Schecter C-1 Elite

Made in 2001? 25 1/2 neck, Nice black finish,1 volume 1 tone, pickup spliter, 2 humbuckers (duncan designed), mahogany body, maple neck, grover tuners, nice sized neck (not as fast as i would like it)and no tone pros bridge on this years model : o (

I play a lot of metal and blues, this guitar sounded great than i put a SH-6 pu in the bridge and a SH-2 pu in the neck and this guitar really sounded elite, this guitar has great sustain. Like i said stock pick ups are no match, and i love the pick up spliter. String threw body owns.

The set up was nice, i put some .52-.11 strings on it and setup the guitar how i like it, i lowered the bridge a bit, and raised pick ups, when i recieved this guitar the humbucker holder things were cracked and i was pissed (nothing major). The ablone binding is stunning, but really to pretty for me.

I beat the hell out of this guitar and havnt had any problems, I am going to put a tone pros bridge on it and everything will be perfect on this guitar. I put strap locks on, but they didnt fit that well had to modify the screw a bit.I would gig with this guitar, but always have a back up

havnt dealt with them

I have been playing for 5 years, I have owned a strat, a epiphone standard LP, schecter c1-7 string, and now this bad boy. I wish this years model had 2 volume, and tone pros. Everyone loves the abalone binding. If this was stolen i would buy the C-1 Stealth becuase it has everyhting this guitar has plus more, for about 150$ cheaper

Schecter c-1 "diamond series" elite. 24 fret, 2 duncan design humbuckes, hardtail bridge, grover tuners, 3-way pickup selector, 1 volume pot, 1 tone pot, coil split feature (allows you to split the buckers into coils by pulling up on the tone knob). the reason i give it a 9 was because i would like to see a volume controll for the neck pickup.

I cant quite describe exactly what I play, some metalish, industrial mostly. But this guitar has quite the versatility when it comes to sound. INCREDIBLE! works very well with ever amp i've tried it with. (I own a peavey classic 50 BTW) works extreamly well with fuzz. the tone is comparable to a les paul. in fact, I borrowed one (les paul standard) for about a month while my friend was gone to europe and I found myself playing the schecter more...they pretty much sounded identical, i just liked the way the c-1 was set up moreso then the les paul. My ONLY gripe in this category is that when the coil is split, the tone is indeed lacking. but, the humbuckers really do make up for this...I would give it a 9.7, but since that isn;t available, a perfect 10 will have to do.

the guitar was set up great. I dont have any gripe about that. the pickups were adjusted fine...everything was adjusted great. the action is absolutly perfect. No complaints what so ever. a true beauty...great!

I've had this guitar for about a year and a half. and it feels extreamly solid to me. everything seems to be extreamly solid. It just feels together...

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this is by far the best guitar for the money I have ever played. INCREDIBLE!!! I am very glad I had the opprotunity to play such an incredible piece. I love the sound, looks,versatility, and the playability. It really fits me well. I had three guitars when I bouth this, now I only have this one because it's so versitile I really dont require anything else. It beats the hell out of a les paul (mainly due to price and looks) and it's also better then every PRS i've played (looks, value, and sound) serriously, next time you're looking to buy a guitar...check out a schecter of any kind. they are truely incredible...

Made in Korea. Mine is a new 2003 model. Setup in the USA. Very contoured arch top mahogany body. Maple neck. Rosewood Fretboard. 24 Jumbo Frets.

There are a number of permutations of the C1-Elite. I bought this one at Guitar Center - it is the gloss black model abalone and white bindings on body, head and neck, tribal at the 12th fret. Looks are elegant albeit a bit dark. Mine features a through the body neck. Some other C1-Elites I looked at had a set neck - not through the body (go figure.) The difference in necks is major! The through the body neck is faster, trimmer, lower action, and the body/neck is much more contoured than the set neck model. I think the neck specs are 14" radius. Scale is 25 1/2" ( I prefer this to the shorter scale on the C1+ model). Feels great to me -not too thin, not too fat. The through the body guitar is also lighter than the set neck models. Pickups are Duncan Designed - they are good Seymour Duncan 'Jazz' and '59' approximations. Controls consist of a three-way toggle with tone and volume. There is a coil tap feature- very nice! The two controls do it for me on this guitar. The sonic range is substantial. Stringing is through the body with 'Tone Pros' bridge. Absolutely KILLER SUSTAIN! Intonation is dead on. Grover tuners. I agree with another reviewer- these babies hold tune forever..even right out of the case after sitting around a while.

