EasyWorkFlow
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Hello new friends,
I am going to ask everyone for HUGE favor and take the time to read this long post because before you can give me correct advice about the specific guitar I bought about 5 hours ago, it's very important you know my background and my playing style and a few other important items that will make it easy for you to give me advice if I bought the right or wrong guitar. So a BIG heartfelt thanks to anyone who takes their valuable time to read and respond to this long post
I had a horrendous accident at end of 2012 that changed my life and left me permanently disabled. My only income is SS disability insurance & food stamps. So this was a expensive purchase for me due to my very limitied income . That's why knowing if my purchase was the best model for my musical style.
I have been playing guitar for 37 years ( I am 52 now) and also owned home studio in my apt about 15 years ago and dropped almost $30,000 into it. 7 years ago life threw me a curveball., I was forced to sell my entire studio, all my guitars, all my CDs, and my beloved taylor acoustic. I swore I would never play music again.
One of the injuries fI sustained was a traumatic brain injury. My neurologist asked me if I had any hobbies. I told him I have been playing guitar and chess my entire life. He said he wanted me to start my hobbies again because it would make me use my brain. I purchased a nylon string guitar 8 moths ago and started practicing classical guitar. I joined www.chess.com which is free. My user name is Empathy1. If you join, send me a friend request and mention that you are from the PRS forum.
I fell back in love with playing and had the same feeling I had when I was 15 years old learning the pentatonic scale and jamming along with songs. The first solo I ever learned and play note for note using my ears was Jessica by the Allman Brothers. That's when my addiction to music truly started. I was 17.
A few months ago, I decided to get back into home recording. I picked up software called Ableton 9 Live Suite and an instrument called "Push" www.ableton.com/en/push/. This is related to questions about buying the PRS.
I own is a nylon string and I need an electric to lay down tracks. It seems that certain PRS guitars are better suited for certain types of music. I saw a PRS that had a Floyd Rose and EMGs. That guitar was not designed with the country player in mind.
I play in many genres but my favorite style is the blues ( as almost is based from the bluesa) I play funk, & heavy hard rock My favorite musicians in no particular order are: Jeff Beck, Steve Morse, Joe Bonamasa, Hendricks, Robin Trower, SRV, Larry Carlton, Robben Ford, Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), Leslie West (Mountain) Eric Johnson, Al Dimeola, Warren Haynes,,etc. That should give you an idea of the tones I need from my axe. I also dig the heavy guitar tomes like Rob Zombie.
I always wanted a semi-hollow body guitar and when I saw the S2 Custom with an F hole and tremelo, I new that was the guitar for me. But $1579 is a huge amount of coin for a person in my financial situation. So here is my dilemma. God makes my life interesting because I accidentally stumbled on another PRS model called the Custom 24 semi hollow-body guitar. The aesthetics of that guitar were absolutely beautiful, but $3799, was out of my price range. I was trying to understand what extras besides the aesthetics and 2 extra frets he $3,799 CU 24 gives you that the $1579 S2 doesn't include. I be would be extremely grateful to own the S2 CU Custom if everyone agrees that guitar will give me the tones I am looking for after describing the players I enjoy. I also realize the amplifier is responsible for a HIUGE part of a guitarists tone, and we all know the PRS /Mesa Boogie combo became Carlos Santana's signature tone. When you provide advice regarding the guitar, I will be playing through a Boogie or another tube amp of the same quality.
