Matt
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I recently went into my local guitarshop and noticed they had a lot of USA PRS models in. Being friendly with the store owner, he let my try each one out (including one of the new Modern Eagles in a custom finish worth about £10,000- needless to say I was terrified of scratching it!). One in particular really stood out to me and it was ironically the cheapest of them, a Standard 22 in a Satin finish with a small dint in one of the horns that you can barely notice. Very understated compared to most of the others which their quilted maple glossy tops. This one had a beautiful resonance and fantastic sound and the satin finish made the neck unbelievable playable.
I went home and it played on my mind all night. So, doing something I shall probably regret financially but shall thank myself for emotionally, I went and traded in an old epiphone dot I never used as a deposit and paid of the rest straight away. And boy am I happy:
The sound quality and playability are flat out amazing. The Dragon IIs sound very very nice clean (I used to hate humbuckers clean until I had this) and dirty, being a slab of mahogony with humbuckers and a set neck, it just screams. It comes with the 5 way rotary switch (a little pain) but the coil tapped sounds (all noiseless) are really nice and very useable.
A lot of people complain saying that PRS guitars don't sound distinctive enough, but I think that is more because people are so used to hearing a strat/tele/les paul and that anything different is not what they consider a quintessential guitar tone. PRS guitars have their own voice which I can say sounds pretty darn awesome
Matt :rockya
I went home and it played on my mind all night. So, doing something I shall probably regret financially but shall thank myself for emotionally, I went and traded in an old epiphone dot I never used as a deposit and paid of the rest straight away. And boy am I happy:
The sound quality and playability are flat out amazing. The Dragon IIs sound very very nice clean (I used to hate humbuckers clean until I had this) and dirty, being a slab of mahogony with humbuckers and a set neck, it just screams. It comes with the 5 way rotary switch (a little pain) but the coil tapped sounds (all noiseless) are really nice and very useable.
A lot of people complain saying that PRS guitars don't sound distinctive enough, but I think that is more because people are so used to hearing a strat/tele/les paul and that anything different is not what they consider a quintessential guitar tone. PRS guitars have their own voice which I can say sounds pretty darn awesome
Matt :rockya
