Paul Reed Smith on What Makes a Great Guitar
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Paul Reed Smith is master luthier with a deep reverence for the guitar builders who came before him. Do you agree that guitar makers continue to live through their designs? Let us know in the comments and watch more Sweetwater manufacturer interviews here 👉 ruclips.net/p/PLlczpwSXEOyaZUhKWrE8AI_2zLXfx-FEV
Of course! Just look at Leo Fender!
And of course, his 'stunt-guitarist', the legendary Dick Dale who played on the 1st generation 'Loudest Amps'.
& Les Paul Gibson, of course & his many Prodigy such as Buckethead.
Even if their name isn't on it, they live on. But more so if the guitar is being played. Locked up on a shelf gives the guitar a religious reference that I don't prescribe to. On a different note, I have come to appreciate Sweetwater. I still can't buy a guitar before I play that may change. BTW, Can I order a Black silver sky SE?
Paul paid all his employees for those 2 1/2 months PRS was shut down. He risked it all to make sure they were taken care of. That is a person who has my respect.
I doubt you would respect him quite so much if you were left handed, not a single American PRS (apart from $10k+ private stock) is available lefty.
@@hughjarrse oh well
@hughjarrse if i were left handed I'd either quite playing guitar or shoot myself. i guess another option is just play like a normal person 🤷♂️
@@buttscarlton1830 hmmm... normal is your goal, steady on mate, that's "quite" the ambition 😯
That's great that he paid his employees but make no mistake he didn't risk it all. Not even close with insurance and all the things that the government did for all the companies and all the money he's already made for himself and his Investments. He set for life and so is his kids and their kids. But it was cool that he paid his employees because that's the right thing to do.
I love that, unlike the other major guitar companies, he never sold to a big corporation. He kept it, still runs it, and continues to improve his products.
Paul himself is one of the reasons I love PRS so much.
I love listening to Paul talk about guitars and all his stories.
When you first hear PRS you think he is a bit over the top and full of himself, but after a few years of playing his guitars you get to see how guitarists everywhere have benefited from his passion and vision for better instruments.
Only mediocre envious sheeple complain about Paul. The dude is a living legend and PRS guitars are some of the best in the whole world.
I've heard a few long form interviews with him and I think he's pretty awesome. I'm not a fan of his guitars but he's cool.
@@darkseid6898 PRS is basically the original boutique guitar builder and he is DEFINITELY the most successful! 🎸😉👍
@@ryangunwitch-black I'm curious...what is it about his guitars that you don't care for? Looks, Feel, sound, price?
@@darkseid6898 hope you are wearing knee pads in that position. He still won't give you that private stock.
I am getting the vibe that the next time Paul Reed Smith does a interview with Mitch, he will probably end up giving him a guitar.
Hands down my favorite guitars to play. I can count on the quality, craftsmanship, tone and playability out of the box.
Paul respects the master pioneers who preceded him, while always seeking to raise the bar and advance the art. Positive influence on the industry.
It’s Always fun watching this wizard talk about his experiences and technical aspects of guitar making
PRS makes the best instruments period. I love taking mine out of the case to play it. My SE is magic as Paul would say.
I cherish my Paul Reed Smith guitars more than any of the other guitars in my collection. Took me a long time to get them, but it was well worth it.
prs guitars are outstandingly well made and at any price range. my first guitar was a paul allender and i had no idea about him or prs guitars. i don't regret it. 8yrs later i still have the guitar and crave another prs guitar.
I love my S2. Sounded great in the store before I ever plugged it in. I felt like I was instantly a 10% better player.
😎👍💗🇺🇸🎸 LONG LIVE PRS!!!
Relic free since 1985!
I love my PRS guitar, DGT model. A fine instrument!
I love my budget GLP and Strat and Tele, but my PRS SE Custom 24 is my fave. I did a pickup swap, though...
Always a tough interview but I enjoyed it: thanks!
In my 30 years of collecting music instruments, I have never bought "student edition" or "studio edition" ones. Except for PRS. Their SE series is an amazing value. Korean made, but they pass the PRS muster. My baritone SE 277 is a joy to play. I also own their PRS Custom 24 10 Top in Vintage Yellow. World class stuff.
I have a Korean SE with 3 singles. It sounds muddy. Factorial ceramic pups. Not a big stuff and still not too cheap.
I have his coveted swamp ash special in natural from the early 2000. My favorite guitar. Now they are no longer made and swamp ash is now in his private vault.
