Schecter OMEN-7 7-String Electric Guitar, Black

I've never bought a guitar without first trying it out but I have played several different Schecter models, including a bass, and have always been impressed with the quality that goes into their creation. For a guitar at a lower mid-range price I am 100% satisfied with this guitar. Their attention to detail, even on their lower priced models, is exceptional.It was shipped with the guitar completely covered in a foam bag inside a Schecter gigbag-shaped cardboard box with plenty of foam padding to suspend it inside the box and protect it from any impacts. This box was inside another larger box that had plenty of packing paper for further protection. It was definitely shipped for the best protection.For the guitar itself, the fretwork is great with no protruding frets along the edge of the fingerboard and each fret polished to a very smooth shine, great for bending strings. The back of the neck is a very smooth finish and the neck overall is rather thin. This can make it a little easier transitioning from a 6-string to a 7-string. With this guitar having a bolt-on neck the sustain is above par. The action is set very low, just how I prefer, and it plays/feels great. I don't remember if it was in the description but the nut is actually a Black TUSQ XL man-made ivory nut that is permanently lubricated with Teflon. This is great for smoother tuning and greatly reduces the chances of a string getting stuck and going out of tune, or worse, breaking. I've put 15+ hours of playing on this guitar so far and have only had to make a couple very small tuning adjustments. It stays in tune very well. Speaking of tuning, the machine heads are great quality and geared for very precise tuning.The finish on the body is phenomenal and polished to a high shine. It's definitely eye catching and stands out. There was one very minor blemish that no one would really ever notice around the top edge of the neck cavity but it is so small that you have to really be looking for it. The tone and volume knobs are a little bit on the stiff side but still very manageable. The selector switch does feel a little flimsy and from my previous experience I know I will eventually break off the top of the switch. It also is oriented in a way that if you do a lot of volume swells it is very easy to accidentally hit the switch as you turn the volume down. That could be easily adjusted by loosening the switch's nut and rotating the switch direction to an up and down orientation and retightening the nut. Upgrading the switch later on down the road could be a fun little upgrade for anyone comfortable with soldering.The stock Schecter pickups sound great. I had planned on eventually upgrading the pickups but they sound so good as is that it's not much of a concern for the time being. The bridge pickup sounds very full and meaty and has very good and loud output. The neck pickup, naturally, has a warmer, more mid-range tone and sounds great for bluesy lead guitar playing.I think this guitar is the perfect guitar for someone wanting to get into 7-strings and even those more experienced with them. At this price it's hard to find better quality and playability. Every Schecter guitar I've played, this one being the first one I've actually owned, have all been great guitars with consistency in setup across all their different models. The same can't quite be said about some other brands with some of them feeling different from guitar to guitar even within the same model line. If you're hesitant about choosing this guitar, don't be. You won't be disappointed.

I've had quite a few guitars in my time. For the longest time I played B and A tunings exclusively on baritone 6 strings. This was due to my experiences with an ESP 7 string I owned many, many years ago and how uncomfortable that thing was to play. I was also a hardcore Jackson enthusiast until last year when I finally picked up an Omen 6 to give Schecter a shot. I was very pleasantly surprised by the 6. For the price I paid it was easily as nice to play as Jacksons I'd spent nearly three times as much on.So when the wife offered to get me a guitar for christmas this year, this is the bad boy I picked out. That was an awesome decision and I'm very glad I made it. I've been very impressed with this thing from the very start, especially considering the low price. It is easily as high quality as other 7 strings I've tried out at Guitar Center that were twice as pricey.The neck is nice and comfortable in my "bear paw" hands. I don't feel like I'm going to break it, yet it's nice and thin and I can actually reach the 7th string without feeling like I'm breaking the laws of physics to do so.The sound through the Schecter pickups is pretty much right where I expected it to be and fits my style nicely. They could certainly use an upgrade if you're a stickler for tone (and I am), but the stock pickups are very playable. In fact, this guitar came to my doorstep more ready to play than guitars I've picked up from stores by hand.I will say that the action on the 7th string is a tad too low and the string tends to rattle against the frets a bit but that's fairly inconsequential to me anyway. The guitar comes stock with .62 gauge on the 7th string and I'm more a fan of .72 gauge for B and A tunings so I'd already planned on swapping that out and shifting the action/intonations to match.All in all, for the money, I really don't think there's a better 7 string guitar out there.

This was going to be my first 7-string but when I got it, one pickup was completely dead so I returned it.It seems like the one I got was NOT brand new. Though it says it was tested and tuned, like I said it didn't work and it was detuned sloppily. The box even had markings on it to suggest it might have been set aside as a malfunctioning product (MF written in marker an crossed out on the side of the schecter box). Amazon made the return very simple so I don't feel cheated in any way (they had a great price and refunded it completely)The guitar itself was pretty well constructed otherwise. The wood finish looks great. Tone was very nice and deep, (like the higher strings on a bass) as expected. Would have liked more highs but it wasn't as muddy as I expected. Overall I think I would have enjoyed owning it and may purchase it in the future.

This guitar is great for the price. Holds tune well when it's set up. If you plan to tune lower then drop A you should get a heavier gage set of string.and the only problems that i have are the stock pickups aren't great there decent for stock though. Also the higher frets are a little harder to play it doesn't have the best access to the 20-24 frets for me but other than that it's a great deal feels good , the neck is pretty thin but some may think too thin but I love it it's fast and natural finish so it doesn't have a sticky feel after a while. This guitar is worth the money