MY TRUTH on PRS GUITARS
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I'm a 24 year old bedroom player. Been playing for a little over 2 years now. I started on cheap cliche beginner guitars like a Dean Vendetta, a $250 Epi Les Paul, etc. When I got serious I decided to go with a PRS. And keep in mind, I bought the absolute CHEAPEST guitar they make, an SE Standard 24 at $500. That was about a year and a half ago and It ended up being my sole electric guitar after selling the rest. It's just amazing in every aspect. I just bought my second PRS, the SE Mira. And same thing, it's just amazing right out of the box. To me, PRS is more than a guitar. It's a feeling. You FEEL them whenever you play them. For any beginner that wants to get serious and get a QUALITY guitar, go with PRS' SE line. You will not be disappointed.
The fret boards are good, but since your still very young i won't come down on you too hard 😂 they have a tone that can sound like Gibson but not quite a strat, not enough twang for serious fender players, and blues ppl, which is a lot of guitarist. The playability of a prs will spoil you when you switch, its like going from 8s to 11s if you play other forms of music that are not distorted.
@@shable1436 I'm confused as to what you mean by the fretboard are good, but I'm young so you won't come down on me too hard??? What are you talking about? I'm a grown man for one, and I never said the fretboards WERENT good. Lol. Please elaborate, bud.
@@backfire_station shhh let the condescending old man keep his pride. he’s just salty he doesn’t own a prs
@@backfire_station im an old timer ..51 years old and i bought my first prs se 24 standard most likely like the one you bought. .i gave 500 for my vintage cherry..i bought it at the first of this year and I havent regreted it once..even the floating trem keeps good tune ..at first it wasnt the best but after a couple hundred dive bombs the springs broke in very well ..i upgraded the nut to a tusk grafite nut and its all good but i studied along time on what and which guitar to buy and it truly be an investment in the long run too..im glad to hear from the guy in the video that prs' hold there value but id say unless my electricity was getting cut off or worse ill never sell it..ive played many many covid hours and days and months on it and im attached now...plus i just bought a new Boss Katana 50 mk 2 which it sounds frickin awesome through. .damn youngblood didnt mean to write a story on your comment..im twice your ahe but sounds like we have good taste in picking a good guitar...shred on !!
Agreed..however, i love my Epi. Modern..plays like a dream..well made too.
7:05 I'm sure Paul cares about his employees, but beyond that, he is a charismatic (if sometimes abrasive) leader who surely inspires his team. Also, he has managed to keep a "boutique-aura" for his brand, despite growing the business in a big way. He is not unlike Steve Jobs, in some respects.
Leon Todd convinced me that PRS makes great guitars. You’ve convinced me that PRS is a great guitar company.
thank you! BTW - Love Leon Todd's channel! Great content!
Love my se custom 22. I dont have a ton of money and this is by far my pride and joy.
I totally agree. I just got mine this morning.
this makes me so proud to own an SE. i love it
Lovely delivery, I appreciate your articulate insights into the guitars (and some life lessons). Cheers!
Thank you for your insights!
PRS is truly a company that cares about its people and even during the pandemic they have released a bunch of videos of the employees playing and you can see even throughout the company they are people who love what they do and where they do it... Even those who purchase a PRS in talking to them they feel like they have bought more than a guitar... I agree with the comment that PRS is like the Apple Inc. of guitars as Paul is as referred to as the mad scientist but, I see it as someone who want to make a next level instrument and who follows his passions to make things better not only in the music industry but, in all his ventures... His passion and caring come through not only when he is in the spotlight but, all the people who are out there who speak about PRS. The standards of all their instruments from the top tier to the entry level has lots of hands touching the guitars and which as many say more hands and more eyes on the product allow for more quality control... A brand which has earned its place in the market through quality, caring, passion, and pride... I had my first experience playing PRS guitars a few weeks ago at GC and will be saving to get one and it is funny how the feel of the instrument is so different than others and as has happened to us all we go in looking at something and find something different I am now looking toward the Mira as I feel like I bonded with that but, want to give the 22 a shot as well before I make a purchase... The Custom 24 SE is what I went to look at and tried what they had in stock... Amazing how that work with guitars...
