I already posted about my SE santana when i got it recently. But have you ever been so thrilled with something that you don't know what to do with yourself? I just had to rave on about my SE Santana a bit more. I know the honeymoon thing all to well and i know how abruptly it can end. But i swear this is another thing altogether. This guitar for me is a revelation. There are guitars you buy that you are in love with, but this is so much more than that. The LP special P90 i bought about 8 months ago was amazing. I stopped playing my fenders much in favor of it, a surprising turn when i've been a fender guy for at least 30 years. Before that i played many different guitars for about 10 years till i decided strats were my thing. I never thought a gibson could change me after all those years. I'd owned many gibsons and gibson style guitars during that time, but every one got sold in not time because i couldn't bond.
Why am i going into all this about gibsons and how that one changed me? Because compared to my santana that P90 special pales to the point i not only don't wanna play it anymore, i wanna sell it. In fact, i'm selling all my guitars because of the PRS. I will probably keep the strat i have used for the last 10 years because i just have to have that as a sort of reality check now and then so i never strat wondering if i miss fender sound. But it will likely sit in the closet till i die. I intend on finding a SE EG next and may also get a 245 or Bernie M, tho not sure yet about that last one. I want the EG as a single coil sound. But at this point I feel like i don't need anything but this santana. However, with the prices these things go for theres no reason not to !
But all that said, heres the real reason i love this SE to the point i call it a revelation.....it sits in a mix like nothing i have ever owned ! I amd stunned at how well it does that and even surprised as heck because if i had to pick a guitar i owned as the one that seems less likely to do that well, it would be the santana ! The reason being that it's not at all a bright and cutting sound on it's own. But somehow the PRS design is able to sound full and fat solo yet cut thru a mix and sit perfectly in it like nothing i've ever owned. It floors me. It really really floors me. In all my years nothing has been able to do this. I've been thinking about pickups for it but i'm really not sure i should. It just works so well as is. If i do i will certainly have the stock ones in the bullpen waiting to go back in as soon as i start asking myself "why in gods name did i even buy pickups when the stock ones were the right ones all along?". :biggrin: I could try and explain why i am considering that, but i don't think i have to explain GAS to you. Often it's senseless....
Anyways, you can think i'm crazy selling my guitars while in the honeymoon stage. But i can tell you this. Every one of them has and always will make me work to get them to sit in the mix, something that has been a thorn in my side forever. So far not once has the santana ever not done that perfectly w/o even thinking about it. Never even fiddle with my amp settings anymore ! This guitar isn't just emotional love. It's a tool, one that does the job perfectly and removes the work leaving me to play, which by the way has led to me playing better than i have in years. No, this isn't just a honeymoon. This is the real thing. This from a guy who in the past wondered why anyone would want a PRS. Now they are ALL i want. :top:
Why am i going into all this about gibsons and how that one changed me? Because compared to my santana that P90 special pales to the point i not only don't wanna play it anymore, i wanna sell it. In fact, i'm selling all my guitars because of the PRS. I will probably keep the strat i have used for the last 10 years because i just have to have that as a sort of reality check now and then so i never strat wondering if i miss fender sound. But it will likely sit in the closet till i die. I intend on finding a SE EG next and may also get a 245 or Bernie M, tho not sure yet about that last one. I want the EG as a single coil sound. But at this point I feel like i don't need anything but this santana. However, with the prices these things go for theres no reason not to !
But all that said, heres the real reason i love this SE to the point i call it a revelation.....it sits in a mix like nothing i have ever owned ! I amd stunned at how well it does that and even surprised as heck because if i had to pick a guitar i owned as the one that seems less likely to do that well, it would be the santana ! The reason being that it's not at all a bright and cutting sound on it's own. But somehow the PRS design is able to sound full and fat solo yet cut thru a mix and sit perfectly in it like nothing i've ever owned. It floors me. It really really floors me. In all my years nothing has been able to do this. I've been thinking about pickups for it but i'm really not sure i should. It just works so well as is. If i do i will certainly have the stock ones in the bullpen waiting to go back in as soon as i start asking myself "why in gods name did i even buy pickups when the stock ones were the right ones all along?". :biggrin: I could try and explain why i am considering that, but i don't think i have to explain GAS to you. Often it's senseless....
Anyways, you can think i'm crazy selling my guitars while in the honeymoon stage. But i can tell you this. Every one of them has and always will make me work to get them to sit in the mix, something that has been a thorn in my side forever. So far not once has the santana ever not done that perfectly w/o even thinking about it. Never even fiddle with my amp settings anymore ! This guitar isn't just emotional love. It's a tool, one that does the job perfectly and removes the work leaving me to play, which by the way has led to me playing better than i have in years. No, this isn't just a honeymoon. This is the real thing. This from a guy who in the past wondered why anyone would want a PRS. Now they are ALL i want. :top:
