Music Store Live is proud to offer up this Keith Merrow signature 7-string guitar from the best of the best at Schecter's Custom Shop factory.
Everything from the way this guitar looks, to the way it plays and feels, to the way it sounds is just awesome! Aesthetically this axe really has it going on. The flame maple top is beautiful and the blue crimson pearl finish accentuates the figuring on the top really well. By keeping the neck the guitar natural, Schecter's also letting you see all of that beautiful wood grain in all its glory along with providing a simply divine feeling for your fretting hand.
The neck, along with looking great, is a multi-ply design to help with the structural integrity and rigidity of it. But just to make sure that you don't have to worry about your neck moving on you too much through changes in humidity and temperature, Schecter also included graphite rods in the neck. Not only does it make the neck more stable, but helps eliminate any possible ghost notes or wolf notes that can sometimes exist on a fretboard. Finished off with some great fretwork, you can really dial in some freakishly low action on this guitar. The extended scale length means you can drop-tune, still keep your action low, and you don't have to worry about fret buzzing, even if you're hammering away with the strength of 10 men on the strings.
To top off this pretty little package Keith Merrow requested his signature Fishman Fluence pickups to be put into this guitar (of course... since it's his signature guitar) and they sound absolutely awesome! We're huge fans of the Fishman Fluence pickups, in general, here at the store and we really think they're revolutionizing the game. These really are pickups that will give you a wide array of sounds without any extra noise and without any compromise of the quality of the tone. Whether you're going for modern musical applications, a more vintage sound, or want this to sound like a single-coil guitar, this Fluence set delivers all of those in a shockingly convincing and authentic manner. It's almost like the sound you get out of your guitar in a high-end studio with tens of thousands of dollars in mixing and production gear but you get it directly out of the guitar and you can choose between 3 different distinct and musical voices. You've got a medium output setting for when you need to shred hard. That's Keith's main setting/voice that he uses. There's also low output PAF-like voicing that provides a different vibe. The third voice gives your guitar a genuine single-coil sound with that crystal clear and glassy top-end but without any of the hum and noise.
This is a guitar that can really cover a ton of ground. Great for the gigging musician that needs to have a variety of arrows in their quiver. Now you just need to take this one guitar with you and it's as if you just took 3 different axes to the gig. But make no mistake about it... In all three different sound modes, this beast wants to shred! This is definitely a rocker's guitar and best suited for drop-tuning. It can handle any amount of gain you throw at it without ever losing definition.
P.S. You get up to 200 hours of playing time on a single 9v battery. So it's not really something you have to worry about so long as you change it once or twice per year (depending on how much you play) and unplug your guitar from the 1/4" instrument cable when you're not using it for extended periods of time.
