@@mathiasjapri He's saying the opposite. He said the pickup is the microphone. Not the voice. Tonewood deniers say the pickup is the voice - and materials are irrelevant. He stops short of talking about tonewood as he knows this video is going on KZitem and would be lit up with rage if he said anything about it. He's a smart fellow
@sgt.grinch3299
Жыл бұрын
Pick ups and speakers are the two components that have the most impact of your tone. If your speakers are junk you have no shot at good tone.
@godbyone
Жыл бұрын
The wood gives the strings vibration s. So maybe it’s the the wood you are hearing. But the strings reacting to wood. The pick ups. Hear the reactions.
@ChapelCollins
Жыл бұрын
I want a video like this of Paul explaining every aspect of a guitar. This is fascinating, very enlightening stuff.
@edcorneau7346
Жыл бұрын
He's a great salesman just due to him being still so passionate about his work!
@BenMarvin
Жыл бұрын
I would love that for a video series. He's like that cool uncle that always has lots of knowledge, good story telling, and you can learn something.
@voornaam3191
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, you start playing better gigs and they suddenly ask you to play in better bands, don't they? He just killed The Sultans of Dixy, huh?
@williardbillmore5713
Жыл бұрын
I want to see a video where Paul corrects his bullshit and explains that electric guitar pickups ARE NOT MICROPHONES!
@dankers12
Жыл бұрын
I love that explains this simply without talking down to us. What a class act.
@Pete1980ification
Ай бұрын
yea, even if some of it goes against physics. If your pickups are microphonic, get new pickups. A microphone is a transducer that converts vertical pressure waves into electrical waves. A pickup is a transducer that converts magnetic waves into electrical waves. A well-made, shielded pickup is impervious to vertical pressure waves... This FACT is very bad for guitar manufacturers who like to sell expensive tone wood... Having said that PRS makes some of the best sounding guitars in the world, they do because they use nice pickups, none of it comes from the wood- 0% of it, ever. The neck vibrations and wood tone parts are all wine snifting....
@anime5h_m1shr4
Жыл бұрын
As an engineer that plays guitar, I absolutely love the frequency response graph. Best way to explain the differences between pickups.
@jpage5303
Жыл бұрын
same! i do R&D and I love the research approach to it.
@williardbillmore5713
Жыл бұрын
If he had graphically illustrated their respective signal to noise ratios as well it would have given a much better picture of the sonic differences between HB and SC pickups. When the frequency response is weighted with a bunch of noise it can make single coil pickups a lot less desirable.
@markkeneson6806
Жыл бұрын
As an engineer, do you ever wonder about the glacial progress of electric guitar design? For instance, we are still using 1/4 inch connectors that were designed in the late 19th century, and high impedance pickups with passive electronics. Of course, there are some guitars with active electronics, but they are far less common, and even they still use 1/4 inch connectors.
@williardbillmore5713
Жыл бұрын
@@markkeneson6806 It is the nature of guitarists to want the exact same instruments that their heroes play and played. Whenever Gibson or Fender try to modernize or improve their instruments they are thanked with sales slumps and bad mouthing. For example; Gibson could fix their head-stock splitting problem tomorrow by changing the way the head-stock is made by making the head-stock separately with through grain and putting it on the neck with a scarf joint. If they did that Les Paul sales would stop completely.. "Jimmy Page never had a scarf joint on his LP how could I sound exactly like him on a LP with a scarf joint?" As long as "vintage tone " is considered sacred and the myth of "tone wood" prevails nothing on popular guitars will ever evolve.
@markkeneson6806
Жыл бұрын
@williard billmore , thanks for the response, and I think you are right. It's unfortunate, but that's what the market demands. Look at bass guitarists, they have on-board active electronics and sometimes XLR connectors. I guess bass players are less obsessed with having the exact same instruments as their heroes.
@carminelombardi9575
2 ай бұрын
I'm going to buy my first PRS, because Paul is so passionate about the most minut details, I want to support and be a part of that culture.
