believe firmly in their quality of instruments for the buck.
And also, about the Samick Bennett series... one of my buddies in another band we gigged with at the time played these exclusively. They're great guitars. My guitarist from same old band bought one after playing one of the other guy's guitars. Figure for $300 or so, you can get a great PRS clone. Fast friggin' guitars, and lightweight, but still have rather nice sustain and tone.
Back onto schecter, anyone curious on schecter basses will love to check out the Stiletto series... My next bass is most likely going to be a Stiletto Custom 4, 'cause i can get 'em locally at a good price. Way awesome bass, very versatile instruments, able to go from heavy to funky quite well. I think they rank just a bit behind the conklin groovetools series (in my opinion). Can't beat 'em for the buck though.
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