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Schecter Hellraiser C-7 FR-S - Black Cherry

7-string Solidbody Electric Guitar with Mahogany Body, 3-pc Mahogany Neck, 1 Active EMG Humbucking Pickup, 1 Sustainiac Humbucking Pickup, and Floyd Rose Tremolo - Black Cherry
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Add a true metal guitar to your collection with the Schecter Hellraiser C-7 FR-S 7-string solidbody electric guitar! This Hellraiser gives you a mahogany body, a quilted maple top, a thin mahogany neck, and a rosewood fretboard that delivers hard-hitting lows and a soaring top end. What's more, Schecter gave the Hellraiser C-7 FR-S an ultra-cool Sustainiac neck pickup, which lets you pull off flying solos like nothing else out there. Add this to an EMG 81 humbucker and a Floyd Rose tremolo, and you have one mean metal machine.

Rock-solid construction with high-end appointments

When you pick up a Schecter Hellraiser C-7 FR-S guitar, you'll be amazed by all of the details and finishing touches that make this a truly remarkable instrument. Its beautiful quilted maple top appears to leap off the surface, and the intricate inlays in its bound fretboard add a special touch of class. What's more, these details aren't just cosmetic. The Hellraiser C-7 FR-S features a set neck with an Ultra Access heel carve, which gives you easy access to those higher, hard-to-reach frets.

Sustainiac humbucker gives you never-ending tone

You just can't beat the sheer sustain you'll get out of your Schecter Hellraiser C-7 FR-S's Sustainiac humbucking neck pickup... literally! That's because this unique pickup design features a special sustain circuit that's designed to let notes ring on as long as you like. Just kick in the circuit, play a note or chord on your Hellraiser C-7 FR-S, and let the electromagnetic feedback carry your sound as long as you like. You haven't busted out a solo till you've rocked a Hellraiser C-7 FR-S!

Floyd Rose 1000 Series bridge/tailpiece lets you carve out hardcore bends

Schecter knows that serious shredders like you demand absolute performance out of their guitars. That's why they loaded the Hellraiser C-7 FR-S with a real Floyd Rose 1000 Series tremolo bridge. A remake of the original Floyd Rose blade tremolo, this incredible bridge lets you grab on, rock out, and never worry about pulling your action out of whack. You'll get both the rock-solid reliability and the tight response you need when you rock out with a Schecter Hellraiser C-7 FR-S!

Schecter Hellraiser C-7 FR-S 7-string Solidbody Electric Guitar Features:

  • Full-featured 7-string solidbody electric guitar made for modern playing styles
  • Slim body style and thin neck provide you with fast action and a comfortable feel
  • Beautiful quilted maple top adds spank to a rich mahogany body and a responsive 3-piece mahogany neck
  • Sustainiac neck pickup delivers limitless sustain and wicked lead tone
  • Set neck with Ultra Access heel carve gives you easy access to your upper frets
  • Floyd Rose 1000 Series tremolo bridge gives you easy flexibility and reliable stability
  • Neck-though-body design adds impressive sustain to your tone

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Tech Specs

  • General
  • Number of Strings 7
  • Left-/Right-handed Right-handed
  • Body
  • Body Type Solidbody
  • Body Shape Hellraiser C-7
  • Body Material Mahogany
  • Top Material Quilted Maple
  • Body Finish Gloss
  • Color Black Cherry
  • Neck
  • Neck Material 3-piece Mahogany
  • Neck Shape Thin C
  • Neck Joint Set Neck
  • Radius 16"
  • Fingerboard Material Rosewood
  • Fingerboard Inlay Abalone Gothic Crosses
  • Number of Frets 24, Extra Jumbo
  • Scale Length 26.5"
  • Nut Width 1.874"
  • Nut Material Floyd Rose Locking
  • Hardware
  • Bridge/Tailpiece Floyd Rose 1000 Series Locking Tremolo
  • Tuners Grover Rotomatic 18;1 ratio
  • Electronics
  • Neck Pickup Sustainiac Driver Pickup
  • Bridge Pickup EMG 81 Active Humbucker
  • Controls 1 x master volume, 1 x master tone, 1 x intensity
  • Switching 3-way mode select, 2-way Sustainiac on/off, 3-way blade pickup switch
  • Miscellaneous
  • Strings Ernie Ball Regular Slinky, .010-.056
  • Case/Gig Bag Sold Separately
  • Manufacturer Part Number: 1829

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Dreamy

A dream to play. Looks and feels gorgeous. The Sustaniac rocks... a whole new style of playing. In hindsight, I should've had the mod shop do the 'satin' treatment on the neck while I had them do the PLEK treatment. I recommend the PLEK and having the shop set the action before shipping (for any guitar.)
by J.F. from North Hollywood, CA on
Music background: Pro sound engineer, Hobbyist guitarist

Nearly perfect. Still 5-star happy.

Some people think the whole aesthetic of this instrument is gaudy and dated, but I've been looking at Hellraisers and similarly styled guitars since black cherry quilt and mountains of abalone started gaining momentum on mass-produced instruments, and it has really grown on me. It's still possible to gross me out with it, but the current Hellraisers are just the right amount to me. The black chrome hardware makes it look way less tacky than it otherwise would. All in all, it is the prettiest guitar I've ever owned.