@sixslinger9951
Жыл бұрын
Paul is no joke. He really knows his stuff and the main reason why his company is one the biggest in the world now. I bought a new PRS Custom 24 back in 1992 and barely knew anything about the company. At that time, it was the most I ever paid for a guitar. 30 years later it is still one of the best guitars I've ever owned. The thing is magic thanks to Paul and his team.
@0megalul309
Жыл бұрын
only took him 30 years to become a top 3 in USA, taking the fight to F and G who were around for more than twice as long.
@MainPrism
Жыл бұрын
I completely agree!!! I bought my first PRS Custom 24 in 2021 not knowing much at all about the company. Best guitar I've ever owned hands down... So good in fact I bought 2 more PRS that same year. Getting ready to purchase another one in the next few months. Love me some PRS!!!
@dancotterman1267
Жыл бұрын
You are lucky to have that much money to spend on guitars. Gibson won’t change anything and are way overpriced. Still decent investment though. I like PRS including their imports. For playing and investing. Not bad. Nice to have the original inventor and owner still alive and running the company.
@soundpainter2590
Жыл бұрын
@@dancotterman1267 It's a (( Strat o Paul )) how can you or anyone not see it ??
@paulcowart3174
Жыл бұрын
Hands on all the way Like Leo Geniuses
@mauricerrr
Жыл бұрын
This man deserves a lot of praise. He is one of the few people in this industry that never stops innovating while staying true to the heritage of the electric guitar. That is just something very special. Proud to own one of his instruments!
@yeserguitar
Жыл бұрын
This is a 13 minute masterclass! Paul explained and demonstrated so well. Pickups and positioning is not easy thing to understand/hear for me, but this demonstration showed day and night difference. Beautiful content and Paul gave 10, and to my ears he got 9.9 back :)
@ДимаТоп-ь9о
Жыл бұрын
85/15 are masterpiece, I bought my first PRS just because of their magical sound Now I’m totally a PRS fanboy Want more and more of your guitars and already ordered Horsemeat Keep going Paul! You and your team are genius wizards
@davidbaines7330
Жыл бұрын
Easily the best sounding one in the neck position.
@greham
Жыл бұрын
It's interesting because it's one of the most replaced and disregarded pickup from PRS. Tons of Custom 24 players purchasing replacement pickups. Main argument is always: sounds is very thin.
@noworries12
8 ай бұрын
@@greham exactly... too trebly,soulless, 2-dimensional/no depth...a pair of DiMarzio Transitions solved the problem
@guitarmovies
Жыл бұрын
Please put Paul on camera more often. He’s such an amazing wealth of knowledge, and it’s so fun listening to him.
@ScottMcdonaldMusic
Жыл бұрын
The university of Paul Reed Smith. Good stuff
@brennanpwoods
Жыл бұрын
This video is AWESOME! I have 4 PRS guitars and I feel validated watching Paul talk about his craft.
@wulfrache
Жыл бұрын
It's a mountain of lies built on quicksand! There is no machine!
@michaelthomas9991
Жыл бұрын
Wonderful introduction to pickup design. Paul really should do them as a weekly series, including guitar body design. Great instructor!
@morelcompasstv
8 ай бұрын
The TCI (Paul’s Pickup) and Narrowfield sound amazing! Like it’s the best of everything
@beatlebarb64
Жыл бұрын
I'm not a musician but I love music. Paul is such a genius in so many fields and a great teacher too. Love watching his genius at work!!
@soundpainter2590
Жыл бұрын
What are you Good at ?? What DO you know ? OK, then that's where & What you should comment at. Make sense ??
@davegallagher7428
Жыл бұрын
That was so interesting. Please do more primers about anything you want to enlighten us on. I have a grasp about pick ups that I didn’t have before. Many thanks.
@Chris.1812
Жыл бұрын
This is exactly the video I’d always wished they would make
@ScottDreyfus
Жыл бұрын
15 more years sounds like music to my ears. Keep us rocking Paul
@angusorvid8840
Жыл бұрын
The pickups were one of the first thing I noticed about PRS when I first tried a Custom in '87. I then tried all the PRS at that shop in West L.A. and they ALL sounded great. Their pickups are perfectly matched to their instruments. Superb.
