Recent content by ViggoP

I have a SSH and it’s a really cool guitar. The character is very different to the solid body guitars with the same body size. The top of the middle pickup is radiused so it’s less obtrusive and that actually makes a difference. It doesn’t make the pickup disappear but it’s a little less likely...

That looks like foam to me.

Blocking it inside the trem cavity is better, it keeps the bridge level.

Well, more moving parts. More things that can go wrong. Why have fine tuners at the bridge when it doesn’t have a locking nut? There are already great tuners on the headstock. It doesn’t sound like the best idea.

I do that too.

Why do you want fine tuners? That’s just asking for trouble.

I really like the Pattern Thin depth but not the extra width of the fretboard. I much prefer a narrower nut width.

I really like the MEV pickups, the humbuckers anyway, especially when downtuned a little bit. I keep mine in E#/drop C#. They are very clean, bright, focused and HiFi sounding, which may not be everybody’s thing. The single coil settings are a “nice to have” but really doesn’t replace “real”...

The standard PRS frets (the ones on most core/S2/SE models) are already relatively small compared to most other modern guitars. Vintage size frets are cool and have a special feel but arguably makes playing faster stuff and bending harder, which is why almost no modern guitars come with vintage...

The HFS I had in a Standard 24 from 2005 was possibly the worst pickup I’ve ever played. Shrill, piercing, compressed. Not nice. The import HFS that came with an old SE Cu22 I still own sounds great on the other hand. I also have a set of \m/‘s, they sound really nice. Very smooth. No prominent...

Great to hear it worked out nicely!

If the wiring is correct, try adding a ~2 kOhm resistor in series with the neck pickup split and a ~4 kOhm resistor in series with the bridge split. Take a look at how the DGT wiring is done for example. Doing that will give a fuller sound with less volume drop when you split the pickups. You...

Yeah, do it. I keep my MEV in drop C# most of the time.

The TCI/Pauls guitar pickups are awesome for metal. Since they are narrow they have a sort of natural high pass filter which makes the attack very fast and snappy. If you’re in standard tuning it might sound thin. If you drop and/or down tune they feel very tight and satisfying. It’s a bit like...

Yeah, completely agree.