What's your ideal 3-guitar PRS quiver within the current core line-up?

[Bogner]

3 Of Anything With A Wide Fat Neck And A Wrap Bridge And I Can Survive If I Have To With A Time Machine.

 

[Chops]

1) Custom 24
2) Custom 22
3) Special Semi Hollow

 

[DISTORT6]

McCarty (NOT 594)
Hollowbody II Piezo
Paul’s Guitar

The only ones with a neck shape and bridge that would work for me.

I would like to remove the McCarty and add the 40th Anniversary Dragon.

 

[LerxstFan]

The three I play most often:

1) DGT PS Stoptail
2) 59/09 McRosie
3) '85 Tribute CU24

 

[Glide-bpm]

How about I just take all 35 guitars in one night??? aCk!!! Thfbbbttt!!!




(I'll need roadies...)

 

[guitar_man_man_man]

Just went through and counted votes for anyone curious - non-current-core model votes were excluded (sorry!):

Cu24 Floyd - 4

Cu24 - 12

Cu24 Piezo - 2

Cu24-08 - 2

HBII Piezo - 18

McCarty - 13

594 DC - 8

594 SC - 16

594 HBII - 3

MEV - 14

SSH - 7

Studio - 9

DGT - 16

DGT SH - 5

Santana - 15

Tremonti - 5

Paul's Guitar - 7

Silver sky - 11

Fiore - 4

MK - 2

NF-53 - 7

So looks like the Top 3 are:
HBII Piezo
DGT
594SC
With honorable mentions of:
Santana
MEV
McCarty
Cu24
Silver sky

 

[zsears]

594 hollowbody ii
Paul's guitar
Silver Sky

 

[Markcarl]

Studio
NF53
DGT

 

[Glide-bpm]

408
509
MEV
Santana
DGT
Two heavily modded SE CU24's with different pickups
Myles Kennedy
NF53
SE NF3

 

[DISTORT6]

My list would be wayyyy longer if this was a "Non-current core line-up" post.

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[László]

I make a living with this stuff, and could do 100% of my ad music work with only the DGT and one amp.

Clients care more about what notes I play, and how the notes are played, than what guitar I play. As it should be.

Having more than one is just an inspiration package. Maybe that's as it should be, too.

 

[Steve's addiction]

Custom 24
HB II Piezo
DGT

 

[guitar_man_man_man]

I make a living with this stuff, and could do 100% of my ad music work with only the DGT and one amp.

Clients care more about what notes I play, and how the notes are played, than what guitar I play. As it should be.

Having more than one is just an inspiration package. Maybe that's as it should be, too.

What would you say are the main tones you get out of it that cover your bases?

 

[László]

What would you say are the main tones you get out of it that cover your bases?

In the work I do, covering bases isn't a thing.

I write the pieces, and produce them. As long as the melodies and rhythms fit, everyone's happy. So I just go for tone I like. Mostly I find myself recording with bridge pickups in humbucker mode, though I have a few amps for different types of parts.

I have, however, fired myself from several gigs over the years, but that was based on needing a better player.

 

[dmatthews]

I like more than 3 guitars...

 

[László]

I like more than 3 guitars...

I like both oysters and snails, Spartacus.

 

[dmatthews]

I like both oysters and snails, Spartacus.

He likes tasty things you know
A mollusk, or an escargot...

 

[Alnus Rubra]

I like both oysters and snails, Spartacus.

He likes tasty things you know
A mollusk, or an escargot...

“I’m Spartacus and so is my wife!”

 

[guitar_man_man_man]

In the work I do, covering bases isn't a thing.

I write the pieces, and produce them. As long as the melodies and rhythms fit, everyone's happy. So I just go for tone I like. Mostly I find myself recording with bridge pickups in humbucker mode, though I have a few amps for different types of parts.

I have, however, fired myself from several gigs over the years, but that was based on needing a better player.

I think one of your other responses was a 594 SC, any reason you prefer to use the DGT over that?

 

[László]

I think one of your other responses was a 594 SC, any reason you prefer to use the DGT over that?

It’s actually a McCarty Singlecut, part of a 2014 Private Stock run, so it’s a little different in a few details from a 594 (which I’ve also had a couple of). The body of the McSC is thicker, and it's a slab without a belly cut; the scale length is 24.5 instead of 24.594; the bridge is aluminum instead of zinc; the fretboard is Madagascar rosewood, and the pickups are specially wound 57/08s. It has the Pattern neck and not the Pattern Vintage of the 594. An interesting small detail is that the birds are ivory from a prehistoric Woolly Mammoth tusk, which is unusual enough to merit mention.

The pickups on the McCarty SC don't split (not that I use splits very often).

I give it love often. It's been here for ten years, and I've only had the DGT for a year; I'm still learning a lot about the DGT, so part of it is the novelty of the DGT and part of it is that I'm ten years older and sometimes the McSC gets a little heavy!

This is the guitar; you can see lots of similarities to the 594 SC.

Below is the DGT. I love the neck and the pickups. The fretboard is Brazilian rosewood, giving it a lot of snap and cut. so it's a great all-arounder. The trem gives it a touch more flexibility than the McSC. I think the 25" scale might impart a bit more twang on the low strings, and the pickups split.

But part of this, as I said, is that I'm learning its ways and I've been concentrating on it as part of discovering how to use it. Part of that concentration is that I reach for it a bit more often out of recent habit, really.