@Charismafire
Жыл бұрын
Paul is the Willy Wonka of the guitar industry. That man has ears like a German Shepherd. Incredibly nice first class guy as well.
@jitsroller
Жыл бұрын
Willy Wonka you nailed it.
@masteronone2079
Жыл бұрын
Sort of pointy and on top of his head? It doesn't show in the pictures.
@masteronone2079
Жыл бұрын
Also this is a great primer on how pickups work. There are things that you know instinctively but this begins to put some intellectual meat on the bones. I still can't se those ears, dose he gel them down, maybe?
@JTB--
Жыл бұрын
My CE 24 Semi-Hollow 2022 Whale Blue Burst with Satin Neck had a bottle of Fizzy Riffing Drinks in the gig bag
@fender0942
Жыл бұрын
Yes!
@stevenkoppelkam643
Жыл бұрын
Fascinating, cant wait to truly see what Paul's been working on behind the scenes
@davegillette2715
Жыл бұрын
The Tele style prs may break the internet 😂
@gregholmberg2
Жыл бұрын
Finally, a pickup manufacturer talking about the frequency response curve of pickups! That peak he points out is the natural resonant frequency of the pickup. It's determined by the inductance of the pickup, measured in Henries. I wish pickup manufacturers quoted the Henries of their pickups--it's much more useful than DC resistance. The builder can control both the frequency and the height of this peak. I think it's important to realize that in all pickups, the frequency of this peak is well beyond the fundamental frequencies of the notes on a guitar. The fundamentals run from 82 to about 1100 Hz. Pickup peaks start at around 2000 Hz and can go beyond human hearing, but typically no more than 8000 Hz. So the peak is emphasizing overtones, not fundamentals. After this point, response falls off to zero. You can easily measure the frequency response of pickups yourself. All you need is an audio interface, some free software (like Room EQ Wizard), and Ken Willmott's "Integrator" device ($135).
@jonathankvex
Жыл бұрын
I'm using Ken WIllmott's Integrator to do just that - I'm building a database to collect these frequency response curves for every pickup.
@qddk9545
Жыл бұрын
@@jonathankvex Is that public?
@vinny5004
Жыл бұрын
It would be awesome to have shown (or even release on the PRS website) the frequency response spectra for each pickup, so we can see quantitatively how they are voiced and compare output levels.
@spacepodi
Жыл бұрын
I imagine Leo Fender had that same drive for perfection of tone and the science behind it. Really impressive.
@Hickalum
Жыл бұрын
This would have been bread and butter to Leo Fender … He was first and foremost an electronics engineer. But he had an incredibly rare ability … he could listen to what people (musicians) wanted and turn it into reality.
@chrisl7949
Жыл бұрын
If it wasn't for Leo, PRS probably wouldn't even exist
@trevpeeps307
Жыл бұрын
He is a mad scientist. They’re one of the few companies where I prefer their newer models to the vintage ones because they’re just better
@0megalul309
Жыл бұрын
since prs keeps their quality, unlike other companies newer is better but i like the old ones too since its cool to see how paul evolved from the early days.
@sixslinger9951
Жыл бұрын
My '92 custom begs to differ ;)
@trevpeeps307
Жыл бұрын
@@sixslinger9951 I had a 91 custom and it was a great guitar. I wish I still had it. My 594 is pretty great too
@benallmark9671
Жыл бұрын
@@sixslinger9951 you just keep telling yourself that if makes you feel better but you’re flat out wrong. Just a fact my friend.
@SirLoinMagroin
Жыл бұрын
Simply superb. I'm sure glad that Paul has taken the realization of knowing he'd maybe never be a guitar God, to being the God of guitar tone. Just look at what his contributions were, are, and going to be. He's the Leo Fender and Les Paul of our time. BTW, my PRS/Doug Sewell HDRX-20 is heavenly. I am in the midst of upgrading my sweet PRS SE Custom 24 lefty with a custom adjustable nut as well as D'Addario Auto-trim locking tuning machines to make my guitar dream come true. PRS has helped make it all possible for me.
