I will add this, I think when purchasing one of these guitars you must go into it with the right attitude. If you are a hardcore Strat guy or Gibson guy and you love the extremes delivered by either one, then this is probably not the guitar for you. If you want one guitar that will deliver 80-90% of both styles then this is the guitar for you. Some might even argue it 95% of the tone of both. For me, this design looks perfect in delivering what I want in my next guitar. IMHO.
i have the PRS SE paul's guitar and it is one of the sweetest sounding guitars in my arsenal.You don't usually expect that kind of playability, tone and overall feel from an 'economical' model but its got the whole package. I can only imagine how wonderful and surreal it would be to own and play a core line Paul's guitar. Hopefully someday I'll be able to own and play this beautiful guitar.
Davy deserves to be recognized a lot more than he is. Remember thinking when I first saw him play when he opened for Chickenfoot that this kid is going to be considered by some to be our generation's Clapton.
Funny enough Tony I recently bought a CS Strat, it's a 1995 model, a copy of the 1954 strat with maple neck, I've sounds ok through my Mesa Nomad, but I tried it through my friends divided by 13 amp, and it was the best clean start tone I've ever heard, I'm sure better than A PRS single coil, although I've have to A & B if I get a chance.
I know it's been years since people posted on this, but I think RUclips compression really kills a lot of subtlety. The sounds may be much more different in person.
Been a total Strat man for like 35 years - but found myself getting really tired of the 'quacky' sounds that every man & his uncle gets & sounding like a bad SRV clone, let's face it - that tone's been done to death. Got myself a fabulous Custom 22 never looked back - has the best of both Gibson & Fender tones, great trem, plays like butter & I have no probs cutting through a dense Blues/Funk band, all without killing the audience with volume... max kudos Paul...
While I do not own a PRS yet, I have owned Taylor, Fender, and Gibson so far. I am watching Demo videos because adding a PRS is next. From playing PRS guitars of friends and watching demos, my ears telling me PRS is the guitar that has the potential to be the answer to the great question/problem of how can I find the right tone. I have not played this model based upon demos this looks to be the one for me. Of course, I have to play one before I make the final decision.
60-Cycle hum from the single-coils with gain on the amp. Sounds like when they play the sound clips it is an isolated signal that has been edited with a gate (not a room mic). It's normal.
I agree, also being a PRS owner, I find the single coil sound on my Prism just too thin and others do it better, although the full humbucker sound is great.
Either this review or the website is wrong. Website says: coil tap, which means a large portion of the binding in the humbuckers gets eliminated, but you still have a humbucker with less output on the same volume. If he says it really goes to coil split (actually making it a single coil) it should sound more like a strat and have a lower volume output. My guess is the website is correct: it's a coil tap and not a coil split.
It is a coil split. However, when you split the 408's it actually adds turns to the single coil so there is no drop off in volume. This was the primary goal when designing the pups. There are several videos out where Paul describes this in depth.
Agreed. I do understand this fact and never expect any spilttable humbuckers to be 'exactly' sound like a real single coil. In this video I can see how seriously Paul devotes himself getting single coil sound out of his own narrowed-designed humbuckers. OK, it's an impressive attempt and also a further step of innovation, but if I want a real single coil sound, I would go for a Suhr or Fender instead.
Yes. I think trying to get a full spectrum of guitar sounds out of a couple of magnets and some copper wire will just never happen, unless it's like a Roland GK pickup or something of that nature. Standard magnetic pickups sound great, but they'll never come close to the versatility of modeling. It's dependable and it's VERY good.
I'm not a PRS hater, I just think Strat worked much better with his fingers. I could feel the sound a lot more true and faithful to the feeling. I can't explain it... And my english doesn't help... I just hear him playing Strat and PRS and I can tell the difference and which one I like best. Great player, of course! :)
I got one s/h redbust one I really love this one an sas nff an Special hllw those 3 cool guitar an other one prs old sas with seymour phatcat an hollow body 2 . But the paul great to me it tele/mix small humbucker hard say just is great . I did have mac I sold it for this one I do miss old one beautiful finish. One had got get this one .. $$
so why do people keep arguing what guitar producer is better? that's like arguing over what's better tasting, a tuna or a baloney sandwich. it all comes down to personal taste. e.g. i may like a benson guitar more than a god damn gibson just because it produces the sounds that i want to play with. jeez, it really feels like most of the people arguing about here never set hand on a guitar. ever.
