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Over Thanksgiving I stopped at the local GC and saw a DC3 hanging in the used guitar area. For a used guitar, this one was really clean. A little light swirling on the pickguard, otherwise not a mark or a scratch anywhere.
At first I was saddened that I'd have to pass on this guitar. I'm still paying off the PRS guitars I got on clearance at GC last winter and early spring. With 18 month financing, I'll be paying for them all through next year.
But then I convinced myself that some other things I'm making payments on will be paid off in a few months, I might get a year-end bonus from work, and I have some other gear for sale to raise funds, so I went back and got the DC3.
Before I closed the deal, I went in their Platinum room and A/Bed the guitar with some of the USA Deluxe Strats they had hanging in there. The DC3 is not really the same kind of thing at all. That glassy sparkly high end you hear from a Strat is not there. The low end is not as throaty or expansive. Most of the energy is in the midrange. I bought it for what it was - a great playing guitar with its own voice.
A few days after I got it, I realized that the pickup that has a more mellow high end, tighter bass, and heavy mids is the P90. I was curious and did a home tone shootout between the DC3 and my MJ guitars Groovemaster. Sure enough, I think they sound quite similar.
All over the web, there are people drawing comparisons between the DC3 and the Strat. Paul and his design team are probably shaking their heads or rolling their eyes at how people tend to hear with their eyes and not their ears. :iamconfused:
Anyway, here is the DC3 with the guitar I found it sounds most similar to.
And here is a shot of the PRS bunch at my place:
Yes, I don't have one with standard humbuckers. I play some Hamers and they cover the dual humbucker base well. But when PRS introduced the 305, I was interested. The seafoam green one was my first PRS, purchased in 2011.
There's also much discussion around the web about the DC3's aesthetics. The pickguard shape is a little odd at first, reminding me of some 70's off brand guitar or one of Gibson's 70's oddballs. But I think even the private stock PRS's have a bit of a 1970's look, and I don't mean that in a bad way at all, as well as older classic elements, and more modern touches. And in person, the DC3 in the red smokeburst finish is quite striking. I even like the "total eclipse" inlays.
The neck is very comfortable, with rounded fretboard edges - one of the little details I find on PRS guitars that make them feel like old friends - and perfect fretwork.
At first I was saddened that I'd have to pass on this guitar. I'm still paying off the PRS guitars I got on clearance at GC last winter and early spring. With 18 month financing, I'll be paying for them all through next year.
But then I convinced myself that some other things I'm making payments on will be paid off in a few months, I might get a year-end bonus from work, and I have some other gear for sale to raise funds, so I went back and got the DC3.
Before I closed the deal, I went in their Platinum room and A/Bed the guitar with some of the USA Deluxe Strats they had hanging in there. The DC3 is not really the same kind of thing at all. That glassy sparkly high end you hear from a Strat is not there. The low end is not as throaty or expansive. Most of the energy is in the midrange. I bought it for what it was - a great playing guitar with its own voice.
A few days after I got it, I realized that the pickup that has a more mellow high end, tighter bass, and heavy mids is the P90. I was curious and did a home tone shootout between the DC3 and my MJ guitars Groovemaster. Sure enough, I think they sound quite similar.
All over the web, there are people drawing comparisons between the DC3 and the Strat. Paul and his design team are probably shaking their heads or rolling their eyes at how people tend to hear with their eyes and not their ears. :iamconfused:
Anyway, here is the DC3 with the guitar I found it sounds most similar to.
And here is a shot of the PRS bunch at my place:
Yes, I don't have one with standard humbuckers. I play some Hamers and they cover the dual humbucker base well. But when PRS introduced the 305, I was interested. The seafoam green one was my first PRS, purchased in 2011.
There's also much discussion around the web about the DC3's aesthetics. The pickguard shape is a little odd at first, reminding me of some 70's off brand guitar or one of Gibson's 70's oddballs. But I think even the private stock PRS's have a bit of a 1970's look, and I don't mean that in a bad way at all, as well as older classic elements, and more modern touches. And in person, the DC3 in the red smokeburst finish is quite striking. I even like the "total eclipse" inlays.
The neck is very comfortable, with rounded fretboard edges - one of the little details I find on PRS guitars that make them feel like old friends - and perfect fretwork.
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