#PRS SE 245 REVIEWS FREE#

For its target market - feisty rock players who are a few bpm short of being termed 'shredders' - this guitar really knocks it out of the park. PRS models are hard to criticise, and this 245 is no exception. We're talking scale length, otherwise known as the measurement from the nut (not that one) to the saddle. This model has certainly got its own vibe, and you won't hear that phrase too often in the ВЈ649 price bracket. Serious guitarists are obsessed with length. Some players aren't crazy about this distinctive calling card of PRS humbuckers (we remember being told by J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr that they 'make everything sound like the Allman Brothers'), but many more are. It's loud, proud and not lacking in bite, but there's also a real smoothness to the gain of these pickups that marks them out from other units out there and totally reels you in. Where this guitar pulls ahead - in our opinion - is with the distortion. Put a gun to our heads, though, and we'd dither between this and a similarly priced Epiphone Les Paul when it comes to reverb-drenched verse picking passages.

It's warm, characterful and loaded with lengthy sustain, you can hear all the woods, and, like we say, there's welcome scope for fattening it up and thinning it down. There's nothing wrong with the clean tone here. It's an expressive player, in other words, which sounds best when you sit back on the notes instead of brushing past them on a moronic race to the top frets.

#PRS SE 245 REVIEWS FREE#

Vibrato feels just a little more free and easy, and when you bend the G string hard towards the ceiling during a blues lead break, it doesn't fight you. Half an inch might not make much difference on a sumo wrestler, but it's definitely noticeable when you're playing this guitar's board. The neck itself is a bit of a bloater - PRS prefers the term 'wide fat' - but that's fine, because this beast is built for comfort, not speed. We think we see what they're trying to do hereвЂ¦

The pickup selector on this model has been moved from the butt to the upper bout, and the standard PRS dial-count of one volume, one tone is doubled. It doesn't have the voluptuous arch of a Les Paul, but the classic singlecut materials of fat mahogany body and maple top are present and gorgeous, while the mahogany neck is set deep with a joint that looks built to last.

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