shasha
Fractal Fanatic
Crappy cell phone picture, but you get the general idea.
Been wanting one of these since they first came out. I played one years ago through an AC30 and was just floored with how it played and sounded. I'm not a huge PRS fan to be honest. I had played plenty that I just didn't get along with, but the 513 had a different neck profile and it's own thing going on. Now I think that this one actually has the regular pattern neck which I do think is different than the one that I had played, but it's still pretty great.
As for the top I call it the 11 top. For those that don't know (because I didn't until recently) the 10 tops are just the top 10% of the wood at the time. So if you have 100 pieces the 10 best are classified as 10 tops. I think that this one was number 11 of that bunch. :lol
One thing that I didn't recall was just how bright this thing is; especially in the clean humbucker setting. It's actually a bit tough to deal with using my default presets, but the tone knob actually does a very good job of actually working and giving a pretty wide range of control. I roll the volume and tone back just a bit in the clean humbucker setting and it's really nice. The full humbucker is pretty brutal. Single coils hum like mad (just like all single coil guitars in my house), but the out of phase (2 and 4) positions are really stratty.
Really nice guitar. Wasn't really sure about whether I was going to bond with it on the first night, but most of you know that I am still recovering from elbow surgery so playing in general has been a struggle. I put a set of .09's on it and adjusted the spring tension accordingly and picked it back up a few nights later. It's not going anywhere. :encouragement: