I thought the same thing too for years and years. But…There’s a specific reason PRS and Heritage headstocks have an edge on Gibson. The otherwise notoriously volatile tuning on your D and G strings will thank you if you make the switch.
I set my sites on a $3,000 PRS in 1993, then a friend who owned a shop asked me to come in and play a Heritage 535 (335 style), Heritage 150 (Les Paul style), and a beautiful Heritage Johny Smith (Jazz box), fell in love with the Heritage and scraped the PRS! PRS guitars are great guitars, made great, love the neck pickups but not the other sounds as much. If you want quality, both companies are great but there's something special about Heritage guitars, they are the best Gibson style guitars by far!
They were very close til you got to the crunch comparison. Heritage hands down. I love how they offer the vibe and feel of a Gibson with (most of) the quality and playability of a PRS.
The heritage is let down by the heritage 224 pickups. I watched a shoot out between a McCarty with 58/15 LT pickups a Gibson R9 with custombuckers and the heritage H150 custom shop with heritage 225 pickups and Both The PRS and Gibaon blew away the Heritage . The heritage was much less articulate and kind of one dimensional and seemed alot less Resonant and had less sustain. I am guessing the pickups are the weak link but on the other hand I have also seen shootouts between Heritage H150 standard production and Gibson USA standard 50s les Paul's and the Gibsons were the more open clear and articulate instruments and with the Standard H150s they come with seynoour Duncan 59s which are a great mass produced Pickup and the gibsin had Burstbuckers 1 and 2 and it seems more people prefer the Duncan 59s to Burstbuckers although I prefer the BBs to the SD 59s. Also of people do swap BBs for SD 59s so perhaps there is another reason besides pickups for the PRS and Gibsom guitars being totally superior.
Idk about all that. Can you link the video of the 3 guitars comparison? I saw a vid of a r9 vs the custom core h150 and they sounded 95% the same. Its the one that comes first when you search up heritage custom core vs gibson
I have a Gibson Custom, an H150CC and a slash anaconda. I have no idea what you are talking about. A vast majority of pickups have only 2 voices. The sound at 3 and 7 typically show the different voices. The parson 225 has 3 voices at 2, 7 and 10. I've played alot of guitars and few, if any, have 3 voices. And all 3 sound excellent on the H150...
Heritage has a low mid thick tone that i like
I'm not a fan of the bird inlays on the PRS, i do like the access reliefs tho
Heritage. Dammit, now I’ve got to replace my PRS. Hate both headstocks though, if I’m honest.
I can't stand the bird inlays...I'm not a hunter, wtf
@@cromBumnyneither was Paul’s mother. 🤦♂️
I thought the same thing too for years and years. But…There’s a specific reason PRS and Heritage headstocks have an edge on Gibson. The otherwise notoriously volatile tuning on your D and G strings will thank you if you make the switch.
I set my sites on a $3,000 PRS in 1993, then a friend who owned a shop asked me to come in and play a Heritage 535 (335 style), Heritage 150 (Les Paul style), and a beautiful Heritage Johny Smith (Jazz box), fell in love with the Heritage and scraped the PRS! PRS guitars are great guitars, made great, love the neck pickups but not the other sounds as much. If you want quality, both companies are great but there's something special about Heritage guitars, they are the best Gibson style guitars by far!
If you want clinical hi-fi tone & clarity, go with PRS. If you want real character and balls, go with Heritage. I'll take the latter please.
I think Heritage perfectly blends both!
They were very close til you got to the crunch comparison. Heritage hands down. I love how they offer the vibe and feel of a Gibson with (most of) the quality and playability of a PRS.
McCarty for the win.
McCarty: more articulate in all respects.
The heritage is let down by the heritage 224 pickups. I watched a shoot out between a McCarty with 58/15 LT pickups a Gibson R9 with custombuckers and the heritage H150 custom shop with heritage 225 pickups and Both The PRS and Gibaon blew away the Heritage . The heritage was much less articulate and kind of one dimensional and seemed alot less Resonant and had less sustain. I am guessing the pickups are the weak link but on the other hand I have also seen shootouts between Heritage H150 standard production and Gibson USA standard 50s les Paul's and the Gibsons were the more open clear and articulate instruments and with the Standard H150s they come with seynoour Duncan 59s which are a great mass produced Pickup and the gibsin had Burstbuckers 1 and 2 and it seems more people prefer the Duncan 59s to Burstbuckers although I prefer the BBs to the SD 59s. Also of people do swap BBs for SD 59s so perhaps there is another reason besides pickups for the PRS and Gibsom guitars being totally superior.
Idk about all that. Can you link the video of the 3 guitars comparison? I saw a vid of a r9 vs the custom core h150 and they sounded 95% the same. Its the one that comes first when you search up heritage custom core vs gibson
I have a Gibson Custom, an H150CC and a slash anaconda. I have no idea what you are talking about. A vast majority of pickups have only 2 voices. The sound at 3 and 7 typically show the different voices. The parson 225 has 3 voices at 2, 7 and 10. I've played alot of guitars and few, if any, have 3 voices. And all 3 sound excellent on the H150...
@@Squall6575Anderton’s did it.