...well clearly it was due to low sales. Or maybe not so clearly? Maybe they were expensive to make (the Studio model)? Maybe just not cost effective to manufacture another bobbin and everything?
I played my Studio yesterday in about 300degree direct sweat-drenched sunshine.
WARNING: This is all just a bunch of sickening love for a certain guitar model. It's not even really worth reading. The moral of it all is..if you ever see a PRS Studio from the 2000teens, TEST it out.!!!
I've been loving a wee MESA 5:25 Express lately because it's so light and little and versatile and tuneful. I wont be bringing it to any more local outdoor stages though. It was not thoroughly enjoying the Studio's neck NF pickup all that much. Those NF pickups can really make some bottom end. BOOM.
Don't want to change the volume pot or change it's resistance. I could run an EQ pedal or cut some bottom with my clean boost pedal (Dingotone HZD. If you ever see one snatch it up) but that's a PITA. I don't want to have to do even more tapdancing.
God I'm dumb. Overthinking as usual. It isn't rocket appliances. It's just a magnet and some steel wires in it's field. Just lower the pickup a bit.
I remember experimenting with height when I first got this guitar and was trying to make the covered 57/08 keep up to the output of the 57/08NFs. That ended in a pickup swap.
Lowering the NFs reduces their output a bit and does yank some bottom out of their voices but adjustable/threaded pole pieces would serve better to "thin" them out a bit.
Regardless, sucking them down a bit made the tiny mesa quite a bit happier at higher volumes.
After ALL that, I walked-away with an invigorated love for the Studio. Not that I didn't always love it but I just get reminded like this once in a while.
About 2 months ago my drummer (who is a guitar player) got on it at a jam. He is a PRS anti-fanboy. He plays a Wolfgang and loves EVH. He REALLY doesn't like the WF carves.
The rehearsal after that jam Dean was..."hey what guitar was that? cause MAN that thing was AWESOME! It couldn't be the one with the neck I don't like. It's tone was amazing and it was in tune EVERYWHERE on the neck and that is something that really lights my fire...."
I replied with a nonchalant "Hmmm. Not sure. All the PRSs intonate beautifully though. That's just another difference in them over a Paul or Fender.." ...oh, he also has and likes a Strat and Paul both that I sold him.
At a jam 2 weeks before that I get off the stage (floor) and I get accosted by 3 or 4 guitar players saying GEEZUS that PRS sounds amazing. It's an American one right?
Depends which you mean cause I was playing an American and a Korean one. BOTH but especially the blue one and it's SO beautiful (the Studio).
That had been happening at the last several small-venued shows and each time I also replied saying that no, these are the same guitars I always play. The difference is that little Mesa amp I got in a trade recently. That thing is RIDICULOUS.
Funny thing is though, even with the 5:25, the accostations(?) only happened when I played the Studio. At the jams that I was NOT hosting and brought a CU or Tremonti SE Custom or McCarty or '94 CE24...my point is that with all of my other PRSs whether old, new, American or Korean, the "OMG that thing sounds AMAZING!!!"s are fewer.
I think that had PRS stuck with the NF loaded guitars and the Studio in particular (its the only NF guitar I've played) long enough to get a few out there and/or had they put some into some big-name hands..
Idk man. It's just really strange that a guitar...no, a PRS that is SO versatile and heavenly sounding, was discontinued SO fast. What was it? 2 years of production?
People will scream blasphemy but I played strats ALL my life. So for literally over 40 years. I have gigged strats for 49 years!!! I know how I sound with one. Heck I know how I sound with about a hundred strats.
I know their voices and personalities and feel and vibe. I know HSS strats.
A PRS Studio is just an objectively BETTER guitar in every way. It isn't even subjective.
It will sound and feel like a strat so much that <0.0001% of your audiences will scream THAT IS NOT A FENDER!!! I think that the stock 57/08 when split might even sound as weak and thin as a strat's stock sc bridge pickup. lol. Sorry fellas and girls. It just didn't work for me. Then again neither has any stock strat sc bridge pup so....hmm. It's THAT close lol.
Ladies and Gentlemen. If you EVER see a PRS Studio. The 2011 or 2012-ish versions, TRY IT!
This guitar is a jack of all trades and master of all of em. Uhum. EXCEPT a P90.
They might even be inexpensive since they didn't really catch-on.
I've been telling a drummer and co-member of a Summer side-project, Dude you NEED to buy a wicked set of shells. Get your DREAM kit. You have all the awesome hardware and cymbals already. It isn't expensive. This is what you DO. It's what defines you.
Hey do you know Dereyl?
Dereyl who?
Dereyl D.
?
Dereyl with the white van, long hair, kinda funny looking cause he's 7' tall and 120lbs with flaming orange and blue afro. He's the only albino in this small town. You know.
No.
Hmmm...let's see...oh I know... Dereyl the drummer.
Oh THAT Dereyl. Why didn't you SAY so?
I said to him, if a genie fell out of a tree next to me and said "I will grant you whatever rig you want in the whole world. To play not to re-sell and make a fortune so let's take a mint '59 burst into a mint offset '63 Marshall prototype off the table RIGHT now."
My wish would be... no thanks. I'm good already.
TRY a PRS studio if you get a chance.
