Re: NGD PRS DC3
That sea foam green one is SICK! How do these single-coil PRS's sound?
The PRS single coils are not as bright and snappy as Fender or Duncan Strat pickups. They have a little more body, and a smoother high end. It's great if you consider typical Strat pickups to be too bright (I redid a track on a song yesterday which when I originally did it on a Strat-type guitar, I was fighting to tame the high end). It's not so great if you like that snap, ping, sparkle and glassy tone that classic Strat pickups have.
I think their midrange character is not that different from the emerald Lace Sensor I have in one of my other guitars, but with less highs. The high end content is closer to that of a P90.
After I got the DC3, I did a neck pickup tone shootout with it and a few other guitars.
Guitars used, in order heard:
1. Hamer T62 Strat style guitar with Seymour Duncan Alnico Pro II neck pickup
2. Hamer T62 with Lace Sensor emerald neck pickup, voiced to sound like Texas Special
3. MJ Guitars Groovemaster with Seymour Duncan Vintage P90
4. PRS DC3 with DC3 pickup
5. Hamer Newport Pro Custom with Seymour Duncan Seth Lover pickups
6. PRS McCarty Narrow Field with PRS Narrow Field pickups
Each guitar was played using the neck pickup, in the 12th fret area, then the 7th fret, then the open position.
All guitars were played through a Reason Bambino Grande combo amp with stock Eminence Redcoat speaker, miked with a Heil PR30, into a Trident S20 mic preamp.
After playing the DC3 some more, I discovered that the bridge pickup also produce convincing country tones. Again not quite as bright as a Tele, but with a similar twangy midrange. Bonus!
PRS also made sure to have plenty of cluck on positions 2 and 4 on the pickup selector. Great bridge+middle and middle+neck pickup tones.
I've used the bridge pickups on the two 305s to record some soaring rock tones. Those guitars sustain like crazy, and they're pretty good for getting bridge pickup Strat lead tones.
Tracks 1 and 3 in this set have lead solos done on a 305. The in-between tones in the instrumental intro of track 1 and throughout track 3 are also the 305, with pickup selector set to bridge+middle.
Track 2 has the Groovemaster on it, for the clean atmospheric parts.
