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Published on 12/08/02 at 15:00I ordered this through Musiciansfriend.com for 399.99 brand new. After reading a good amount of reviews and knowing that I had a budget, I decided on this two humbucker guitar without even playing it, mostly because the guitar store in my city did not carry it.
It was completely worth the money I payed for . The bridge pickup gives you good Jimmy Page type tone set with distortion, even some early Eric Clapton type Cream tones when set on clean. By the way I play it through a Marshall Valvestate Amp (great product as well). The neck pickup is smooth too. You can coax clean Jimmi Hendrix strat style sounds and when set on completely clean its like butter man. I use a wang bar too and the guitar stays in tune well as long as you dont do huge dive bombs on it.
The only thing I didn't like was that since it was a lower price PRS they had to sacrifice on some of the apointments. My only problem is that my bridge saddles are starting to turn brown, but those can always be replaced.
The tuners are fabulous, finish is excellent, it colore black, like i said the only set back so far is the bridge.
Bottom line its a great guitar, if it were stollen I would feel very angry and try to find a way to replace it. The tone is great, finish is good, neck is smooth and it plays well. Remember the search for tone lies within, the instrument and equipment help but everybody is different. By the way if you try hard enough you can even get it to sound like Carlos Santana himself. Im only putting 4 stars because nothing is perfect.
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It was completely worth the money I payed for . The bridge pickup gives you good Jimmy Page type tone set with distortion, even some early Eric Clapton type Cream tones when set on clean. By the way I play it through a Marshall Valvestate Amp (great product as well). The neck pickup is smooth too. You can coax clean Jimmi Hendrix strat style sounds and when set on completely clean its like butter man. I use a wang bar too and the guitar stays in tune well as long as you dont do huge dive bombs on it.
The only thing I didn't like was that since it was a lower price PRS they had to sacrifice on some of the apointments. My only problem is that my bridge saddles are starting to turn brown, but those can always be replaced.
The tuners are fabulous, finish is excellent, it colore black, like i said the only set back so far is the bridge.
Bottom line its a great guitar, if it were stollen I would feel very angry and try to find a way to replace it. The tone is great, finish is good, neck is smooth and it plays well. Remember the search for tone lies within, the instrument and equipment help but everybody is different. By the way if you try hard enough you can even get it to sound like Carlos Santana himself. Im only putting 4 stars because nothing is perfect.
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com