@joeabadier
Жыл бұрын
I look at a PRS as a G and an F- without their design mistakes. We are lucky that Paul is still here with us and is constantly looking at ways to make his guitars look, feel and sound better.
@JohnSoldano
8 ай бұрын
I love my P.r.s. it only gets played for special occasions. It's 20 yrs old and pristine..I will never change the pickups.. I feel blessed that I own your product. Thank you so much for gifting us with your intelligence, and guitar innovation.
@NJSmithMusic
Жыл бұрын
Love the narrowfield pickup. Reminds me of my favorite tele neck pickup tones
@TheEmac70
Жыл бұрын
I thought that too!
@glasseyes5844
Жыл бұрын
It's jawdropping just how single-coil like they sound. Amazing pick ups.
@jerrygeist1677
6 ай бұрын
You know you're really something. I love the fact that you are always evolving. Always thinking always growing musically tone. Thanks for your commitment if just incredible what you done with your brand..
@thebiggianthead8364
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for playing it with clean tones. Every idiot who thinks we can hear anything with distortion added needs to see this vid.
@CosmicNed
Жыл бұрын
Really enjoyed this explanation of how PRS pickups are voiced. My personal favourite is the 57/08 for classic rock styles, but the 85/15 is the most versatile humbucker for any style in my humble opinion…
@leobonomoinspirationalclai7080
Жыл бұрын
Fantastic! Always knew it was more complicated than it appeared and it doesn't appear simple at all! Paul you are brilliant!
@billwittman0504
Жыл бұрын
Paul, your always a joy to watch and we learn so much!!
@shanedaniels5191
Жыл бұрын
Fantastic video!!.. Love Paul's energy when he's describing things.. Not only can you hear,but you can see his passion for the craft.. 🙂✌️
@azuarzch
3 ай бұрын
I own musicman ,gibson fender and I just bought PRS custom 24 in yellow tiger the feel of the neck when you play it its amazing and sound unbeliveable
@Strodav
Жыл бұрын
Excellent video, thanks. Would like to see a video on how the pickup to string distance changes the Db vs frequency graph.
@thedevilinthecircuit1414
Жыл бұрын
Paul is a total guitar nerd and he makes no secret about it. He is also one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet. He remembers names like nobody I've ever met before, and he personally signs birthday cards for every employee. PRS factory employee here.
@thanhhuynh2044
Жыл бұрын
The other day (a clinic in NL) a woman asked why there were no prs tours, especially when they were in DC/usa in a few weeks. He answered it was not possible (due to covid restrictions), but he offered her to contact him for a meet up upon arrival. For a personal meet up and when possible a personal tour. She asked for her husband. How much must the dude adore her?!?!😊
@trawl7880
Жыл бұрын
Nice, good stuff. you think i can put Pauls pickups in my 35th S2. My most favorite ever. they sound awesome. I think the 35th anniversary copied Paul's gtr switching for the toggles. Keep up the exceptional work.
@paulcowart3174
Жыл бұрын
Yeah he is like the one man show too Gibson had a lot of moving parts Leo was kind of like Paul too but he didn't even play guitar Amazing like two sides of the same coin Very cool
@harrisfrankou2368
Жыл бұрын
I'm in Australia...I'd work there. I'll get to the factory one day.
@MainPrism
Жыл бұрын
Dream job..
@larryivymusic
Жыл бұрын
Wow. This really is eye opening. This just makes me think of a time I met Paul and I was in a huge Emg nu metal phase lol really missed out on tone back then.
@WiPri0371
Жыл бұрын
I just learned more in a single sitting than I have at any other time. Man, he is a really good teacher.
@OD6speed
Ай бұрын
I’ve seen him explaining things at Elderly Instruments in Lansing Michigan. He is Absolutely Brilliant and enjoy his meet and Greats
@sedoyotec
Жыл бұрын
Hi, Paul! Thank you for putting your enthusiasm and hard work on each small detail of the guitar. So nice to see how shy at the end he became, like a geek kid, speaking on his beloved topic.