It would be nice if they included a case. The Schecter case runs about $100. I bought an SKB for $89.00. I can't imagine not having a case for a guitar of this quality and caliber! This is the only thing I would ding Schecter on, except maybre for the lack of real SD pickups. So it gets a 9 instead of a ten for that.

I mostly play Jazz and blues. Eeven though Schecters seem to have a substantial metal following, I find that I can get great mellow tones as well as serious punch and bright tones with this guitar. The range is impresive. I play very clean - through an Ultrasound amp that I also use with my Cordoba FCWE - so clarity of tone is important as the Ultrasound amp doesn't lie! To my ear the stock DDs are fine - I see no need to replace with SDs. Even though the pickups are supposedly the same -it has a better sound than the C1+ model.

This guitar was set up properly right out of the box. The guys at GC went over it for me - no changes or adjustments were needed. Fit and Finish were perfect - no flaws. This one was fresh (just in that day) so there were no scratches or marks. So far, controls are perfect. As I said, I play this through a very critical amp and sounds great. I have had guitars costing twice as much that were not finished this well. The action is absolutely killer - very low - no buzz. Intonation is perfect all the way up the neck. As I said - there is a difference between the through the neck and set neck versions of this guitar so look for the former. Finish is absolutely beautiful.

Seems very solid. Feels substantial. I don't abuse my guitars - in fact, I baby them. So, I expect this will last. I would use without backup.

No experience here. Haven't had any problems. They have a nice web site, worth checking out.

I have been playing about 30 years on and off. Have had a Godin LGX-SA a Godin Multiac ACS-Slim, and a Fender Strat (all of which I sold recently). I currently own a Cordoba FCWE thinine Flamenco and this this guitar. I currently use an UltraSound amp. I like this guitar better than my ($1400.00) Godin! For me, this is an extremely comfortable guitar to play. I appreciate its range and playability. Its a steal at this price. I never planned to but a black guitar (not into the gothic thing) but this instrument really has an elegant look - kind the guitar version of a baby grand. I would have liked it better with 'real' Syymour Duncan's (Jazz neck and Custom-Custom bridge) but I have no real complaints about the stock the DDs. Were this guitar stolen, I'd get the dough from my insurance company and head for CG right away! By the way, I'm a big CG fan- I tried 4 guitars before finding this one and the guys at GC were great about returns - including an LP that I rejected in favor of the C1-Elite! Can't do that very easily by internet/mail order.

New for 2003, exclusive to guitar center. Made in Korea, 24 frets, amber quilted maple top. 2 duncan design humbuckers, with coil tap switch. Gold hardware, "tribal" inlay at 12th fret, albalone inlay around body, neck and headstock. Tone Pros bridge, string through body, set neck, grover tuners. Came with gig bag.

I give it a 9 because the only thing I would change would be to give it an extra volume knob, one for each pickup.

I play all sorts of styles, but my favorite is hard rock/metal. The schecters are perfect for this. Great action, and hot pickups. I play it through either a marshall mg100hdfx or a randall h200sc. Both sound great, not noisy at all. You can get a variety of sounds, what with the two humbuckers, and the ability to use the coil tap and make either of them single coil.

I really can't think of anything I dislike about the sound of the guitar. Some people complain that the pickups aren't hot enough, they sound fine to me. Even if that were the case, it wouldn't be hard to buy something hotter and pop it in. Especially when you consider all the money you saved by buying a schecter.

Everything was set up perfect. This guitar is really beautiful, the finish is just awesome. Haven't had any problems with the switches or knobs as of yet.

