Daveporter33765
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My Studio is a fantastic guitar. Plays easily, sounds great and looks amazing!
Those NFs measure quite a lot less than mine in my SAS.I took today and tomorrow off of work to burn up some of my PTO days. After doing my errands this morning I came back and did a full setup on the Studio. I only had to lower the trem a 1/4 turn on each screw. It plays sooooo much better now. I was tripping over the strings a little higher up on the neck. It now has a fairly straight neck and the action is where I like it. It is amazing now a small fraction of an inch can make such a difference in playability.
Today when playing it after the setup, I found the guitar a bit bright again to me using the second (Friedman Twin Sister) amp. I found rolling the tone back to about 7 and lowering the volume to also about 7 gave it a nice tone. I ride the volume knob a good bit when playing so I am okay with it changing tone when doing that. That is the reason I ride the volume knob. I am not used to riding the tone knob though. Thankfully lowering the tone for the bridge pickup also worked for the narrowfields. The more time I spend with it, the more I am good with the guitar in it's stock form. I am sure at some point I will put the 57/08 I ordered for it into the guitar. I am also sure when I do that I will like it better and think I am hearing a huge difference, whether that is true or not.
I have decided that I am leaving the stock pickup in it for now. I did measure the pickups at the jack. The 58/15 LT that is in this guitar is a little lower in resistance than the ones I took out of my 594. Here is what they measure.
6.82k Neck Narrowfield
6.83k Middle Narrowfield
7.03k 58/15 LT Bridge Humbucker
The 58/15 LT pickups I removed from my 594 both measure 7.76k and are not marked for position.
I was wondering how many different versions of the Narrowfields there are. I was thinking at one point I saw them stating 57/08 Narrowfields on a model in the past. They could be winding these lower to match up better with the 58/15 LT humbucker in this guitar. What do yours measure?Those NFs measure quite a lot less than mine in my SAS.
When I wear the strings out, I will probably pull the pickups and see what, if anything, is on the back of them. The humbucker is a little lower than the other set of those pickups I have too. They may have tried to get them all to balance well and play nice together.8.4, 8.41, and 8.4 Neck Middle and Bridge.
Mine are marked for their respective positions despite all measuring almost identically.When I wear the strings out, I will probably pull the pickups and see what, if anything, is on the back of them. The humbucker is a little lower than the other set of those pickups I have too. They may have tried to get them all to balance well and play nice together.
You all may get a kick out of this.
I was wondering if my wife realized that I stopped asking her, red or blue? I kept quiet about the guitar since it didn't move over the weekend and was going to take longer to get here due to that. It showed up yesterday. I got it out, put the box up in the garage where I keep the boxes for my guitars and then hid the case. I took one of my other guitars off of the wall and put it on a stand in the room. I hung the new guitar on the wall. She had to walk right past it when she came in the room after she got home from work. I kept waiting for her to see it while she was in here talking to me. She didn't notice and was heading out the door. Right after she walked past it I said hey, and she stopped and turned around. I looked over at it and she finally noticed it. She approves! I asked her if she was happy with her dicision for me to get the red one. She said yes.
I am telling all of you, I have the best wife in the world!
I took today and tomorrow off of work to burn up some of my PTO days. After doing my errands this morning I came back and did a full setup on the Studio. I only had to lower the trem a 1/4 turn on each screw. It plays sooooo much better now. I was tripping over the strings a little higher up on the neck. It now has a fairly straight neck and the action is where I like it. It is amazing now a small fraction of an inch can make such a difference in playability.
Today when playing it after the setup, I found the guitar a bit bright again to me using the second (Friedman Twin Sister) amp. I found rolling the tone back to about 7 and lowering the volume to also about 7 gave it a nice tone. I ride the volume knob a good bit when playing so I am okay with it changing tone when doing that. That is the reason I ride the volume knob. I am not used to riding the tone knob though. Thankfully lowering the tone for the bridge pickup also worked for the narrowfields. The more time I spend with it, the more I am good with the guitar in it's stock form. I am sure at some point I will put the 57/08 I ordered for it into the guitar. I am also sure when I do that I will like it better and think I am hearing a huge difference, whether that is true or not.
I have decided that I am leaving the stock pickup in it for now. I did measure the pickups at the jack. The 58/15 LT that is in this guitar is a little lower in resistance than the ones I took out of my 594. Here is what they measure.
6.82k Neck Narrowfield
6.83k Middle Narrowfield
7.03k 58/15 LT Bridge Humbucker
The 58/15 LT pickups I removed from my 594 both measure 7.76k and are not marked for position.
You are correct about that.I was thinking at one point I saw them stating 57/08 Narrowfields on a model in the past.
