Gyakuto
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My PRS is a bit of a departure from my usual style of guitar and I decided to get my J-Custom out to assess the differences between the two beauties.
1. The J Custom has such a thin neck (super wizard)! I didn’t realise how thin until playing it after the PRS who’s neck (Pattern regular) is much more substantial. The Ibanez neck ‘puts your fingers on the fretboard’ and so lends itself to shredding whereas the PRS is a more, ‘thumb-over-the-neck’ style playing.
2. The Ibanez is huge (I’m not a large person) and heavy whereas the PRS it a nicer smaller size and lighter. The angled input jack is much better placed than the PRS’s straight-out-the-side style and means you don’t have to buy angles cables, I suppose.
3. The J Custom pick ups are more scooped sounding whereas the PRS is fuller, more middy.
4. Harmonics just pop out of the J Custom with no effort whereas they have to be carefully coaxed out of the PRS.
That’s about all I can think of. I’m leaning towards preferring the PRS but I’m wishing I had bought one loaded with a Floyd Rose so I can perform whammy bar histrionics, but the PRS hasn’t failed me yet in terms of tuning.
https://flic.kr/p/2k7B4Zo
https://flic.kr/p/2k7B6j2
My PRS is a bit of a departure from my usual style of guitar and I decided to get my J-Custom out to assess the differences between the two beauties.
1. The J Custom has such a thin neck (super wizard)! I didn’t realise how thin until playing it after the PRS who’s neck (Pattern regular) is much more substantial. The Ibanez neck ‘puts your fingers on the fretboard’ and so lends itself to shredding whereas the PRS is a more, ‘thumb-over-the-neck’ style playing.
2. The Ibanez is huge (I’m not a large person) and heavy whereas the PRS it a nicer smaller size and lighter. The angled input jack is much better placed than the PRS’s straight-out-the-side style and means you don’t have to buy angles cables, I suppose.
3. The J Custom pick ups are more scooped sounding whereas the PRS is fuller, more middy.
4. Harmonics just pop out of the J Custom with no effort whereas they have to be carefully coaxed out of the PRS.
That’s about all I can think of. I’m leaning towards preferring the PRS but I’m wishing I had bought one loaded with a Floyd Rose so I can perform whammy bar histrionics, but the PRS hasn’t failed me yet in terms of tuning.