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Hi all,
Ages ago I started a thread about sending my newly (at the time) purchased Paul’s Guitar to the PTC for a mod. Well, I’ve had the guitar back from the PTC for months now and I thought I’d show y’all the results.
The guitar had a middle pickup added to it along with a push pull tone switch to bring it in and out of the circuit. The price was fair and the turn around was, although not instantaneous like I wanted, right in line with their original estimate.
I never did get a chance to play a Brent Mason before sending the guitar in and to be honest I still haven’t come across one in the wild. That being said the PU configuration is now the same as the brent mason so I can only assume that they sound very similar once you account for the bridge/body changes.
Since getting the guitar back I convinced myself that life would not be complete unless I also had a PRS with trem. I found a used DGT with birds (I like birds) and snatched it up. I really enjoy both of the guitars though I’m still considering taking a magic eraser to the DGT neck.
DGT VS Paul’s:
If you’re on this forum you probably already know that the PRS tremolo system is amazing. This is something that the pauls guitar doesn’t do and gives the DGT major bonus points. Amazingly both guitars are about the same volume when unplugged. I was not expecting the guitars to be as different as they are.
Paul’s Guitar: much hotter pickups, honky-liquid mids, fancy top, extra switches (lots of sounds), overall better suited for ‘modern’ sounds, single coil sounds (not taking the mod into consideration) are much thicker than DGT and less single coil sounding, Single coil sounds with the mod are very straty (but it doesn’t get close to the start neck by itself sound),
DGT: has trem, pickups are flatter sounding than the Paul’s, better suited for “classic” sounds, single coil sounds are thinner and spankier than the Paul’s, overall the DGT is very “traditional” sounding when compared to the Paul’s
PRS/Mesa Ramble:
I have been anti PRS for most of my guitar playing life then I got the PRSi and a Mesa MK V in quick succession. It has been a big change from my tele/strat/fender amp approach. Overall I’m very happy. I’m still getting used to the Mesa but when I get moments of greatness out of it I know I’m on the right track. I went to PRS when I found that I was spending way too much time worrying about my gear. I’m confident in knowing that if my sound is off it’s my fault and not the fault of my gear. I plan on having these two guitars for as long as I can. I’m at a point in my life where collecting isn’t an option so I needed an instrument that would give me consistently good results. Both the DGT and the Paul’s give me what I need The Mesa is a very compressed amp and very mid heavy. This is greatly exaggerated by the Paul’s guitar. The DGT sounds more open and loose though the amp. That being said the smooth liquid tones I get out of the Paul’s and Mesa are unlike anything I’ve ever been able to get. The Mesa also is wonderful at low volumes. Right now I have everything I need but that doesn’t mean I haven’t picked out my next PRS
I think if I were to get another it would be a Hollowbody II, maybe even a single cut.
Anyhow maybe I’ll get around to posting some audio clips in the next few months. When purchasing these instruments I had a very hard time finding good clean/low gain clips of them on the web (especially the Paul’s.)
Ages ago I started a thread about sending my newly (at the time) purchased Paul’s Guitar to the PTC for a mod. Well, I’ve had the guitar back from the PTC for months now and I thought I’d show y’all the results.
The guitar had a middle pickup added to it along with a push pull tone switch to bring it in and out of the circuit. The price was fair and the turn around was, although not instantaneous like I wanted, right in line with their original estimate.
I never did get a chance to play a Brent Mason before sending the guitar in and to be honest I still haven’t come across one in the wild. That being said the PU configuration is now the same as the brent mason so I can only assume that they sound very similar once you account for the bridge/body changes.
Since getting the guitar back I convinced myself that life would not be complete unless I also had a PRS with trem. I found a used DGT with birds (I like birds) and snatched it up. I really enjoy both of the guitars though I’m still considering taking a magic eraser to the DGT neck.
DGT VS Paul’s:
If you’re on this forum you probably already know that the PRS tremolo system is amazing. This is something that the pauls guitar doesn’t do and gives the DGT major bonus points. Amazingly both guitars are about the same volume when unplugged. I was not expecting the guitars to be as different as they are.
Paul’s Guitar: much hotter pickups, honky-liquid mids, fancy top, extra switches (lots of sounds), overall better suited for ‘modern’ sounds, single coil sounds (not taking the mod into consideration) are much thicker than DGT and less single coil sounding, Single coil sounds with the mod are very straty (but it doesn’t get close to the start neck by itself sound),
DGT: has trem, pickups are flatter sounding than the Paul’s, better suited for “classic” sounds, single coil sounds are thinner and spankier than the Paul’s, overall the DGT is very “traditional” sounding when compared to the Paul’s
PRS/Mesa Ramble:
I have been anti PRS for most of my guitar playing life then I got the PRSi and a Mesa MK V in quick succession. It has been a big change from my tele/strat/fender amp approach. Overall I’m very happy. I’m still getting used to the Mesa but when I get moments of greatness out of it I know I’m on the right track. I went to PRS when I found that I was spending way too much time worrying about my gear. I’m confident in knowing that if my sound is off it’s my fault and not the fault of my gear. I plan on having these two guitars for as long as I can. I’m at a point in my life where collecting isn’t an option so I needed an instrument that would give me consistently good results. Both the DGT and the Paul’s give me what I need The Mesa is a very compressed amp and very mid heavy. This is greatly exaggerated by the Paul’s guitar. The DGT sounds more open and loose though the amp. That being said the smooth liquid tones I get out of the Paul’s and Mesa are unlike anything I’ve ever been able to get. The Mesa also is wonderful at low volumes. Right now I have everything I need but that doesn’t mean I haven’t picked out my next PRS
I think if I were to get another it would be a Hollowbody II, maybe even a single cut. Anyhow maybe I’ll get around to posting some audio clips in the next few months. When purchasing these instruments I had a very hard time finding good clean/low gain clips of them on the web (especially the Paul’s.)
