.............I was surprised to learn that Paul Kossoff's '59 Les Paul (owned by a private party) has an original old Seymour Duncan pickup installed decades ago in England when Kossoff owned the guitar. Howard Leese said that SD pickup is very hot.
Well, it's good to know that a new PRS can sound as good as a fake burst! :laugh2:
...And probably a fake goldtop. Finish doesn't look right to me on that one either.
This video reeked BS from the start.
Out of curiosity when you refer to a "fake burst" do you mean a chibson ?
So, forget about what people tell you, and use your own judgement.
Well said. I own a strat, a Les Paul and a PRS. In the past I have owned a genuine burst. They are all different breeds of the same animal. I like them all for the variety of music I can produce with them. A burst is only as good as the person that plays it. ANY guitar is only as good as the person that plays it. We are talking about guitars here, not football teams. To start questioning the credibility of people like Howard Leese and Tim Pierce just to protect a sacred cow is a bit grimy I think.I listened to the vid through ATC's in a treated room and also though reference electrostatic headphones. Both I'd consider accurate transducers. The first clips sound overly processed and lack any kind of depth. The later clips are a little better. Bottom line the guitars sound more similar than not. Interesting video I guess.
What I don't understand is why some people get so defensive when videos are posted that don't seem to vindicate a point of view that there is some great tonal chasm either between Les Paul and PRS or new and vintage Les Pauls, etc. As if is wasn't about Jimmy, Duane, Eric or Pete but rather the tool they used.
Back to the video, while each guitar in that video has its unique tone, there is no easily identifiable qualitative difference between them. I could make stuff up, attack the recording gear, the amp, pretend my ears or so cultured that they can discern nuances that even elude canines but I think I'd just be kidding myself.
And really, what difference does it make anyway? I like Les Pauls, I like my Les Pauls. I don't want a PRS. No video will persuade me otherwise. I don't feel my Les Pauls are less good. I'm not threatened by some video that I feel a need to discredit it. At the end of the day, maybe the PRS aren't tonally as shallow, flat, uninspiring and derivative as I liked to believe even if their styling still is.
I own a PRS CE22 and CE24 from the 90's and these are really great guitars. These two are definitely keepers.
In the last 5 years I bought a PRS DGT, PRS NF3 and PRS DC3. All three of these were made either in 2011 or 2012. All three were complete duds. They lacked harmonic complexity, were unresponsive and dull. I would pick them up and play for 5 minutes and put the guitar back in the case because no magic ever happened on these guitar for me. I sold all three and I'm pretty much in the camp of I'll never own another PRS.
For me it is not so much about how the guitar sounds, but how it responds to varying input.
Curious if Tim was sponsored by PRS?