Seeking help on a Prs Korina

[medea]

Hello everybody,
I am seeking some advice on a PRS SE I got from a friend of mine. It's a an Orianthi Model which comes with korina body/maple top, maple neck and ebony fingerboard. It has been fitted with a JB/Jazz set and I spent lots of time with it but I really hate how it sounds. It's too thin/bright on the jb and too unbalanced/muffled on the jazz, both tends to sound very "nasal".
I tried loads of different setups but all with the same results. I really cannot find a nice sweet spot here.
My genre is mainly classic rock, blues (led zeppelin - king crimson - pink floyd... the usual) so I would like to get a more "creamy" tone from the guitar. I also have a les paul which suits me very well, even if I know that I will never have a similar tone I am searching for something more "balanced and creamy/vintage". I have a pair of p90 laying around and I am wondering if it will be an improvement over what I have at the moment.
Open to suggestion on other pickups too.
Thanks a lot and appreciate whoever will take the time to help me out.

 

[skyydogg01]

Re: Seeking help on a Prs Korina

I had a JB and a '59 in my SE Single cut Korina and it sounded perfect. I did bump the string gauge up to 10-46 and that brought the guitar out of that thing sound you're describing.

Though if you want warm, bluesy tones, I'd steer clear of the JB/Jazz set.

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[AniML]

Re: Seeking help on a Prs Korina

I have Seths in an SE Korina Singlecut. They work well, but can be a bit flabby when pushed too hard, but I think tht is more the character of of the pickups rather than the guitar. If I ever sell my LP, I would probably transplant the WLH set from it to the SE. I could also see a PG set do well in the SE for what you are after

 

[medea]

Re: Seeking help on a Prs Korina

I had a JB and a '59 in my SE Single cut Korina and it sounded perfect. I did bump the string gauge up to 10-46 and that brought the guitar out of that thing sound you're describing.

Though if you want warm, bluesy tones, I'd steer clear of the JB/Jazz set.

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I am already using 10-46 but at times I find the sound too thin for what I am after, I suspect that a singlecut might sound overall more warm anyway. In my case I feel like that the jb/jazz is "fighting" with me, not a nice feeling

 

[medea]

Re: Seeking help on a Prs Korina

I have Seths in an SE Korina Singlecut. They work well, but can be a bit flabby when pushed too hard, but I think tht is more the character of of the pickups rather than the guitar. If I ever sell my LP, I would probably transplant the WLH set from it to the SE. I could also see a PG set do well in the SE for what you are after

PG = Pearly Gates? Funny, that was my first choice, but instead I opted for a jb/jazz ... oh boy...