I hope it is still there. It will be interesting to hear your thoughts on how they compare. I still have the DTG out and hanging on the same stand as the Studio and will continue to compare them in different situations. I also have my 594 and CU22 out with different versions of the 57/08 pickups on them. I have been dialing up tones on various amps and pedals and then swapping through guitar comparing how they sound with those amps and pedals. It has been interesting to me how I can leave something setup from one day and fire it up the next day and it sounds different to me. I can only attribute it to my ears getting tired and then having fresh ears the next day.Hi Jason. I just got back from a trip out of town and have been catching up on this thread. Congrats on your guitar! It looks stunning! I posted a separate thread re: input on how the studio compares / contrasts to a DGT.
I’m planning on taking my DGT to Haggerty’s Music in Rapid City this coming weekend to compare it to a PRS Studio they have assuming it’s not sold by then. I was really impressed with the Studio last time I played it!
That would be a fun way to buy one. The only challenge with that is finding a dealer that has a good variety of the models you want to try out. That is where the internet helps out. You can see inventory of the various places.If I was contemplating purchasing another PRS core guitar that is in the $5000 range, I would do a road trip and even stay overnight in a motel to find some good dealers so that you can try these guitars in real time in real life
Maybe They Sent You A 28.5/04 Instead Of A 57/08?The 57/08 I ordered for this guitar showed up yesterday. However, I am not sure if I am disappointed or just confused at the moment. It reads much lower than the last 57/08s I purchased from the accessories store. I sent PRS an email about it because it is pretty far below the rating listed on their website. It reads lower than any of my other 57/08s and I have them in 8 of my guitars. It is a treble pickup and it reads lower than my bass pickups too. I really want an answer before I even think about putting it into the guitar. I want to make sure I didn't get a pickup that was not produced to their standards.
I tend to queue up YouTube videos to listen to while working and one of them were on PRS pickups and it made me think of something I had not though of yet. This video was comparing a TCI version pickup with a non TCI version of the same pickup. This guitar is a 2023 so it has the TCI 58/15 LT in it. From my understanding TCI is a process to get everything in the circuit to much tighter tolerances to have a consistent result that PRS wants. The 57/08 I received does not say TCI on it. It has the sticker for 57/08 Treble. I am now wondering how this whole TCI thing factors into this equation. In another thread someone else bought a 57/08 right about the same time I bought mine. Thiers read a little higher than mine but still lower than what was stated on the website. I am also now wondering if this is a TCI pickup how it might sound different than the others I have. I thought I knew what I was getting into with this but it is becoming very clear that I did not.
What does the impedance read on your ohm meter for the new 57/08?The 57/08 I ordered for this guitar showed up yesterday. However, I am not sure if I am disappointed or just confused at the moment. It reads much lower than the last 57/08s I purchased from the accessories store. I sent PRS an email about it because it is pretty far below the rating listed on their website. It reads lower than any of my other 57/08s and I have them in 8 of my guitars. It is a treble pickup and it reads lower than my bass pickups too. I really want an answer before I even think about putting it into the guitar. I want to make sure I didn't get a pickup that was not produced to their standards.
I tend to queue up YouTube videos to listen to while working and one of them were on PRS pickups and it made me think of something I had not though of yet. This video was comparing a TCI version pickup with a non TCI version of the same pickup. This guitar is a 2023 so it has the TCI 58/15 LT in it. From my understanding TCI is a process to get everything in the circuit to much tighter tolerances to have a consistent result that PRS wants. The 57/08 I received does not say TCI on it. It has the sticker for 57/08 Treble. I am now wondering how this whole TCI thing factors into this equation. In another thread someone else bought a 57/08 right about the same time I bought mine. Thiers read a little higher than mine but still lower than what was stated on the website. I am also now wondering if this is a TCI pickup how it might sound different than the others I have. I thought I knew what I was getting into with this but it is becoming very clear that I did not.
The one I just received reads 8.32k and is a 57/08 Treble TM pickup.What does the impedance read on your ohm meter for the new 57/08?
I just bought a new 57/08 treble pickup from PRS on sale and I’ll let you know what it reads when I get it.
I bought a used newer pair earlier this year and they do not say TCI on them but the treble pickup has the typical 9.4K reading. My older 57/08’s That came stock in my 2011 stripped 58 (pictured in my avatar) read 8800 ohms on the bridge pick up but honestly they sound about the same and have very similar output than my newer ones that have the higher readings.
if your brand new one is reading in the 7000 ohm range, that’s a whole different ball game. And pickup impedance is only one of the factors, as I’m sure you know concerning pick ups.