I spoke with a PRS employee a year or two ago who does some of their QC. He raved about the standards Paul expects on their guitars and how well the employees truly get treated. In our discussion I revealed how much of a Santana fan I am and he assured me their SE model is no slouch compared to their $5000 Santana model. I would never expect to hear that from a Gibson employee, nor would I ever believe it either. This was at a Cancer Charity event in Delaware and we probably traded stories for about 2 hours lol. I haven't gotten the Santana SE yet but it IS on my list, I did manage to pick up an older SE245 though and have been blown away at it's quality and sound!
This was a great video!! Thank you for making it happen 🤘
I gotta say PRS guitars inspire me in a way others don’t. I have a Strat and Les Paul, they’re great. Nearly PRS I had at my old guitar store inspired me and made me want to play. I love them. I got my dream Blue McCarty, I can’t imagine being any happier with any other guitar.
I alway enjoy listening to your perspective. I own PRS, Gibson, Fender and appreciate each builders approach to making their guitars. Sometimes even the most subtle differences provide a unique experience when playing.
Thank you!
Your attitude always brightens my day thank you TK for being awesome 🤘🏻🤘🏻
love my prs guitars !! good video !!
I have two SE’s, an 245 single cut, and an custom 24. Love them both!! I have an 24-08 on hold when they come back in stock. Can not wait! Yes, PRS are great guitars! From the SE standard on up!
I have 20 electric guitars, 80% of them are, high end , custom shop, and boutique guitars. I love all my guitars, they each have a soul of their own. However 4 of them are PRS guitars, and while they all inspire me to play to their strengths I find that the PRS guitars have the power to change me when I play them. Just something magical about the freedom to play that a PRS allows you to have. On a personal note, I’ve seen several of your video’s before and enjoyed them all, but this one is by far the best one yet.
Time to subscribe.....
I have 3 se models
The 277 baritone
The zach Myers sig (what a guitar)
And the mark Holcomb sig (also an amazing guitar)
I’m fascinated and so amazed by Paul’s work and his commitment to his people during difficult times. I heard him in an interview once say something to the effect of “ what’s the point in being rich if your going to horde your money and let your staff who helped get you there suffer when times are bad”. That sold me on the brand forever!
Their Kestrel and Kingfisher basses are sooooooooo under rated! Do not own one, but have played them. Would love to add one to the stable!
Going on 3-4 months playing guitar, I really enjoyed this video!
I’m one of PRS’s first customers, and agree with everything in this video. Absolutely love my PRS’s. (custom 24 all the time!)
Dude, you’re a class act all the way. I just found out about you in the last 2-3 years. You are the first person I heard call The Community “The Community”. I am so glad to have you around and I admire the pride you take in what you do and your accomplishments.
Love PRS nice vid brother!
Core Custom 24 for TTK in 2020! I absolute love mine and it was a dream come true when I bought it last year as it was the #1 guitar I always wanted since I start playing guitar 20 years ago.
Having had a chance to hang with Paul on a couple of occasions as well as Jack Higginbotham, I totally agree. This is a company that cares about its customers!
Oh and I own the Custom 24- in fact I bought it at ExP PRS when I met you. And even better - that particular guitar was featured in one of Tyler’s videos when he asked Phil to pick out the perfect 24 and he went straight to my guitar. So it’s internet famous as well!
Yes, my good brother - I love my 6 PRS guitars...they are made with precision and made with love. No others compare.
Great vid. I’ve fallen in love with PRS guitars way back in the late ‘80’s when I saw and heard Chris Poland playing them . I own both core and se models and both category of instrument are excellent. Of course the core are better in materials used, build quality and playability, but the SE’s are still an excellent choice for any budget. They are built well and play great. They put the PRS Experience in anyone’s hands.I have an obsession with PRS guitars..🤘🤘
Got my first PRS of my own recently after borrow my friends early 2000's se. Picked up a s2 custom 24...love it...my next prs will be something similar to that DW ce... beautiful!!
My prs collection is growing by the year. I now have 8 from American cores, to CE, to s2 and several imports. They are all fantastic.