God really makes life extremely interesting because I cam across a used Custom 24 Semi Hollow Body on Ebay that was selling for $2,578 in mint condition, and in a beautiful color called black Gold Rust. It has a 14 day return policy so If I purchased this guitar and found out I made a mistake, all it would cost me about $50 to send back. There was 7 minutes left to go today before sale ended and even though it was a big stretch for me as far as money goes, I spent the extra $1000 and purchased the guitar. I will know if I am going to keep it tomorrow afternoon after reading the feedback from the questions I listed below. I wanted to treat myself to something special, and this is a real trip considering I swore off music 7 years ago. It took an accident that literally killed me to get me to this point in life. This is really heavy stuff we are dealing with hear and I will even share something even heavier and extremely personal with everyone in this community that in a million years I thought would never happen. I am Jewish and on February 21st, 2015, I accepted Jesus as my savior. I truly hope I did not offend anyone and please forgive me as this is a guitar forum, but that was a life changing event, just like my accident. I will never again mention that in this forum, My own family doesn't even know. Go figure I would share this strangers who happen to play guitar. The spirit moved me to share and I follow the spirit. OK... back to a guitars.
Here is a list of questions that I have which will determine whether the guitar is sent back before I even open the box and play it, Or I will keep the guitar and she becomes the love of my life based on everyones feedback/advice.
1.) Sonically is there a difference between the tone of the two guitars. They both have F-holes and made in USA. Not sure about the woods used in each guitar.
2.) Would I have been better off purchasing a solid custom 24 without the semi-body if I am only going to own one guitar?
3) I would think there is a playability difference due to 24 frets versus 22 frets. I was primarily a Les Paul player and owned a few Strats, so it's cool having the extra 2 frets. What is the playability difference between the two guitars if you had the chance to play both of them?
4.) I am going to be recording this guitar direct to my computer through a special interface card. I want the audio clean because I will be adding gain, distortion, effects later on during the mix or even live when laying down tracks for inspiration by having a tasty, tone with right amount of gain, reverb chorus etc. The cool thing is that during the mix, I can switch the sounds that I used during recoding process for inspiration because the audio is a pure clean analog signal. The software is essentially the same as a modeling amp. I am going to start out software called Guitar Rig which allows me to choice between different settings such as a Vox amp, Boogie, Marshall etc plus a whole lot more. This way I can change the sound during the mix rather than being "stuck" with a sound if I mic'd a small tube amp and threw a few pedals in path before sending signal into computer. So my question is how the clean sounds from both guitars differ when recoding direct into a digital recorder? This also goes for the clean sound from a solid body custom 22 or 24.
5.) Does anyone find themselves more inspired to play when they are looking at beautiful flamed out piece of art like the PRS I ordered?
6.) For the lucky few who own multiple PRS guitars, do you find that you play the less "beautiful" guitars more often for fear of adding scratches or dings to the guitar?
I will only have one guitar so even if she gets a few scratches or dings, no biggie to me . I would prefer I don't get any dings, but so what if I do. After all I have been through, I have learned not to "sweat the small stuff".Guitars are meant to be played, and spending this kind of money means it should be played a lot!!! I plan on playing the s**T out of the guitar.
So that's my story and as I was writing this thread, I saw a notification pop up on my apple that the guitar just shipped.:adore: Please remember that if there no difference between the two guitars accept for aesthetics and the two frets, that extra $1000 could have been spent on an amplifier. I would love to know about any other features that make the cost of CU 24 semi $3,799 versus the CU 22 semi that costs $1,579 f. Guitars are like woman, the more beautiful they are, the more you want to play with them. And in the past, before my accident, some of those beauties actually preferred a few dings and scratches when we were playing.
Thanks so much for reading this mini novel, because this was the biggest investment I have made since my accident. I do not even own a car at the moment and yet I am happier than I have ever been.
And one last thing, for those intellectuals on this Forum who watch TEDx videos, I flipped last night when I saw Paul made two of them.
Here are the links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNzJjlV1TOA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOXOYCqGqOc
Here is a link to photo of my new beauty. This is almost like buying a mail order bride
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2014-PRS-CU...H-/141594686339?ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:US:1653
I wish everyone and their families a life of health & happiness and abundance in mind, body & spirit. Please let me know if I chose the right guitar for my musical tastes and if it was worth dropping an extra $1000 on the custom 24 semi-hollow body or if I should have purchased a a solid body guitar.