The only downside: the gold is wearing off on the pickup covers, right near the top of the strings. It's from my pick hitting it. It's minor to me though, because you can't really see it unless you look close, but it is kind of annoying. I may get rid of the covers later.

Solid guitar. I wondered when I bought it if the abalone inlay around the neck would wear off with time. It hasn't yet, and I've been playing the shit out of this thing. Everything seems really solid, and seems built to last.

Gigging without a backup is asking for trouble, I don't care if you paid 10 dollars, or 10 thousand dollars for your guitar. "whatever can go wrong, will"

Haven't needed it.

I've been playing for 14 years now. I've owned Jacksons, Fenders, Epiphones, and many brands you've never heard of. The Schecters are without a doubt my favorite of all. You cannot get a better deal for the money, it's that simple. If I were a rich rock star, I would probably still play them, even if I owned a shitload of PRS' and Les Pauls.

This guitar was made in Korea, but it doesn't sound or play like it. It is 24 frets without a floyd-rose system, which really turned to me. this is a solid top and it has volume and tone and a 3 way switch. It contains 2 duncan designed humbuckers. Not sure of the wood. It has a string-thru body, has grover tuners, jumbo frets, nothing included.

It suits my music perfectly, i play hard rock, metal, and softer stuff. I use a Fender Twin and a Morley Bad Horsie, it is not noisy, great sounds with distortion. This guitar has great intonation, very good with pick harmonics. This guitar is very great sounding, i've played it and liked it over Gibsons and PRS's.

This guitar was set up very well. The pickups are pretty hot, the way i like 'em. The guitar is very nice, but I'm having a volume control replaced, the wires are tiny, and they came undone.

Yes, it would be great live. The hardware is nice, but the gold finish is coming off of my bridge pickup, but i've sweated alot on it. The finish is very nice, I love the wood. Strap buttons came loose once, but I tightened them back up. Yes, i can depend on it, I would use a backup though because i tune all over the place.

Overall, this guitar is excellent, especially for the price. Hook it up to a nice tube amp and crank it up and it performs excellent. I love this guitar, but I just purchased a Fender Showmaster Scorpion HH, which does play better, I would not buy this guitar again because I'm short on money currently. I compared this guitar to MANY les pauls and PRS's and it did alot better, especially for a third of the price, if you have around $700 and you want a 24 fret rockin guitar, I highly recommend this one...

2003 MODEL, MOHOGONY BODY WITH THE REST MAPLE 2 DIOMONDS ON THE 12TH FRET. WITH THE ALBOLONY AROUND IT,DECENT ALBOLONY.2 DUNCAN DESIGN
H-102 HUMBUCKERS.NECK THREW BRIDGE ECT.BLACK GLOSS FINISH.-NEVER REALLY SEEN ALOT OF ELECTRIC GUITARS WITH ALBOLONY AROUD THE WHOLE THING.

SOUND WAS IMPECABLE,IM MOSTLY PLAYING METAL OR METALCORE, BUT IT IT WAS HEAVY AND TIGHT. I USED VARIOUS PEAVEY HEADS WITH IT,TRANSTUBE,5150....MOSTLY THE TRANTUBE WITH ULTRA SERIES 4X12 WITH SHEFFEILDS. WITH THE DIGATECH METAL MASTER DISTORTION.I HAVE VARIOUS GUITARS RANGEING FROM IBENEZES A OLDER WASHBURN GA 20 AND A EPIPHONE I MUST SAY I KILLED ALL OF THEM EVEN A B.C.RICH PLATNUM WARLOCK-A METAL GUITAR STILL NO CONTEST.I DONT KNOW WHAT THOSE OTHER PEOPLE WERE TALKING ABOUT IVE ROUGHLY PLAYED FOR 12 YEARS HEARD ALOT OF GUITARS AND THIS WAS ONE OF THE BEST SOUNDING FOR THE MONEY.

NOT BAD NICE WOODS SLICK ACTION DID THE JOB.

SOLID, NO PROBLEM YET.

HAVENT HAD TO DEAL WITH THAT.

