sergiodeblanc
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I'm one of those guys that loves the sound of Strats but hates Strats... You know the type, you may even be one yourself. Over 30 years I must've bought (without exaggerating) at least 10 different S-type guitars. Not superstrats or anything, like, ten different guitars that had the same bridge, pup configuration, and knob and switch layout. And in the end, they all got traded or sold (or worse) in my quest to "kinda" like them.
So when I went "all in" on PRS a few years ago, I did the usual rounds of checking out their "Fender" guitars; the EG, SAS, the 305, the NF3, and then the 513... Some were closer than others, and some of them really only looked like what you'd think they were supposed to sound like, but at the end of the day I felt like my modded CE was closer than they were to capturing the "Fender" vibe I (personally) was looking for.
I had figured between the CE 22 that did "Tele", the modded KL33 that approximated the "Strat" neck position, and the other CE and SE "O" that kinda did the in-between "Strat" sounds,I was covered... but never in one guitar... and I guess I thought I could live with that.
Then my birthday rolled around and I got the green light for a guitar within a certain budget. I sent my girl a bunch of Reverb links and..
Boom!
These are rad guitars. The neck pup is glorious, the in-betweens are there, and the switch and knob placement is totally right for me. Beefy bolt on neck with big frets, and steel components in the bridge that won't tear your hand up.
It came with wimpy strings that made me feel like He-Man for most of the weekend, and once I put a set of 10's on there the tone... I'm happy, even though like the other of PRS's F-style offerings it seems more designed for dirty tones than clean, still this is the closest of them all to what I needed to feel and hear.
Now to do something about that tobacco burst...
And those tuners....
So when I went "all in" on PRS a few years ago, I did the usual rounds of checking out their "Fender" guitars; the EG, SAS, the 305, the NF3, and then the 513... Some were closer than others, and some of them really only looked like what you'd think they were supposed to sound like, but at the end of the day I felt like my modded CE was closer than they were to capturing the "Fender" vibe I (personally) was looking for.
I had figured between the CE 22 that did "Tele", the modded KL33 that approximated the "Strat" neck position, and the other CE and SE "O" that kinda did the in-between "Strat" sounds,I was covered... but never in one guitar... and I guess I thought I could live with that.
Then my birthday rolled around and I got the green light for a guitar within a certain budget. I sent my girl a bunch of Reverb links and..
Boom!
These are rad guitars. The neck pup is glorious, the in-betweens are there, and the switch and knob placement is totally right for me. Beefy bolt on neck with big frets, and steel components in the bridge that won't tear your hand up.
It came with wimpy strings that made me feel like He-Man for most of the weekend, and once I put a set of 10's on there the tone... I'm happy, even though like the other of PRS's F-style offerings it seems more designed for dirty tones than clean, still this is the closest of them all to what I needed to feel and hear.
Now to do something about that tobacco burst...
And those tuners....
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