Great guitar and so amazing results from de-compressing the guitars dynamic. its been fun.
SO HOW come there is such a huuuge difference?
Well the stock PRS bridge has very limited ( hardly any really) contact with the guitar and so when you change that level of contact ( as the Wudtone PRS LR trem does) , you completely change the dynamic response of the guitar . Anyone who likes PRS guitars may find it makes their PRS guitars a whole load more everything , but especially fatter, alive feel and way more fun. As usual with any Wudtone Hardware product, if you are not 100% blown away, delighted, return for full refund.
I've seen very little love for PRS guitars on here , well I say this, anyone who has kinda left PRS guitars, maybe because you have felt that they lack character, etc compared to Les Paul/ Strat, check this out.
Go grab a cu22 ( leave the cu24's the neck pickup is in the wrong place, (it isn't under the 24th fret harmonic, so no sweet harmonised tones ), they are available around for the 1- 1.2k mark and your unlikely to see much more depreciation at that. Try the Wudtone PRS LR trem upgrade and we guarantee it will be a game changer for you to perhaps enjoy a nicely made mass produced guitar finally with some good dynamics/character.
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1st gen plates,( as per the original Leo Fender patent) with a flat top surface only pivot by loosening the fixings (this allows the plate to slide up and down the fixings). This type of plate provides a desirable tone but causes tuning to be unstable. 2nd gen plates ( e.g. Fender 2 post, PRS grooved screw, and Ernie Ball Luke) use indentations in the fixings ( 2 or 6) so ‘float’ above the guitar body. Stable but the tone generated by guitars using these bridge plates is considered to be inferior to the vintage plates.
The Wudtone CP technology (Patent GB1314545.3) overcomes the problems of the two types of plate described above. It provides stable operation and a desirable tone through the use of: recesses formed around the fixings on the top side of the bridge plate; an arc on the underside of the bridge plate to ensure constant contact with the guitar body.
I agree with the basic premise of shifting harmonics etc , yet "a sweet spot" for neck pickup placement has been an established for a long time, no doubt as a result of many complex , harmonic, nodal, finger placement maths etc etc, along with the basic fact that the pickup is placed further forward. Had both cu24 and cu22 here, the sweeter harmonised tones are in the cu22 , indeed IMHO it makes for a much more versatile ( tonally) guitar.
http://forums.prsguitars.com/threads/demo-of-wudtone-bridge-versus-stock.16387/
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Re dynamics , it is a very different test and always hard to show the differences in audio samples, especially given the path has none of the bits that are driven by, dependant on and then delivering dynamics, e.g. valves, speaker cones, waves through air, microphone.
If you really want to know the full dynamic, tone benefit differences, sit by your valve amp, plug straight in, and play hard and soft etc
The video/ tests we did was the guitar into small Rivera combo and Plexi clone, 2 x12 v30's cab at the end, zoom h2 single point mic.
The only effect used into the amp was a slight add of diablo overdrive on the ACDC riff at the end. None on the before after bits
Be interesting to see what greiswig has to report back about the de-compression and girth to the tone, playing experience that is hard to hear with compressed audio , mp3 ( whereas the higher end stuff is more discernable) etc.
kind regards