Mishulescu lol! I love it! This is the worst thing about being a guitarist or a musician! Jesus! It's not a competition! Oh, yea, btw ! It's all totally subjective!!! SUBJECTIVE!!!!!
No prs guitars hum, not even when you split the coils, and someone said single coils don't cut through the mix?! What the heck?! Singles are known for cutting through a mix Better than hbs
Right but this tone is more useful than real single tone.Real single tone doesn't cut to the mix especially if there is a second guitar player in the band
From the scary "high tech" world of guitars, I bring news. My ESP Eclipse/Variax transplant has better Stratocaster tones than my Fender Stratocaster does. True. And zero noise. I think the time may be coming where feel and playability are more much important than tones, due to advances in modeling. And to my ear, 30 years of playing professionally and for fun, the modeling sounds more convincing than the emulations they are trying to get here. YMMV, but not many people still use typewriters.
Well said! Ain't no strat there. To be honest, the guitar seems to do singles and humbuckers ok....but neither one of them great. Played one of these at the guitar shop, nice looking guitar, but small sounding humbuckers to accomdate a small sounding single coil.
doesn't sound that good to me. Especially the single coil, give me a tele or a strat for that anyday. The single coils & humbuckers didn't sound vastly different & the sound has no character or warmth.
Is it me? but the worse tones IMHO from PRS guitars come from the demo's done by PRS, I always find better demo's done by others, this again sounds compressed, and being a PRS owner, never sounds like they do in a live situation.
Single coils have twang in spades and this guitar is sadly twang-less... As for using your volume and tone controls; no self respecting blues man could live without tweaking his knobs for full tonal satisfaction lad...;-)
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wow paul reed smith is a bonafide aficionado, I see why he started such a quality driven business. Seems like a cool dude.
I’ve met him... he IS a really cool, genuine guy... exactly what you see here in the video.
I will add this, I think when purchasing one of these guitars you must go into it with the right attitude. If you are a hardcore Strat guy or Gibson guy and you love the extremes delivered by either one, then this is probably not the guitar for you. If you want one guitar that will deliver 80-90% of both styles then this is the guitar for you. Some might even argue it 95% of the tone of both. For me, this design looks perfect in delivering what I want in my next guitar. IMHO.
i have the PRS SE paul's guitar and it is one of the sweetest sounding guitars in my arsenal.You don't usually expect that kind of playability, tone and overall feel from an 'economical' model but its got the whole package. I can only imagine how wonderful and surreal it would be to own and play a core line Paul's guitar. Hopefully someday I'll be able to own and play this beautiful guitar.
Davy deserves to be recognized a lot more than he is. Remember thinking when I first saw him play when he opened for Chickenfoot that this kid is going to be considered by some to be our generation's Clapton.
I just discovered him about a month ago and he's one of my absolute favorite contemporary players. So great and seems like an amazingly kind guy.
I love PRS guitars, I love the way they are made, and I love that Paul loves what he's making...
PRS Guitars are BY FAR the greatest guitars in the world
love Davy! great player.
This is a beautiful guitar and sounds fantastic!
those guitars are so gorgeous.
No volume change but unfortunately no Tone change either if you're honest! Do love PRS guitars though, I have a lovely LTD edition SE custom.
I'm a proud owner of a PRS, one of the best guitars out there
Funny enough Tony I recently bought a CS Strat, it's a 1995 model, a copy of the 1954 strat with maple neck, I've sounds ok through my Mesa Nomad, but I tried it through my friends divided by 13 amp, and it was the best clean start tone I've ever heard, I'm sure better than A PRS single coil, although I've have to A & B if I get a chance.
I know it's been years since people posted on this, but I think RUclips compression really kills a lot of subtlety. The sounds may be much more different in person.
Kevin Spake agreed!
