Hi everyone,
Before I start, I already emailed PRS customer service and I'm waiting for their reply, but thought I would get some opinions from the very knowledgeable people here as always.
I just received my brand new PRS Fiore today purchased from a store in Belgium (I live in France), and while the guitar is absolutely amazing on clean and crunch, there is a big issue when playing high gain unfortunately.
I A/B’d with my Special Semi Hollow and Custom 24 on the same settings (Origin Effect Hot Rod Compact into EVH5150 clean channel, not even loud, at home), same environment and conditions, no issue at all with these guitars. They are stellar, dead silent and joy to play as always.
But with the Fiore, in the position 1, the full humbucker (series circuit), there is a huge feedback when not playing, and can almost be heard while playing too.
The only way to stop it is too lower the guitar volume below 8, which isn’t a solution.
This is my first issue with a PRS guitar since my 1st PRS back in 2005, so I'm not used to this at all LOL
• Humbucker height seems to be ok according to factory specs from the site (lowering a bit doesn't seem to help)
• At this stage, I would think it might a microphonic issue with the humbucker or a defective humbucker. (but it seems to be fine on clean and crunch. How could I tell if it was defective?)
• Could a bad wiring creates this too?
• I'm really surprised it passed QC (or if the QC was made on clean and crunch, then yeah there is no way to tell)
It's a mixed bag, as the guitar is very good, but with this constant HB feedbacking at high gain, this is unplayable.
Also, the black iris finish is very fragile...
Last question to PRS owner located in Europe, any experience with the support?
I know in the US, PTC would be the best answer and service but being in France, this won't be an option unfortunately.
Thanks a lot for any comments!
Rock ON
Before I start, I already emailed PRS customer service and I'm waiting for their reply, but thought I would get some opinions from the very knowledgeable people here as always.
I just received my brand new PRS Fiore today purchased from a store in Belgium (I live in France), and while the guitar is absolutely amazing on clean and crunch, there is a big issue when playing high gain unfortunately.
I A/B’d with my Special Semi Hollow and Custom 24 on the same settings (Origin Effect Hot Rod Compact into EVH5150 clean channel, not even loud, at home), same environment and conditions, no issue at all with these guitars. They are stellar, dead silent and joy to play as always.
But with the Fiore, in the position 1, the full humbucker (series circuit), there is a huge feedback when not playing, and can almost be heard while playing too.
The only way to stop it is too lower the guitar volume below 8, which isn’t a solution.
This is my first issue with a PRS guitar since my 1st PRS back in 2005, so I'm not used to this at all LOL
• Humbucker height seems to be ok according to factory specs from the site (lowering a bit doesn't seem to help)
• At this stage, I would think it might a microphonic issue with the humbucker or a defective humbucker. (but it seems to be fine on clean and crunch. How could I tell if it was defective?)
• Could a bad wiring creates this too?
• I'm really surprised it passed QC (or if the QC was made on clean and crunch, then yeah there is no way to tell)
It's a mixed bag, as the guitar is very good, but with this constant HB feedbacking at high gain, this is unplayable.
Also, the black iris finish is very fragile...
Last question to PRS owner located in Europe, any experience with the support?
I know in the US, PTC would be the best answer and service but being in France, this won't be an option unfortunately.
Thanks a lot for any comments!
Rock ON