New 2020 PRS SC594 smokes 50s LPs

Twinfan

Discuss... 

Kittyfrisk

Hang on, just need to turn off the phone & get the popcorn made 

Boromedic

The PRS sounds great, but birds...........

On a serious note Tim is an amazing guitarist and a big chunk of that tone is in his hands for me. I'm pretty sure if he'd used my R8 in that video it would've sounded as good, my Les Paul standard not so much but in the ballpark for sure. There's plenty of options out there for 59 style tones from loads of manufacturers, and for me I prefer it to say Gibson on the headstock. PRS make great guitars that's for sure though.

Twinfan

Did you watch the whole video, including the Howard Leese part?

Boromedic

Yeah, but the same rules apply really as clearly Howard is also a great guitarist. So tone is in his hands, I'll be honest I couldn't hear much difference when Tim was going on about the PRS sounds the same but has more, they sounded like very similar guitars. 

EricTheWeary

I watched that over the weekend ( not the whole of the weekend, I'm just trying to get across that I haven't watched it today - I didn't spend my entire weekend watching a single youtube video on repeat). I had it on the big telly so the sound is okay rather than hi fi but better than just through my iPad speaker. 
As a viewer/ listener it was pretty much pointless. That one sounds like a guitar, that one sounds like a guitar that's quite like it and so on. However, if you want a modern guitar that sounds like a nice vintage Les Paul then PRS seem to have done it, even slightly improved it from a player's point of view ( that clip with the Alright Now guitar sounds awful although I'm sure that's the recording). That'll be a £4k guitar? I think reasonably that should be a nice guitar. 

Twinfan

Boromedic said:

they sounded like very similar guitars. 

That's the whole point, is it not 

Boromedic

Aye! But like I said, so does my R8

Twinfan

Of course, makes for a good marketing video though doesn't it 

To me, the PRS sounds just as "good".  I'm very impressed.

mburekenge

Tim is a great player and the majority of his content is world  class. The blatent promotion he does of PRS is a bit much IMO

richardhomer

I posted this clip in the other PRS thread. I watched on a decent sized TV - it seems to me that the PRS does indeed ‘nail it’.....

fretmeister

Just watched this with my studio monitors.

They are so close that it's pointless to pick on tone. And obviously with a video I don't know which guitar feels better in the hands.

Skipped

Tom Wittrock says that isn't a 'Burst.

PFAllen2

mburekenge said:

Tim is a great player and the majority of his content is world  class. The blatent promotion he does of PRS is a bit much IMO

At least he isn't saying buy a $400k unobtainable guitar

guitarfishbay

fretmeister said:

Just watched this with my studio monitors.

They are so close that it's pointless to pick on tone. And obviously with a video I don't know which guitar feels better in the hands.

 The PRS

Twinfan

Skipped said:

Tom Wittrock says that isn't a 'Burst.

Interesting

earwighoney

PRS or Gibson? 

Nah, I'd take a Harley Benton everytime. 

chrisj1602

Nobody buys a burst thinking it’s going to be $200,000 better a guitar than a new one though... do they?

Twinfan

Maybe not, but people do claim they sound better.

Schnozz

Well, I've bought mine.

RandallFlagg

Regardless of sound, PRS guitars finish doesn't feel as nice as a nitro finished Gibson