Schecter C-1 Diamond Series

I'm not sure what year it was made, but i'm guessing 2000 or 2001. It's Korean made, it has a three way selector, a tone and volume knob, two stock duncan humbuckers, i'm pretty sure that the neck is rosewood and i know the back of the neck is maple, it has the diamond prints on the neck like most of the diamond series, the body style resembles a PRS almost like a strat, the strings go through the body, and it has 24 jumbo frets. It is a dark blue, i think the stock name is called electric blue, it has cream binding which in my opinion along with the body style makes it a beautiful looking guitar. The only reason i didn't give it a ten is it didin't include any accessories.

This guitar sounds really warm and deep. I play alternative rock/ hard rock/funk/punk. I use a little fender amp that has one tweleve inch speaker and either play it clean or with distortion. The amp is really cheap, but easy to carry around and can play over amps twice its size, and most of the guitars i have sound great with it. The pickups aren't noisy (my strat is noisier). I can get a wide variety of sounds through it and its sustain is unbelievable. i haven't played around with it too much so i haven't had times to find any dislikes, but i'm not expecting many.

I'm amazed with it's set-up. The action was low, but the frets didn't buzz. The finish was perfect, no scratches, everything was in good shape. Pretty average

I haven't had this guitar very long, but everything seems like i could withstand years of touring. The finish seems thick. The strap buttons are very solid. I'm sure i can depend on it. I wouldn't play a gig without a backup ever, but if i had to with one of my guitars i would use this one. The only problem i came across was there was a wire that was loose or wasn't attached properly, something like that and it wouldn't always carry the sound to the amp, but it fixed itself, i had this problem in the first hour after i bought it, but it hasn't done anything sense then. I called the store where i bought it from and they said to keep the guitar and they are ordering the exact model, color, ect... as the one i have and will ship it to me free of cost. I thought that was nice. no hassels

Haven't dealt with them directly

I've been playing for 6 years, and i have owned several strats. My best guitar being a fender lonestar strat with two single coil pick ups and one humbucker with one five way selecter, two tone and one volume knob, rosewood neck, american made, anyway a pretty decent guitar twice as expensive as this one. Anyway the Schecter is easier to play, has better sounds, is defiently more derable, just overall a better guitar and for half the price, i was surprised. I've shopped and tried out so many different brands and so far i've found this guitar overall one of the best especially for the money.

I bought this at a guitar center a year ago. It's a deep red. I really like the color. It's got chrome plated duncan humbuckers. It looks like a PRS cept its larger and bulkier. But PRS's are small so its a normal sized guitar. It has a 3 way pickup selector.

I play metal. It has a pretty decent sound in the bridge position, there is nothing super specal about it. The pickups are very run of the mill. It doesnt make a bit of noise. The middle and back positions are sort of thick and toneless. The middle is the one i use for clean, the neck position one has no character. You can get a lot of good harmonics out of it though. If you play around with the pickups you can definatly get a good powerful sound out of it for metal and any sort of hardrock. If you are looking for a good clean tone though you may have a little more trouble. I am a big fan of telecaster clean though so in my mind it's a different ballpark altogether.

This is where i would definatly say that it comes through as a guitar. It definatly dominates over any jackson or ibanez as far as flexiility. Ibanez are realy good for lead's but you can't get that really thick smooth feeling that is good for rhythm. This guitar is definatly one of the fewer guitars ive plyed that is good for both. you loose some leads up really high and the 24th fret is pathetically small...but the rhythm is great. I use 11 gauge Elixers so i can have the wound g and the nice smoothness of the Elixer strings. Its action was very well set up by the factory and it is a very nicely finished guitar. My only complaint really would be that the 24th fret is pretty small and the upper register is a little crowded....but who religiously uses the 24th fret??

This is also a good thing about this guitar. It's really really nice with tuning. The first week i had it,i dropped it on the floor of my friends garage and i thought " ohh great, maybe i should just start throwing money at people when they run by, that would be an easier way to be out 600 bucks." But it actually bounced backu into my hands. It landed on the input and bent it in slightly...but it didnt affect it at all. The finish on the back of the neck seems to be relaly realy solid too. figured by now it would have gotten really unsmooth from playing it so much, but its remained the same.

