PRS Switching: Blade vs Toggle vs Rotary

Which do you prefer?

  • Blade

    Votes: 11 19.3%
  • Toggle

    Votes: 42 73.7%
  • Rotary

    Votes: 4 7.0%

  • Total voters
    57
My favorite system is the big toggle plus mini toggles arrangement on the Paul's Guitar. Second favorite would be the 594 setup. I've never cared for the extra sounds a 5-way offers, so that's no loss in my mind.
 
I like the sounds the rotary switch gives you. I hate the rotary switch itself. I find it difficult to twist it during a song and get it where I want it. I have only owned 1 PRS with the rotary switch, I still have it. I much prefer the blade switch, which gives you the same or very similar tones. I have played many strats over the years and am used to the blade. The middle ground for me is the 3 way toggle with a coil tap. I would take a 3 way toggle or 5 way blade before the rotary. I would probably take the blade over the rotary just for the out of phase tones that get into some strat territory.
 
How About A Single Humbucker McCarty With No Switch And A Single Volume Knob And No Switches or Blades, etc.? :)
 
Depends on the guitar.

I like the toggle, the toggle/minis, the blade and blade/miinis best, because they're easy to work with and I can switch by feel very quickly. I always know where I am.

I don't have a preference between the toggle, the toggle/minis, the blade/minis and the blade. I guess all of them work for me and are functional, but each one seems to go naturally with different models.
 
I wonder why they changed over to the blade switch. It is much easier to drill a hole than cut a slot and two holes, although cnc makes this a non-issue I guess. Still, it seems to be and unpopular choice.
 
I don't mind a blade on a strat or a tele, but I dislike the implementation of the blade on a core PRS. The location isn't the best and I don't like seeing a beautiful maple top sliced through like that.
 
Toggle with coil splitting capabilities. I don't mind the blade switch for recording purposes, either. I used the rotary switch for years and I've grown to not be a fan of it.
 
I like the blade, but I come from decades of playing Strats. The blade with the pull-up coil split on the tone pot is really intuitive for me.
 
I don't mind a blade or a toggle myself, but couldn't get used to the Rotary at all. I think it also depends on what you get used to, what other instruments you are used to playing etc. The biggest issue I have with swapping between guitars is getting used to a different layout. If you are used to a Les Paul type layout with the toggle at the top, a blade anywhere along the bottom is not so easy to get used to.

I prefer mini-toggles to push/pull pots - it's also easier to see at a quick glance what position these switches are in and easier to use with hot sweaty fingers. That being said, its not a deal breaker for me.
 
Toggle. I hate my blade switch, except for my SS. It makes sense to have it there.

If I was just playing in my house it wouldn't matter, but for gigging simpler is betterer!
Yup. I don't gig with my old CE22's because of the rotary switch.

I love those guitars and the sounds that the rotary switch provides. But instantly finding the 2, 3 and 4 settings is almost impossible for me onstage and a PITA with the rotary switch.

I usually gig with my Strat or Silver Sky.
 
My first PRS was a CU 24 with the 5-position rotary switch - hated it - when I was playing on stage my hands would be sweaty and I could not know for sure if I had a good grasp on that knob to turn it, most often it just slipped around in my hand - I sold that guitar and got a McCarty and life was good.
 
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