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Murdersgalore
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Schecter Diamond Plus pickups. Basically, do they suck?
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theD1CKENS
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just saw this or would have commented sooner. I have the Gryphon and my band mate has the Hellraiser. don't know if that is of the 'Plus' variety, but if not, I would assume they're still pretty similar. I personally like them. they're kinda growly and sound mean when pushed. a little tough to get a GOOD clean tone out of them, but decent is acheivable.
also, stay away from the active pups. they just don't sound as good IMO
just saw this or would have commented sooner. I have the Gryphon and my band mate has the Hellraiser. don't know if that is of the 'Plus' variety, but if not, I would assume they're still pretty similar. I personally like them. they're kinda growly and sound mean when pushed. a little tough to get a GOOD clean tone out of them, but decent is acheivable.
also, stay away from the active pups. they just don't sound as good IMO
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^ I have a Michael Kelly with emg 81/85 pickups in it, and it's the best sounding/playing guitar I have. And I have alot of guitars lol
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are the 81s/85s active? I've never had a good experience with active pups. seems like it makes the volume knob do some weird stuff, like when trying to roll back and let feedback or a sustained note slowly disappear, it's like nothing, nothing, nothing, BIG volume drop, silence. I get a smoother decay with passives.
I think I may have misunderstood the question?! does Schecter have their own line of pups? and if they do, SURELY they would be in the TWO diamond series Schecs I have...right?
I think I may have misunderstood the question?! does Schecter have their own line of pups? and if they do, SURELY they would be in the TWO diamond series Schecs I have...right?
cavedog101
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I have an old guitar that I built about 30 years ago. I set it up like a Tele with two humbucks. It has Schecters from back in the day when they were a replacement guitar parts company doing Fender-like parts. Those are some seriously powerful pickups and with the maple body and one-piece rosewood neck this thing has it does rock tending towards the heavy quite well. It also has an original Washburn 2001 bridge and whacky bar with the nut stop. It'll dive bomb with the best as well as pull up quite a bit.
I'm sure that all the Schecter parts you get these days are nothing like those old ones though they may be as good.
I will add that back when I was part of a guitar building set-up, we used almost exclusively, Schecter necks for our own Fender-like creations. The popular model was a single humbucker Strat body with a strat tailpiece and various types of woods for the body and the neck. We'd shoot lacquer over a sanding sealer brought up level with many thin coats and let them cure then assemble them. I still have a bass and a guitar from then and they all sounded great. The Schecter necks were so good at that time. They really were the instigators of the custom assembly specials. Pete Townsends Tele with the buckers was a Schecter guitar as were Mark Knophlers custom Strats.
I'm sure that all the Schecter parts you get these days are nothing like those old ones though they may be as good.
I will add that back when I was part of a guitar building set-up, we used almost exclusively, Schecter necks for our own Fender-like creations. The popular model was a single humbucker Strat body with a strat tailpiece and various types of woods for the body and the neck. We'd shoot lacquer over a sanding sealer brought up level with many thin coats and let them cure then assemble them. I still have a bass and a guitar from then and they all sounded great. The Schecter necks were so good at that time. They really were the instigators of the custom assembly specials. Pete Townsends Tele with the buckers was a Schecter guitar as were Mark Knophlers custom Strats.
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Track Rat
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I have a PT Custom with Duncans. For what I payed for it, I'm pretty impressed with the tone.
Guitargodgt
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what's the deal with active pups? are they hotter, or smoother, or <insert adjective>er? I haven't messed with them much. the only guitar I have access to with active pups(Schecter Hellraiser) doesn't sound as good as my guitar(Schecter Gryphon) with passives IMO.
side note; back in the day, when we played a LOT more shows, we were trying to get sponsored by Schecter...didn't work out, so the Schecters became our back-ups
side note; back in the day, when we played a LOT more shows, we were trying to get sponsored by Schecter...didn't work out, so the Schecters became our back-ups
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had to look it up, but that's a nice lookin guitar. does it have the coil tap?
Track Rat
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On the tone pot. Pull it up and they're single pole. It like switching from a Les Paul to a Tele.
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Very nice. My Gryphon does that, but the more expensive Hellraiser doesn`t. One more point for passives