I asked Schecter to make it travel through time...they have yet to get back to me on the wiring ideas.

i want to stress this point. Paul Reed Smith is a jerk-off and i hope Mark Tremonti's blood turns to glass. Those guitars are overpriced as crud. In my opinion this guitar outplays a PRS. Ive never been too impressed with the old PRS guitar myself though so i guess my opinion doesnt matter. This guitar is realy cool, but i may trade it in on a Heritage. Those are sweet, and im getting tired of seeing this guitar in the video for "she loves me not." Jerry Horton and i arent on speaking terms. Id rather just have a Les Paulish guitar, cause im starting to get bored with this one. But seriously if you havent owned one they are worth it.

Solid body guitar, mahagony body, maple neck with ebony fretboard, 24 frets, two duncan design passive humbuckers, one volume and one tone control. Looks similar to a PRS but not exactly. Completely black including hardware, with a cream binding. Grover non-locking tuners, string-thru body bridge. The neck feels similar to a strat.

This guitar suits my music style well, which is mainly hard rock/nu metal/alternative. That is the style of music I play in my bands, but I play pretty much everything from AC/DC to Eric Clapton to Linkin Park to Creed. I use the bridge pickup mainly for distorted sounds, and it sounds great, though it's not that les paul sound. I get a thick sound without very much feedback for hi gain settings. You can get decent clean sounds out of the bridge pickup, but I prefer the neck for most of my clean tones. I like nice warm clean sounds and I can get them very well with the neck pickup. I play this guitar through a Line 6 spider 212 which is a decent amp. With my setup I can get most sounds I want except for signature single coil sounds sice it only has humbuckers.

Cosmetically this guitar was in good condition when I got it (I should hope so, since I bought it new)but the G string continually went out of tune. I will describe why in the next section. The action was fairly good and it seemed to be set up well except for that one problem

This is where this guitar falls short. The big problem I had with this guitar from the time I got it was the G string would not stay in tune, not matter what. The music store I bought it from had a bunch of morons who didn't even play guitar running it and they just kept saying things like change your strings, or maybe you don't know how to put on string properly. It took me pointing the problem out to them three times and explaining why it was wrong and what had to be done to fix it before they came to their senses. The problem was with the screw which adjusted the saddle in the bridge for the G string. It was missing a metal ring, which was supposed to be pressed fit on, that keeps the saddle in place. Without this ring the saddle is free to move as it wants. Each time the saddle moves,it changes the tension on the string and puts it out of tune. After I got the guitar fixed (it took almost a year) it still isn't working perfectly. I don't know how pros like Jerry Horton use this guitar. It must have entirely different hardware. I still can't keep it intonated and it is alway going out of tune.

The customer support at schecter is virtually non-existent. It took me almost a year to get my guitar fixed and the first time they sent it back exactly the same as it went there. The didn't even appear to touch it, although they claimed it was fixed. When I talked to them on the phone they talked back as if I was doing something wrong and the guitar was in perfect working order. They tried to make me seem like a bad guy. I even had the guy I was talking to raise his voice as if he was trying to get me in trouble or something. This was the worst customer support I have ever experienced. They also tried to get me to pay for the repairs even though my guitar was supposed to be under warranty

I actually like this guitar, but I can't keep it because it has problems constantly arising and the customer support is bullshit. I would not reccomend buying this guitar simply because of reliability and customer support being so bad. Honestly, people should stick with companies that have good reputation such as fender and gibson. I didn't and I ended up getting screwed, but I have learned my lesson. I have been playing guitar for 6 years and previously owned two yamaha guitars and a fender strat. I have never had the kinds of problems with those guitars that I had with this one. I am only 17 so this guitar was a big investment for me, and I am completely unsatisfied with this purchase

this is just a little update I put a gibson classic 57 in the bridge and WOW!!!!!! I feel like the control of my playing went up 20 notches the strings are a lot more balenced and it really complimentes the guitar both visually and sound wise I strongley recommend trying this pickup in this guitar it sounds wonderful.
I was the one with the lime grean one had it since 98 and I love now more than ever. I'll give another update when I replace the neck but for now I like the muddy sound.

Judging by the serial number it was made in 1999, most probably Schecter outlets in Korea. 24 medium jumbo frets, dark rosewood fingerboard, maple bolt-on neck, strings through body design for better sustain. Body is made of solid mahogany, upon closer inspection there seem to be some large sound holes in the body itself - knocking in upper and lower "horns" for example gives more resonating sound than rest of the body. Guitar comes with black Diamond Series gig bag.

