PRS SE Custom 24 Semi-Hollow VS

I bought this guitar as a gigging guitar based on its versatility. I have never owned a PRS but I have other higher end guitar . My expectations were of a reasonable, playable, and good enough sounding guitar to carry around and avoid guitar switching in my cover band.

This guitar massively exceeded my expectations. Besides the build quality I was somewhat surprised by the sound. All three options, humbucker, single-coil, Piezo, are high quality. Very musical, very clear and with a balance and attack. As a bonus the neckhum bucker sound is easy to dial in, very little woof or mud. This has really sold me.

Finally, the setup out of the box, to my hands at least, was perfect. Really well done.

To be clear, it is not an exact replica of a les Paul, Tele or Hummingbird, but in the end that doesn’t matter. Alls sounds are usable, musical and allow me to cover Rock/Blues, Pop, and Country with no problem and no issues dialling in.

Very good (instinctive) purchase for me.

I'm primarily a bass player, switched from guitar more than 10 years ago, and I was waiting for a guitar that's similarly specced like John Petrucci one but obviously cheaper. This fits the bill, looks gorgeous, sounds great (even though I have a lot of research and experimentation to do about guitar tones), and it comes with a bag which is great.

When the guitar arrived, it's just a matter of tuning it and it's ready to play.

Pickups on their own work nicely, splitting does drop volume a bit, so you have to balance that somehow. Tremolo with Piezo is what I was most interested in, since that's quite rare on cheaper guitars (cheaper than JP model anyway). Piezo on its own sounds very very nice, a bit of reverb and you're good to go if you like the tone.

I run this with HX Stomp, I use both inputs and split them. I run L channel for magnets just eq, amp and a bit of reverb. On the R channel for piezo it's eq, IR and reverb, then it sounds the most identical as miced acoustic guitar. This gives you two separate tones that you can mute any one of those, blend, and have a lot of fun :) Ofc this preset is like the default for me, and then per song I'll create different patches.

All in all, I can't find a fault in this guitar, it's a keeper, and I hope more piezo equipped electric guitars on the cheaper and come to the market.

Unlike some other guitars and basses, the only upgrades that are worth doing here are pickup swap and locking tuners, but I'll play it first until I see I need to change anything (except strings obviously).