deanproxy
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I'm an owner of a lovely 2022 594 double cut. One thing I have noticed is that this guitar is a lot darker sounding that my other guitars. At first, I thought this was due to the LT pickups, so I replaced the bridge pickup with a few different pickups to see if I could get a change in tone. I tried a Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates, a Custom 5, and currently have a Full Shred in there. All 3 of those are the brightest pickups I own and sound incredibly bright in other guitars I have. By comparison, when I'm playing my Les Paul with a Custom 5 in the bridge, I'll set the treble on my amp to around 11:30. With my Strat and Tele the Treble is around 10:30 - 11:00 When I use the 594, I have to push it up to around 3:00, and it still seems to lack a little something. The Les Paul sounds more open and bright, as well as the Strat and Tele, then I plug in the PRS 594 and I notice myself reaching for the tone knob immediately wondering if it's rolled down or something.
Does the 594 just have a darker tone to it? I'm wondering if all the brass contact points along with a bone nut theses things have makes the top end a lot tamer than other guitars? Or maybe it's by design and there's something with the wiring I could switch around to make it sound more open? It's a lovely playing guitar, but it is rather dark sounding in comparison. Almost a compressed sound to it. It's not muddy or anything like that, but definitely doesn't let the treble ring out as prominently as my other guitars.
Does the 594 just have a darker tone to it? I'm wondering if all the brass contact points along with a bone nut theses things have makes the top end a lot tamer than other guitars? Or maybe it's by design and there's something with the wiring I could switch around to make it sound more open? It's a lovely playing guitar, but it is rather dark sounding in comparison. Almost a compressed sound to it. It's not muddy or anything like that, but definitely doesn't let the treble ring out as prominently as my other guitars.