To just a copperhead PRS Paul's guitar and it is the pride of my collection.
This means a lot coming from someone who has as many options as you do & you are NOT a snob about it. If it works... it works; no goofy talk about things that do not really matter to a player who just wants to play.
I'm new to owning a prs se, been playing for years and very particular in how I like a guitar to play. My experience is that the Prs Se comes set up with a level of care that you would only expect on very very high end guitars. Knowing you can trust them with £500 ish to give you that level of excellence makes trusting them with thousands of pounds of your money a no brainer. I'm completely sold on this brand now.
Great take on PRS as usual. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
I also prefer the Custom 22 over the Custom 24. Interesting question regarding whether or not Paul designed some of these things due to demand. If I had to guess, a lot of these guys who have been in the business for decades (John Suhr, Grover Jackson, Roger Sadowsky, Paul Reed Smith etc) seem like they have always had a drive to improve upon things they didn’t like about existing designs while retaining the things that they felt worked.
Interesting perspective. I'm a PRS fan, so I really enjoyed hearing your thoughts. I own one of the "original" PRS strats -- a 1992 EG4, and a Santana SE. Both are amazing for different reasons that I won't bore you with! Thanks for your good work.
I bought a '92 custom 24 10 top new. Still my #1 guitar. Love PRS!
Had dozens of Gibson LPS,SGs,,335s,1960 345 ;for 35 years,and when I played a 2000 PRS, Hollywood 1 spruce top,fell in love with,then I played a CE 22 again fell in love,I only play PRS.
Great video, I had 2 Se 245’s and the Marty Friedman model (wish I still had it! ) they were all consistent in build quality, NO PROBLEMS! that is a great testament to them.
I waited a long time to upgrade from my first guitar(an acoustic) to my first electric. Had my eyes set on an s2 vela from the first time I felt it in my hands. And was it worth wait? 1000000% yes it was. It's one of their simpler models and yet every last detail: from the finish, to the carve of the body, to the stability of the tuners and the bridge, to the feel of the neck (I know this one is all preference but still), to the balance between the two very totally different pickups. Is nothing short of perfect. It's crazy how big of an impact the little details make when they're made precisely as they need to be. In my experience it's never too much or too little with prs guitars. First thing that comes to my mind is the carve on the body, it gives the guitar an acoustic almost airy resonant sound even when unplugged. I firmly believe that if that carve where to be even slightly adjusted in either direction the vela would lose that trait that I find to make it so special. Having now owned it for a little over a year, I can't give the guitar justice when describing just how much inspiration it's given my playing. I really do feel like it's an underlooked model of theirs because it's doesn't have all the bells and whistles such as a custom 24 which like you said is their flagship. It's a couple slabs of wood along with some pickups and wiring. It's the attention to detail that makes it unique. It's almost like everything the fender telecaster should be in theory but exponentially better designed. No thrills, just world class design, world class craftsmanship, and the upmost respect for the craft coming together to make something that could and probably should be ordinary, into nothing short of extraordinary. If you couldn't tell my vela holds a special place in my heart and I can't wait until the day I can add another prs to the family!
PRS outclasses most. Gibson is clamoring to wipe all of the mud off of their faces. Fender is Fender, they really haven't changed. PRS took everything people love about "good" Gibsons and Fenders and combined them. Music Man also makes some of the best guitars on the market.
Coincidentally a fender (non guitar version) is designed to keep mud from flying off the tire and into the air perhaps preventing someone from getting hit in the face with mud.
@@paulyguitary7651 ... don't quit your day job.
@@paulyguitary7651 LOL!!! Cars & Guitars go so frickin’ well together. You have a bitchin’ sense of humor. Never loose that, it truly is the spice of life!!!
Prs is the prettiest all day
WELL spoken Lou! \m/
Nice Commentary on PRS Louis. I agree with a lot of your points you made about the company. I own 2 PRS Guitars a 245 and a 277. Peace Louis.
I really hope they eventually release an SE variant of the Silver Sky.
They just leaked news on the SE silver sky today. Seems its in the making.
@@kingfisher7960 No way! Nice!
for peasants like you!
@@RUARI-mi1yt says the random loser on yt
It's out now!
