What's Wrong With Schecter Basses?

[Sav'nBass]

@ SirMac .... Absolutely. It is not liked it was 30-40 years ago when many other than instruments were not very good. Today many $300-$500 basses are just as good if not better than anything massed produced by Fender or Gibson in the 70s and earlier.

 

[JPkstms]

Picked up a schecter omen e4 active tuesday and i haven't been able to put it down. The tones great, neck is smooth and quick for me, and i love the honey burst. The ony issue I have is that the bindings make the fingerboard feel like plastic

 

[jjmuckluckjr]

Disrespect my bass and I claw your face.

 

[JPkstms]

Woweee

 

[JPkstms]

Nice skulls u got there

 

[JPkstms]

Heres mine

 

[JPkstms]

Full image

 

[basslifter]

I had a Schecter 5 string. It had horrible neckdive and and a looonng reach to the lower frets. It just wasn't a good design. They also only make 5 strings in a 35" scale and I find that to be uncomfortable. Maybe other models are better but my first experience was not good. Sorry...

 

[JPkstms]

JJs going to claw your face off now

 

[JPkstms]

How tall are you? It might just be your height or the size of your hands
Edit: i'm six foot 1 and I like short scale basses. Though not all of them its all personal preference

 

[Means2nEnd]

Nothing is wrong with them. I have been doing work and repairs on basses in my area a long time at many price points. I can say with certainty at the lower to mid lower price points they have the most consistent build quality. They have all seem to have been solid and the fretwork out of the box has been better than basses costing as much as double from the "F" company. I'm not an expert on them but all I have seen have had jumbo size frets which are not my favorite but the work was good and the necks were all pretty good quality. If I lost everything and had to start over I would buy one with no regrets.

 

[JPkstms]

Great summery

 

[JPkstms]

I liked the $400 dollar with schecter pickups better than the $500 one with EMGS. Just didnt feel right. Pickups were good

Edit: not good , great

 

[bolophonic]

Anyone who trash talks your gear to your face is a dingleberry. Don't sweat it.

 

[Marikk]

Bashing somones gear is just a uber douche move, Unless you banged his sister, theres no reason for it.

I have a Stilletto 4 in my collection i picked up new for a great price. It arrived with a flawless black cherry burst finish(i think thats the name of the finish)With matching headstock(i love matching headstocks!!). The neck had a great shape, the satin finish on the back of the neck was very fast and there were no sharp edges or shoddy work. All the hardware on the bass felt solid and nothing was loose.

It was just a really great bass on its own merits, regardless of the name on the headstock

 

[rtslinger]

I see a lot of them for sale used in GC ( have been hunting for bass #12), so I was wondering the same thing?

 

[Lo-E]

Schecter has been in the game a long time. They started making replacement parts in CA in the mid 1970s (along with Mighty Mite, Charvel, Stars Guitars, DiMarzio, etc...) and started building complete instruments sometime at the end of the 70s. At that time, the complete instruments were essentially Fender copies that were very expensive and there was a very high demand for them. They were apparently well liked enough to be seen in the hands of Pete Townshend, Mark Knofler and Lou Reed, to name a few.

Once they reached a point in the early eighties where they just couldn't meet demand, they sold out to a bigger company who sent the manufacturing offshore. There have been several changes of ownership since. As far as I can tell, the quality control has remained fairly high throughout the company's history and their product line offers a lot of models that are very nice for their price ranges.

A friend of mine plays a Diamond Series that I have used a couple of times. While I'm not a big fan of EMG pickups, personally, I thought the bass was solid and played just fine. A perfectly nice instrument.

Your friend who turned his nose up at your Schecter has not, I'll bet, ever played a gig with one and is basing his opinion on nothing but the instrument's price range. That's a shame. Snobbery doesn't contribute anything to music, nor does it do anything to help any sense of music community. Don't let him or anybody else tell you what bass to like.

 

[khutch]

I've looked at Schecters and for the most part they just don't appeal to me. The same could be said of a lot of other basses however, including some from the brands that I do generally like, so this is hardly a condemnation. However, if a lot of people share my reaction to their products then that could explain some of the bias you perceive. I try not to let my personal disinterest in a product color my comments about it when someone else asks about it or shares their love of it. Different products exist because we all have different tastes so it is to be expected that a lot of the basses out there just won't give me GAS. But not everyone can see past their own preferences when they give advice or join a conversation. Don't let it bother you. One of the elders in my church is also a bass player and he plays a very nice Schecter, if they all looked more like his (no idea what model it is) I would be more interested in the brand.

 

[The_Janitor]

I find that most of the a-holes that bash Schecter have never used one. Some people have tried them and don't care for them, but those people usually aren't the ones literally turning up their nose at someone else's gear choices.

Why the bad rep? I think it's because people perceive them as a "heavy metal" instrument, and therefore it must be sh*t.

I work in the Pro Audio / MI industry and the term I've heard over and over to describe Schecter instruments is "Poor man's PRS".

TLDR - That guy's an assh*ole and you shouldn't waste another second considering his ridiculous bullsh*t attitude. Life is too short.

 

[Lo-E]

It was just a really great bass on its own merits, regardless of the name on the headstock

At some point in an interview, I remember Hartley Peavey arguing exactly the same point. Paraphrasing, he said something to the effect of "Everybody wants to say Peavey instruments are 'good for the money', but they take so much advertising money from the bigger companies that they're afraid to just say 'They're good'."

Names on headstocks probably mean less today than they ever have. CNC machines have completely leveled the playing field. While it's true there are differences in the quality of the wood and hardware and electronics, the playability of instruments has never been more consistent across the entire price spectrum.