God Bless
BobbyD
I am going to ask everyone for HUGE favor and take the time to read this long post because before you can give me correct advice about the specific guitar I bought about 5 hours ago, it's very important you know my background and my playing style and a few other important items that will make it easy for you to give me advice if I bought the right or wrong guitar. So a BIG heartfelt thanks to anyone who takes their valuable time to read and respond to this long post
I had a horrendous accident at end of 2012 that changed my life and left me permanently disabled. My only income is SS disability insurance & food stamps. So this was a expensive purchase for me due to my very limitied income . That's why knowing if my purchase was the best model for my musical style.
I have been playing guitar for 37 years ( I am 52 now) and also owned home studio in my apt about 15 years ago and dropped almost $30,000 into it. 7 years ago life threw me a curveball., I was forced to sell my entire studio, all my guitars, all my CDs, and my beloved taylor acoustic. I swore I would never play music again.
One of the injuries fI sustained was a traumatic brain injury. My neurologist asked me if I had any hobbies. I told him I have been playing guitar and chess my entire life. He said he wanted me to start my hobbies again because it would make me use my brain. I purchased a nylon string guitar 8 moths ago and started practicing classical guitar. I joined www.chess.com which is free. My user name is Empathy1. If you join, send me a friend request and mention that you are from the PRS forum.
I fell back in love with playing and had the same feeling I had when I was 15 years old learning the pentatonic scale and jamming along with songs. The first solo I ever learned and play note for note using my ears was Jessica by the Allman Brothers. That's when my addiction to music truly started. I was 17.
A few months ago, I decided to get back into home recording. I picked up software called Ableton 9 Live Suite and an instrument called "Push" www.ableton.com/en/push/. This is related to questions about buying the PRS.
I own is a nylon string and I need an electric to lay down tracks. It seems that certain PRS guitars are better suited for certain types of music. I saw a PRS that had a Floyd Rose and EMGs. That guitar was not designed with the country player in mind.
I play in many genres but my favorite style is the blues ( as almost is based from the bluesa) I play funk, & heavy hard rock My favorite musicians in no particular order are: Jeff Beck, Steve Morse, Joe Bonamasa, Hendricks, Robin Trower, SRV, Larry Carlton, Robben Ford, Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), Leslie West (Mountain) Eric Johnson, Al Dimeola, Warren Haynes,,etc. That should give you an idea of the tones I need from my axe. I also dig the heavy guitar tomes like Rob Zombie.
I always wanted a semi-hollow body guitar and when I saw the S2 Custom with an F hole and tremelo, I new that was the guitar for me. But $1579 is a huge amount of coin for a person in my financial situation. So here is my dilemma. God makes my life interesting because I accidentally stumbled on another PRS model called the Custom 24 semi hollow-body guitar. The aesthetics of that guitar were absolutely beautiful, but $3799, was out of my price range. I was trying to understand what extras besides the aesthetics and 2 extra frets he $3,799 CU 24 gives you that the $1579 S2 doesn't include. I be would be extremely grateful to own the S2 CU Custom if everyone agrees that guitar will give me the tones I am looking for after describing the players I enjoy. I also realize the amplifier is responsible for a HIUGE part of a guitarists tone, and we all know the PRS /Mesa Boogie combo became Carlos Santana's signature tone. When you provide advice regarding the guitar, I will be playing through a Boogie or another tube amp of the same quality.