I've played baritones and owned sevens before, and I like the slightly-longer-than-standard 26.5" scale. Everything sounds massive on it, even in standard B-E tuning, and the extra space between the frets is most welcome in the second octave. I find myself trying new things on the higher frets because my fingers aren't tripping over each other, and the notes just sounds better on those frets than they do on most of my other guitars.

On the subject of higher frets, both the cutaways on this guitar, apparently built in 2021, are deeper than what's shown in the pictures on Schecter's own website and the generic photos on Sweetwater's site. Compare those to the actual pics of in-stock guitars in Sweetwater's Guitar Gallery to see the difference.

This is my first guitar from Sweetwater where I got to pick from the Gallery, and it's so nice to have that when there is such variation in weight and wood grain. I got a beautiful top on a guitar that is light and well balanced for something so big. If you've never bought from the Guitar Gallery before, be prepared for an adrenaline rush as you scramble to get the order in before someone else buys the one you want. Honestly, the slight panic adds to the fun.

The Hellraiser feels solid and well built without seeming heavy. Again, it's well balanced and comfortable to play. That slight ridge around the edge of the body doesn't seem to bother me. The neck feels great. It doesn't feel thin or thick, but just right to my average sized hands. It's easy to get around, and neck joint feels just like a good neck-through.

The bridge pickup is a 7-string version of the EMG 81, which despite what some claim, does not make all guitars sound the same. It's great here because it conveys the depth of the Hellraiser's tone without getting muddy. There's a thick, throaty roar that probably has more punch and clarity because of the pickup choice.

For the Sustainiac, you know deep in your heart whether you want one of these or not. If you do, you probably don't care what the neck pickup sounds like. I certainly didn't, but I was pleased to find I rather like its sound. It's the fat and sweet singlecoil you get with the Sustainiac neck unit. It's a great foil to the 81-7 in the bridge and should satisfy many of those two-pickup players who like to put a flamethrower and feather pillow in a guitar and call it a day. As another reviewer points out, when you turn on the Sustainiac circuit (the upper, 2-way mini toggle pushed out towards the edge of the body) you're hearing it with the bridge pickup (and only the bridge pickup) in this guitar. Turning on the main Sustainiac switch bypasses the 3-way lever style pickup selector and gives you just the bridge pickup.

The lower, 3-way mini toggle gives you a choice of three main operational modes for the Sustainiac. With the switch pushed out towards the edge of the body, the circuit focuses on the fundamental tone (normal mode). Pulled in two clicks towards the bridge, it generates harmonics. In the middle position, it's a blend of the two. The knob that looks like a second tone is an intensity control for the Sustainiac.

The fit and finish on this guitar are nearly flawless. There is a very small blip in the black binding on the bass side of the neck, right up against the nut. It's roughly the shade of the dark brown rosewood fretboard, like maybe the binding itself got damaged at some point prior to finishing. It's finished over and not a big deal to me. There are also some tool marks underneath the black chrome plating on the bridge saddle bodies. The saddle bodies on my German OFR's are much cleaner, but this is truly nitpicking. The fact that these minor things are the only apparent finish flaws with so much cosmetic stuff that could have gone wrong, on a mass-produced guitar at this price, is actually pretty impressive. I'm not going to send the guitar back or throw a lot of shade, not when everything else on it looks so good and it feels and sounds the way it does. I'm not even going to deduct half a star from my rating because overall I'm much happier with it than I am with certain other guitars that avoided nearly all possibility of finish flaws by being boring and didn't inspire me with their sound and response.
by Ned Stacey from Madison, Wisconsin on
Music background: Weekend rock star

Awesome guitar

Great feel, solid, and love, love love the pickups!
by Bruce A Thibodeau from Maine on

Fantastic 7-string gutar

This was my first 7-string guitar (and first foray into active pickups), and it is a great selection for hard rock and playability. The guitar is nice and light but definitely sounds full and meaty. The bridge EMG pickup has a great warm sound for either lightly-distorted or heavily-distorted riffs or chords. It is a little more 'even and smooth' than the passive hard-rock pickups on other guitars I have.

The build, feel and aesthetics of the guitar are fantastic. It feels well put together and the finish on the hardware (nickel I think) nicely complements the darker look of the guitar itself. I liked that it had a bit more of a 'classic' look than a lot of 7-string guitars that look very sharp and angular. I don't know why on Earth they would put a blade switch instead of a toggle for a 3-way switch.

Regarding the sustainiac: Try a guitar with one and make sure you like it. I think it's cool as a way to do atmospheric effects and to kick on at the end of a lick for a feedback boost. Two key things: (1) it only works on the bridge pickup (there is a physics-based reason you can read about on sustainiac's website) so you can't use it on the neck pickup and (2) it replaces the neck pickup with a fat single-coil sound. If a humbucker-sounding neck pickup for lead is important to you, don't get the sustainiac version. It's also a little finicky about what notes it chooses to work on, but it's a cool thing.

Great guitar overall, especially for the price, and Sweetwater always provides a good customer experience. Arrived in two-days with free shipping. A thank-you shout out to Hayden, who gave some helpful and knowledgeable feedback to help the decision (with unexpected weekend e-mails no less).

Highly recommended if you're looking for a 7-string.
by Mike Sullivan from Dallas, TX on
Music background: Hobbyist
See also: 7 String Electric Guitars, Schecter, Schecter 7-string Guitars, Schecter Solidbody Guitars
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