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| Re: Paul Reed Smith guitars [message #340241 is a reply to message #340235 ] |
Sat, 10 May 2008 11:29   |
 Duhduh
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| littlehat wrote on Sat, 10 May 2008 11:51 |
PRSs are the Taylors of electric guitars.
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Yeah, Im not a fan of EITHER of those brands. And I have played 1,000's of both - literally.
I have to say, though. The bolt-on PRS's are much better to me than the set necks.
Go figure.
"Hey, I'm not Jesus Christ, I can't turn water into wine. The best I can do is turn beer into urine." - Zakk Wylde
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| Re: Paul Reed Smith guitars [message #340242 is a reply to message #340238 ] |
Sat, 10 May 2008 11:33 |
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Personally, I don't think I would ever consider owning one, because they're not my cup of tea. But there's no denying that they make a nice instrument.
"Hartley's Law of Inverse Tonality states that the worse the tone, the more indestructable the amp." -tarmadilo
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| Re: Paul Reed Smith guitars [message #340256 is a reply to message #340191 ] |
Sat, 10 May 2008 12:59 |
RSettee
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| SpiderM69 wrote on Fri, 09 May 2008 22:00 |
I don't own one, but have played them, including a friend's $35,000 PRS.
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35 grand!!!!? My god, you can still get some vintage Gibsons for that and well under that price.
PRS are okay, but I generally agree with you, JJ (and I was waiting for your next rant for awhile, man!). I think that it's branding though...think of who plays them. Chad Nickelback? Santana, post 1972/1973? No thanks! The only guy that plays them that I really like is Dave Navarro. They seem to otherwise be a badge of "ultra new" guitar gods like Mark Tremonti or whoever, like the type that like Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifiers, for example. I'm sure that i'm thinking of one of my favorite players that play them that i'm forgetting about, but none of them, to my knowledge, rely on the PRS, anyways.
The true toilet guitar:
Ryan Settee,
Instrospection Records
http://www.myspace.com/highwattelectrocutions
"Wickedly pulsing washes and acoustic jangles lead to gorgeous clean tones and winsome noodling. The denoument feels indefinite, woozy, like waking up from a strange dream."--Cosmo Lee, All Music Guide
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| Re: Paul Reed Smith guitars [message #340261 is a reply to message #340256 ] |
Sat, 10 May 2008 13:40 |
John Ivan
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This stuff is all pretty funny.. I could, with out a doubt, play my PRS through a POD and no one hear, not one of you, would say "hey, that's a PRS through a POD."
I'll tell ya, those ??? brand??? cables are bright man..I can hear them a mile away..
I really almost don't care what ya hand me.. I really don't.. 99.9999999% of all tone, on every instrument, comes from the hand..
The guitar I choose means very little to me, actually.
Imagine that..
Ivan................
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| Re: Paul Reed Smith guitars [message #340268 is a reply to message #340187 ] |
Sat, 10 May 2008 14:50 |
Steve Hudson
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I've owned quite a few PRSs in my time but only one remains: one of the first 100 McCartys built that had no push-pull pot and were signed by Ted McCarty. It's a great sounding guitar - big, fat, no shrillness on the top end. One of my favorite clean neck humbucker sounds. And when David Grissom plays one, it sounds just like him.
I did have the good fortune of tracking a pretty heavy guitar with a CE-24 (bolt-on neck) with Dragon pickups through a '72 Marshall 20-watt mini-stack as the PA-20 head caught fire. Best tone I ever got out of that PRS.
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
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| Re: Paul Reed Smith guitars [message #340269 is a reply to message #340263 ] |
Sat, 10 May 2008 14:55 |
RSettee
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| SpiderM69 wrote on Sat, 10 May 2008 13:49 |
| RSettee wrote on Sat, 10 May 2008 10:59 |
| SpiderM69 wrote on Fri, 09 May 2008 22:00 |
I don't own one, but have played them, including a friend's $35,000 PRS.
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35 grand!!!!? My god, you can still get some vintage Gibsons for that and well under that price.
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It's a long story, but had I known beforehand I probably would've advised him against it. That's nowhere near what he paid, that's what it was later appraised at (had all sorts of fancy inlay stuff)
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Hahaa....last time I checked, fancy inlays never made me a better player. Or maybe they do? I could be totally missing out on something great here....
Ryan Settee,
Instrospection Records
http://www.myspace.com/highwattelectrocutions
"Wickedly pulsing washes and acoustic jangles lead to gorgeous clean tones and winsome noodling. The denoument feels indefinite, woozy, like waking up from a strange dream."--Cosmo Lee, All Music Guide
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| Re: Paul Reed Smith guitars [message #340284 is a reply to message #340187 ] |
Sat, 10 May 2008 17:33 |
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Personally, I just can't take that head stock.
PRS...the "Steely Dan of Guitars."
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| Re: Paul Reed Smith guitars [message #340296 is a reply to message #340261 ] |
Sat, 10 May 2008 19:05 |
RSettee
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| John Ivan wrote on Sat, 10 May 2008 13:40 |
This stuff is all pretty funny.. I could, with out a doubt, play my PRS through a POD and no one hear, not one of you, would say "hey, that's a PRS through a POD."
I'll tell ya, those ??? brand??? cables are bright man..I can hear them a mile away..
I really almost don't care what ya hand me.. I really don't.. 99.9999999% of all tone, on every instrument, comes from the hand..
The guitar I choose means very little to me, actually.
Imagine that..
Ivan................
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Probably--I don't think that the tone is bad, but it's the feel and the look of them that I don't like. Let's face it, most people buy guitars to look like someone else, or because someone else plays them. Music equipment, unfortunately, is usually equated with who plays it.
Ryan Settee,
Instrospection Records
http://www.myspace.com/highwattelectrocutions
"Wickedly pulsing washes and acoustic jangles lead to gorgeous clean tones and winsome noodling. The denoument feels indefinite, woozy, like waking up from a strange dream."--Cosmo Lee, All Music Guide
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