I'm curious to hear how they'll sound in a mix.
It sounds thick... with an extra dose of thick.
The band I play bass in one of the guitarists uses my Electra Dyne... typically with a Martin acoustic plugged into it, but today I loaned him
The Dragon after the acoustic broke a string
.
Back story: We've had issues using two electrics in the past because the two guitarists couldn't sort out their EQ and clashed a lot. Our solution was an acoustic, which we initially DI'd but were sick of the lack of midrange, so we started putting it through my Electra Dyne and mic'ing the cab.
The Dragon into the ED should've been a match made in hell; ED's are notoriously dark and bass heavy and this is a guitar that already borders on muddy.... but the PRS/ED sonically slid right underneath the other guitarist's Tele/Orange TH30/Orange 2x12 and above my bass. They both sat in completely different frequency bands and you could hear each clearly, and it gave the band some much needed thickness that I've felt we lacked since we started. Granted, the PRS/Mesa didn't cut very well, which was cool because he could layer these dark solos/fills underneath the other guitarist without interfering at all, and vice versa with the other guitarist going over top.
The cool thing is this guy is heavily influenced by a little old band from Texas, and I never realized to what degree until he had this electric in his hands and all this crazy sh*t started leaping off the fretboard while a big stupid grin grew across his face.
Irritatingly (to me, since I wanted to convert it to 3 way) the 5 way worked out really well. There's a couple songs where the PRS was too thick and punchy and the acoustic would've been more appropriate... but a quick twist of the knob to one of the out of phase positions thinned the guitar out and gave it enough of a plinky acoustic vibe to get the job done without needing to switch guitars.
Marshall guys would've hated it.... big wall of mud... yet somehow this wall of mud has detail and fills a huge sonic gap in our band.