NGD - Another Schecter LOL
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2025 2:23 pm
I reviewed this thing back a few months ago after having gigged with both of the PRS SE Piezo guitars and this thing absolutely SMOKED the two PRS's IMO.
Plays better, faster neck, better upper fret access, better pickups for lead work and unlike the SE's, it has a pickup selector to blend or pick which pickups (magnetic/piezo) you want to use so you don't HAVE to rely on a splitter or digital unit to facilitate going between the pickup systems.
Our band does quite a bit of acoustic work these days at smaller venues but I like to flip over to high gain for lead work like how John Petrucci does in his "Evening with Petrucci and Jordan Rudess" album. Same deal.
So yeah, I've played a few acoustic shows with it and used it at a couple normal full band electric shows and it has done amazingly well. The Pasadena Plus/Pasadena pickups are really well balanced and handle super high gain stuff way better than I'd have though (certainly a lot better than the pickups PRS use) but the split coil sounds are horrible but I've almost always hated split coil sounds so nothing new there.
Overall really impressed. It's incredibly stable through a 4 hour night on stage, the locking tuners are nice and smooth, fretwork is perfect, etc and the pickups don't feedback on stage which was one of my initial worries with it being semi-hollow but it's just the top half that's hollow.
IMO, if you're looking for a good acoustic/electric that doesn't suck at either, this has been the best I've tried. I'm sure the $5000 PRS piezos are decent but yeeesh....
Plays better, faster neck, better upper fret access, better pickups for lead work and unlike the SE's, it has a pickup selector to blend or pick which pickups (magnetic/piezo) you want to use so you don't HAVE to rely on a splitter or digital unit to facilitate going between the pickup systems.
Our band does quite a bit of acoustic work these days at smaller venues but I like to flip over to high gain for lead work like how John Petrucci does in his "Evening with Petrucci and Jordan Rudess" album. Same deal.
So yeah, I've played a few acoustic shows with it and used it at a couple normal full band electric shows and it has done amazingly well. The Pasadena Plus/Pasadena pickups are really well balanced and handle super high gain stuff way better than I'd have though (certainly a lot better than the pickups PRS use) but the split coil sounds are horrible but I've almost always hated split coil sounds so nothing new there.
Overall really impressed. It's incredibly stable through a 4 hour night on stage, the locking tuners are nice and smooth, fretwork is perfect, etc and the pickups don't feedback on stage which was one of my initial worries with it being semi-hollow but it's just the top half that's hollow.
IMO, if you're looking for a good acoustic/electric that doesn't suck at either, this has been the best I've tried. I'm sure the $5000 PRS piezos are decent but yeeesh....