Dragon II's & Rotary's

[Markob]

Admittedly new to all things PRS but hardly new to guitars/tone and all things related. It seems the above mentioned are quite polarizing. I read more negative than positive. Of course there's always going to be haters for things regardless.
I have guitars with Harmonic Design pups, Lollar Dirty Blondes in a Radack Strat, Low wind Lollars in a Collings. Love the tones. Now that I have my first Cu22 I get to experience the Dragon 2's with the rotary tone selector and I love them too. Are the pups different? Yes and I'm glad for it. Maybe I'm easy to please or the years of playing and living have ruined my ear or softened my expectations. I love the variety, the options and the challenges. It's all good.
Anyway, thanks for allowing me to ramble.

 

[bodia]

Admittedly new to all things PRS but hardly new to guitars/tone and all things related. It seems the above mentioned are quite polarizing. I read more negative than positive. Of course there's always going to be haters for things regardless.
I have guitars with Harmonic Design pups, Lollar Dirty Blondes in a Radack Strat, Low wind Lollars in a Collings. Love the tones. Now that I have my first Cu22 I get to experience the Dragon 2's with the rotary tone selector and I love them too. Are the pups different? Yes and I'm glad for it. Maybe I'm easy too please or the years of playing and living have ruined my ear or softened my expectations. I love the variety, the options and the challenges. It's all good.
Anyway, thanks for allowing me to ramble.

As the mighty Zep sang......Ramble On!

I had Dargon IIs in my ‘06 Cu22. I really liked them, too.

 

[CLHPRS]

My 2001 CU22 has Dragon II pick ups, no rotary but a 3 way Switch and coil tap tone control. My fav positions are:
Pos 1 bridge humbucker
Pos 2 both humbuckers tapped
Pos 3 neck humbucker tapped

 

[László]

It doesn't matter what other people think of the rotary or DIIs. What matters is you, and how you express yourself on the instrument. Congrats!

 

[Fullmoon 1971]

My 2001 standard 22 has dragon II's with the rotary switch and I wouldn't change a thing. In fact I put the exact same setup in my 2013 SE Santana (a poor mans pre factory custom 22)

 

[AaeCee]

I love the rotary switch, both for the sounds as well as the aesthetics. Takes some time to get used to it however.

 

[Draconomics]

I have a couple Dragon 2's floating around. I like em. My evil plan is to replace the covers and stick em in a DBZ Bolero I picked up, which is basically being PRS-ified. Don't quite understand the shade they get.

I do like the rotary switch conceptually, but for the life of me I could never wire one into a harness correctly, so I just gave up.

 

[Southwest]

My 2000 Custom 22 has Dragon 2s and I love them. Like @CLHPRS mine has a 3-way and coil tap via the tone control knob. Never been tempted to change them and never understood the negativity toward them.

 

[Rockula]

I put an old style 5-way rotary in my Santana SE. Really worthwhile thing to do. I use the switch positions a lot that run inner or outer split coils in parallel.

 

[Bill SAS 513]

Dragon II's are great, IMHO...Enjoy.
And Like Les said above...who cares what others think.
Play it hard!!!! (Or, actually soft, they clean up pretty nice, too...LOL)

 

[gush]

Admittedly new to all things PRS but hardly new to guitars/tone and all things related. It seems the above mentioned are quite polarizing. I read more negative than positive. Of course there's always going to be haters for things regardless.
I have guitars with Harmonic Design pups, Lollar Dirty Blondes in a Radack Strat, Low wind Lollars in a Collings. Love the tones. Now that I have my first Cu22 I get to experience the Dragon 2's with the rotary tone selector and I love them too. Are the pups different? Yes and I'm glad for it. Maybe I'm easy to please or the years of playing and living have ruined my ear or softened my expectations. I love the variety, the options and the challenges. It's all good.
Anyway, thanks for allowing me to ramble.

I had dragon 2s in a cu22. They didn't trip my trigger as much as D1s, 5909s or 5310s but I certainly didn't hate them.

I've heard some people describe them as muddy but I never got that out of mine.

 

[gush]

Also, I. Used to hate the rotary switch now I have 4 guitars with rotary switching.

Guess I don't hate it anymore.

 

[Markob]

I had dragon 2s in a cu22. They didn't trip my trigger as much as D1s, 5909s or 5310s but I certainly didn't hate them.

I've heard some people describe them as muddy but I never got that out of mine.

I agree. They're not muddy to my ears. I'm a big fan of low wind Lollars in particular. The D2's aren't anything like them but that's okay. My amps are 6v6 and 6l6 powered. Clean to edge breakup is my sweet spot. Can't comment on how they sound into a triple rec or other heavy gain applications but for what I do they're different enough to be fun.