Lewguitar
Old Know It All
Loving this '00 PRS CE22!
It's a little heavier than my '95 and '97 CE22's. But it's more resonant.
The previous owner replaced the original PRS pickups with a Seymour Duncan JB and Duncan Custom.
I decided to keep the JB, and put in my own Duncan 59n neck pickup.
My other CE22's have Dragon I pickups. For rock and rock overdrive tones, Dragon I's are my all time favorite set.
But I was surprised that this stock JB sounds so much like a Dragon 1!
The JB has that high output, big, deep, solid bass, and thick mids that get that "ow" sound with overdrive.
The biggest difference is the treble: the stock JB has just a bit more sizzle on top compared to the Dragon 1.
I just turn the guitar's tone control down 1/2 way or lower, which I always do anyway because I don't like a sharp sound.
I like an "ow" vowel like sound from my bridge pickup. If you turn the tone down all the way you get Clapton's "woman tone".
I was also able to reduce that sizzle by replacing the polished Alnico 5 magnet in the JB with a ROUGHCAST Alnico 5 magnet.
Now I like it even more!
Yesterday I replaced the volume and tone pots in the '00 and used a .02 Sprague Orange Drop tone capacitor.
Because I don't want the neck pickup to get muddy when I turn the volume pot down, I reused the PRS treble bleed cap on the new volume pot. I like it. It helps.
I kind of feel like I'm playing a real '59 Les Paul when I play this CE22!
It's a little heavier than my '95 and '97 CE22's. But it's more resonant.
The previous owner replaced the original PRS pickups with a Seymour Duncan JB and Duncan Custom.
I decided to keep the JB, and put in my own Duncan 59n neck pickup.
My other CE22's have Dragon I pickups. For rock and rock overdrive tones, Dragon I's are my all time favorite set.
But I was surprised that this stock JB sounds so much like a Dragon 1!
The JB has that high output, big, deep, solid bass, and thick mids that get that "ow" sound with overdrive.
The biggest difference is the treble: the stock JB has just a bit more sizzle on top compared to the Dragon 1.
I just turn the guitar's tone control down 1/2 way or lower, which I always do anyway because I don't like a sharp sound.
I like an "ow" vowel like sound from my bridge pickup. If you turn the tone down all the way you get Clapton's "woman tone".
I was also able to reduce that sizzle by replacing the polished Alnico 5 magnet in the JB with a ROUGHCAST Alnico 5 magnet.
Now I like it even more!
Yesterday I replaced the volume and tone pots in the '00 and used a .02 Sprague Orange Drop tone capacitor.
Because I don't want the neck pickup to get muddy when I turn the volume pot down, I reused the PRS treble bleed cap on the new volume pot. I like it. It helps.
I kind of feel like I'm playing a real '59 Les Paul when I play this CE22!
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