Schecter PT arrives... review

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  • House53
    House53 Posts: 1,276
    pearlwax wrote:
    Looks sweet man. Too bad my door is over the Atlantic.

    Thanks, if you are really interested send me an email. I would be happy to arrange shipping for a fellow PJ fan.
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  • casper leblanc
    casper leblanc Posts: 1,246
    Tempting, but wouldn't be a smart move financially speaking. If it were plain 739, maybe, but international shipping and especially customs here will royally screw me. But thanks anyway.
  • HailHailVitalogy
    HailHailVitalogy Posts: 6,020
    House53 wrote:
    What he said... :D

    This is from back when Schecter was just custom builds to order.

    This is what Pete Townshend and Ed played.

    see i didnt know it was the 80s...hmmm
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  • mccreadyisgod
    mccreadyisgod Bumfuq, MT Posts: 6,395
    Pacomc79 wrote:
    Have you tried Mig's tele. The double hum from MF I think. It's on sale for 399 right now. Dump the pups. Put in some Voodoo 59's or what have you and there it is.

    yoink

    http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=home/search/detail/base_pid/515207/


    Probably still not the neck profile he wants. It's like a hybrid Fender C / 60's LP neck, fairly slim. I like it, it's very comfortable, but it's not at all chunky.

    He'd probably kill for my P-90 loaded Tele Deluxe, though... the neck is a little fatter, probably still a fat C, but chunkier, and the TONE... heaven, lotsa character.

    I'd say you'd be better off piecing the parts you want from Warmoth and build from scratch.

    PS: I had a TeleSonic a few years back, and I loved it. Sold it to a really good friend, so it's still around... I pick it up from time to time, and I really miss it. The tone-chambered body still has the tightess of a solid-body, but some woodiness from the chambers, and the DeArmond 2K pups are PHAT. Very nice, round tone... no bite, but lotsa balls. Think a single-coil version of a Classic 57 HB, or a slightly underwound P-90 without the treble in the bridge.

    I'd be interested in that Schecter, but I already have too many Tele's, I need a decent acoustic, and I'm broke. Keep it a while at least, see if it grows any on you... like Joni Mitchell said, you don't know what you got 'till it's gone...
    ...and if you don't like it, you can suck on an egg.
  • House53
    House53 Posts: 1,276
    The Schecter just needed the right amp to express itself.

    I played it through about 12 different amps this weekend... one thing was consistent... El-84 amps are where its at for me. I played an Orange AD30 TC, a Dr Z Rx, a Matchless HC-30, a Roccaforte Custom 45, a Dr Z 6545, an Orange Rockerverb 50, a Super Reverb (w/ phillips 6L6s), a tweed twin, a mesa lone star special...

    The amps with EL84s had the tone I have been missing. I am seriously considering the Mesa as it really impressed me, despite my distaste for the name plate. In a blind test, I would have picked it.

    I played and sang for about three hours yesterday with a local guy... just my tele (standard) into his tweed twin... he played a Clapton strat into the Victoria version of the same amp. We had some good moments where we got things going pretty well... it was the first time we had played together, so we were teaching each other songs and feeling things out.

    With both my guitars, the Mesa really had some cool stuff going on and lots of good tones. The clean and dirty tones sounded good, nice reverb, nice touch, big tones too.

    The Schecter really has a good response to volume knob adjustments.
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