life_with_a_song
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Hi All,
Well, it finally happened--I received my first PRS guitar today, and I think I'm falling for it!
As a little background: I work on guitars professionally, and had three different very nice American-made models come through my shop during the past year-and-a-half. I was amazed at those guitars' overall look, feel, and quality. But then when I would plug them in, I just could not find "my" tones in them that I've come to love and enjoy through the years with my current guitars. I even spent several months learning all that I could about the company, Paul's vision, and the various models themselves, but in the end, decided that they were likely just not for me.
Fast-forward to several weeks ago, when I began turning my attention to the various videos out there talking about and featuring the Fiore. All of that time spent eventually convinced me that I should give this one a try, as I'm a long-time (around 41 years, now) "Strat-style" player. Well, this beauty came in today, and although initially I found myself liking what I was feeling and hearing while playing it, a nagging little something kept working against this . . . until I found myself really coming back to it throughout the day and giving it an honest chance again and again, as I found myself beginning to not only find "my" tones in the guitar, but new interesting tones that I was not expecting!
Here are a couple of surprises that are part of the reason I'm posting here (to make sure I'm not just imagining things):
1. I have never preferred a treble bleed circuit in any guitar before this one. In fact, I've always de-soldered them out of other guitars that I've owned, and happily moved on and enjoyed them more without it, experiencing the treble bleed as retaining too much clarity and high-end as the volume is rolled back. With this Fiore however, it seems that the tone controls are so useful that removing the treble bleed circuit may remove some of what the overall (thoughtful?) circuit was designed to deliver.
2. I have a favorite set of electric strings that I tend to install on all of my electric guitars, but having spent a fair amount of time with the PRS Signatures on this one . . . I'm surprised at how much I am liking them!
Do you guys have any thoughts?
Anyone else become converts to these strings? How do they compare to the Classics?
Any experiences with the treble bleed circuit in this model?
I'm also curious about any experiences you've had with adjusting these pickups. I'm assuming they were adjusted to a certain specified height at the factory, and before I go spending a lot of time exploring this . . . is it just me or are they shipped adjusted to "the ideal" height already?
I know this is a long post, but this being my very first PRS, I'm open to all of the experience that this forum has to offer.
Thanks Guys!
Greg
Well, it finally happened--I received my first PRS guitar today, and I think I'm falling for it!
As a little background: I work on guitars professionally, and had three different very nice American-made models come through my shop during the past year-and-a-half. I was amazed at those guitars' overall look, feel, and quality. But then when I would plug them in, I just could not find "my" tones in them that I've come to love and enjoy through the years with my current guitars. I even spent several months learning all that I could about the company, Paul's vision, and the various models themselves, but in the end, decided that they were likely just not for me.
Fast-forward to several weeks ago, when I began turning my attention to the various videos out there talking about and featuring the Fiore. All of that time spent eventually convinced me that I should give this one a try, as I'm a long-time (around 41 years, now) "Strat-style" player. Well, this beauty came in today, and although initially I found myself liking what I was feeling and hearing while playing it, a nagging little something kept working against this . . . until I found myself really coming back to it throughout the day and giving it an honest chance again and again, as I found myself beginning to not only find "my" tones in the guitar, but new interesting tones that I was not expecting!
Here are a couple of surprises that are part of the reason I'm posting here (to make sure I'm not just imagining things):
1. I have never preferred a treble bleed circuit in any guitar before this one. In fact, I've always de-soldered them out of other guitars that I've owned, and happily moved on and enjoyed them more without it, experiencing the treble bleed as retaining too much clarity and high-end as the volume is rolled back. With this Fiore however, it seems that the tone controls are so useful that removing the treble bleed circuit may remove some of what the overall (thoughtful?) circuit was designed to deliver.
2. I have a favorite set of electric strings that I tend to install on all of my electric guitars, but having spent a fair amount of time with the PRS Signatures on this one . . . I'm surprised at how much I am liking them!
Do you guys have any thoughts?
Anyone else become converts to these strings? How do they compare to the Classics?
Any experiences with the treble bleed circuit in this model?
I'm also curious about any experiences you've had with adjusting these pickups. I'm assuming they were adjusted to a certain specified height at the factory, and before I go spending a lot of time exploring this . . . is it just me or are they shipped adjusted to "the ideal" height already?
I know this is a long post, but this being my very first PRS, I'm open to all of the experience that this forum has to offer.
Thanks Guys!
Greg
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