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It has! That was an “Errrrr....it’s staying here, sorry” kind of thing!
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Edit - and to keep the thread on track, I sold my old parts strat straight after the first gig. Sounded and felt great at home but live it sounded weak and lacked sustain, strapped on the old faithful les paul and everything was right with the world. Possibly could have just done with a light boost to help the strat along though but back then I couldn't be arsed with pedals.
The reason I became a P90fool is because I can get that fat single coil sound I hear in my head through pretty well any amp at any volume, and combined with a heavyish Les Paul it just has an authority about it.
I still love my old parts bin Strat, but whenever I gig it I always grab my LP after a couple of songs.
The Strat sounds lovely on its own but in a mix the sound just seems to exit the speaker cab and fall on the floor.
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The experience has also left me a far less fussy guitarist. String spacing, scale lengths, control positions and fretboard radiuses (radii?) hold no fear for me at all now.
@DefaultM you say you play 'them' at home and don't want to sell 'them' - do you mean you have more than 1 LP?
If so, tune 1 to Eb and take them both to the next few gigs and leave the PRS at home. Dial your amp to deal with the darkness and get used to the feel of the LP without the contrast of coming from the PRS. You may well find that half-a-dozen gigs later you've become an LP man!
Many modern guitars sound really nice, a good LP can do that too, but it's those little nuances and subtleties of tone that your playing inflection can bring to the fore that other guitars struggle to do.
You might think I'm talking bollox (highly probable some would say) and indeed some LPs can't do it. But I urge you to give it a few more goes while tweaking your setup to optimise it. We've all become accoustomed to that slightly too perfect sanitised sound of edited modern recordings, let the beast have it's head.