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Colo Springs E
Registered: March 2003
Location: Colorado Springs
Posts: 4992
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Review Date: Thu January 29, 2004
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $425.00
| Rating: 5
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Build quality, pickups, value
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Cheap pots
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This is one great playing and great sounding guitar. If you like guitars with big necks, great tone, and high mojo-to-denero factor, you should look into one of these. It's big fat mahogany neck (with flat radius and large frets) plays like butter. It has beautiful inlay work (abalone-looking 'dots' with a 1/4 moon effect) on the tightly grained rosewood fretboard. The fretwork on mine rivaled high-end guitars; it was flawless. The P90s (supposedly Duncan Designed, tho I can't say for sure) honk with authority, and appear to be "hum-cancelling" in the middle position. The bridge pickup is just nasty for overdriven leads, while the middle and neck positions are just plain beautiful. The mid position is, in particular, a great place to play rhythm--clean or dirty. I love the way the wraparound tailpiece feels on my palm--makes all other designs feel uncomfortable to me (I guess that could be a 'con' huh?). The only negative about this guitar is it comes with tiny little cheap pots. I had mine swapped out for CTS pots (they had to dremel to get the nicer ones in, the shafts on the stock ones are littler). It is a great improvement in the taper of the vol and tone--all for a whopping $15! Money well spent. PRS-labelled tuners hold tune fine. The grain shows thru slightly on the matching headstock--nice touch! The 3-piece mahogany body is nicely matched too, with pretty grain showing thru the cherry stain. Lightweight, yet well-balanced (not neck-heavy). This guitar, like other SE models, comes with the really nice PRS SE gig bag. I can't say enough about how nice this guitar is, and how unbelievable it's a less-than-$500 street price guitar. What a bargain!
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Slipped on a kiss,
And tumbled into love...
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Jim Sams
Registered: April 2003
Posts: 277
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Review Date: Mon June 7, 2004
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $345.00
| Rating: 5
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Everything
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None
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If you want a set neck P-90 guitar, tehn you should really check the PRS SE Soapbar out.
The guitar's fretjob and finish feel just like the more expensive PRS models. That is to say, excellent!
The P-90s sound bright but beefy. The gig bag is great.
This guitar is a great guitar at any price.
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Dennis68
Registered: October 2003
Location: Hudson Valley
Posts: 757
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Review Date: Sat July 31, 2004
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $399.99
| Rating: 5
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Pros:
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A high priced guitar with a small price tag
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Discontinued to to Gibson's Trademark litigation
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If you want some tone through a pair of P-90's, look no further than PRS' SE soapbar. Man, I have to tell you, when I first played this new singlecut from PRS, I thought what was coming out of the Fender Pro reverb was a $2,000 guitar that had just been set-up perfectly. No this is by far not a $2K guitar, but when I'm playing it, you would be hard to convince me otherwise... A nice combination of selectivity can be found through the 3-way switch offering nice tonal changes which are all very clear and clean when you want to run that way...
The neck is very comfortable, fretboard and frets are all perfect and there is no buzzing anywhere to be found on all strings and fret positions. Halfmoon inlays appear very tasteful to the overall layout. I bought the Vintage Cherry color which was great to start with, but has grown on me even more as I look at it.
Tuning is solid and the bridge is very well done. Again, it's what I'd expect from PRS' higher end offerings. Whatever PRS did to ensure quality at this price point, they did it right!
As hard as I try to find fault with it, I just can't think of anything other than the obvious of changing the strings. See page 129 of the August 2004 Guitar player for the review and you'll see GP's editors agree that the SE soapbar from PRS is a winner.
The singlecuts are not being made by PRD right now because of Gibson trademark litgation, but there are some to be had that are already in the hands of dealers, as well as some that show up on places like eBay. Some Dealers have upped the ante' to $450, while others have stuck with the $399 price. Used on eBay has been averaging $350 for the guitar with the included PRS gigbag.
It's a nice compliment to my tried and true Telecaster...
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-Dennis
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j_frusciante
Registered: March 2006
Location: Newquay, England!
Posts: 50
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Review Date: Mon May 1, 2006
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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Great price looks and build.
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Cant buy it anymore in singlecut form!
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Hi, i have a white singlecut one (one of the last 60 worldwide folks :p) that is great, gives me a load of tones (has a great SG vibe) from cleans to metal if you want to thrash it, check out harmony-central for my more in depth review.
If you have the money lying around and one of these is for sale BUY IT! u wont regret it ;)
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"Be The Change You Wish To See In The World", Ghandi
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Taildragger
Registered: September 2003
Posts: 51
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Review Date: Fri September 14, 2007
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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neck, overall quality, fretwork, sound, good grain match
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crummy pots andoutput jack
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As suggested above, I think this guitar falls more into an "SG" than an "LP Special stand-in" category, due to the thinness of the body. Very good "bang for the buck", the crappy pots and jack notwithstanding (since those are easy and cheap to replace with better components).
Try before you buy: I personally like fat necks in general, and the PRS "fat/wide" profile in particular, but some people can't stand them. Personal preference.
Great little P-90 slab for those who love that sound. The SDs are a bit less "snarly" than some others I've heard, but mine are very quiet (hum/buzz-wise) and produce a wide variety of very pleasing, usefull tones. Sounds great through tweed.
I also have an LP Deluxe Goldtop (which cost 3+ times the money, by the way) that I put P-90s into but haven't lost any affection for my SE as a result. Both great guitars in their own way.
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