Unplugged guitar sounds dark and very quiet. Duncan Designed pickups are not too bad for this price range but although each string sounds perfectly separated in riffs there is a lot of unnecessary "dirt" in final sound. I think natural sound of this guitar itself should rather be paired with either harsh, bluesy pickups, maybe even Seth Lovers or solid and more bright "high gain metal" pups. Also since the slightly resonating nature of the body original pups pick up too much noise from the body - you could practicaly tap rhytm on the neck and hear it full volume in the amp. One note - despite what they tell you in high street shops there is no factory coil tapping installed in C1 model.

The only bit I disliked was that my guitar came with neck screwed to the body in a slight angle, which means someone at the factory just didn't care and ruined customers first approach to this otherwise pretty good guitar. Action is fairly low, not as low as Gibsons can go, but it's OK. I can't say I found any flaws - midnight blue finish is amazing, hardware is fantastic, it's hard to believe this guitar is sold below #500.

It's solid. Very solid.

I play guitar since I can remember. Got my first accoustic when I was 8 or 9. When I was 18 I ordered myself dark transparent green speedster from local luthier and this hand made axe has lasted untill now - 10 years and counting. I play metal. I had many serial guitars in my hands, mostly for very short period of time - this will be the first serial guitar I'm gonna keep. It might take time for me to get used to Schecter's bridge which doesn't offer much support for muting hand except its sharp and edgy string saddles. The neck on this thing is absolute perfection, one the best I had a chance to touch in my life. Grover machineheads keep in tune even after few long hours of pulling and bending. Whole guitar is very light and superbly balanced. I'm surprised with price of this thing. I think I'm going to buy more Schecter models.

This guitar was made 20001 and is pretty basic two humbucker, bolt on two octave neck, with a body style similar to Jackson dinky or PRS Santana. The strings are through body, with grover tuners. There is a 3 way pick up selector, with one volume and one tone knob. Knobs and hardware are black finish and the guitar body is deep blue.Frets are Medium Jumbo. Price included gig bag. I find the neck is very nicely sized to my hand size. I have rather stockey hands and this guitar has the best feeling neck I have ever played. I also own A Gibson SG, Ibanez Artist, Ibanez Les Paul, and Fender Strat.

I really like the sound that this guitar has. It has a full tone, not ice pick highs but still bright sounding on the neck pick up, with very smooth distortion. Easy to induce pick/thumb muted harmonics when playing lead, good full sound for rymthm. I purchased this guitar at Guitar Center and tried every Schecter model they had. I also tried 3 different Jackson models, a PRS Santana model, and a Gibson Les Paul and found the sound and playability of this guitar to be superior. (I hated to admit this to myself because I liked the looks of several of these other models considerably better.) I hate to give anything a 10 when rating but this is honestly one of the best sounding guitars I have ever played.

The finish of this guitar is acceptable but not a work of art by any means. The setup of the guitar was crap. I lowered the strings, and readjusted the pickup height the first hour I had it. (I readjust every guitar I buy to suit me anyway so I wasn't overly concerned with setup at time of purchase.)

It appears that they used decent parts when building this guitar and I don't expect any problems. Lifetime warranty to original owner.

I have been playing guitar about 25 years, I own several different guitars and find myself playing this guitar 40 to 50% of the time. I like this guitar as much as my Gibson SG and that says a lot. If this guitar was stolen I would not hesitate to buy another one. I am not crazy about the looks of this guitar, but when I close my eyes and get into what I'm playing this guitar almost seems to play itself. What more can I say.

24 frets, rosewood fingerboard, 2 Duncan Designed humbuckers, maple neck, mahogany body, silver top finish, string thru body, Grover tuners, gig bag included.

The body of this guitar looks really nice. It has a light silver, almost white, finish with sparkles for the top, and it's black on the sides and back with cream binding. The fingerboard looks nice also. The tuners are really effective and it's easy to tune with them.

All I've used this guitar for is playing metal, both lead and rhythm. I use a Marshall AVT 20 amp with this and it sounds really nice for both. It sounds pretty rich with distortion. With this guitar it is easy to do harmonics too.

This guitar doesn't seem to be set up that well. The fingerboard had some flaws on it, and some miniscule scratches on the hardware. The low E string can cause some fret buzz when hit mildly hard.

This guitar will withstand live playing. It's pretty solid. The tuners are good, the strap buttons are good, the finish seems durable, the strings are awesome, so I'd depend on it.

I love the sound, the way it looks, but the low E string can be irritating. Too many little flaws.

Made in Korea (Yes, I know, but still, it rules.), 24 frets, H/H, (Duncan Designed), Passive Electronics.

Gotta take a moment here to comment on the rosewood fingerboard. It's STUNNING.

