Comments on: Anything better than a red Schecter Strat? – Yes, two of them.

By: The VFS-1 – New pick-up for our Schecter-style pickguards | Mark Knopfler Guitar / More Knowledge about the guitar

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:17:50 +0000

[...] it looks and sounds similar to the Seymour Duncan SSL1s or APS-1 that Mark Knopfler played in his red Schecter dream machine Strat. But that’s not all, the VFS-1 has also a second outer coil to create fatter sounds, [...]

By: danny

danny — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:47:06 +0000

When I think of Mark with a guitar I always get that red Fender Strat with maple neck and that weird black knob picture in my head. It just has some kind of magic to it. I do not own a candy aplle red with maple neck guitar but i thinking of buying one. Now i try getting the strat tone with my line 6 variax and it works but it looks so ‘boring’. It doesn’t have to be a Fender as long as the tone is good en the looks. Maybe any suggestions about a strat model that doesn’t empty my bank account??

By: Ingo

Ingo — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:00:13 +0000

When I became a DS fan in 1979 I was mad for the sound of the Fenders. The first concert I have seen was a Rock Pop TV show from Dortmund here in Germany in 1980 when he had just changed to Schecters , and the guitar sound was nothing compared to what it was before. That crisp warm tone was gone (though I admit this might have to do with all the other new gear he started to use then).
I meanwhile like the sound of the red Schecter much more, but it seems I was not destined to own one.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:16:16 +0000

By the way Ingo, why did you never have much interest in Schecter guitars (anyway that’s what it appears to me) or even own one?

By: Ingo

Ingo — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:33:53 +0000

There was no gold or silver mixed into the laquer to get CAR. Instead, the guitar is first painted gold (or silver) and then covered with a tranparent red laquer. Some CAR guitars have golden undercoat, others silver, and look different for this reason.

By: TheWizzard29

TheWizzard29 — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:37:50 +0000

Hi,

did Schecter mix more gold colour into the CAR lacquer? I have got an Fender Classic 60 in Candy Apple Red and it looks quite brighter and more different than the red on the Schecter strat.

By: Ingo

Ingo — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:53:19 +0000

Right, the same guitar is played on all these songs – the same guitar with the same pick-ups (seymour Duncans, probably SSL-1). The Fender / DiMarzio pick-ups were in the red Fender Strat he played before he changed to the Schecter.

The pick-up combination was different (neck on OUATITW, bridge&middle on Sultans, neck&middle I think on Local Hero), and there was possibly a different amp setting for each song.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:52:18 +0000

If you watch Alchemy it seems that Once Upon a Time in the West is played with the same guitar as Sultans of Swing and Local Hero. But the guitar on OUaTitW sounds the same as LH whereas SS sounds a lot thinner. The guitar used on SS sounds like Fender pickups and the others more like DiMarzio. In my opinion you couln’d get that much more thinness by switching amps or effects. So one reasonable explanation is that he had two identical guitars, one with Fender and the other with DiMarzio pickups.

By: simon

simon — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:46:58 +0000

ive got an original tapped monstertone pickup from the early 80s if its any good to anyone? fenderlogo@gmail.com

By: Ingo

Ingo — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:02:28 +0000

As far as as I know, the Schecters were nitro.