What's with the Love or Hate thing in regards to PRS Guitars?.....

[John_L]

Re: What's with the Love or Hate thing in regards to PRS Guitars?.....

PRS' are great pro guitars. They look nice and have great sounds. But they are like telecasters you have to put in to get out. They sound best going straight into an amp and not through a lot of effects. Ironically Paul tried to sell his design to Yamaha in '83 but they didn't give him the deal and now PRS occupies the space that Yamaha used to and still do in most other instruments.
Two of the biggest magazines in the world, Guitar World and Guitarist have and have had for years a 'everything post 1970 is rubbish' stance and always female canine about PRS (Guitarist suspend this rule for Parker who used to write for them).

As for price over the last ten years in the UK the Fender American Standard Strat has fallen in price, the PRS Custom 24 has risen with inflation and the Les Paul Standard has tripled in price.

 

[King IzzO)))]

Re: What's with the Love or Hate thing in regards to PRS Guitars?.....

The only US made one I ever played (1997 or so) was really dark acoustically, but had an awesome baseball bat for a neck, and the fancy bird inlays. And yeah, the pickups sucked for the Slayer/Acme/Coalesce thing I was going for, so I bought two MIJ ESP's for the same money.

The "between a strat & a gibson" thing is... whatever, I have a Heartfield RR49 now that I think is probably in that same catergory and it sounds just fine. I dunno.

 

[blueman335]

Re: What's with the Love or Hate thing in regards to PRS Guitars?.....

The only thing wrong with PRS typically that they are not Gibsons or Fenders. Some people just can't get past it.

I don't know about that. There's plenty of other brands and designs besides Gibson and Fender that players like. A guitar doesn't have to be one of the big two or a close copy of them. There's a lot of popular guitars today that make me cringe, and PRS' are far more appealing.

To me, PRS sits much closer to the Gibson side of the fence, specifically DC LP's and LP Specials. I would think that PRS has lured more Gibson players to their camp than Fender players, with Gibson features like flame tops, mahogany bodies, HB's, P-90's, 3x3 tuners, etc. With the prices of American-made PRS' being what they are, it wouldn't seem that they're trying to move a lot of units and take over the high-end market. I think they're quite content to occupy the upper niche of the market, and be a symbol of affluence ('Once you've hit the big time, you'll get a PRS!'). That's their image, the upper crust. Corporately, they probably don't have stockholders with ravenous appetites like Gibson and Fender do.

And like Gibson and Fender have long ago found out, affordable non-American-made models will far exceed the expensive ones in unit sales. Hence the Asian-made PRS's. Daily cash flow has to come from someplace.

 

[drew_half_empty]

Re: What's with the Love or Hate thing in regards to PRS Guitars?.....

they just suck

 

[ImmortalSix]

Re: What's with the Love or Hate thing in regards to PRS Guitars?.....

Whether it's Ford vs. Chevy, my country vs. your country, my religion vs. your religion, my God vs. your God: it's all just personal preference and the way you grew up. That's pretty much all such "love/hate" ever is.

Lew

Huge +1

 

[Gearjoneser]

Re: What's with the Love or Hate thing in regards to PRS Guitars?.....

Replace the word PRS with Ibanez, Humvee, Pepsi, Avatar, Hyundai, Digitech, Mac etc.

It'll pretty much come back to Lew's assessment.

 

[Crane]

Re: What's with the Love or Hate thing in regards to PRS Guitars?.....

I love / hate mine.
Build is good / hate the sound.
That is what brought me here - the PRS pick ups were so lacking.
Never buying one again. I can spend half the price and get a better sounding guitar.
And btw - at the music fest I was at recently (over 40 bands) - I did not see 1 PRS.

 

[Andrew Lamprecht]

Re: What's with the Love or Hate thing in regards to PRS Guitars?.....

What's the benefit to such a big neck heel that takes precedence over high fret accessability?

stability?

 

[Andrew Lamprecht]

Re: What's with the Love or Hate thing in regards to PRS Guitars?.....

I haven't played one just because they seem too... perfect.

and not in a good way.

 

[open]

Re: What's with the Love or Hate thing in regards to PRS Guitars?.....

I like'em,especialy the CE22,the prs pickups are on the sucky side,but there is plenty of other brand of pickup to choose from.

 

[ErikH]

Re: What's with the Love or Hate thing in regards to PRS Guitars?.....

What's the benefit to such a big neck heel that takes precedence over high fret accessability?

I don't have any issue with high fret accessibility with my SE Singlecut. I had played it along side a USA Singlecut and the neck heel felt the same. Granted, the access isn't as good as a LP Double-cut or SG or even a V, but it's still really good and better than a Les Paul.

 

[blueman335]

Re: What's with the Love or Hate thing in regards to PRS Guitars?.....

I like'em, especially the CE22,the prs pickups are on the sucky side.

Does PRS make PAF's, or are all the bridges overwound or (God forbid) ceramic? What about their P-90's, vintage or hot?

I would think that a good set of PAF's, and maybe a mag swap, ought to get some nice tones from them. I've swapped mags in every one of my Gibson PU's, so I wouldn't be adverse to doing that with a PRS.

 

[some_dude]

Re: What's with the Love or Hate thing in regards to PRS Guitars?.....

I don't really dislike PRS so much as I dislike PRS owners who sh*t on everything that isn't PRS.

 

[AudioWonderland]

Re: What's with the Love or Hate thing in regards to PRS Guitars?.....

What's the benefit to such a big neck heel that takes precedence over high fret accessability?

The heel is no bigger than any Les Paul. Red Herring

 

[Jessie's ghost]

Re: What's with the Love or Hate thing in regards to PRS Guitars?.....

I don't really dislike PRS so much as I dislike PRS owners who sh*t on everything that isn't PRS.

This. It puts a bad taste in my mouth for the brand.

 

[AudioWonderland]

Re: What's with the Love or Hate thing in regards to PRS Guitars?.....

This. It puts a bad taste in my mouth for the brand.

Where are they? I find about 100 Gibson guys whining about their superiority to PRS for every one in the other direction.

If you are talking about guys defending PRS from all of the chirping about PRS being souless or whatever, well what would you expect them to do when provoked?

 

[Jessie's ghost]

Re: What's with the Love or Hate thing in regards to PRS Guitars?.....

Where are they? I find about 100 Gibson guys whining about their superiority to PRS for every one in the other direction.

If you are talking about guys defending PRS from all of the chirping about PRS being souless or whatever, well what would you expect them to do when provoked?

They're pretty much on the Internet, like everybody else. Some here, some on other forums

About the "whining" Gibson fans, there's enough hate being spewed out over Gibson to make up for it. Plenty of whining there, too.

Funny how the Gibson fans are whining, yet the PRS fans are making a reasonable reaction to being "provoked".

 

[some_dude]

Re: What's with the Love or Hate thing in regards to PRS Guitars?.....

Blaa blaa blaa, Gibson sucks. Blaa blaa blaa, PRS rocks.

This dude here is a pretty good example of the kind of PRS owner I was talking about....

 

[Jessie's ghost]

Re: What's with the Love or Hate thing in regards to PRS Guitars?.....

Qed

 

[trevorus]

Re: What's with the Love or Hate thing in regards to PRS Guitars?.....

I'd love to have one, hate the price.