Sorry for the lengthy advertisement. No I do not have a PRS for sale lol.
I played my Studio yesterday in about 300degree direct sweat-drenched sunshine.
WARNING: This is all just a bunch of sickening love for a certain guitar model. It's not even really worth reading. The moral of it all is..if you ever see a PRS Studio from the 2000teens, TEST it out.!!!
I've been loving a wee MESA 5:25 Express lately because it's so light and little and versatile and tuneful. I wont be bringing it to any more local outdoor stages though. It was not thoroughly enjoying the Studio's neck NF pickup all that much. Those NF pickups can really make some bottom end. BOOM.
Don't want to change the volume pot or change it's resistance. I could run an EQ pedal or cut some bottom with my clean boost pedal (Dingotone HZD. If you ever see one snatch it up) but that's a PITA. I don't want to have to do even more tapdancing.
God I'm dumb. Overthinking as usual. It isn't rocket appliances. It's just a magnet and some steel wires in it's field. Just lower the pickup a bit.
I remember experimenting with height when I first got this guitar and was trying to make the covered 57/08 keep up to the output of the 57/08NFs. That ended in a pickup swap.
Lowering the NFs reduces their output a bit and does yank some bottom out of their voices but adjustable/threaded pole pieces would serve better to "thin" them out a bit.
Regardless, sucking them down a bit made the tiny mesa quite a bit happier at higher volumes.
After ALL that, I walked-away with an invigorated love for the Studio. Not that I didn't always love it but I just get reminded like this once in a while.
About 2 months ago my drummer (who is a guitar player) got on it at a jam. He is a PRS anti-fanboy. He plays a Wolfgang and loves EVH. He REALLY doesn't like the WF carves.
The rehearsal after that jam Dean was..."hey what guitar was that? cause MAN that thing was AWESOME! It couldn't be the one with the neck I don't like. It's tone was amazing and it was in tune EVERYWHERE on the neck and that is something that really lights my fire...."
I replied with a nonchalant "Hmmm. Not sure. All the PRSs intonate beautifully though. That's just another difference in them over a Paul or Fender.." ...oh, he also has and likes a Strat and Paul both that I sold him.
At a jam 2 weeks before that I get off the stage (floor) and I get accosted by 3 or 4 guitar players saying GEEZUS that PRS sounds amazing. It's an American one right?
Depends which you mean cause I was playing an American and a Korean one. BOTH but especially the blue one and it's SO beautiful (the Studio).
That had been happening at the last several small-venued shows and each time I also replied saying that no, these are the same guitars I always play. The difference is that little Mesa amp I got in a trade recently. That thing is RIDICULOUS.
Funny thing is though, even with the 5:25, the accostations(?) only happened when I played the Studio. At the jams that I was NOT hosting and brought a CU or Tremonti SE Custom or McCarty or '94 CE24...my point is that with all of my other PRSs whether old, new, American or Korean, the "OMG that thing sounds AMAZING!!!"s are fewer.
I think that had PRS stuck with the NF loaded guitars and the Studio in particular (its the only NF guitar I've played) long enough to get a few out there and/or had they put some into some big-name hands..
Idk man. It's just really strange that a guitar...no, a PRS that is SO versatile and heavenly sounding, was discontinued SO fast. What was it? 2 years of production?
People will scream blasphemy but I played strats ALL my life. So for literally over 40 years. I have gigged strats for 49 years!!! I know how I sound with one. Heck I know how I sound with about a hundred strats.
I know their voices and personalities and feel and vibe. I know HSS strats.
A PRS Studio is just an objectively BETTER guitar in every way. It isn't even subjective.
It will sound and feel like a strat so much that <0.0001% of your audiences will scream THAT IS NOT A FENDER!!! I think that the stock 57/08 when split might even sound as weak and thin as a strat's stock sc bridge pickup. lol. Sorry fellas and girls. It just didn't work for me. Then again neither has any stock strat sc bridge pup so....hmm. It's THAT close lol.
Ladies and Gentlemen. If you EVER see a PRS Studio. The 2011 or 2012-ish versions, TRY IT!
This guitar is a jack of all trades and master of all of em. Uhum. EXCEPT a P90.
They might even be inexpensive since they didn't really catch-on.
I've been telling a drummer and co-member of a Summer side-project, Dude you NEED to buy a wicked set of shells. Get your DREAM kit. You have all the awesome hardware and cymbals already. It isn't expensive. This is what you DO. It's what defines you.
Hey do you know Dereyl?
Dereyl who?
Dereyl D.
?
Dereyl with the white van, long hair, kinda funny looking cause he's 7' tall and 120lbs with flaming orange and blue afro. He's the only albino in this small town. You know.
No.
Hmmm...let's see...oh I know... Dereyl the drummer.
Oh THAT Dereyl. Why didn't you SAY so?
I said to him, if a genie fell out of a tree next to me and said "I will grant you whatever rig you want in the whole world. To play not to re-sell and make a fortune so let's take a mint '59 burst into a mint offset '63 Marshall prototype off the table RIGHT now."
My wish would be... no thanks. I'm good already.
TRY a PRS studio if you get a chance.
Sorry for the lengthy advertisement. No I do not have a PRS for sale lol.
