PRS Core Custom24 | After 8 Years | Review, Demo & Tones

[@yeserguitar]

What do you think about Custom24? Is it your dream guitar, or it lacks something you really need?

[@elichisoyyo]

has the color fade? or change?

[@yeserguitar]

Very good question: I didn't experience it to be honest, but I want to mention that I'm a bedroom guitarist so this guitar is not (yet) played live, and didn't see too much sunlight. That would effect for sure

[@escafox3628]

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[@yeserguitar]

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[@guitarandotherthings6090]

I think theyre the prettiest guitars on earth but unfortunately have no distinct tone. Pickups sometimes are so hot theyre hard to tame as well.

[@yeserguitar]

I would accept the fact that tone is a subjective matter, and you may not like them, but what do you mean "distinct tone" ? To be honest I heard that from so many people, and unfortunately their argument was just the opposite, that "LP, Strat, ,Tele" styles have a "distinct" tones because of their design choices. Considering how "in between" the Custom24 and Custom22 designs are to the LP and Strat designs, and considering how these choice are important(example might be scale length or headstock angle/shape, to make it more stable) I personally call it "best of the both worlds". My perspective is also biased since I have PRS Guitars for the last 8-9 years, but this distinct tone is completely out of reach to me. Every single guitar, both design and uniqueness-wise, has a distinct tone and comfort to the players. Every choice ever been made about a guitars design will effect the tone, it can be anything as small as the nut or bridge saddle material to as big as pickup, wood, scale length choices. This is my take on it with detail, I hope we can solve the distinct tone mystery here. I played djent/prog metal, lo-fi jazz, rock, country and you name it, various genres. As long as you can dial the tone, and considering amp/cab/mic effects a huge/bigger chunk of the tone, you'll achieve anything with your axe. And of course, thanks for watching and engagement!

[@guitarandotherthings6090]

@@yeserguitar when I say “no distinct tone” it means that normally when you listen to an album you can almost call out, “thats a Tele! Thats a Strat! Thats a Les Paul!” But it would be hard to proclaim in confidence, “thats a PRS!”. I only know that with Alter Bridge because thats all they play. I had a Custom 24 and I sold it after realizing this no distinct tone dilemma and was able to buy a nice Les Paul and have money left over. I do miss the PRS’ amazing neck (best hands down) and the incomparable beauty, but i couldnt get it out of my head how it misses tone. I did like the pseudo strat setting however. But i couldnt keep it just for one setting. I miss the birdies too!

[@yeserguitar]

@@guitarandotherthings6090 that's totally fair to me 👍 My question would be then, should it? Not fully sure about what's your genre, artists or style in playing but personally in the modern metal scene, most people don't focus on the guitar type and all. I think it would be fair to assume that you'd think of Ibanez, Schecter, Strandberg, Kiesel and all the other companies also don't have a distinct tone. I don't have a Singlecut design from PRS or other companies right now, but I would like to see people are taking blind tests for comparing various singlecut designs to Les Paul. Same goes for Silver Sky vs. Fender, Suhr or other companies' Strats. And lastly, since PRS also makes tele, it goes for tele comparisons :) What I mean is, designs and parameters that makes a guitar will change the sound, feel or anything you can perceive. Custom24 is double-cut, superstrat'ish (according to Sweetwater superstrat definition) guitar. It has it's own tone for sure. Can I understand it? As you said and I agree, nope. But my theory is that, we identify the designs you mentioned because they are literally from 1950(51 for tele, 52 for LP and 54 for Strat, I just googled) and it provided us over 70 years of music. And since then number of companies, designs and variations increased exponentially. So I'm thinking, there are thousands of designs to identify, compared to a few models were the only choices 50-60 years ago. PRS is with us for the last 40'ish years and when it's founded, there was a lot of different designs evolved. That being said, thanks for explaining your perspective on the distinct tone topic. It's good that you know what you want and you searched for it, that is a precious thing for sure. That's maybe the most important thing for a musician, knowing what you want and being comfortable in all aspects of creation with that instrument. I personally focus on comfort, utility, stability, reliability in a guitar. If the pickups are made with good material and craftsmanship, and definitely if it's my type of pickups(all of my guitars are alnico, PRS&Seymour Duncan&Suhr) I know my domain and I can get the tone I need for my project, music and style. I'm grateful that there are many companies and designs that various designs, it gives the opportunity to find our perspective and favorites to make our music in the best way possible 🤌

[@guitarandotherthings6090]

@@yeserguitar I do think at a point, if there is a lot of distortion the guitar tone no longer matters much, if i was only doing metal I would by all means use a PRS for the comfort and style. And through a REVV! The amp takes priority at that point. I do many styles so my main go-to is a Strat since it covers so much ground. In a perfect world i would have Strat Tele Les Paul and PRS, but i dont like the overseas versions of any of those so youre talking about $9-11k worth of American guitars. Yikes! Lol. Im not knocking PRS, but it would be my last to purchase after getting the dream model of all the others. And even in modern recordings I can discern which of the big 3 it is, not just old recordings when there was essentially only 3 options. I will say Suhr has made the Tele better.

[@yeserguitar]

@@guitarandotherthings6090 good things are a little bit expensive, yes 😞 REVV is a nice amp, tried in a fair, really nice one and they are like a bridge for some people who are not into digital era. Not played a Suhr Tele yet, but hopefully in a couple months I'll have the chance, let@s see! And driven tone definitely makes things harder. One might say that it's create more subharmonics and give more of the woods and pickups, but on the other hand too much of it really makes it not so understandable. But to me it's a relief, I would hate to play an instrument just because of a tone chase. That's just me though :)