Mini-humbuckers are great. I don’t know why they aren’t more of a standard tone for guitars, but are somehow seen as a lesser compromise.
Been a total Strat man for like 35 years - but found myself getting really tired of the 'quacky' sounds that every man & his uncle gets & sounding like a bad SRV clone, let's face it - that tone's been done to death. Got myself a fabulous Custom 22 never looked back - has the best of both Gibson & Fender tones, great trem, plays like butter & I have no probs cutting through a dense Blues/Funk band, all without killing the audience with volume... max kudos Paul...
While I do not own a PRS yet, I have owned Taylor, Fender, and Gibson so far. I am watching Demo videos because adding a PRS is next. From playing PRS guitars of friends and watching demos, my ears telling me PRS is the guitar that has the potential to be the answer to the great question/problem of how can I find the right tone. I have not played this model based upon demos this looks to be the one for me. Of course, I have to play one before I make the final decision.
60-Cycle hum from the single-coils with gain on the amp. Sounds like when they play the sound clips it is an isolated signal that has been edited with a gate (not a room mic). It's normal.
If this guitar was available with a third (i.e. middle) pickup and 7-way wiring, it would probably be my ultimate guitar.
I agree, also being a PRS owner, I find the single coil sound on my Prism just too thin and others do it better, although the full humbucker sound is great.
I bought Ibanez electric guitar as my first. I didnt know the PRS brand was this good.
Right now, you know! :)
Either this review or the website is wrong. Website says: coil tap, which means a large portion of the binding in the humbuckers gets eliminated, but you still have a humbucker with less output on the same volume. If he says it really goes to coil split (actually making it a single coil) it should sound more like a strat and have a lower volume output. My guess is the website is correct: it's a coil tap and not a coil split.
It is a coil split. However, when you split the 408's it actually adds turns to the single coil so there is no drop off in volume. This was the primary goal when designing the pups. There are several videos out where Paul describes this in depth.
that single coil mode has got a LOT of hum! This sounds like P90s to me!
+Guitar Nut ,it's the amp.Tube amp hum.
One day I will have a 50s telecaster, a Ibanez artstar, and a 408. I would never need another guitar..
Agreed. I do understand this fact and never expect any spilttable humbuckers to be 'exactly' sound like a real single coil. In this video I can see how seriously Paul devotes himself getting single coil sound out of his own narrowed-designed humbuckers. OK, it's an impressive attempt and also a further step of innovation, but if I want a real single coil sound, I would go for a Suhr or Fender instead.
Yes. I think trying to get a full spectrum of guitar sounds out of a couple of magnets and some copper wire will just never happen, unless it's like a Roland GK pickup or something of that nature. Standard magnetic pickups sound great, but they'll never come close to the versatility of modeling. It's dependable and it's VERY good.
The guy should just put fluence pickups
I know this will get deleted but whats up with the static? Amp? Guitar?
And what was the Amp they were using?
The blue PRS Amp
MrHistorymakers PRS guitars do hum when you split the coils.
I'm not a PRS hater, I just think Strat worked much better with his fingers. I could feel the sound a lot more true and faithful to the feeling. I can't explain it... And my english doesn't help... I just hear him playing Strat and PRS and I can tell the difference and which one I like best.
Great player, of course! :)
What finish is that black gold, yellow tiger. , or copper?
Black gold artist grade dirty flame maple top.
Cool!
4:12 Is Paul packing a gun? 😂
Which amp were they using?
I agree tony.
Next reed I get will be this one. Or the nf3... Decisions...
I got one s/h redbust one I really love this one an sas nff an Special hllw those 3 cool guitar an other one prs old sas with seymour phatcat an hollow body 2 . But the paul great to me it tele/mix small humbucker hard say just is great . I did have mac I sold it for this one
I do miss old one beautiful finish. One had got get this one .. $$
Would love to play one, just to have a go, but it aint my sorta guitar, a bit flash init.
Give me that with a trem and in McCarty tobacco sunburst and I'm sold
so why do people keep arguing what guitar producer is better? that's like arguing over what's better tasting, a tuna or a baloney sandwich. it all comes down to personal taste. e.g. i may like a benson guitar more than a god damn gibson just because it produces the sounds that i want to play with. jeez, it really feels like most of the people arguing about here never set hand on a guitar. ever.
