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Schecter Tempest Classic Electric Guitar (3-Tone Sunburst) |  | Brand: Schecter
Category: Musical Instruments
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 40549
Color: see descrip
Media: Electronics
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 13.8
Dimensions (in): 45.9 x 19.1 x 4.8
Warranty: Limited Lifetime
MPN: 2969
Model: Tempest Classic/3-Tone Sunburst (3TSB)
UPC: 839212008630
EAN: 0839212008630
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| Features:
| • | Seymour Duncan Pickups | | • | Tone Pros Bridge | | • | Set Neck | | • | Grover Tuners | | • | Limited Lifetime Guarantee | | • | Set Neck, Grover Tuners | | • | Has a bound mahogany body |
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Product Description
The Schecter Tempest Classic electric guitar has a lean, uncomplicated design that is good looking and comfortable. Top notch features include a solid flame maple top on a mahogany body. A fast 3-piece set mahogany neck is topped with a 22-fret ebony fingerboard decorated with mother-of-pearl and abalone crown inlays. Seymour Duncan pickups have all the tonal muscle the Schecter Tempest guitar needs for a variety of musical styles. Chrome hardware includes Schecter locking tuners, and a Tonepros Tune-O-Matic bridge with stopbar tailpiece.
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MaddMikes Schecter Tempest Classic Plus June 17, 2008
Michael Rosenboom (weydafugami)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
April 10th, 2010. So I am going to update my review. My Schecter Tempest Classic fights for stage and studio time with a Gibson R7 1957 Goldtop VOS (2007). The Gibson absolutely kills. Gibson Custom shop nailed the original specs for sure. But wait! Isn't this about the Schecter? Why yes. So, I have had my local luthier add a Resomax Bridge with graphite saddles,Seymour Duncan Triple Shot Pickup rings, and "Bumblebee Caps" (like my'57 Goldtop has). The results? The bridge adds even more to the sustain of this instrument. It rolls the highs off a little but the pickups have so much gain it is not an issue. I have the guitar wired now similar to Jimmy Page's tricked out les paul I guess. I have Standard high gain humbucker position (series wired), Split coil (either coil, with screws or the other coil) in bridge and neck PU, Low gain humbucker pickups in parallel, and, coupe de tat, Bridge and neck PU out of phase with any of the aforementioned PU wiring combos. The "Bumblebee caps are $60.00 each (need 1 on each tone pot) and they are worth twice that money. I can now roll my tone all the way down and it stays clean with no loss of gain. So I can spike up highs that will cut out hearts of demons and I can roll em back to be nice. The Schecter is now WAY more versatile than the Goldtop. I can absolutely nail the elusive early Fleetwood Mac a la Peter Green sound. I am lovin it. It is also very useful for rhythm work as well and the tonality is shimmery and bright. This would make a nice signature guitar. Awesome sounds and unlike many other instruments. Below continues my original review
Beginning with the obvious, the burst finish on this creature is jaw dropping. The maple top on the mahogany solid body is "10" (by PRS standards). My guitar has one of the best fit and finsih I have seen on ANY guitar (after 41 years of looking at guitars). All over the guitar is inlay of Mother of Pearl AND Abalone which is one of the things I love most. This baby is a real deluxe stunna. A Les Paul outfitted like this would be over $10,000.
Next would be feel. This guitar plays excellent. The intonation and string and bridge work are perfect. I would know. If they are not I fix them. I LOVE the Ebony fret board. It feels great to play. controls are as a LP but not quite as easy to find (maybe it is me being used to LP). Frets are large with nice valleys behind each
Finally, rubber meets road, the sound. I got this axe instead of a LP as an interim guitar til I can find a gold top VOS 1957. I find this guitar has some big advantages over a Les Paul in the sound and versatility dept. The Semour Duncan SH1 (neck) and the SH11 Custom Custom (bridge)are some hot and cool sounding pickups. They have a wide tonality response that sounds awesome for jazz and clean blues. Crank em up and toss some overdrive on em and they shred cool. I like them because you can hear each note that is played clearly even when shredding. More so than other modern hot pickups. It behaves like a Les Paul here but with jazzier pickups. Gotta play a chord? oops major crunch!. So pull the Bridge tone pot up and it splits the coils sounding I think much like a Tele. Mix the dual coil neck and the single coil bridge for fat and clear. Split both pots and it sounds like Clapton's guitar. I now know why Mark Knopfler plays Schecter. They define every note and have a great sounding voice. And you can max all the knobs on amp and axe and have...dead silence. Until you pick a note of strum a chord. It is so dynamic. More so than a Les Paul, or maybe just different. This guitar has 10-10-10 satisfaction from me. It does not replace a LP or a Fender but it has a strong voice of its own. And face it, in this time, a guitartist needs not only to be good. A guitarist now has to have their own "sound". That signature like Knopfle, Clapton , SRV, Freddi King....They all have a sound signature. This is a tool that can make some cool adjustments to the "Old MIx". Mine is not for SAle!!!
MaddMikes GuitarmanIc
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