I love the Mark Holocomb SE and am saving up to buy it! A Real beauty!
Love Paul. Hearing his stories is very interesting!
Love this !!
I feel that we need to make a difference between what players want to experience by playing an instrument and the abilities of the builders. Most players are searching for sounds and playing experiences which are related to the past. Players have set standards by using specific instruments. How many of us are chasing the sounds of the past? In a way most of us, and that‘s fine. When we think about Peter Green, early Eric Clapton, Gary Moore etc. then we think about a Les Paul being essential. B. B. King is related to the ES 335, Larry Carlton is even named Mr 335, and Jimi, Ritchie Blackmore, Jeff Beck are related to strats, only to name a few. We need to take into account that in most cases all these heroes selected their specific instrument because there aren‘t too many options in these days - and all these instruments were more or less brand new when they got it. There was no vintage boom at that time. As a result the sounds of the past set standards which we love and listen to until today. However, all these instruments are famous, all have their history, but that does not necessarily mean that these instruments were great, or we should say are great.
A tele is a chunk of wood constructed to facilitate easy assembly. A Les Paul has limited access to the upper frets due to the chunky neck joint, it does not provide a proper arm rest, tends to be too heavy. A strat has a trem, which mostly steals sustain and makes the guitar to be out of tune all the time…and so forth.
Since the beginning of electric guitars the luthiers made tremendous progress. If you do not consider the cheapest of the cheapos, it is almost impossible to buy an instrument which is not worth the money you are willing to spend. Know-how of the builders, precision of the building process - and of course the know-how of the players - have reached levels, which were impossible in the past. But we players are past-oriented. What we are searching in an instrument is the sound and feel of the past. The standards defined in the past are this mighty and overwhelming. This makes it difficult to establish new designs, new features, even radical improvements are considered to be suspect in the first place.
With regard to PRS guitars: I got four of them. Each is built perfectly, plays great, feels great, looks great, stays in tune better, the pots work better, and each of them sounds great and has its own character. For traditionalists it might be hard to accept that these instruments are better, sound better, mostly for the reason that these instruments are not like the old ones.
Well said.
In a nutshell...We love what we grew up idolizing. That's all its ever been. A great player with touch, taste and technique can make a $200. Indonesian guitar sound fantastic! People talk as if they can HEAR particular guitars but the truth is, with a bit of EQ and know-how No one can tell what guitars were used in recording. Example: Everyone thought Zeppelin was using Les Paul's and Marshall's but in fact, much of the sounds on Zeps albums were a Tele through a Supro.
I've ordered a number of guitars and basses from Sweetwater and never had any issues with QC, damage, anything... Maybe I've been really lucky but I think a lot of it is Sweetwater's actual awareness of what makes a good playing guitar. I recently worked as a repair tech at Guitar Center and wow the setups on the guitars in-store were atrocious. My manager basically said their business model is for someone to buy a guitar and then pay extra for me to do a setup on it... That's like buying a Lamborghini missing a wheel and the dealer is like "if you pay extra we can install the wheel for you on your new car:)" Also I found it funny that in multiple run-ins with the district manager he was adamant about me NOT buying anything from Sweetwater haha.
I am grateful that PRS makes custom 24s that you can purchase for under $1,000. I purchased one this year for the first time and it is the nicest instrument I have ever owned and sounds amazing. Thank you Paul
That PRS you made for Tom Bukovac is a sick guitar Paul with a beast of a player that owns it
Just bought one of your Flying Owl Private Stock Ebony models... it's on the way via Fedex tomorrow. I must confess, the design language is amazing, although I'd have gone Brazilian rosewood neck/fretboard... strangle my F-home is filled in with a inlay... never seen such a thing, and I have a love / hate with it.
Love this
Good show y'all.
inspiring !
i remember Lifeson's New guitar from Rush (Presto tour ?)
still want to explore with PRS
Paul made the very best guitar when PRS made the Modern Eagle 1. For me, it’s pure perfection especially in a Singlecut!
Um is that Private Stock DGT for sale?? I’d be very interested. The DGT is an incredible guitar and that looks simply stunning.
I'd like to try a modern PRS - I never got on with them when they were first available in the UK. I could never figure out what didn't work for me, but I simply couldn't bond with them. Tastes change over the years, though - my current "Number 1" is a P90-equipped T-Style that I'd have probably ignored back then(!) - so I reckon I owe PRS another try. 😉
i love my Custom 08-24
Paul's guitars have become as iconic as Les Pauls, ES335s, Strats and Teles. An amazing feat in my humble little opinion. I am old enough to be Paul's grandfather but I love his his guitars. (I don't know who any of his endorsers are). I am waiting for an SE version of the DGT (dark cherry burst) and I'd love to have an SE "Paul's Guitar" in Scarlett Red.
