| Hey burgs, how do you feel about the prs you've been rocking? I've seen you using it a lot lattely is it that good? does it compare to your LP? |
I love it. It's definitely the best built guitar I've ever owned and super versatile with the three pickups and switching options. It's a classy looking beast, too. Too classy for the likes of me!
I always associated PRS with the serious prog-rock stuff and took little notice of them for that reason (I'm not really a fan of that genre but I am partial to more than a little Opeth). But after a local distro put this one into my hands it became immediately apparent that I'd been depriving myself of something cool. So now I'm a 'PRS Artist' and proud of it.
The Studio won't do a perfect Strat, Tele or Les Paul, but it can park right up next to all of them and it plays like butter. The scale length is just between short and long and is very comfortable. The neck profile is what they call 'Pattern Thin' which seems to suit me perfectly. It has serious and tight bottom end due no doubt to its fixed neck and mahogany/maple construction. High notes are loud, proud and chimey and the tremolo stays in tune. It's quite light, too, which is great for someone like me with a fragile back. I can't fault it, really. Expensive? Yes, but I feel that you definitely get what you pay for in this case.
If I could change anything about it I would probably opt for less gloss and get them to do me the same guitar with a thin nitro finish on the body and an oiled neck, Charvel Custom Shop style. I'd extend the push/pull bridge pickup split facility (Tone knob) to the other middle and neck pickups as well. Aside from that, all I get is smiles of approval from my fellow band members and lusty looks from other guitarists in the audience and (presumably) Youtube. I'm happy!
Disclosure: I have mutual agreements with PRS, Smitty Custom Guitars, HIWATT UK, Laney Amplification, Providence, Free The Tone, Lava Cables, Voodoo Lab and several dozen pedal companies whom I've bartered videos-for-pedals with.
Youtube channels 1 & 2.