A mix of chocolate and light browns, looks really antique, lots of color.. its undescribable. Just beautiful. The guitar itself is gloss black, with a cream binding, all black controls. Looks great. String thru-body style, Strat/Wolfgang hybrid.. kinda.. shape. Neck is thick and beefy, but.. still very playable by us SnS's. (Short and Stubby fingers).

Tuners are non-locking, but it dosent matter. It was tuned at the shop. Brought it home. Played it for 6 hours. Still in tune. Jumbo frets, cool 3D looking... pearloid diamond inlays.

Controls are nice too. Responsive tone, and responsive vol.

3 way pickup selector. (N, Split, B)

no included accessories.

This is your "less is more" guitar. Simple, and rockin..

(Floyd on my Ibanez was annoying me)

It gets a 10.

Why? While it dosent do much, what it does do, it does really well.

I play Prog rock, in the vein of Queensryche, and some Halen. Works very well for both. I can see how people want to replace the pickups. If you need to get any meaner than.. lets say... Humans Being, by Halen, the stocks arent for ye.

Been running it through my Line 6 Flextone 2 Plus, set to the rectifier mode. I can really nail Eddie's Brown Sound with this axe. INSANE harmonics.

Really rich sound. Low, heavy, buttery bottom end. yet the top end screams and sings.

Not a hum out of the damn thing.


This one also gets a 10.

Sounds better than my Ibanez RG770, and hell, It can nail Operation Mindcrime, AND get the Brown Sound, so.. shit. 10 it is.

Guitar was set up nice when I got it. Low action, some buzz, but thats to be expected. Not enough to come through the amp. Pickups are routed fine. It all looks good. Theres one small.. indent on the guitar finish, but honestly, I cant tell wether its supposed to be there or not. Give it a 9.

Sure will withstand live playing. Very lightweight, everything looks sturdy. Finish looks like it's fine, unless you're a messy picker, and then it would wear, obviously. Strap buttons are wide and thick. That strap aint goin nowhere. I would depend on it. Looks good.

And no. Never gig without a backup. Ever.

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Just got it today, hope I don't have to call these people anytime soon.

Been playing for several years. I also used to own an Ibanez RG770, which I traded in for this one here, because the floyd was starting to annoy me.

Very happy with my purchase.

If this guitar was stolen, I would cry like a little chinese schoolgirl.

Then I would go purchase another one.

The guitar truly looks great, when its all polished up, and the light hits it. It glows.

Its a VERY light guitar. (For you people who have played Ibanex RG's. its lighter than that. I'd say about 3-4 pounds.)

I actually was debating between this here, and a Wolfgang.

And.. god damnit, ill say it right now. This guitar hits eddie's sound better than Eddie's guitar.


Like to plug ECM while I have the chance.

East Coast Music Mall
Danbury, CT
www.eastcoastmusic.com

Call, and ask for Sandy. Tell him that Sam with the Schecter sent ya. =)

i THINK IT'S A 98.MADE OVERSEAS SET UP IN CALI 240FRET MINE IS A BRIGHT SPARKLEY GREEN FINISH AND CREME BINDING 2 DUNCUN DESIGNED PICK UPS 1 VOLUME AND 1 TONE THE WHOLE GUITAR IS SOLID BODY IS A MIX BETWEEN PRS AN STRATTUNE O MATIC WITH STRING THRU BODY GROVER TUNERS ARE REALLY GOOD

THE PICKUPS ARE OK FOR STOCK BUT i'M GOING TO RPLACE THEM WITH A DMARZIO BLAZE AND A GIBSON P94 FOR THE NECK

WAY GOOD VERY FEW FLAWS THE GREEN IS BEAUTIFUL

i'VE HAD THIS GUITAR FOR 3 AND A HALF YEARS AND i'VE STEPPED ON IT i'VE DROPPED IT AND IT STILL WORKS LIKE NEW

i HAVEN'T HAD TO USE IT

i'VE BEEN PLAYING 5 YEARS AND THIS IS BY FAR THE BEST GUITAR i'VE PLAYED IN THE 400 TO 700 DALLAR PRICE RANGE

The features have already been listed.. no point relisting them

The sound is very rich and fat. Heavy sounds are better.

Something's up with the fret board on this thing. I can tune it perfectly, but then if I fret the thing too hard it goes sharp. Impossible to play unless you touch it with the strength of a hummingbird. DO NOT BUY THIS GUITAR.

I'm returning it, so I can't say how it will last

Don't do it