Hollow Body vs Solid Body Guitar - Part 2 (with distortion)

We will take a look at how much of a difference a guitar being hollow vs solid makes. Part 1 compared the two guitars clean and this video will compare the same guitars but with some distortion!
Being compared is a PRS SC 58 and PRS Hollowbody I. Both are similar guitars and shapes with the same PRS 57/08 pickups. Guitars are both played into a Fender Bassman Reissue (4x10) with exact same settings and mic'd with a sennheiser e609. No effects or EQ were added post production.
Guitars;
PRS SC 58 (Stripped Black)
PRS Hollowbody I Singlecut
Amp; Fender Bassman LTD Reissue (4x10)
Effects Used;
Seymour Duncan 805 Overdrive
Bogner Ecstasy Blue Overdrive
Fender FRV-1 '63 Reverb
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[@clarencevickrot3531]

Nicely done. I have a hollow and semi-hollow and I find myself struggling more with the 335-style to get the distorted sound right. Now I need to buy a solid body

[@sheifiproductions]

335s are amazing guitars but I’ve found it can be difficult to EQ them so they sit perfectly on mix. It’s obviously possible but can be challenging!

[@WolfandLove]

Very interesting. Yeah, I'm actually surprised how similar they sound. I thought in some of the samples the solid body actually had more low end. Like in the ACDC track you could really notice it.

[@sheifiproductions]

Yea, listening back it's hard to hear much of a difference at all between the solid body and hollow body. The differences were still small, but I heard more of a difference when I compared the two guitars clean. I agree there doesn't seem to be that much bass in the hollow body with the higher gain (ACDC riff) setting which makes no sense :)

[@tomtracy5396]

Hollowbody sounds great and has more character on the bluesy lesser distorted sounds
But in the harder distortion setting - the LP better

[@sheifiproductions]

Agreed!

[@jbencinitas]

great video, thanks.

[@atreyfall3812]

I'm thinking about getting one, because I feel like a solid body is less 3D than any acoustic instrument. So i'm thinking about using It when play with acoustic instruments ( I don't meant acoustic guitars )

[@mikepretorius6350]

Could not hear a difference 🤔 thanks for the Demo 👍

[@sheifiproductions]

Haha, yea, very small difference indeed! I could hear a little bit of a difference in the room but quite subtle. You can hear more of a difference with the clean tones! Either way, thanks for listening!