Mishulescu lol! I love it! This is the worst thing about being a guitarist or a musician! Jesus! It's not a competition! Oh, yea, btw ! It's all totally subjective!!! SUBJECTIVE!!!!!
Because it sounds better than a Fender Stratocaster doesn't mean that it isn't a Single Coil sound
It's a nice guitar, and the single coils volume does match the humbucker but that aint what i'd call a single coil tone.
Hm, sounds not better like my Ibanez AR720fm. I can do the same things with it's tri-sound switches.
*Les Paul and Leo Fender and Paul Reed Smith and Bob Taylor and Collins and....
No prs guitars hum, not even when you split the coils, and someone said single coils don't cut through the mix?! What the heck?! Singles are known for cutting through a mix Better than hbs
Right but this tone is more useful than real single tone.Real single tone doesn't cut to the mix especially if there is a second guitar player in the band
a project with tom wheeler and tom wheeler and tom wheeler
Thank the Universe for Les Pail
I wish PRS would buy the Les Paul patents from Gibson and use their way of making guitars to make a better version of the Les Paul.
He already did, it is the 594 single cut.
Juan. Lega they have it's called a Single cut that plays amazing. I suggest you buy one now
Singlecoils always have volume loss, otherwise they're no singelcoils or they're P90 ...
From the scary "high tech" world of guitars, I bring news. My ESP Eclipse/Variax transplant has better Stratocaster tones than my Fender Stratocaster does. True. And zero noise. I think the time may be coming where feel and playability are more much important than tones, due to advances in modeling. And to my ear, 30 years of playing professionally and for fun, the modeling sounds more convincing than the emulations they are trying to get here. YMMV, but not many people still use typewriters.
So much hum
Why does the guitar Hum so much???
+Fons negentienachtenvijftig Single coil
+Fons negentienachtenvijftig ,tube amp hum.Not the single coils on that guitar.
+Fons negentienachtenvijftig ,tube amp hum.Not the single coils on that guitar.
Ken Johnson Did you watch the video? Those humbuckers have a split installed.
Yes I watched it.My Marshalls have the same hum.
Well said! Ain't no strat there. To be honest, the guitar seems to do singles and humbuckers ok....but neither one of them great. Played one of these at the guitar shop, nice looking guitar, but small sounding humbuckers to accomdate a small sounding single coil.
Wow those humbuckers are really noisy, not great, but they sound fantastic!
You know were you got that shirt........And it damn well wasn't in the men's department.
"Pulse guitar" it's maybe a better name... :)
doesn't sound that good to me. Especially the single coil, give me a tele or a strat for that anyday. The single coils & humbuckers didn't sound vastly different & the sound has no character or warmth.
+Alan Howell The hum's are good, its the singles that don't do it for me.
+Alan Howell I agree... any tapped HB sounds like crap.... or just doesn't convince. For true SC sound, just grab a strat and be done with it.
I think the point is to have the SC sound, but not having to worry about the hum that Strats have.
there are countless noisless true single coils out there. I have a Strat Plus with golden Lace pups, sounds killer. 100% humfree as well.
Sounds fuckin AMAZING!
Less expensive the Gibsons and play better then Gibsons.
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to all you prs haters-
sup. i like prs.
sincerely,
prs lover
Is it me? but the worse tones IMHO from PRS guitars come from the demo's done by PRS, I always find better demo's done by others, this again sounds compressed, and being a PRS owner, never sounds like they do in a live situation.
Some of you guys act like you know what your talking about but your quite wrong.
ha ha I love it ha ha
Single coils have twang in spades and this guitar is sadly twang-less... As for using your volume and tone controls; no self respecting blues man could live without tweaking his knobs for full tonal satisfaction lad...;-)
PRS is good quality. They play great, they sound great. They look like douchebag.
nice looks but boring singlecoil sounds.
Its Joan Jett Rivers!
Doing the plastic surgery is so Joan Jett, NOT!
Way too much hum
its just another clone