Gary Bloom
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- Aug 14, 2024
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Got myself a new PRS MEV this week, wood library in yellow tiger with smoked black hardware, ziricote fingerboard and paua old school birds. I really like the smoked black hardware and black pickup rings, I think it gives it a bit of an aggressive and meaner look. The paua birds look great against the chocolate brown ziricote board.
I'm settling in with it and after some tweaking I have the pickups volume balanced to where I like them and I really like the 2 TCI pickups in humbucker mode and the 2nd position bridge humbucker/middle, that's a really convincing Strat in-between tone. I'm not so keen on the 3 single coil sounds on their own but they may have their uses at some point. The bridge pickup takes higher gain well, quite aggresive and focussed.
The one thing I'm not quite so happy with is the bone nut, I'm getting some pops and clicks and tuning issues as the nut is binding on the 3rd & 4th strings. I have added some nut sauce and that has helped but I think I may swap the nut out for one the regular PRS black self lubricating nuts at some point. Tuning is a bit twitchy when using the trem with the stock bone nut.
Also, string tension feels quite loose with 0.010 gauge strings so I might try .011s to stiffen things up a bit.
I'm settling in with it and after some tweaking I have the pickups volume balanced to where I like them and I really like the 2 TCI pickups in humbucker mode and the 2nd position bridge humbucker/middle, that's a really convincing Strat in-between tone. I'm not so keen on the 3 single coil sounds on their own but they may have their uses at some point. The bridge pickup takes higher gain well, quite aggresive and focussed.
The one thing I'm not quite so happy with is the bone nut, I'm getting some pops and clicks and tuning issues as the nut is binding on the 3rd & 4th strings. I have added some nut sauce and that has helped but I think I may swap the nut out for one the regular PRS black self lubricating nuts at some point. Tuning is a bit twitchy when using the trem with the stock bone nut.
Also, string tension feels quite loose with 0.010 gauge strings so I might try .011s to stiffen things up a bit.
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