Suhr did make an entry level line when Guthrie was working with them. The guitar line was called Rasmus. Suhr saw that they were not making enough money so they discontinued the line. But if I remember correctly they do still have some of the Rasmus guitars serial numbers in there database.
I completely agree with your preference for a CU22 over the CU24. All my PRSi are 22 frets. It's all I need.
Great video TTK!
Another reason for me to save up for SE, the more I learn about these guitars the more I want one
I spent 40 years playing other brands. I got an SE Soapbar as a backup guitar. It totally outplayed the G guitar I had played for 25 years, through 2 fret jobs and a fingerboard planing, and could never keep in tune, even though it was a stop tail. My last non- PRS guitar is for sale on eBay. I play in tune and stay in tune. I still have the SE, and I go through S2 to Core. At very level I have high quality instruments that I won’t sell.
The vast majority of people I know that own a PRS guitar speak highly of them. There is a reason for their success and you did a great summary.
After wanting a PRS for 20 years, I finally bought an SE 24 Custom; had to wait until LEFTY models came out and glad I did.
I love my PRS S2. Plays and sounds great. Great company in my opinion.
I too love my American Soloists and my American PRS CE24/standard 24s... I am not sure that I'd agree on high dollar PRS guitars holding their value as well as some other brands but they are certainly still desirable.
"The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth"! Very well said TT. I share you sentiments completely. I am in the midst of buying a guitar for the first time in, oh, 30 years and of course started out looking at Gretsch, Gibson and Fender and came across PRS, whom I admittedly knew nothing about. The more I researched them the more I liked what I saw and read. Truthfully, I have yet to hold one in my hands but as soon as I can I will definitely give them a try. Thanks for your opinions on PRS and looking forward to more from you. I have now subscribed! Cheers!
I love my prs singlecut. Can't wait to get a custom 24
John Mayer’s super eagle that he plays with Dead and Company has some of the sweetest tones i have ever heard. He plays that guitar with wild ,free flowing ideas and that guitar conveys it beautifully.🎸🔥
Owned 2 core custom 24s at different times over the last 20 years, Both were excellent.
TTK...I REALLY liked this video. You are totally spot on in your analysis of PRS as a company and their products. I would like to add that while I don't own a silver sky, I do own a 594 and a DC3. Although they are gibson/fender-esque respectively, they are both entirely their own thing at the same time. They don't replace my gibsons and fenders, they simply offer a similar aesthetic but sonically different alternative to them.
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fabulous viewpoint my friend I totally agree, i've been a PRS fan since 1990.. though I did chuckle with the "starving musician's like me" comment with all that kit behind you.. fabulous genuine channel, I take my hat of to you sir..
Thank you so much for your fantastic Honesty about PRS Guitars. I’m turning 63 in February 2021 and have been saving for months to get my first electric. I got the CE 24 and can’t wait or it to get here Friday. After watching this I hope I didn’t make a big mistake on getting the 24 and not a 22. However the CE doesn’t come in a 22 fret anymore. Is there that much difference that I won’t be happy in you opinion. I love your mannerisms and your explanations on all your videos. I’m just an old guy fixing to retire after 40 years at the same job. Crazy I know but I’ll have the time now to start to learn how to play better than just a couple of songs on a cheep hard to play acoustic. I touched many a new guitar over the last year trying to decide Fender Gibson but always coming back to the PRS CE. Felt and sounded best to me. I sure hope I made the right decision. Keep your videos coming please. I wish you had a beginner video would be fantastic! But I know that would probably take to much of your time. Like I said just getting started here but I can tell you know your stuff and are very respectable and I believe others could learn well from you!
Thank you sir!
Respectfully!
Chris
Ive owned $4000.00 ESP customs (2) and Ibanez and sold them in 2003. I now only buy PRS. I own 7 and they are different and all worth it. Some are core, some are SE. They are beautiful!
I own a Custom 22 core, a Wood Library CU24 and two Tremonti SE’s and love them all!!!
