PRS NF3 SE Guitar Just Dropped! Should You Be Excited?🔥🎸

Let's do a FACT BASED analysis and talk its features. And compare it with the PRS' established model: Silver Sky (John Mayer's signature model)
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[@tonekilltech]

The SE NF3 is an SE version of an earlier core model NF3 which was produced from 2011-2013 and was the first to feature the narrowfield pickups. The NF pickups have also been used on other models like the middle pickup of the Super Eagle. While many are comparing the body to the Silver Sky, the NF3 body style proceeds the Silver Sky by around 7 years.

[@mr.sorenzo]

Thanks heaps for sharing

[@tweedcouch]

The first NF3 was the second to get Narrowfields. The first was the Swamp Ash Special in 2010. They had the same look as the classic PRS's but featured a bolt on maple neck, swamp ash body, and 3 of these pickups. Cool guitars.

[@mr.sorenzo]

@@tweedcouch bang! I’ll look it up today to get the timeline right. Thanks heaps pal! Keep rockin

[@tonekilltech]

@@tweedcouch oh nice! I didn't realize that model went back to 2010.

[@golodiaz]

Best review and spec video I've seen so far. Great job! Thanks!

[@mr.sorenzo]

Firm handshakes 🤝🏼

[@markovthebe6st]

Love the way you explain things! And easy to listen to! Subscribed👏🏼

[@mr.sorenzo]

Firm handshakes 🤝🏼 Keep rockin brother!🎸

[@gorgemusic]

Wow. Great review and lots of detail. Thank You

[@mr.sorenzo]

Thanks for the words George. Keep rockin pal!🎸

[@leandromachado3137]

Hi. Thank you for the video. I'm brazilian and I'm going to US em next month. I have so many doubts about which Guitar I'll buy and that video was very clarifying to me, but I steel need choose between: PRS NF3, PRS Silver Sky, D'angelico Brighton or D'angelico Atlantic. Which option do you recomend me? :)

[@mr.sorenzo]

@@leandromachado3137 Oi Leandro! Meu parceira é do Brasil! Aproveite sua viagem nos EUA😊 It depends on what you like in both sound and feel of the guitar. The best option is to actually play all 4 and seeing what you like best in both feel and sound. Is that Premier D’Angelicos and SE PRS guitars? If so, bear in mind that both Premier Atlantic and Brighton have the Seymour Duncan designed HB pickups. So they will sound very similar. If you want to choose between either of the two, the differences are in the physical aspects such as the looks and the weight of the guitar. All 4 have single coil options but silver sky has only single coils. The PRS ones come with floating bridges, the D’angelicos have fixed bridges. The PRS have a more modern look, D’Angelicos look more vintage. If you want a more old school sound and look, the Brighton is the best option. Looks vintage and the pickups seem have a lot of mid. If you want a strat sound and feel, go with the Silver sky because of single coils and bolt on neck. You get a nice twang out of silver skys. NF3 is probably the best of the four in terms of versatility and playing different genres. Partially because of the tightness in the narrowfield pickups. You won’t lose articulation at high gain/distortion while it still provides enough of low range frequencies. For me being a variety player who also plays rock and metal, I’d go with NF3. What kind of music do you like to play and listen to?

[@tweedcouch]

The American made Narrowfield pickups were first introduced in the core model Swamp Ash Special NF back in 2010. They discontinued the model in 2012. These pickups were also in the original core model NF3 as well as the core model Studio and the Modern Eagle 3 (most starting around 2012). You can also find it as a middle pickup of the Super Eagle (John Mayers Dead guitar) and the special 22. All of these predate the Myles Kennedy and NF53.

[@mr.sorenzo]

thanks for the info. I’m too young to know any of that😂 I knew it’s a first time SE. Didn’t know that they actually put the NF pickups in production not long after 2008

[@tweedcouch]

@@mr.sorenzo They were real cool but before their time for PRS. Needed to have a decade for them to be ready for PRS lovers.

[@mr.sorenzo]

@@tweedcouch think they’ll ever do a headless?

[@tweedcouch]

@@mr.sorenzo With PRS I could imagine that anything goes. 🤣 I'm not a fan of headless guitars. How about you?

[@mr.sorenzo]

@@tweedcouch I like them for them being ergonomic and lighter. Playing longer hours with a heavier classic shaped guitar sometimes hurts the upper backs and shoulders

[@MarkDanielsmusician]

I have 2 Silversky SE's and an NF3, the necks on my Silversky's are Scarf..... SE Cutom 24 and 22 are Multiply....

[@mr.sorenzo]

You probably got the 2021 Silver Sky SE, or the Dead Space. From 2022 the Silver Skys have multiply necks. That’s a ruthless 5 PRS SEs set that you got btw! You must love PRS’…kinda like your boy here🤠 I have 2 Holcombs, 6 and 7 string.

