PRS DGT SE incoming...

alanohagan

I do wonder why they can’t simply ship the USA pickups to Indonesia and have done with it but apart from that it looks epic 

photek

Looking good so far, Goldtop, moons  

Kylef

Looks like a maple neck Silver Sky SE on the way too. 

richardhomer

alanohagan said:

I do wonder why they can’t simply ship the USA pickups to Indonesia and have done with it but apart from that it looks epic 

They probably don’t want people buying a cheaper version to harvest the pick-ups from.

guitargeek62

alanohagan said:

I do wonder why they can’t simply ship the USA pickups to Indonesia and have done with it but apart from that it looks epic 

Cost, and brand protection.

Philly_Q

richardhomer said:

alanohagan said:

I do wonder why they can’t simply ship the USA pickups to Indonesia and have done with it but apart from that it looks epic 

They probably don’t want people buying a cheaper version to harvest the pick-ups from.

Indeed.  A set of PRS pickups costs about £500 to buy on their own - but how much could they bump up the price of an SE if it had USA pickups?  Maybe a couple of hundred quid?

alanohagan

Good points ref the pickups 

Grumpyrocker

The video makes it sound like making cheaper versions of the USA pickups is a job akin to the Manhattan Project. 

Kebabkid

Gold Top & Moons is my favourite DGT combo and this just might be my big 6-0 gift to me but the gold finish has to be right 

To date, I've had 2 USA ones (both sold on to satisfy Superstrat yearnings) but this one was a corker

photek

Edit: Pretty sure the flame top with birds in the link below is a core model…

https://www.gearnews.com/prs-se-dgt-is-potentially-on-the-cards-according-to-dave-grissom/

RaymondLin

photek said:

Edit: Pretty sure the flame top with birds in the link below is a core model…

https://www.gearnews.com/prs-se-dgt-is-potentially-on-the-cards-according-to-dave-grissom/

99% sure it is.

the knobs is USA, but the giveaway clue is the indent of the knobs into the wood.  That isn’t on SE guitars.

Musicman20

They sure know how to milk the hype. You’d think they were engineering the Large Hadron Collider!

roberty

Musicman20 said:

They sure know how to milk the hype. You’d think they were engineering the Large Hadron Collider!

Yeah PRS do marketing well, like everything else

RocknRollDave

Not that I’m even close to being in the market for one, but what is the closest non-trem model to the DGT (was there ever a ‘DG’?!)..? The McCarty?

rivercider

Looking longingly at the goldtop with moons and waiting for confirmation it has jumbo frets, when I'll be 100% sold on it. There rarely seem to be any SEs or S2s with jumbos, other than (I think) a very occasional 'metal' sig model.
Wouldn't mind but all the SEs and S2s I've owned have had rather low frets compared to my Fenders or even Gibsons, otherwise I'd probably still have them.

TimmyO

RocknRollDave said:

Not that I’m even close to being in the market for one, but what is the closest non-trem model to the DGT (was there ever a ‘DG’?!)..? The McCarty?

There were a couple of special runs of fixed bridge DGTs (they still called them DGTs) but not many out there.

Depends on what the defining feature is for you - dual volumes, pickups, body and/or headstock thickness? I think all those features bar the pickups are now somewhere else in the PRS lineup - when the DGT came out that wouldn’t have been the case - the McCarty was still a single doublecut model back then.

The Bernie Marsden SE model has dual volume, single tone and a fixed bridge.

Batman-GMT

roberty said:

Musicman20 said:

They sure know how to milk the hype. You’d think they were engineering the Large Hadron Collider!

Yeah PRS do marketing well, like everything else

‘Paul reed smith ENDS the particle acceleration debate’ 

chrisj1602

Two videos later and not one clear image.. just show us the f*cking thing!!!

Musicman20

chrisj1602 said:

Two videos later and not one clear image.. just show us the f*cking thing!!!

I agree…

It’s a bloody import budget version of a high end guitar. 12 months after it’s release it’ll be on sale like almost all SEs. Not saying it won’t be good but theyll be plenty of these and everyone who wants one can get one. 

I’ve never touched a silver sky SE but I think the idea is great at £600. A few friends tried them and said at £850 they were very overpriced and didn’t fulfil the hype, but they were decent.

Just don’t get caught in the hype. 

skinfreak

I think the hype is somewhat justified if they take the core features of the DGT over to SE. Prs tend to tweak the offering of the SE a bit and genericise the end result. So will they include the neck carve, jumbo frets and the 11-49 strings? It's nagging me that they wont. Just like the silver sky, if they tweak something to make it more standardised then they screw with the formula.

The other thing is the way that they have the pickups recreated means they are going to change the tone profile a bit. I'm less bothered about that as this is a ripe area for modding.