Great vid TK. Good food for thought. & yes 22, so these old hands won't be tempted to go 23, 24.
ive had several core PRS guitars and ultimately sold them all. my #1 guitar of all time is my PRS SE Hollowbody standard.
if they made a hollow-body core that was laminate instead of carved wood , i would buy it in a heartbeat. but for now. im rocking the SE
I own 2 Custom 24's and they are light years ahead of both Gibson and Fender in fit, finish, and playability. I've owned all 3 and just recently purchased the PRS's. PRS feels better in the hands and look amazing!
I had a custom 24 in black gold wrap I love it I sold it and bought a Neal schon prs 14 in charcoal and love that 2 prs are outstanding for sure
Great video, I loved the whole topic
on PRS , I was a PRS basher for a long time, it was jealousy, they were beautiful and expensive, out of my league like a beautiful woman I couldn’t have, so I became a hater,and then I played an SE , then a CE and final ya custom 24, and watched may interviews with Paul and realized how special the guitars and the company were, and I finally came out of the closet , I haven’t purchased one yet I’m looking, money is still tight , but I may just sell a few guitars to have one PRS , I’m thinking whale blue fade or orange tiger thanks Tone K
I think that the Paul's goal is to make a great guitar, to make the player confortable so he/she can get the most out of the instrument, the 594 and Silver Sky are two great examples of that achievement, alongside the custom 24, the DGT, CE24 and all the others
I've been coveting a PRS Guitar for more than ten years, but for whatever reason I never bought one. That changed this week. My birthday was last week and I treated myself to a SE Standard 24, which is arriving from UPS this morning. I am so excited to get this bad boy in my hands I feel like a kid on Christmas morning. It's perfect that it's Thanksgiving weekend too... I'll have LOTS of time to just love all over it. I thought long and hard over the decision to go 24 or 22 frets, and ultimately I went 24 simply because I've never owned a 24 fret guitar, but I've had MANY experiences jamming when I wished I had just a few more notes... now I will have those notes. PRS makes fantastically consistent instruments. I've never picked up a PRS and been disappointed. Invariably, I come away impressed and somewhat in awe. I'm so happy to be part of the PRS family and plan to do my own video next week about my experience buying a USED PRS. Excellent video. Liked and subbed. Keep up the good work.
Thank you for your opinion. Interesting take on PRS's company culture! My local music store presented me with two options for versatility. A PRS Custom SE 24 and a Schecter C6 FR Pro. My spotify playlist would suggest to me to head over to Schecter (love the satin finish on the neck - Not so sure that I want a Floyd Rose bridge) and I'm concerned that whenever I get into a bluesy type of mood that I won't be able to sound anything decent with those driven pickups. Thoughts on my dilema?
Spot on...
PRS is pure class 👌 Love em
Agree with you on the Custom 24 vs 22. Of course, I'm biased...I have a Custom 22 - semi-hollow. Enjoyed the vid. Thanks!
I have a Custom 24. The most expensive guitar I have ever owned. After 20 years it’s the one I play 90% of the time. I love it.
Same here with my custom 22
Give it a year and you’ll be seeing your core guitars climbing. We are going to witness the biggest price increase in lower range Asian made guitars that we have ever seen. This along with prices of new instruments going up in general are going to make high end used guitars become in demand. We have been experiencing a decade slump due to all the low cost Asian guitars that kept getting higher and higher in quality. Now with the “reset” all these foreign products are going to be increasing sharply in price. Overall a bad thing, but probably good for those of us with guitars made of “real” and quality exotic woods that we only paid a few grand.
I bet I will (if I wanted to) be able to sell my 10 Top Flame maple with quality mahogany body, solid rosewood neck with hard, hard super black ebony fretboard CU24 for the $3900 I paid and probably more as people realize getting real old growth exotic wood is impossible or going to cost closer to twice that or more.
@@AudioAtmos I paid $3000 for mine in 2001 I think. It’s not a 10 top but it’s a beautiful top. It’s a mahogany body with a mahogany neck and Ebony fretboard And the bird inlays. It has a really pretty book matched flame maple top. Crimson Sunburst. I don’t know what it’s worth now but I’m 62 years old working towards retirement. I’ll never sell it. My son will end up inheriting this one.
