eatmorham
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So a little over a year ago (after picking the guitar back up following a few years of not playing due to life happening) I bought a shiny new (to me) 2013 Mira S2. The first 24 hours are great. However, that G string just sounds off. I tune, retune, tune some more. Just always sounds off. Really bad on the second fret. A little less noticeable elsewhere. New strings didn't fix it either. So I compensate by running the G a little flat and that's ok but I'm thinking that I shouldn't HAVE to do that. Sure it's not a core model but I expected more from a PRS.
I google it and read about how I need a new nut or new bridge and how there are compromises all over the fretboard and I should learn to love the dissonance. The sound are pretty cringe-inducing so I start thinking about how to convince the wife that I need to throw some more money at this guitar that I just bough that is supposed to be so awesome.
One day I read something somewhere about how wound strings having better intonation than plain strings. However, I'd read over and over and over (and even saw a video of Paul himself talking about) how the fixed bridge is great so long as you don't use a wound G. Ultimately I figure I can invest in a set of strings with a wound G and try it. What's it going to hurt right? I end up getting a set of D'addario 10's with a 0.018 wound G. Strung her up, tuned her in, and BAM, the intonation is dead on now. I've been playing like this for a while now and I'm happy with the way it sounds. I really don't think that this impacts the playability at all. The wound G is pretty much just as bendy as the unwound.
So any ideas on why doing this thing that PRS says I shouldn't have done fixed the problem I shouldn't have had?
I google it and read about how I need a new nut or new bridge and how there are compromises all over the fretboard and I should learn to love the dissonance. The sound are pretty cringe-inducing so I start thinking about how to convince the wife that I need to throw some more money at this guitar that I just bough that is supposed to be so awesome.
One day I read something somewhere about how wound strings having better intonation than plain strings. However, I'd read over and over and over (and even saw a video of Paul himself talking about) how the fixed bridge is great so long as you don't use a wound G. Ultimately I figure I can invest in a set of strings with a wound G and try it. What's it going to hurt right? I end up getting a set of D'addario 10's with a 0.018 wound G. Strung her up, tuned her in, and BAM, the intonation is dead on now. I've been playing like this for a while now and I'm happy with the way it sounds. I really don't think that this impacts the playability at all. The wound G is pretty much just as bendy as the unwound.
So any ideas on why doing this thing that PRS says I shouldn't have done fixed the problem I shouldn't have had?