FOR THE MONEY YOU CANT BEAT IT. YOU CAN BUY A NICE LES PAUL OR PRS FOR A COUPLE GRAND,OR YOU CAN GET A GUITAR LIKE THIS FOR ROUGHLY HALF THE PRICE,IT WAS FLAWLES FROM WAS I COULD SEE AND HEAR.STDIO QUALITY.

This is a brand new c-1elite. Like everyone elses it says its made in korea. I've got the black-gloss mohogony body, with 24 frets, 1 vol, 1 tone, and a 3-way toggle. In addition the tone control has a coil "tap" feature which is pretty sweet, at least for clean tones. This guitar has the Humbucker Duncan Designed pickups. Also, the TonePros system equipped on the guitar rocks, it never goes out of tune, seroiusly, I can bend each string every which way and it still holds a note.

I love heavy music. I've been playing for 12 years, and I really dont have extensive knowledge on guitars and amps. But this guitar kicks ass for playing Metallica, Ozzy, System, and even playing clean music like Clapton. I use a Crate GLX65 amp. I had the 212 version, but I only play in my house and that amp shook every wall, it felt like an earthquake. This guitar has a rich and full sound. I like the clean tone especially

This guitar rocks. You can play so fast on this, you can go from the second fret to the 24th in a micro second, its real slick. The pickups are adjusted great.

This guitar is solid. It doesn't feel like you have a bag of bricks strapped on your shoulder, but at least you know something is there. The finish is smooth. The solid black gloss looks great and the inlays that surround the body and neck and headstock make it look extremely expensive. It is dependable. I would take this guitar and this guitar only to a gig, you dont need to hall around an extra guitar when you have this.

Schechter is an easy company to get through to. The people there answer phones quickly and they speak english very well, (which helps sometimes right?)

I've been playing for 12 years like I said, I own an old Ibanez that needs repairing....I haven't got around to that and I dont think I will now that I have this c-1elite. If this guitar where stolen, I'd try and steal it back since I dont have the money laying around right now. Naa, I'd sell some stuff and use some of my paycheck and get another....but I'd still be on the hunt for the prick that ripped this off. I love the look of the guitar, it looks dark and evil, but at the same time, it looks elegant and expensive. Seriously, check out the pick at Schecterguitars.com...go to the c-series section and find the c-1elite. I compared this with a ESP ec-300, that thing sucked. It went out of tune every other note, and it was feather wieght. This guitar is perfect in every way, the price seems high for someone like me... but when you compare it to the real expensive guitars around 2,500 bucks or so, your getting the same thing, acually more! your getting a Schecter baby! It rocks.

The model I have is a 2003. Made originally in Korea but, accordinging to the sticker on the backplate, setup & checked in USA.
It has 24 Jumbo frets, Rosewood Set-Neck, Mahogany body with quilted mapled top.
Controls are single volume, single tone (with coil tap), 3 way selector switch.
Pickups are Duncan Designed H-102 humbuckers.
Bridge is a Tonepro design, tuners are Grover.
All hardware is gold plated.
No accesories included.

I play everything from Rock & Blues to a lttle Jazz.
I've never played a guitar with these kind of pickups & was not aware of any criticism until I read the reviews today.
I like them. Not as heavy as a Les Paul or as thin as a Strat but somehow manage to sound enough like both of them & a enough like none of them (if that makes sense to anyone)to make this a real nice sounding guitar.
The neck-pickup wa not as thick sounding as I am used to with humbuckers but being primarily a Strat player I didn't really mind.
Coil tape mode is ok but not great.
I'd have preferred the open coil look to the gold cover but that's a minor complaint.
I used this guitar straight into a Blues Deville amp & loved the tone although the sustain lacked a little.
If you want a Les Paul sound swap for beefier pickups or buy a Les Paul.
If you want a Strat sound - why buy a guitar with humbuckers?
If you want a little bit of everything for a very good price - buy this.

The action on the guitar was really nice, very low with just a little fret buzz but nothing that was audible once plugged in.
There was a slight marked on the upper horn straight from the factory which was very disappointing, the finish otherwise was to a very high standard.
I've had many comments about this guitar, especially from people who originally think it is a PRS. Got the looks but not the price tag.

