Review Demo - Schecter PT Fastback II B

[@Driftuner]

the exact Tele ive always wanted...perfect, just perfect..

[@Kevlanco]

Looks like everything I want in a tele! I'm indifferent to the bigsby, but I was pleasantly surprised by the price! 600 would buy a a Mexican tele with half the features!

[@Sonny_AA]

Dropping that Fleetwood Mac in the middle of Little Wing....absolutely brilliant!

[@guitarlink79]

My wife got me this guitar for Father's day, and I love it soo much, the sound is incredible, and the design is superb, in my eyes this guitar is kind of a hybrid of a few guitars, headstock of Suhr guitars, Tele body with strat arm and belly cuts, with the Les Paul configuration with a bigsby...is the first guitar I own that has a bigsby by the way, so I have to get use to it but the guitar is amazing, great quality and sound, and the looks of this guitar gets people's attention for sure, definitely a great buy at a great price.

[@purpleheartscott8553]

Jonathan Farias I desire many guitars, but something about this guitar makes it different and I will have it. I don’t like to have the same guitars that 90% of players have, so this probably why guitars like this scream for me to get them. Very versatile and will play well alongside my Gretsch electromatic with blacktop f8ltertrons.

[@micaelsilva1332]

One question how does ir stain in tune??

[@albertohervello4028]

John This is one of the best demos I've liked. Great guitar, great playing as usual and interesting comments. Thank you!

[@artartpal]

I have guitar and I love it to bits. Plays fast and great and great neck

[@hm3426]

I have been shopping for a guitar for like 6 months. Watched all demos. Clean, dirty sounds. And for the price, this guitar has the best sound. Clean and dirty. So, I will buy this guitar next month.

[@irishrocker225]

Nice to see something from Schecter that isn't an all out metal guitar

[@aaronscheer8130]

Most if their metal guitars are super useable for jazz... Talking from experience Schecter hellraiser passive c7 is a beast in every style

[@greatvanzini]

this is what I've been wanting,,,, from Fender,,,,, at a reasonable price! I think this is it. Schecter does do good work right form the factory. All the ones I've had or played were set up great right from the get go.

[@Bcwilderness]

great player john, diverse guitar, loving the lil wing man

[@SWIFTY5150]

I'm really liking this guitar, but should I get it in green or red? I'm heavily leaning towards green.

[@waynecribb4922]

Red is awesome...but green is mean.

[@smilintheartist289]

Red shifts in the light. I bought my from a pawn shop. Evidently some old head from my town played it before he died.

[@IPushHard]

Ive liked Schecter stuff for a long time, but not into the metal stuff they normally make (design). Glad to see them breaking out of that metal box with stuff the rest of us like.

[@Steve_9292]

Have to admit, preferred the single coil tones both clean and dirty.

[@ThomasRBowen-gq3jr]

I'm guessing since a split humbucker the pots are 500 k pots instead of the typical 250 k pots used in most single coil guitars. It allows more frequency to come out. If you want to really hear a good single coil sound with alot of headroom put 500 or even 300 k pots on your single coil guitar and play it through a bass rig. That's what I do with my strat. Gives you alot of room to play with and you can get some really awesome single coil strat quack going on.

[@Rezomn666]

Thomas R. Bowen Pots dont interact with frequencies, you need a cap for that ;) A pot just adds resistance to the signal, reducing the current and therefore the volume

[@butterscotchtele]

Really nice Little Wing.

[@xx_PCCR_xx]

Wow, great variety of tones! So versatile. Thanks for the demo

[@NicholasANappiNick]

Great demo,love the clean tones

[@smartacus88]

I want to see a review of the new Schecter S-II Custom.

[@w.wrightjackson8317]

Always fun with your videos. Informative with honesty, great picking and sometimes really good singing. Thanks from Nashville, Tn. keep pickin and grinnin. God bless You live in Nashville don't you John, I hail from Donelson area

[@ImNotStalkingYou]

If they would just use a white pick guard it would help so much. Every smear and scratch might as well be a neon sign

[@HerroYuy246]

You can swap it out for white! It’s what I’m planning on doing!

[@TristanJCumpole]

Fantastic outro! Not entirely removed from "Dogpound Hop"! :-D

[@eugnton]

Love the demo. Working that vibrato like a tremolo, it DOES NOT need to be worked that hard. Lay your fingers across it and give it some pressure and let off, the spring and strings do the work. It's not a strat.

[@rafsbio]

Seems like a pretty good guitar. Just wish more companies came up with different guitar shapes, and leave Telecasters to be made by Fender. Seems to me it's usually one of the two extremes: one of the 4 or 5 "acceptable" guitar shapes, OR totally quirky, extreme guitars, shaped like satan's genitals or something...