@turbopelex
Жыл бұрын
When the most important executive of a company knows so much about the cience behind his products, you could be pretty sure that they are the best in the industry.
@Daniel-o1m2q
Ай бұрын
First PRS I ever played was a rich friends $2K and wow! That was 1991 and being chronically broke never dreamed I would own one. Fast forward 2024 Just bought my second SE and I love how the weight of the instrument is balanced. I love the radius of the fretboard, the finish and even the 85/15s pups. I know it's not one of Paul's high end but it's still an outstanding working class guitar.
@IamMusicNerd
Жыл бұрын
I have to admit, I was skeptical whether all the PRS TCI claims was mostly marketing hype, and I wouldn’t be able to actually hear much of a difference. But I have been pleasantly surprised just how good some of them sound. Both the 58/15 LT in my core, and the MEV TCI pickups in the Modern Eagle V sound even better than my favorite Traditional Les Paul. They never get muddy no matter what pedal or amp I put them through. Very well done!
@donbutler8760
5 ай бұрын
I remember you sent me a whole box of PRS pickups around 1992. I couldn't find a neck pickup I liked for my PRS Artist..I thought that was so nice of you!
@HeathFoley
Жыл бұрын
For many years the Dragon and HFS pickups in my 94 Custom 22 were my fav, but now my new fav are the 85/15's. I just love those pickups, they can do everything!
@alanreynolds5430
3 ай бұрын
Thanks very much Paul.Apprecieciate this article.I just love these TCI's.I have an Indonesian Pauls guitar-Really a lovely guitar.
@GOOSE-1334
9 ай бұрын
Probably the most informative video I have ever seem about pickups
@alasdairmunro1953
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for an illuminating video! Keep exploring.
@thomashogan1985
Жыл бұрын
This is why PRS guitars are the best mass produced guitars in the world, his passion and knowledge are second to none for a company owner
@adrianhjordan1981
Жыл бұрын
Paul is the only guitar company owner that I would genuinely love to meet. There's a good reason my 2 main guitars are PRS!!
@ramonmoreno8014
Жыл бұрын
Most are dead. Who wants to meet an investor group 🤣
@OldeDog_NewTricks
9 ай бұрын
New to PRS, but I’m really loving what I see and hear so far. I personally don’t subscribe to, or understand the criticism regarding “mojo”. I think having a reliably consistent product is terrific. I don’t want to search through a bunch of the same model guitar looking for “the one”. I want to be able to look at a guitar that turns me on and know that visual aesthetic is the only difference between another guitar of the same model. That’s gold.
@kroadster3249
10 ай бұрын
So clear so concise I enjoyed every minute of the video. Thank you Paul for sharing
@YMESYDT
Жыл бұрын
I love how much we're getting to know Paul
@mikesiemek8630
4 ай бұрын
Best explanation ever! Thanks for sharing and taking the time to show how this process works!
@okanakol4590
8 ай бұрын
I feel so lucky to watch this video. You rock Paul! I am happy to own one👍
@robvanscheijndel
Жыл бұрын
Great to see that his approach in developing pickups results in better products. He didn’t mention several other variables, such as the difference in output between humbuckers and single coils and the frequency response of our ears. In the end it is still our hearing and feeling experience that decides which pick-up suits the best. But with the systematically approach of designing pickups, he creates great sounding products for the most of us.
@simonkormendy849
Жыл бұрын
This was both an eye and ear opener for me.
@Voronguitar
Жыл бұрын
A huuuuge thank you Paul to this video! Now I know why I love so much my 58/15LTs !!!! 😊 always good to see your explanation videos !!!!!
@williamrobinson7435
Жыл бұрын
Most illuminating! Congratulations to PRS on all these superb instruments. 🌟🎶👍
@chaos4316
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing. I’ve been working in the custom shop of a guitar co for about a year now building pickups. It’s cool to see it laid out so simply. (When it’s definitely not simple!)