@@klascojoe
Sounds beautiful! There a lot of really great non 10 tops from that time period. I have a 2001 McCarty, also. I bet your ebony board is nice. We won’t be seeing much hard fully black ebony anymore. They say there’s no difference, but I think there’s something about the middle wood all black ebony. I’m 56 and I won’t be selling either. That McCarty was the most expensive guitar too at that point and really the first guitar besides my 1981 Ibanez AR50. Which was actually a really nice guitar and only $500 in 1981.
I have to apologize and ask forgiveness for my late night YT commenting, but I’m just realizing my OP was suppose to be somewhere else.🤦♂️ I thought I was commenting to one of the posts about their PRSi not holding their value.
Oh well, it was good to hear about your PRS. If you thought my comment was sort of out of context…well it was. Anyway, I’ll leave it here so to not make things even more confusing. Have a good night.✌️
Hey brother. Ok. I have a les paul, love it, I reworked the frets myself, lowered the action. Other than that it’s stock, plays great, sounds like a les paul should. I use in my recordings when I have to have that Les Paul grit. I also have a fender jag body HSS... I love that guitar also when I have to have that single coil ring. But my other guitar that I use most of the time as a custom 24. SE. Couldn’t afford the flag ship either. But I got a Tell you, The guitar plays like butter, didnt need to touch a thing on it perfectly set up, and with the coil splits, I can get great single coil tone, the 1585 pickups are spectacular. I can damn near get that Les Paul crunch when I need it, my fender ring when I need it, but most of all it has that glorious Paul Reed Smith play ability and sound and it is my go to in any live situation most times. I love that guitar. Do I want to silver sky sure. But I love my SE.
I love PRS because Paul himself is a mad scientist and their guitars just get better and better with each tweak that they do. Gibson has built a legend based on a 5 year window in the late 50’s in which they made the best guitars ever. The LP’s after that paled in comparison for whatever reason. I’d rather buy a new custom 24 than an older one because they’ve made changes for the better, especially their pickups and finishes.
great video
Great video, yes they are just plain quality. BTW Waring rhymes with caring. Local guy here in NC now living in Nashville.
Thanks for this ! I love my new PRS SE Hollowbody! what a well made guitar for under $1,000 with case too plays like a dream!
I agree with you on the 22 vs 24. I have my eye on a Custom 22 Autumn Sky 10 top and hopefully that will be my next purchase. There's just something about the 85/15 pickups I totally love. Great video!
Right on
My past two releases on my channel (May 2020 and, prior, May 2019) feature two PRS employee guitars, a PRS Santana MD and, prior year's performance release, a PRS Swamp Ash. On average, the two releases are a tad under an hour of content each, starting with clean tones and progressing to hard / heavy to not quite metal tones. I consider these releases to be tone reports on the respective guitars (note that the PRS Santana MD features an on-board/on-guitar circuitry that takes two 9 volt batteries - straight from the Maryland factory that way).
My next release I am working on (slated for 2021) features PRS SE EG guitars (2000's era guitars from Korea) and a 22-fret SE standard in cherry satin finish (I really like these satin finishes). The SE guitars are great platforms for modification (these SEs are also employee guitars).
I do like the 25-inch scale length over 24.x (company A) and 25.x (company B), which is a better balance between spacing down by the nut to the spacing up by the pickups.
As a new player, I looked seriously at the Laguna, Mexican Fender, Epiphone Les Paul, Schechter, and Ibenez Art. But I could not get my mind off of the PRS Se. It just felt more complete, more well built and no compromise that I could feel as a newbie. Despite the slight extra cost, when it came time to pull the trigger I chose the very slightly used PRS SE Tremonti hardtail. I have never regretted it.
Rock On Tone King!
Hey TK, really appreciate your opinion and am a PRS lover myself. I own a core cuatom 24 and it is my favoritw player in my collection. I also own Gibsons and Fenders. Based on my experience with the custom 24, I want to see how they innovate on the LP and strat models which is why I want a silversky and McCarty 594. Hoepfully I'll get to experience that soon. Till then, keep rockin' lml
A PRS with a floyd and a Solar are top 2 on my bucket list. Waiting for my 27 fret Jackson Wildcard to arrive before I blow more money.
