No rain, so outside it went. Here it is in better detail. Not a 10 top, but nice enuf:
I used to have three Strats onstage. I rarely gig anymore but I think I'll always have a Strat around if I find I want that tone. And I looove the Stratocaster, it's an amazing guitar. One of the oldest electric guitar designs around, yet it looks more modern than many 'modern' guitars. It certainly has aged more gracefully than the Explorers, Flying Vs, and all those Dean and Ibanez 'pointy' guitars.Beautiful baby there! Welcome to the PRS family! I love my 408 standard (all mahogany in PRS lingo) it is my main player and is pretty relicked by now. In my opinion these are the most versatile pickups PRS has produced to date. If you want stratier tones roll off the volume to about 7 and voila. Play with the tone knob too you can thicken it up by rolling the tone back a bit.
That is just very beautiful! Something like that is on my GAS list. Welcome and thanks for posting the pic!
Sooo..... a couple months in with the 408, and here's my experience so far.
First off, it's a gorgeous instrument that sounds great and plays beautifully. I have a few things I'd like different - for example, I'd like more variation in the sounds provided by the coil tap switches, and perhaps a fuller bottom end when the tone control is rolled off - but those are minor quibbles. Overall I'm very pleased with my purchase.
But what's really interesting is that a) it's taking me much further into the blues than I ever went before, and b) it has re-ignited my passion for many of my other instruments! I was never a big fan of "the blues", so once I got the basics I stopped paying attention. But now I'm delving into it, and finding some new space for expression there. And then the other instruments.... I have a nice Fretless bass and a 7-string, and I'm playing those more. I also have a tonewheel Hammond organ with Leslie, and I'm now firing that up on a regular basis again along with a couple synthesizers. And tonight I pulled out my Lorca classical guitar, and found I'm still decently acquainted with that technique.
So it's been a sort of musical re-awakening. Dunno whether the 408 is cause or effect, but it's certainly a centerpiece of the process.
Yeah, probably. LolNow your in real trouble.
Very cool months-in follow-up coyote, thanks.
I absolutely love the 408 bridge pup in single-coil mode for bluesy stuff. It's the perfect combination of fatness, roundness and bite for my ears.
Because of the nature of the 408s, agreed that its certainly a more subtle difference in single vs. humbucker mode than a traditional split or tap...if I have been playing my stratty guitars for a few days and then pick up a 408, I sometimes have to look down at the mini toggles to double check which mode I am in until my ears get used to it again.
Being fortunate enough to have several 408s of varying configurations and woods (Paul's Guitars included) I have found a huge difference in the degree of variation of single vs bucker with the woods (based solely on the neck pickup which they all have in common). My two with the most immediately noticeable difference are my Paul's and my 408 semi-hollow. The two with the least are my 408 Brazilian and my PS Paul's (where I think the lower mids emphasis cancels out some of the more instantly-recognizable single coil traits. The Siggys sit somewhere in between them.
Glad you are inspired to break out the other instruments again. My talent/inspiration doesn't stray beyond six string steel acoustic and the occasional bass...
Sooo..... a couple months in with the 408, and here's my experience so far.
First off, it's a gorgeous instrument that sounds great and plays beautifully. I have a few things I'd like different - for example, I'd like more variation in the sounds provided by the coil tap switches, and perhaps a fuller bottom end when the tone control is rolled off - but those are minor quibbles. Overall I'm very pleased with my purchase.
Dunno, I'll have to research it. Interesting if true.Very cool follow-up!
Isn't there a cap in the circuit? Maybe changing the cap value could give you the fuller sound you want. I'm no expert on that, so you might want to get a bag of salt to go with that...
Been playing it a lot the past few days after these posts.... I decided that it doesn't make sense to try to modify the instrument. The tone is the tone, and is unique and interesting. My job is not to try to make this 408 sound like any of my other guitars; my job is to make it sing as-is. And the more I play it, the more comfortable I'm getting.... and the better it is sounding.Isn't there a cap in the circuit? Maybe changing the cap value could give you the fuller sound you want. I'm no expert on that, so you might want to get a bag of salt to go with that...
Been playing it a lot the past few days after these posts.... I decided that it doesn't make sense to try to modify the instrument. The tone is the tone, and is unique and interesting. My job is not to try to make this 408 sound like any of my other guitars; my job is to make it sing as-is. And the more I play it, the more comfortable I'm getting.... and the better it is sounding.