@carliniguitar
Жыл бұрын
Would love to see more of the graphs of frequencies. It is so cool how this stuff is able to be quantified and thus adjusted so precisely.
@williardbillmore5713
Жыл бұрын
He calls it a black art. That doesn't sound very scientific to me.
@swangdb
Жыл бұрын
Paul did a little presentation on PRS guitars locally about the time the 57/08 pickups were released. There were a lot of PRS guitars at the presentation, and my favorite-sounding guitar was a McCarty with 57/08s. I eventually bought a CE24 Semi-hollow with 57/08 pickups, and it's my favorite humbucker guitar I've ever owned (I've been playing for over 50 years). I want to hear the 58/15 and 58/15 LT pickups, but I don't live near a store that sells PRS guitars. I suspect I'd like both models. Are the 58/15 LT pickups the same as 58/15 pickups but with fewer windings? If so, could you tap both coils of a 58/15 and, with a switch convert the 58/15 to a 58/15 LT? Just trying to figure it out.
@andrewbecker3700
Жыл бұрын
Glad he dropped this fact filled segment today. The timing is curious. There's been quite a bit of discussion recently about many of these topics. There's some quite frankly bad information out there regarding where the tone in a guitar comes from predominantly. The way PRS explains it, he doesn't take sides or bash the uneducated opinions of the KZitem masses. There are soo many things that effect tone to different degrees. To glom on to any single component and insist only that specific element of the rig is responsible for where your tone comes from, is just not accurate. You can buy all the fancy parts in the world trying to replicate someone else's sound. Why? Maximize what you have and rock out!
@erickleefeld4883
Жыл бұрын
At 4:45, Paul takes out his test rig guitar: “So, what we have here is a guitar that we can stick pickups, slide them in and out…” - that’s the PRS guitar I want!
@homebrew1709
Жыл бұрын
I see Paul as a modern day Leo Fender: constantly innovating and never accepting yesterday’s technology as “good enough”. His passion and active involvement is what separates PRS from the “other two” big guitar brands who seem content to keep churning out instruments that have barely changed from 60+ years ago.
@dancotterman1267
Жыл бұрын
Because he’s still alive and working. Leo’s time was well spent but he is sadly gone. Similar people except Leo didn’t play can you figure?
@IraDuncan
Жыл бұрын
GREAT explanation on pickups, Paul. I'm lucky to have built one guitar in my lifetime, and it was somewhat inspired by you. I'm itching to do another now after a 20 year break. I consider myself lucky to have met you at Bob Willcutt's 50th anniversary weekend a few years ago and everyone who has said you are incredibly kind and wise is absolutely right. Thank you for inspiring people continually. Godspeed.
@erichodnett4475
Жыл бұрын
Paul thank you and the whole crew for everything. I don’t know where I would be without guitar and especially PRS..
@prsguitars
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the love @erichodnett4475
@taborturtle
Жыл бұрын
I absolutely LOVE whiteboard Paul! I want you as my teacher in a class! I have so much to learn. I specifically watched this to learn about how you approach pickups, and I respect your opinion a whole lot! Thank you!
@pierre6940
7 ай бұрын
Bonjour Paul, i just bought a beautiful 2023 Blue PRS SE custom 24/08 with TCI S. Thanks a lot for your amazing work!!
@djwarren5081
Жыл бұрын
Learn something new every day watching PRS.
@antonymaitlandsmith8758
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Paul. It is always a joy to listen to you explain your craft and I get real pleasure playing your guitars, they are pure magic. How about a Custom 24 with John Mayer single coils?
@richoz.
Жыл бұрын
Hi Paul. Thank you for making the affordable SE line. I recently bought an PRS SE Starla, and it's a real thrill to own and play such a great guitar, one you couldn't afford before. Also thank you for your inspirational and insightful statements in every video and interview, really enlightening.