[@BJJandBS]

haha...true

[@mattgilbert7347]

And tbh it doesn't sound like a Tele. Not even a Deluxe.

[@markfahey3921]

I'm interested to know how you know what Satan's genitals look like???!!!

[@brooklynboy1000]

odd crackle at 5.08 in the video when you turned down the volume

[@Stratomacaster]

Gorgeous paint and love the hardware. Great demo.

[@basevibeX]

good for rock - metal ?

[@kstaggs87]

Anyone ever tell you that you look and sound like Billy Bob Thornton?

[@RichWithWisdom]

I'd like to hear the guitar itself Your demo is thru an amp which on it's own would be a reliable demo but when you went thru a mic and another amp then there's too many variables from the mic itself and the settings on the mic amp....

[@jamesmurphy5444]

How do you think this guitar would sound in a Cure tribute band?

[@Lean6]

That Bigsby doesn't seem very responsive.🤔

[@nealixd.3011]

Really cool, many features laden, Tele for the low dough. I played the Pete Dee version of this and it was quite nice.

[@1dragon9447]

Gorgeous color and sounds great.

[@rodia9364]

Can you get a telecaster twang out of it…. or close ?

[@mailvilla]

... 05/17/2020: When splitting the humbuckers does it become 100% single coil? I had a PSR and when I lightly touched the humbucker with the tip of a screwdriver both coils would pop loud. When I split the humbucker and did the same test, and one pickup was still very loud pop and the other was very low volume pop. So, it was not off 100% Please test this guitar and let all readers know what you find .... Thank You.

[@guitarsolostudies40]

Price

[@waffleshadow6840]

what's that little piece you played at the end there???

[@tjnugent62]

This guitar stands out as a really nice axe...

[@MrBCOIC]

Awesome stuff as usual, sir

[@papazane69]

Awesome! I got one after watching this.

[@davidtrueslayor7474]

John tell us about the humbuckers what kind are they ? - they look like Fender wide range pup's.

[@everhard-ig7dm]

bravo, John !!!

[@mailvilla]

... 04/24/2020: I never get a reply back. So, does anyone out there know? I have had split humbucker coils, and they are not truly split the humbucker 100%. If you take the tip of a screwdriver and gently touch a humbucker on both pickups it will make a loud popping noise for each side of humbucker or every single coil inside a humbucker. If you split the humbucker, then there is a loud pop for one pickup, but the other is still on and gives a soft pop noise. Listening to this demo, I did not hear a big change from humbucker to single coil. Also, I an assuming when split, the humbucker is still a humbucker, but one coil is just not as loud. OK, anyone out there ... have you tested this on your guitar and what do you think?

[@markfahey3921]

I can't find one in the UK anywhere.

[@miguela.migallon5055]

Is there a thinline version of this?

[@bjamminsincebirth3494]

Does the neck feel like a Fender tele neck?

[@waynecribb4922]

Excellent video.

[@pabloheredia9418]

Do you know if he supports low tuning?

[@chrishorton615]

Shielding will help get rid of most of the hum

[@NK-ch3oz]

Great review.

[@Vector-X777]

I noticed that this guitar is made in South Korea so you get amazing quality for under $1000.

[@mailvilla]

... 04/24/2020: I really dislike the LARGE pickguard. It should just be a small pickguard and show more of the paintwork. A small Gibson style pickguard would be big enough.

[@alejulul2379]

That's a lot of reverb. Sounds nice tho.

[@-CrippledNinja-]

I don't prefer telecasters, but this one is the cool tele I'd buy!

[@howardcunniffe8738]

I had a chance to buy a Schecter guitar and turned it down. I'm more of a Fender player when it comes to playing guitar.

[@sethblack9698]

this guitar is perfect and just 500 usd

[@texeast6933]

Love mine

[@nazmoking3171]

So he prefers the single coil sound on these - hmmm! Then if I was going to get a guitar like this to use in single coil, I'd buy the real thing Telecaster to get the authentic Tele sound rather than a coil-split humbucker that drops volume in single coil mode - just sayin...

[@bngreen89]

Ok, boomer.

[@looniethemoonie5353]

The Claw!

[@thedukeofearl79]

The CLAW

[@tobaccorich]

Very bad attempt at the beak

[@TedTheTree]

Can't you just spend another 100 quid & get a Vintera Tele Deluxe?

[@jacoobyslaps]

Yeah, you’d spend another hundred and get an inferior instrument

[@timbeneton8068]

Nice looking guitar but the sound coming of it is DULL! Fender got much more definition!

[@mroppa6637]

Sound like cheap squier...but nice look