God really makes life extremely interesting because I cam across a used Custom 24 Semi Hollow Body on Ebay that was selling for $2,578 in mint condition, and in a beautiful color called black Gold Rust. It has a 14 day return policy so If I purchased this guitar and found out I made a mistake, all it would cost me about $50 to send back. There was 7 minutes left to go today before sale ended and even though it was a big stretch for me as far as money goes, I spent the extra $1000 and purchased the guitar. I will know if I am going to keep it tomorrow afternoon after reading the feedback from the questions I listed below. I wanted to treat myself to something special, and this is a real trip considering I swore off music 7 years ago. It took an accident that literally killed me to get me to this point in life. This is really heavy stuff we are dealing with hear and I will even share something even heavier and extremely personal with everyone in this community that in a million years I thought would never happen. I am Jewish and on February 21st, 2015, I accepted Jesus as my savior. I truly hope I did not offend anyone and please forgive me as this is a guitar forum, but that was a life changing event, just like my accident. I will never again mention that in this forum, My own family doesn't even know. Go figure I would share this strangers who happen to play guitar. The spirit moved me to share and I follow the spirit. OK... back to a guitars.
Here is a list of questions that I have which will determine whether the guitar is sent back before I even open the box and play it, Or I will keep the guitar and she becomes the love of my life based on everyones feedback/advice.
1.) Sonically is there a difference between the tone of the two guitars. They both have F-holes and made in USA. Not sure about the woods used in each guitar.
2.) Would I have been better off purchasing a solid custom 24 without the semi-body if I am only going to own one guitar?
3) I would think there is a playability difference due to 24 frets versus 22 frets. I was primarily a Les Paul player and owned a few Strats, so it's cool having the extra 2 frets. What is the playability difference between the two guitars if you had the chance to play both of them?
4.) I am going to be recording this guitar direct to my computer through a special interface card. I want the audio clean because I will be adding gain, distortion, effects later on during the mix or even live when laying down tracks for inspiration by having a tasty, tone with right amount of gain, reverb chorus etc. The cool thing is that during the mix, I can switch the sounds that I used during recoding process for inspiration because the audio is a pure clean analog signal. The software is essentially the same as a modeling amp. I am going to start out software called Guitar Rig which allows me to choice between different settings such as a Vox amp, Boogie, Marshall etc plus a whole lot more. This way I can change the sound during the mix rather than being "stuck" with a sound if I mic'd a small tube amp and threw a few pedals in path before sending signal into computer. So my question is how the clean sounds from both guitars differ when recoding direct into a digital recorder? This also goes for the clean sound from a solid body custom 22 or 24.
5.) Does anyone find themselves more inspired to play when they are looking at beautiful flamed out piece of art like the PRS I ordered?
6.) For the lucky few who own multiple PRS guitars, do you find that you play the less "beautiful" guitars more often for fear of adding scratches or dings to the guitar?
I will only have one guitar so even if she gets a few scratches or dings, no biggie to me . I would prefer I don't get any dings, but so what if I do. After all I have been through, I have learned not to "sweat the small stuff".Guitars are meant to be played, and spending this kind of money means it should be played a lot!!! I plan on playing the s**T out of the guitar.
So that's my story and as I was writing this thread, I saw a notification pop up on my apple that the guitar just shipped.:adore: Please remember that if there no difference between the two guitars accept for aesthetics and the two frets, that extra $1000 could have been spent on an amplifier. I would love to know about any other features that make the cost of CU 24 semi $3,799 versus the CU 22 semi that costs $1,579 f. Guitars are like woman, the more beautiful they are, the more you want to play with them. And in the past, before my accident, some of those beauties actually preferred a few dings and scratches when we were playing.
Thanks so much for reading this mini novel, because this was the biggest investment I have made since my accident. I do not even own a car at the moment and yet I am happier than I have ever been.
And one last thing, for those intellectuals on this Forum who watch TEDx videos, I flipped last night when I saw Paul made two of them.
Here are the links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNzJjlV1TOA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOXOYCqGqOc
Here is a link to photo of my new beauty. This is almost like buying a mail order bride
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2014-PRS-CU...H-/141594686339?ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:US:1653
I wish everyone and their families a life of health & happiness and abundance in mind, body & spirit. Please let me know if I chose the right guitar for my musical tastes and if it was worth dropping an extra $1000 on the custom 24 semi-hollow body or if I should have purchased a a solid body guitar.
God Bless
BobbyD
