Schecter Orleans Stage VRBS

This guitar is a good looking guitar. Curvier than a dreadnought, it has more of a jumbo shape, although in isolation, it is difficult to tell if it has the jumbo size. It has a pointy Florentine cutaway and abalone fretboard dots and purfling.

The real question is the finish, which they call, “Vampyre Red Burst Satin.” We can see the “burst” and the “satin” with no problem, but what color is “Vampyre Red”? Here it looks purple. It looks even MORE purple than the purple Zemaitis. https://beige.party/@Neat_hot/116376491409294780

However, “Vampyre Red” does not sound very purple. It sounds like it should be a blood red (but not “oxblood”, which is its own thing https://beige.party/@Neat_hot/115148505637892106). An image search suggests that the color varies rather significantly depending on lighting conditions. Come on now, Schecter. We know you know purple.

What we are saying is that if you are thinking about ordering one online and expecting purple, be wary about inviting it into your home.

#PurpleGuitarPhursday #Schecter #AcousticApril

The story of the original who became the #underdog only to be put down.

https://www.notreble.com/buzz/2025/11/15/former-gl-employee-breaks-down-the-quiet-collapse-of-the-iconic-bass-brand/

I heard rumours months ago. Brushed it off b/c I was signed up for their newsletter & checked the website. Thought just their clearance/B stock shop was closing. Nope. The worst has happened.

#BBEsound is gone. Swollowed up by the investment firm or w/e you want to call it, #ServcoPacific. They own #FMIC (#Fender) & auto stuff, which owns #Reverb.com now. Steve Araujo works for #Cort now.

They could've sold or partnered w/ other medium co's. Kept competition. Now fender has everything Leo has done. Why not #ErnieBall? #Dean? #Schecter? …

#bass

Schecter FreeZesicle

At first glance, one might be forgiven for thinking this looks like a Prince bass. In fact it is the signature model of Ricky “Freeze” Smith for Morris Day and the Time, who had nothing to do with Prince as far as we know. [Checks notes… they may have had something to do with Prince.]

The body has a flowing liquidy sort of shape. (Counterintuitive to the “freeze” concept, perhaps?) The neck has a (non-princely) crown inlay at the 12th fret with no other fret markers save for a heart at the 19th. This seems an odd choice, and one that we only recall seeing on one other instrument https://beige.party/@Neat_hot/113960288293440576.

It features EMG pickups and preamp and gold hardware. Our friends at #Schecter prove once again that do know their purple. Also available in a five string version for a… deeper freeze?

#PurpleGuitarPhursday

@altbot

#Schecter Ultra III #guitaroftheday

Had some extra time this morning so, I got a little practice in early! 🤓

Here's a sloppy #dailyPractice #musicjam on my 8-string #electricBass (without it being electrified).

#DRstrings #Schecter

Hi. My name is Eryck. I will be playing the 8-string tuna. 🫠 We're starting off one quarter step flat across the board before holding steady.

#Schecter #electricBass #bassGuitar #8string #bass #heavyMetal #musicEquipment #satanist #Satan #Indigenous

#music #guitar

Spent a little time today with SOAD's "Bring Your Own Bombs". I'm using my #Schecter 8-string. Did some drop tuning & pitch shifted the track up a bit. I've only just started learning it, but I can already tell that it is going to be fun to jam out to.

https://youtu.be/zUzd9KyIDrM?si=jyEFYgSxg6FTsGuu

Schecter PT Special - Purple Burst Pearl

We had several candidates to close out #SepTELEmber and after much deliberation we decided to go with… not a Tele at all! (But isn’t it though‽) It’s our hashtag party, and we’ll defy if we want to.

The Telecaster was the first successful production solid body electric guitar. It is a no-frills “everything you need and nothing you don’t” guitar that is easily and often imitated by many other manufactures and individual builders alike.

We have actually never touched a Schecter. Never really payed much attention to them until #PurpleGuitarPhursday. Yet they seem to have embraced purple as a standard color more than other manufacturers, so they do seem to come up lot.

David Schecter started Schecter Guitar Research in California the 1970s. He initially made replacement parts before building complete custom instruments. When production could not keep up with demand, the company was sold first to a group of investors in Texas, then a few years later to Hisatake Shibuya, the founder of ESP Guitars. We sometimes get those two companies mixed up, and although they function independently, it is interesting to learn that they are actually… step-siblings‽

The “PT” part of “PT Special” obviously stands for “Phoney Telecaster.” Not really. It is named for Pete Townsend, who played [phoney] telecaster-style guitars (complete with lawsuit-inducing Fender style headstocks) from Schecter’s early custom shop days. As far as we understand, he never had anything to do with the production models, but considering that he famously smashed guitars on stage, it is not entirely clear that his endorsement would necessarily be considered a positive.

The traditional Tele neck pickup is not especially popular, with many players preferring a humbucker, or a P90, or even removing it entirely as on the original Esquire. This model opts for the P90, for a fatter sound that is still a single coil to hum cancel when combined with the bridge pickup (either in parallel or series via a push-pull knob.) Speaking of knobs, it has a reversed control plate with the knobs in front and the switch behind, which allows easier access to the volume knob for swells such as one can do on a Strat. The pickup switch is a toggle rather than the typical blade. We do like the curvier, aerodynamic shape of the control plate itself.

It has an ashtray bridge with the three adjustable brass saddles. Honestly, not the most practical design, but dripping with “old school cool” vibes. We’ve always loved the aesthetic of the tele bridge.

Finish it off with body and neck binding and a transparent purple burst. We’re not entirely sure what the “pearl” refers to, but perhaps it has a bit of shimmer to it?

All in all, just your basic no-frills guitar… with frills‽

#Schecter