PRS guitars

Blaendulais

Ungulate said:

Musical AF?

Regular tempo tho!!! 

flying_pie

Blaendulais said:

Ungulate said:

Musical AF?

Regular tempo tho!!! 

Not quite. There's a brief asystole after fret 9, followed by an ectopic at 12, then it's regular again

Ungulate

Blaendulais said:

Ungulate said:

Musical AF?

Regular tempo tho!!! 

Flutter with 2:1 block?

NelsonP

bacchanalian said:

The car analogies don't work either.  Did Audi not kick Lancia's ass?

No, Lancia by a mile. Have a look at the constructors champs and 'event wins by car' here....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Rally_Championship_records

NelsonP

chris78 said:

Hmm. 11k for a prs private stock or 11k for this https://www.peachguitars.com/fender-custom-shop-51-nocaster-dale-wilson-masterbuilt-heavy-relic-nocaster-blon.htm

Neither. For that money I'd take this...
https://www.coda-music.com/electric-guitars/gibson-murphy-lab-1961-es335-sixties-cherry-ultra-light-aged-sixties-cherry-120592.html

And this...
https://www.coda-music.com/electric-guitars/fender-custom-shop-59-strat-relic-chocolate-3-colour-sunburst-2-r113789.html

Musicwolf

NelsonP said:

That's helpful, thanks, but I really struggle to see the value in the Private Stock stuff though. I could be seduced by a £5k CS Strat or Les Paul but not an £11k PRS.

I thought that we all knew by now.  £11k = 60 Harley Bentons plus replacement pickups.

NelsonP

Musicwolf said:

NelsonP said:

That's helpful, thanks, but I really struggle to see the value in the Private Stock stuff though. I could be seduced by a £5k CS Strat or Les Paul but not an £11k PRS.

I thought that we all knew by now.  £11k = 60 Harley Bentons plus replacement pickups.

Good point!

chris78

NelsonP said:

chris78 said:

Hmm. 11k for a prs private stock or 11k for this https://www.peachguitars.com/fender-custom-shop-51-nocaster-dale-wilson-masterbuilt-heavy-relic-nocaster-blon.htm

Neither. For that money I'd take this...
https://www.coda-music.com/electric-guitars/gibson-murphy-lab-1961-es335-sixties-cherry-ultra-light-aged-sixties-cherry-120592.html

And this...
https://www.coda-music.com/electric-guitars/fender-custom-shop-59-strat-relic-chocolate-3-colour-sunburst-2-r113789.html

Of course, that’s a silly comparison. 

For less than the fender you could have this which will cover both bases

https://www.coda-music.com/electric-guitars/prs-pauls-guitar-faded-blue-jean-21656.html

And for the ridiculous money that the 335 is, you could buy this and have an acoustic built in

https://www.coda-music.com/electric-guitars/prs-hollowbody-ii-piezo-custom-colour-bronze-metallic-0330393.html

And in the case of the Hollowbody vs Gibson you’ll have more versatility, better playability and upper fret access, better pickups and better build quality for less money. Other than that, it’s close.

Of course, if you’ve not tried one, you wouldn’t know 

mikeyrob73

Not all PRS need to be blingy or have birds 

https://i.imgur.com/eY5OQAn.jpg

bacchanalian

NelsonP said:

bacchanalian said:

The car analogies don't work either.  Did Audi not kick Lancia's ass?

No, Lancia by a mile. Have a look at the constructors champs and 'event wins by car' here....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Rally_Championship_records

Oh, I see what you mean.
I was thinking of LeMans though.

My interest in motor sport only extends to Gran Turismo (playstation game)
What guitar would a Nissan Skyline be or a Suzuki Escudo?

guitarjack66

LastMantra said:

Funnily enough I don't actually mind the birds. As long as they're on an otherwise simple looking guitar. 

They are the only birds I'd attract with a PRS.

RaymondLin

A Skyline, aka Godzilla.."mid-range" car with super car killing performance.

Erm.....If American made guitars are the Super Cars then Godzilla, coming out of Japan, would be the Ibanez Jem. 

Philly_Q

mikeyrob73 said:

Not all PRS need to be blingy or have birds 

https://i.imgur.com/eY5OQAn.jpg

Agreed.

NelsonP

Philly_Q said:

mikeyrob73 said:

Not all PRS need to be blingy or have birds 

https://i.imgur.com/eY5OQAn.jpg

Agreed.

This is more like it. I like the Egyptian gold S2s too.

NelsonP

bacchanalian said:

NelsonP said:

bacchanalian said:

The car analogies don't work either.  Did Audi not kick Lancia's ass?

No, Lancia by a mile. Have a look at the constructors champs and 'event wins by car' here....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Rally_Championship_records

Oh, I see what you mean.
I was thinking of LeMans though.

My interest in motor sport only extends to Gran Turismo (playstation game)
What guitar would a Nissan Skyline be or a Suzuki Escudo?

Yeah, as above Skyline = Jem
Escudo? Hmm? Stenadberg Boden?

Alterlifeson

Philly_Q said:

mikeyrob73 said:

Not all PRS need to be blingy or have birds 

https://i.imgur.com/eY5OQAn.jpg

Agreed.

Wow, I was never enamoured by these when they came out but they are becoming more and more attractive. 

Really wish Gibson would take note and make double cut versions of their Juniors and Specials. A double cut Junior in their USA line up would be an instant buy for me.

Blaendulais

JunctionalUngulate said:

Blaendulais said:

Ungulate said:

Musical AF?

Regular tempo tho!!! 

Flutter with 2:1 block?

? Junctional

fretfinder

I went through a phase of liking PRSs and had a few over half a dozen years or so but all sold now. I had a CE24, a CE22, two McCartys inc a 10 top, three CU22s inc a 10 top, a McCarty Soapbar and a CU22 Standard. Plus a couple of SEs which I bought to see what all the fuss was about but I didn’t like them at all.

They were all very well made guitars (except one, see later) and very playable but the sound of the pickups never grabbed me. I put Mules in the McCarty 10 top and it transformed the guitar and sounded great but I still never bonded with it, as I always preferred to grab a Les Paul, LP Jr, Strat or Tele than a PRS. The 1995 Standard 22 stoptail was probably the best of the lot, lightweight with a beautiful one-piece mahogany body and a proper wide-fat neck with heavily rolled fingerboard edges, and I shouldn’t have sold it but should have changed the pickups instead. The Soapbar was also a lovely guitar but too heavy for my liking.

But with all this talk of perfection in the build quality, it’s worth pointing out that the neck on my Custom 22 10 top was slightly out of line with the bridge, so that the strings were too far over to the bass side the further you went up the neck. I didn’t notice it when I first picked the guitar up (in a lay-by on the A303, as you do) but it was a definite fault and it had to go. I don’t think the neck had warped sideways so can only assume that the bridge placement was very slightly too far to the bass side. Very unusual anyway.

LastMantra

Philly_Q said:

mikeyrob73 said:

Not all PRS need to be blingy or have birds 

https://i.imgur.com/eY5OQAn.jpg

Agreed.

Yes, that's more my kind of thing. 

And I'd say that does look better without the birdies. 

rlw

bacchanalian said:

NelsonP said:

bacchanalian said:

The car analogies don't work either.  Did Audi not kick Lancia's ass?

No, Lancia by a mile. Have a look at the constructors champs and 'event wins by car' here....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Rally_Championship_records

Oh, I see what you mean.
I was thinking of LeMans though.

My interest in motor sport only extends to Gran Turismo (playstation game)
What guitar would a Nissan Skyline be or a Suzuki Escudo?

Lancia never raced Audi at Le Mans.