RevDrucifer
Fractal Fanatic
I went into Guitar Center yesterday to play a Taylor I fell in love with last week. I generally scrutinize large purchases and it was around $1700 (though I jumped on the FM9 waitlist immediately ) so I wanted to take my time and make sure I really wanted/needed it right now. I checked out a few electrics before going to the acoustic room. I always plays the PRS SE's because I've played a few that were really nice in the past and I'm always really curious about them in general. I played a SE 245 singlecut that was really nice and I think something like $640? Crazy! Played a each one they had and then the last one, when I saw the top on it I had to look at the headstock to ensure it was an SE and not a higher end model.
In 28 years, I've played a lot of guitars, I'm sure we all have, out of those thousands of guitars, I've played maybe 8 that I remember played amazing right off the wall, as if I set them up specifically for myself. This was one of those guitars. Before I plugged it in I knew I was going to be leaving with it. I put it down after a couple of minutes and went to look at the Taylor again. They have two of this same model (a koa special edition) and the one I played last week was locked behind those locking hangers. I played the other one and it didn't sound or feel like the first one at all, I didn't even play it for 45 seconds before putting it down. I went outside to think for a minute; I "need" a hollowbody to round out the tone collection, it was absolutely flawless and only $880 and that damn top looks like it could easily be on a high end model. Of course, I did absolutely nothing to talk myself out of it.
I really can't say enough good things about this. It's guitars like these and my Ibanez SZ (that was also perfect without me touching it and $500 new/cased) that make me really turn my head to guitars over $1500. All my presets are for metal stuff or my Strat, so I started going through some factory presets and got on Velvet Sun; within 10 minutes I had the skeleton of a song recorded. That's certainly a good sign of things to come!
In 28 years, I've played a lot of guitars, I'm sure we all have, out of those thousands of guitars, I've played maybe 8 that I remember played amazing right off the wall, as if I set them up specifically for myself. This was one of those guitars. Before I plugged it in I knew I was going to be leaving with it. I put it down after a couple of minutes and went to look at the Taylor again. They have two of this same model (a koa special edition) and the one I played last week was locked behind those locking hangers. I played the other one and it didn't sound or feel like the first one at all, I didn't even play it for 45 seconds before putting it down. I went outside to think for a minute; I "need" a hollowbody to round out the tone collection, it was absolutely flawless and only $880 and that damn top looks like it could easily be on a high end model. Of course, I did absolutely nothing to talk myself out of it.
I really can't say enough good things about this. It's guitars like these and my Ibanez SZ (that was also perfect without me touching it and $500 new/cased) that make me really turn my head to guitars over $1500. All my presets are for metal stuff or my Strat, so I started going through some factory presets and got on Velvet Sun; within 10 minutes I had the skeleton of a song recorded. That's certainly a good sign of things to come!