Your wish has been granted, as you probably know, lol, they look pretty sweet considering one myself
PRS is a great guitar and Paul continue to make every part every inch of the guitar better but still can't figured out where to put the pickup selector....
4:49 The treble pickup may have been useless to Hendrix, but it certainly wasn't useless for Bryan Adams "Summer of '69" It's all about application.
I think that right now, in July 2022, electric guitars are better than ever before. Nothing, nothing made 63 years ago can compare to what outfits like PRS are putting out these days. Love ya, Paul. Keep on doin' yer thing!
Mr. Paul, we dont shut down to ruin business in Texas. You all come on down here! (P.S. I love my Paul's Guitar I have had a couple or years!) Ron
I am on a long waiting list for my S2. But when I get it my wife will not see me for months. Lol
Other than being old and having been what was available when great music was made a 59 LP has nothing over a PRS in tone (subjective), playability, tuning, stability, and on & on. That's just the reality of it.
I have a 2018 S2 Custom 22 Semi Hollow and a 2019 S2 Custom 24. They are both great guitars. They are both collecting dust (with my Charvels) since I went back to playing Gibson guitars last year but they are great guitars, nonetheless.
Give them to me
Easy answer:. The words "Fender" and"Stratocaster" on the head stock.
oh man...same old with this guy
I was just thinking I needed a semi hollow dgt
The headstock though. Wish he would redesign the headstock.
My PRS guitars are by far the best built, more balanced and best sounding and looking of all the guitars I have. Period.
I like the bolt-on neck guitars. maybe it is the 25.5 in neck. For some reason I play the shorter scale necks better if I sit down. Not so much standing. PRS guitars are fantastic but as a teacher, It will always be SE for me. CORE would have been great when I was gigging regularly but, to have $30000 equipment just for noodling seems a waste of craftsmanship. I deplore collectors as they really don't seem to get what a guitar is. You play them! You make music or some kind of noise with them. I just do not understand having more than one expensive guitar to say, "look what I have" don't touch it!
Man, I just hope one day for the Looney Clash, Crazi Agnesi vs Pauly Lunatic
Mitch saw ‘Elvis’ and got inspired??
So, did Mitch buy the guitar?
If you've been playing for a decade, AND you are looking into a nice guitar for serious playing the next decade of your career, and let's say you got the $5k for that special guitar, are you buying new or vintage?
My prs couldn't get in tune 😒 I had to take it to get professionally setup. I couldn't get it I have never had that issue on a gibson
play that damn guitar !
Even their SE Lines are much better feel than my Gibson (for me) .. My US Gibson is soo noisy ..
I like PRS guitars, but I'm always intimidated by how artsy it is.
The person playing it
When Leo Fender passed the company lost its way back in the 1970s but with the right management its all been turned around. Of course a hand built Guitar made by a fully qualified Luthier will outshine any mass produced guitar. That being said my PRS SE stands up well against such esoteric one off guitars. So yes designers can live on through their instruments and products.
The player
Only a guitar painted with the blood of my enemies is acceptable
The treble pickup on a strat is useless??
I'm gonna respectfully disagree.
Mojo, feel, vibe and the amazing unperfection is the combination. “Perfect” guitars, who cares 😀
What PRS models do Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Joe Bonamassa, Derek Trucks play? …..oh.
Ok boomer.
My no-name 50 bucks secondhand guitar feels great, sounds great and looks great and doesn't look shiny . Manufacturers and traders manipulate young people to think that more expensive guitars are "better".
Lies
lol
Paul Reed Smith is a great luthier and his company very builds beautiful guitars. but the answer to the question "what makes a great guitar?" is simple: "a great guitarist."
Not really. That answer insinuates that there are no bad guitars.
@@lovesgibson that is not what I wanted to say. I meant, that an excellent player can make a mediocre guitar sound excellent, whereas a bad player will sound bad even with the best guitar. obviously the materials and skills of the luthier make the quality of an guitar. how she sounds depends on the player.
