SchecterOmen Extreme-FR Electric Guitar (Black Cherry)

Its the way expected

An absolute value for the $$$. Sounds incredible. Nice, smooth neck. Stays in tune. Perfectly setup by the manufacturer. A+. A metal guitarist’s must have!!

When you get this guitar, you will have to adjust the action, because it is set up to be far too low. But this is easy to do - there are two hex screws at the side of the Floyd Rose, and you just turn each counter-clockwise while hitting the relevant E string, until the you can hit it fairly hard without any fret buzz. Even after doing this, the action is significantly lower than most other guitars. Obviously you will have to re-tune afterwards, which can be a bit of a chore with the Floyd Rose. The guitar came with the necessary hex keys, which is a pleasant surprise.Once I did this, the guitar played great, and dive bombs on the tremolo didn't put it out of tune (with new strings, even). The pickups are passive, but loud, and as good as you will find at this price point. The tone knob is push/pull to split the humbuckers. The finish on the neck is very thin, which gives your left hand a good connection to the string vibrations, and the larger neck size makes this good for shredding (if that's your thing). All in all this is a great guitar, especially for the money. Speaking of money - if you feel you don't need any tremolo at all, you can get the Omen Extreme (no "FR") for significantly less cash. It's the same guitar otherwise, so it would be my recommendation for people who do all their bending with their fingers.

I bought this guitar as a mid-priced instrument to keep in my home in Galveston. It’s pretty humid there so I didn’t want to pay big-money on a guitar that sits 8 months out of the year in a too-humid environment. (I know guitars like humidity but not sure how much.)Anyway, the guitar had so many features, including the ability to split coils, separate volume knobs for the bridge and neck pickups, (Turn the neck pickup all the way down and use the selector switch for an on/off effect ala: Van Halen’s “You Really Got Me”.The neck plays really nicely, even when the action is lowered. I liked the guitar so much, I bought two!

Good guitar for the money, only dislike is the floyd rose bridge has some issues. Fine tune screws the threads are not the greatest, one does not thread up or down at all so will have to try and fix it somehow. Overall it's ok!