TTK...I agree 100%...I grew up playing 22 frets and that is what I am comfortable with...I have a ce 22 and it is THE best playing guitar I own...it plays like butter and does everything perfectly...it’s freakin reliable and just plain works!!!!
I absolutely LOVE PRS guitars. While I've never owned a Core I will definitely get a Core one day. But I must say, the SE Custom I have is simply wonderful. It is far superior to anything Gibson or Fender currently offer at ANY price. It plays, sounds and looks incredible. I've been a fan of PRS guitars since I first played one at a shop in Los Angeles in 1987. I simply could not believe the quality of this guitar. I never played, looked upon, or heard a guitar that sounded so amazing right out of the box. The SE I own really brings me back to that magical moment when I first played a PRS three thirty-four years ago every time I pick it up. My next guitar will also be a PRS SE model, the Mira. Can't wait to add it to my guitarsenal. Rock on.
I gave my wife my 2001 PRS Santana SE. She wants to learn guitar and since I have a 5 guitar limit I now can but a PRS SE Mira. Love my 2 Schecter's too!
Howard Leese (Bad Company , Heart & others) uses Dragon & Private Stock PRS guitars live.
I have two PRS SE guitars - Paul's and Santana - and I love them dearly. I have other guitars all good but for some reason PRS have it.
Very very well said. I have a PRS Custom 24 SE variant and freakin love it. For the money paid for it for sure is punching well above it’s weight in the price range from other said brands. I thought first thing I would have to do is change the pickups straight away like if I had bought a Squier or an Epiphone or something like that. In the other brands mentioned replacing pickups would definitely be the first thing I would do as well as the potentiometers simply because they mostly all sound weak or shitty from the factory. That SE PRS gives me exactly what I need from it’s pickups and the non locking bar even stays in tune. And this makes me all the more likely to start saving up for one of the Flagship models simply because of my experience with their budget line of instruments. Just my truth.
Love my CE DW and all my PRS’
I have respect for this video
Bro...I've had a Paul Reed 22 fret since '04 and I love it. I tried an SE 24 for a month and returned it
I love PRS. They are amazing at what they do. I admire and respect Paul and his mindset. My Custom 24 limited edition is an amazing instrument.
I bought the first of the SE guitars over 20 years ago, a trans black Santana hardtail............It is still as good as the day that I bought it! It gets used as much as my American made Custom 24!! Quality from the ground up!
Love my custom 24 Floyd n Archon
I went full 180 on PRS precisely because of how they treat people I like and respect like you.
I always saw them as a gaudy overpriced guitar, but was encouraged to try them because of how Paul has treated some of my favorite content creators.
After giving a core a shot, I am convinced they're the only guitar I would spend over $3k on.
Gaudy and overpriced is a questionable assessment at the introductory level. Granted, their private stock and library collection pieces are beyond the reach of most musicians, but PRS offers musicians value-driven alternatives that Gibson does not, or will not, provide. And that includes its Epiphone line. (Pickup an Epiphone and examine the quality difference from any off-the-shelf PRS. Rather ironic, considering that Epiphone is also made overseas.)
I’m a PRS fan. Started w the Custom 24. Love it! While I was weirdly disappointed by their LP & Strat variants, I now have a Thinline (SG variant) and a 594 on the way. I feel lucky for sure but, like you, I do wonder Paul’s take on those variants from a “principle” perspective.
I have a PRS Custom 22 with the Piezo in it. It is by far my favorite guitar to play and to gig with. Mr. Paul Reed Smith, I love this guitar! Thank you for building such a wonder instrument!! #PRS #prscustom22
I love my custom 24 anniversary model and seriously wanting a Fiora!
I wish prs made an affordable flatter fretboard radius neck with jumbo frets.
I will be ordering my first PRS soon.
They’ve been making beautiful guitars but its only now that I can afford one.
My favourite recorded guitar tone came out of a PRS.
Jennifer Turner on Natalie Merchant’s Tigerlily album.
And you should get a custom 24, I love mine, best playing and sounding guitar I've had since my 62 SG
Same here. Can’t beat em. My Les Paul and Tele stay parked most of the time.