When A Cheap Guitar Levels Up. PRS SE Custom 24 Semi-hollow Piezo review

[@BeastMadeReviews]

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[@BurntRelic]

Blue PRS hollowbody III w piezo is one of two dream guitars. Top two anyway.

[@jean-paulschelkens6930]

I am currently using a PRS SE HB II Piezo in a coverband where I need acoustic sounds quite a lot, because there is never time to switch over from electric to acoustic guitar. Using the piezo with my helix and a very good IR, I get a lot of compliments for my acoustic sound. I am now looking for a backup guitar that also allows for some single coil pickup sounds. So I think this PRS SE Custom 24 Semi-hollow Piezo will be prefect for that. Saving up for it !!!

[@BeastMadeReviews]

That’s cool! I haven’t played the HB II to have a good comparison, but this Semi-hollow is incredible! The piezo sounds really good on it too. I’m sure you will like it!

[@im58woody]

Great enthusiastic review of this fine instrument.

[@matekerek1039]

Kudos for the Big Wreck riff❤

[@BeastMadeReviews]

thank you! I always try to add one to each demo.

[@johnnydswing]

Great review I have the same guitar and I love it now I have a question. What kind of effect did you use for the clean sounds is that like a shimmering kind of effect it sounded amazing. What is that exactly?

[@BeastMadeReviews]

Thank you! For the effects, it's just a delay going into a reverb. I use a Line 6 Helix for these demos, and the delay was their Transistor Tape delay based on the Echoplex.

[@ZacStokes-g2t]

Awesome video, Dave!

[@BeastMadeReviews]

thank you, sir!

[@CarlMurawski]

Goodness that’s a beautiful guitar. Play some Hum!!!

[@JTB--]

My PRS guitars have Pattern Thin and Pattern Regular necks and I didn't't like this Wide Thin Neck at all. It got too fatiguing

[@FredG-2012]

What are you running this through to get that cool throaty sound? Thx

[@BeastMadeReviews]

I'm going through my LIne 6 Helix with two IRs from Ownhammer. The clean and pushed sounds were with the Grammatico GSG model, and the high gain sounds were with the Placater Dirty amp based on a Friedman BE100

[@scottwhitlow8468]

Myles Kennedy! Can’t go wrong with that song! 👍🏻

[@BeastMadeReviews]

such a great album! Love that song

[@vancerose1511]

I may have to sell my SE hollowbody ii piezo in peacock blue.

[@MountainLionessMusic]

Go my goodness that guitar is stunning. Here I thought I had settled on charcoal.

[@BeastMadeReviews]

The charcoal is a great color too. But yeah this blue is special

[@zacharydesjardins3701]

If they made this in their pearl white with gold hardware then I'd buy one in a heartbeat!!!

[@BeastMadeReviews]

ooh yeah that would be incredible

[@luiseg277]

Myles Kennedy- Miss you when your’re gone.

[@BeastMadeReviews]

😁😁😁

[@Djole_NS246]

Nice, but this guitar lives in "Nowhere Land", too expensive for a cheap/affordable guitar, and too cheap for a high-end one. And while I can't really hear what the guitar actually sounds like from all those added effects, I have to say, to me PRSs in general are and always have been kind of generic guitars, with no real sonic distinction. You can't hear it playing and immediately say "Oh, this is a PRS" unless you know it's a PRS. And that pointy headstock... I know PRSs are very high-quality products, but they are just that: a product.

[@BeastMadeReviews]

I don't think the fact that it sounds indistinct to be a bad thing. I have several guitars that are like that. I actually like that fact. Having a guitar that is too specific is a limitation in my opinion.

[@Djole_NS246]

​@@BeastMadeReviews It's nice to exchange opinions with someone. I don't think I wrote anywhere that this characteristic of PRS guitars is a bad thing, I simply expressed an observation about them. And I don't want to sound like someone who judges or evaluates someone, but... when we listen to someone, for example a singer, we get attached to him because of his specifics, because of the uniqueness of his/hers voice and interpretation of a song. It's the same with guitarists. To be Jeff Beck, Mark Knopfler, Eddie Van Halen, Ritchie Blackmore, David Gilmour, Rory Gallagher, Jimi Hendrix, Gary Moore, Johnny Marr, Kurt Cobain... a musician must have his own voice, his own sound. And they can't have that playing any instrument. It has to be exactly that particular guitar, which when you hear it you immediately know: "That's Stevie Ray Vaughan and the Stratocaster", regardless of whether he's playing some of his own material or a song on David Bowie's album. That's what I meant. I know this is just one KZbin channel that is a type of media which has its own purpose, rules and requirements, but I wished to share my thoughts on PRS guitars in general. Maybe it helps someone in some thinking. Hello and wish you all the best.

[@BeastMadeReviews]

oh of course! I appreciate your thoughts and opinion. I just wanted to add my thoughts. I think we just have different ways of approaching "tone". I think any guitar, regardless of the type or brand, can sound either unique or generic in the hands of any person. And some people take an ordinary guitar and turn it into their own sound. For me, I value both options. I have a strat and a telecaster because those guitars have their own specific voice. But at the same time, I find a guitar like a strat to be too specific, and therefore limiting for what I want to do. Whereas I have other guitars like that will do anything I want them to do and would be harder to identify--but that's what I need from them. Different strokes for different folks. :) Going back to PRS, I actually do find that their guitars have a certain voice to them that can identify them, though it's more subtle than something like a Strat. I find PRS guitars to have a "fat but focused" sound that works well in a lot of settings. Thanks for commenting!

[@BkBk-gy6vr]

@@Djole_NS246 Even though I own a PRS it was a gift. I have to agree it just doesn’t have character like my Fenders or Gibson. I don’t think it’s a bad thing either as my Charvel and Schecter don’t have anything distinct about her their sound. My problem with this PRS is the Piezo does not sound good with gain. The only exception would be using the 2 cables to go to 2 different amps but just using the one cable and mixing in the Piezo with the magnetic pickups only sounds good with clean sounds. So it’s limited, too limited for the price.

[@Allguitarinfo]

When you get Free guitars or if your paid for INFLUENCE YOULL say nothing bad about their product ...

[@BeastMadeReviews]

Well I was neither paid nor given a free guitar for this video. Maybe you should watch the video instead of jumping to conclusions.

[@kennyallums7984]

$1600 cheap guitar lol

[@BeastMadeReviews]

LOL it's part of their "cheaper" line. It's definitely not that cheap, admittedly.