The guitar seems robust & the finish weighty enough i feel to last the distance.
I've had it in the studio a few times & it has taken a couple of knocks without any noticeable damage.
Gold hardware looks great but unfortunately never seems to last forever. I started to wipe off my guitars, especially the hardware after playing to remove any sweat or dust & so far this has kept gold hardware on other guitars looking good for a long time.
The strap buttons are ok, sturdy enough, but i'd have preferred the top button to have been on the back of guitar (like an SG).
All in all a good sturdy built instrument but only time will tell.

Only dealing with schecter is via the web-site.
They answered my queries promptly & were very informative however the website fails to note that the controls include a coil tap.

I've been playing for 20 years. I own 10 Strats, couple of Les Pauls, 78 Tele Custom, Parker P38 (fitted with gk2 pickup), varied Yamaha acoustics, Danelectro twin neck, Fernandez strat & a little semi acoutsic Yamaha (can't remember the model name). Effects wise I use a Boss GT-5 thru a Yamaha Power Amp, Roland GR-33 Guitar Synth (with the Parker), E-Bow.
If this guitar is missing anything it's a tremolo.
If you want a quality guitar that sounds great but looks amazing then check this out.

this guitar has one volume/one tone with coil splitting. black with fake abalone binding on the neck. came with stock schecter pick-ups and anything else you want to know you can find the info in other reviews.

i play metal/rock /blues/jazz or anything i want....mainly metal. i have used this guitar with marshalls,mesas,vox,fenders,line 6. it doesn't matter it still sounds alright....not horrible but definitly not good. the pick-ups suck with any style of music.

set-up was the worst job ever done on a guitar. the action was to low on the low e,a,d strings but way too high on the g,b,e strings. intonation was way,way,way off. i usually set-up my own guitars but for this piece of work i had to take to a "professional" repair man just to get it to sound descent. ( it took him about 2-3 tries and about a week to do when a normal guitar is about 2-3 hrs.!) the only good thing in this catagory is the way it looks...i'll have to admit it looks stunnig but sounds the opposite!

this guitar's stock tuners are horrible. it never stays in tune. besides that the hardware is alright. i would never gig with it or use for a backup this guitar would be a good guitar to smash at the end of my shows.

didn't even want to try to deal with c.s.
warrenty is 1 year i think.

i've been playing for 5-6 years and have played better guitars from pawn shops!!!...i think that sums it up pretty well.

This is a follow up to a posting I did a year ago. Black gloss with abalone binding, 2 Duncan Designed pickups, etc.

I swapped out the Duncan Designed for a Seymour Duncan 59 in the neck and a Seymour Duncan Custom in the bridge. Great move, both pickups sound great. Range from Fender single coil with the tapped 59, and a great Les Paul sound from the Duncan Custom in the bridge.

The bridge on my guitar was very sharp. My hand would get cut when I laid my right palm against it. I had to file it down a little. The bridge also has been causing some very frequent string breakages of the D string. Again I believe because it seems a little sharp.
Also, when changing a string, be careful that the little round caps don't fall out of the body where the string goes through. I had to glue two of mine back in.

Two more gripes. The paint chips TOO easily. I have only used it to play out a dozen times, and the thing looks like hell!! I can't believe how easy this paint chips. Believe me, I treat my guitars very gentle, but it doesn't matter.
Also, the tuners don't stay in tune very well. The B and G are constantly going out while playing. I might switch to Schaller Locking tuners. My other guitar has a Floyd Rose, so I am not used to going out of tune so much.

I did all the repairs myself.

When I first bought this guitar, it was love at first sight. But unfortunately, one year later, and I am not as happily in love.
It looked great when it was new, but the paint chips are bugging me. I have a 10 year old Ibanez which has held up much better. The tuners are bugging me, the bridge sucks, even the wood seems too cheap for me now. Oh well, maybe next time I will shell out the money for an American made PRS,Dean Hardtail or Hamer.