Looking for a little guidance folks...
I scored a set of 58/15'sreently through a lucky turn of events. As such, I am contemplating putting them into my SC-250. A little back story on the SC-250 is that I always wanted a singlecut guitar by PRS so I bought a beautiful SC-250 as it seemed to have all of the bells and whistles I was looking for. I got it (bought it cross country) and played it for some time. Loved the fit /feel of it but HATED the stock SC pickups – way too hot. I wound up getting a set of 59/09’s and putting those into it and BAM! Loved the guitar – it became the PRS style Les Paul I always wanted. Sounds unreal in every imaginable way. Since I have a CU-24 loaded with 59/09s already and I just scored these 58/15’s, I was kicking around the idea of putting them into the SC-250 for a change up.
The problem is that last year, I scored a set of 85/15’s right at the time that I got a mint CE-24 – which I put the 85/15’s into. I thought it was going to be a match made in heaven, but it wasn’t. I tried every adjustment, but just could not bond with them. The guitar sounded lifeless to me. Could have been the guitar, could have been the 85/15’s, could have been my ears… It just wasn’t for me. Strange because I LOVE 57/08’s, 53/10’s and 59/09’s…
Anyhow, wanted to get thoughts of 58/15’s in an SC-250 opposed to the 59/09’s currently loaded. Also wanted to get a sanity check on trying 58/15’s out for a test run given my history of not really liking the 85/15’s…
Thanks folks! Any thoughts shared are appreciated.
I scored a set of 58/15'sreently through a lucky turn of events. As such, I am contemplating putting them into my SC-250. A little back story on the SC-250 is that I always wanted a singlecut guitar by PRS so I bought a beautiful SC-250 as it seemed to have all of the bells and whistles I was looking for. I got it (bought it cross country) and played it for some time. Loved the fit /feel of it but HATED the stock SC pickups – way too hot. I wound up getting a set of 59/09’s and putting those into it and BAM! Loved the guitar – it became the PRS style Les Paul I always wanted. Sounds unreal in every imaginable way. Since I have a CU-24 loaded with 59/09s already and I just scored these 58/15’s, I was kicking around the idea of putting them into the SC-250 for a change up.
The problem is that last year, I scored a set of 85/15’s right at the time that I got a mint CE-24 – which I put the 85/15’s into. I thought it was going to be a match made in heaven, but it wasn’t. I tried every adjustment, but just could not bond with them. The guitar sounded lifeless to me. Could have been the guitar, could have been the 85/15’s, could have been my ears… It just wasn’t for me. Strange because I LOVE 57/08’s, 53/10’s and 59/09’s…
Anyhow, wanted to get thoughts of 58/15’s in an SC-250 opposed to the 59/09’s currently loaded. Also wanted to get a sanity check on trying 58/15’s out for a test run given my history of not really liking the 85/15’s…
Thanks folks! Any thoughts shared are appreciated.