[@MarkDanielsmusician]

@@mr.sorenzo Yep... have to admit I have a few.... S2 Mcarty in matt black, both SE DGT's...Santana (1st Trem version) Just great bang for buck IMO... Got the 35th aniversary SE custom 24 in blue too...(used when i got it but perfect) Cant do the 7 string thing... enough with 6 LOL...great to be in good company tho... Ill check my Silver Skys think they are both early Evergreen and Dragon Fruit... The SE DGT's are insane BTW, maybe the best (59/2HB) style guitar under 1k... again biased oppinion... they all get played too, im not a flipper or invester... just love to play them... couple of gigs a week... Thanks for replying! keep the vidz coming dude..

[@mr.sorenzo]

@@MarkDanielsmusician Firm handshakes to you for doing what you love, and having what you love brother! 🤝🏼🎸Get even more of them! The 2024 S2 CU24s come with Core pickups now. Many people wonder about what they love and never find the answer. We are lucky to have found ours. Keep rockin’

[@godsinbox]

This is a story, of a guitar named after a pickup, That a poor man, cannot afford. And then one day, he was a shreddin' and realised the pickups were garbage. Well the first thing to know, ol' Paul reed is a millionaire. And to get there he saved a dollar or two.

[@mr.sorenzo]

@@godsinbox amazing poem! My heart shattered reading it…ah the emotions😭

[@Spidouz]

0:45 WRONG! Maybe you’re too young and haven’t study PRS history, but PRS already released bolt-on (strat) guitars in the past such the NF3, DC3, EG3, Brent Mason, etc… (not even mentioning the CE line). All of the mentioned here were released BEFORE the SilverSky and Fiore. That’s why the SE NF3 isn’t a baby-SS, but simply a rebirth of the NF3.

[@mr.sorenzo]

@@Spidouz too young for that. Thanks for the correction. The main focus of this video was the specs. But still, I’m glad you pointed this out. Cheers 🍻

[@mr.sorenzo]

hopefully the specs bit made sense?

[@Spidouz]

@@mr.sorenzoYEAH, that’s what I thought… also, PRS were not really famous for their first bolt-on “Strat” models, you can only know if you study their history, or if you lived it. The Brent Mason was only available for 2 years, and I don’t think the first NF3/DC3 last very long either. I remember that I wanted a DC3, by the time I could save the money, they were not available anymore… and I got a Brent Mason (very nice model too since the scale is neither 25” or 25”½ but 25”¼… that’s also why I want to add a SilverSky (25”½) and a SE NF3 (25”) to my (small) collection, so I could cover different tones we can get from those specs. And to reply to your question, yes the specs were great; I think the SE NF3 will find its place as a fatter, darker, smoother Strat, while the SE SS will keep being the best ‘63/64 Strat you get at this price point, with a brighter, snappier and twangier tone. At least that’s what I get from the videos of the SE NF3 I’ve seen so far… Noiseless Pickups and 10” radius are the TWO main specs I wanted the SilverSky to have… so I’m pretty positive I will get the SE NF3 Maple in Metallic Orange. The only question is before or after the Silver Sky? They’re both on my wishlist :)

[@mr.sorenzo]

@@Spidouz gold nuggets. Thanks for sharing man! Lol you’d score 100% on PRS’ recent production quiz. I’d get the NF3 if I were you. 8.5’ is too round for a neck. The orange one is great. I loved the white dial one too.

[@Spidouz]

⁠@@mr.sorenzoI love the white one too, but I already have my PRS Brent Mason in white, so I want a different color… and Orange is one of my fav colors (Black, Orange and Light Blue). So Orange it is :)

[@Spidouz]

9:45 Paul did a video (I can’t remember which one) where he explains why he prefers nickel to stainless steel. If I recall correctly, it comes to the fact that the Stainless steel is too strong and it affects the tone… or something like that. I honestly have no idea, I’m not an expert, but I recall that his explanation was more detailed and made sense to me at the time I watched it… it was a Q&A during a clinic video. I saw it like 2 years ago, maybe even more (during the pandemic, hard to remember dates)

[@mr.sorenzo]

@@Spidouz bang! I’ll look this up today! Thanks heaps for bringing it up. Keen to hear what Paul has to say. Do you remember the title or any search phrases on KZbin?

[@Spidouz]

@@mr.sorenzoI wish I knew, but I watched so much videos it’s almost impossible to find it again. I just remember it was a 1h-ish long video of Paul doing a clinic, doing Q&A… if I find it, I will post it.

[@mr.sorenzo]

@@Spidouz That would be great! Meanwhile check this one out. Paul talking about frets, nothing about nickel vs steel though. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6uuhWuNp7-bnsU