darkbluemurder
New Member
Slightly off topic: for me the archetypical PRS has the Custom shape, 24 frets, and the trem. With PRS guitars, the trem is beautiful because it actually works.
Other than that, as one poster already said no two guitars are the same since every piece of wood is different. For a true scientific comparison, you would have to change only one variable (in that case the bridge) and hold all other variables (body, neck, tuners, electronics) constant. This means that you would have to convert a trem guitar into a stop-tail guitar or vice versa. This would be a huge effort, result in an irreversibly modded guitar and be of dubious scientific value since the result would only be true for THIS guitar. With another guitar, the results may slightly vary.
Of course if you have a trem guitar where you don't use the trem you can do a "fake hardtail conversion", i.e. deck the trem, put in as many springs as possible and tighten them to max. That would be easily reversible.
I would go about it in a different way and ask myself "do I want/need a trem?", and then pick a guitar which feels and sounds good to you.
Other than that, as one poster already said no two guitars are the same since every piece of wood is different. For a true scientific comparison, you would have to change only one variable (in that case the bridge) and hold all other variables (body, neck, tuners, electronics) constant. This means that you would have to convert a trem guitar into a stop-tail guitar or vice versa. This would be a huge effort, result in an irreversibly modded guitar and be of dubious scientific value since the result would only be true for THIS guitar. With another guitar, the results may slightly vary.
Of course if you have a trem guitar where you don't use the trem you can do a "fake hardtail conversion", i.e. deck the trem, put in as many springs as possible and tighten them to max. That would be easily reversible.
I would go about it in a different way and ask myself "do I want/need a trem?", and then pick a guitar which feels and sounds good to you.