Talk to me about PRS guitars (If you like them)

Tbone81 I had an EMG experiment phase too, haha, it didn't last but I'd like to try to find somehwere that it works and can stay. I was thinking about putting a Het Set into a Supro Westbury... seems like a good idea in my head.

20 years is a hell of a long time to play a guitar so that's great for that Standard 22! The only guitar I've played that long is my American Stratocaster and it has been on reserve for a long time now as the mood has been more of a humbucker one.

I guess the Seymour Duncan pickups tend to make sense in the PRS guitars. Maybe that's something of a theme I've noticed. Things I would have made fun of as a teenager but now have grown to admire. I am my own joke, years later. I was looking at the Sentient neck pickup, too... but a Jazz came up for $50 so I decided to try it, and it worked out great!

The pickups I think were always the weak link in PRS guitars.

Too "polite". Guitar pickups should not be "polite".

I'm inclinced to believe that Paul just doesn't have the same sort of ear. Maybe a jazz background? I dunno. He makes THE WORST p90 I've ever heard. when I did a P90 comparison of all the various types in GC - when they still had a proper vintage room - PRS came out dead last. A polite P90? Who you tryin' to kid?

I have only played them sparingly. Not sure if it's that in-between-scale-length, or something else.

That said, I've always had a thing for that gold top McCarty model David Grissom plays. He works it.

If I was going to dive in, that'd be where I start.

I guess I got a good one then, lol. Great guitar. I know they're polarizing. To me that's a good thing, it means they're different enough to either like or not.

I have had my usa 1994 prs ce24 since late 90’s.
Man i love this guitar. I have the bass vintage and hfs pickups in this. The newer usa dragon pickups sounds very similar but are a little more bitey. Not as bitey as those Gibson  burstbucker pro’s, man those really rip your head off.
Anyway there is a big difference in feel of a korean se to the usa model. Dont get me started on the combinstion of sustain and tone. Every note sings on the way up the neck of the usa model. 

The neck is just so delicious and feels so just right on the usa. The SE feels nealry like any other sort of modern korean neck . I guess being made in the Cort factory the specs will be similar on other brands made there.
The SE pickups really suck . They dont compare to the usa pickups.
I did find the hfs a little bit muddy but they work and you get used to that sound. Muddy might not correc5 term. Maybe articulate is better. But you can really pull off that Santana sound quite nicely.
Also the new core S2 models are still the korean made pickups and whilst they are better they dont stack up to tone of usa made ones.
I have had usa starla , mira, custom 22, ce22, another ce24 and a few s2’s and have not bought any SE models.
Love the usa tremolo system - rock solid.
after playing prs for a while you put a usa strat back in your hands and you can appreciate the single coil sound of a nice strat. but then you miss the versatility and just sheer raw power of your PRS so then  you realise you actually need both. But i dont feel as if i ever need to get a gibson having owned a PRS.
Do yourself a favour. Spend the money and buy an older ce22 or ce24 and enjoy that experience. You will always get your money back on them and you will never go back to the cheaper SE models.
Just my Aud$ 0.014 cents worth (USD exchage rate adjusted).

hadaja fantastic! I guess if I stick to this thing long enough (I've been playing it for many months in a row now,) I really should look at some USA models.

I guess I should post a demonstration later, to show what I'm talking about.

I have a PRS SE 24

would have to be the best set up guitar from the retailer I have ever come across.

I changed the pickups in it to Vaughan Slow pickups, which were an improvement.

I have pre ordered the Silver Sky SE, to give it a try.... as I want a new stage strat type guitar... as I don't want to take my other two out anymore....too old and expensive. I went through fenders offerings...squier, venter, player, American series and didn't find anything I liked... will see how the Silver Sky SE goes. It can always go back. I like the sound of the Silver Sky pickups from what I have heard, and the couple of videos I have watched shooting out the big one vs the SE have been interesting... won't know till I play it though.

I must say the headstock doesn't do it for me on the PRS guitars.. but if every guitar that comes out of their factories is set up and plays as well as the one I have,,,, then fender and Gibson should learn from that.

cheers

Wiz

Both my PRS guitars play great, my Standard 22fret has the best factory setup of any guitar I’ve owned. For my hands the neck thickness and radius are perfect. In terms of playability, If a Les Paul and a Strat had a baby, it would be a PRS.

Prs excellent guitars. But ironically, I had a budget S2 custom 24 (with Korean G&B Vintage Bass and HFS pickups) and it sounded surprisingly better than my current Custom 22 (Core model with American Vintage Bass and HFS pickups). That guitar had a character that I really like, while this guitar sounds a bit muddy and lifeless in the neck pickup. I tried adjusting different pickup heights, tried changing it to a different type of pickup, and came to the conclusion that it was most likely the wood that sounded muddy. Both guitars were made in 2013 by the way.