@Doug5524
Жыл бұрын
I love the explanation Paul gave I purchased a PRS standard in 2021 it is in antique white with 58/15 pickups this guitar has a great weight 6.6 pounds I find myself picking this guitar this guitar 99% of the time I have a Gibson standard, Fender Mexican, Fender Telecaster USA and I prefer the PRS on a daily basis great pickups thank you Paul and gang all the best from the Suffolk England.
@gravyblue
Жыл бұрын
I respect Paul's continued search for guitar goodness. Gibson and fender should look and learn.
@matthewwright7706
Жыл бұрын
The best guitar company. I love you PRS!
@isaacshepard7809
5 ай бұрын
That passion is what makes him Paul ❤️ your amazing my brother
@petercarparelli
Жыл бұрын
Paul is not only an artist, but he's a scientist and the marriage of those things has resulted in the music industry being given such an excited and passionate point of view on instruments. Paul's the man, would love to chat with him again someday!
@lenablack4264
Жыл бұрын
Please make this a series!!
@magdowich
Жыл бұрын
keep pushing guitar innovation Paul 🙌
@z4570
Жыл бұрын
We can see very clearly that you "care" about your work and the artists and regular Joes like me that play guitar. Thank you.
@tymanngruter1808
Ай бұрын
THE MAN! Thanx for all your afford! 🎸🎸🎸
@doughhole
Жыл бұрын
Paul, the guitars are amazing because you are a Monster of a player and you're playing demands detail, pickups being a very personal voice for the instrument we all love.
@anotherstart1
Жыл бұрын
I have a core top 10 single cut, s-2 custom 24 with USA pickups and USA silver sky. All bases covered. Best guitars and pickups made today hands down in All categories and price points.
@Thelongesteconoline
Жыл бұрын
Paul loves to talk, but he also owns the only company that specifically routed out a guitar to test pickups and went to the trouble to show us exactly what is going on. Taking the time to make a video like this to explain this stuff to everybody really shows how cool he is.
@nicklopetrone3611
Жыл бұрын
I just bought a silver sky and it’s now my favorite s type. It sounds so good
@jeffgerndt2813
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Paul for your tireless work on improving the guitar. Mine is on order.
@WhaleBluePRS
Жыл бұрын
I want that guitar and a shelf full of PRS pickups in my recording studio! What a dream for matching tones to parts and full songs!
@langy8525
Жыл бұрын
Brilliant video. However the best bit was when the whiteboard starting to write things down itself 👀😂
@picksalot1
Жыл бұрын
Very interesting presentation. I look forward to the day the antiquated, bulky pickup technology of the past will be updated and replaced by something more elegant, sophisticated, easily customizable, and smaller.
@jamesnelson1443
Жыл бұрын
Great video Paul!!!! Love how you keep us in the loop!
@joeb8383
Жыл бұрын
You gotta love Paul, he's a national treasure at this point.
@riteandleft
Жыл бұрын
Just Excellent. The best pickup primer ever.
@claudevieaul1465
Жыл бұрын
This is so enlightening! Beautifully explained *and* played too - no frills pure sound comparing. Thanks so much for taking the time to do this, Paul! 🙏😎
@sid35gb
Жыл бұрын
There’s so many permutations I wonder what they’ll discover over time. It’s amazing what Paul has figured out to identify what makes a great guitar. I often read about people changing the pickups on their PRS for some well known after market companies pickups and I think to myself what is wrong with these people PRS stock pickups are great. I have changed pickups on a number of guitars chasing tone but on my PRS not a chance. Anyway to all the guys in Maryland and Indonesia thank you for the great guitars your work is outstanding. As for Paul he’s part luthier and part necromancer.
@martinclayton7260
8 ай бұрын
I love the 57/08 pickups, I've got them in both of my PRS guitars.
@jukruhar94
Жыл бұрын
PRS should produce THAT same guitar as a finished product. It would be a chameleon of tone. Imagine ONE pickup (TCI in this case), swapable between trebble and bass position, 250k/500k switch, high pass filter.. what a great idea.
@z4570
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, Paul. We can see that you "care" about your work as a guitar maker and the artist that you are. Thanks for such a great explanation.
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