@@CaffeineNightOwl it that ignorance also implies a bad guitarist wouldn’t sound better on a good guitar… which they will. It’s a fun meme people like to post but it’s kinda dumb when you break it down
Is "tone wood" really a thing for e-guitar? Acoustic, more so but from all the recent things I've seen and heard, its becoming a myth, save for the aesthetics
So the recent thing is tone wood is a myth for the humble electric guitar but not for the mighty acoustic! My simple answer is next time you're ordering an electric geetar ask them to make if from plastic and save yourself a few $$'! It will probably look and feel shite , but the tone will be fine. Yeah forget that wood stuff!
Not really, Gibson 335's have plywood tops and backs, some of the best guitar tones ever heard have come from that plywood, Allan Holdsworth got wonderful tones from a plastic Steinberger, there is an incredible amount of BS lore surrounding electric guitars.
@@noelcurran1117 You missed the guys point. Try reading with a dash of comprehension. I've heard guitars with bodies made of everything from cement to all sorts of shit encased in acrylic ffs that still sounded fine and blind? You'd never ever be able to tell them apart from your "tone woods" ... most any wood works fine, and seeing that most guitars these days with poly finishes look like they were dipped in a hard candy shell, what's your point? And as for feel, unlike you, I don't caress the body of my guitars so the "feel" comes from the neck. Not so simple an answer!
Instead of a specific tone characteristic, I see 'tonewood' as 'tonekeeper'. It means that a good quality wood shouldn't eat up the vibration of the string, and more importantly it won't move much, especially the neck. That's why high end guitars use treated wood (drying, roasted, and whatever process there is) to make it solid and reliable. I think it was PRS himself saying that on e-guitar, anything you add will substract the tone.
My friend used to joke : why nobody ever tries to make wood simulator effect, so we can just use same pickups and strings, and change the wood tonal chracateristic with a flick of a switch.
Supposedly it’s not, unless the pick ups aren’t potted.
I have a Korean PRS, a great friend of mine just called me and he said he wanted to toss me that guitar. I was very glad, and I assembled it from its pieces and gigged it. I liked its lightweight but then it did not become my main guitar. Watching this guy here I have controversial feelings - he talks more about money than guitars - then I think of the price range of his guitars and I say, no tks, I go another way.
Lol what?
@@StupidGuitar I m not keen on PRSs. Played some original ones. Setin neck, price , look, etc. Not for me
@@ymelfilm yes your bias was clear fr the first comment. He rarely talked about money. No need to invent things which didn’t happen just because you don’t like a guitar
@@StupidGuitar sorry. I am biased. This guitar brand is obviously overpriced and not too interesting. The headstock is smart but not its pointy edge. There is something unpleasant in this shape and its carves too.
@@ymelfilm Cool you don't like a guitar. That doesn't mean it's overpriced. It OBJECTIVELY isn't and is in line with its competitors for similar quality. Also, you didn't address you making stuff up but that's ok. Like you said, you're biased and not making any sense
Had a CE24. It was ok, not great.
I tried a CE24 and I agree with you, it was ok but not great. I now have a PRS Tremonti baritone and its the best guitar I have played ever. I'm a PRS fan but not all of their guitars are great. Try before you buy.
Its great for someone, thats the thing about guitars. I have a 1959 harmony that, if you like prs, youll likely hate but its great for me in the studio. If it stays in tune, its a great guitar for something
At $2200, it better be great at taking a setup. I just think PRS are overpriced.
Hmm. I’ve got a 2021 CE 24, love it and can’t find a thing to complain about on it. Aesthetically beautiful and bulletproof keeping in tune and maintaining tonality. Fast neck, just no downside for me. Am looking at a core, maybe Paul’s Guitar. They certainly are premium priced though.
@@Lagwagon801you can think that and also be wrong. Again maybe you just found a guitar that doesn’t work for you. They make a lot of different styles and I guarantee you went in looking for something to hate given your attitude
I don't associate PRS with tone.
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That was awkward
I love Paul and his philosophy. But I've never played/owned a PRS and felt any of the things you described. They just don't feel right and the pickups don't sound right. To me, they are the American equivalent of Duesenberg. Look incredible, sound mediocre, play worse than a Yamaha.
lol ok boomer.
Tried listen to this guy for years now but he’s so full of himself. Can’t take to him or his guitars
Your guitars are WAY TOO expensive. They just ain't worth that. Never ever.
But money is all that counts, right?
No? You can get a PRS SE for under a grand and that’s a steal for what you’re getting
@@StupidGuitar That is their only reasonable pricing.
@@iloveitall silver sky as well as several other models are inline with the competitors equivalent models. Uh oh… your ignorance is showing