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00:00 - Intro
00:34 - Jam 1
01:01 - Story
03:35 - Crunch Comparison
04:54 - Chunk Comparison
05:34 - Lead Noodles
06:00 - Clean Comparison
07:12 - Plastic Clean
07:48 - Jam 2
08:23 - Closing Thoughts
10:13 - Jam 3 (Rewind Your Mind)
I love how every single guitar feels different. And you can test 3 of the same model, but they all might feel slightly different.i have 4 at the moment, and my cheapest $500 Jackson dinky (roasted neck,and I wired in an old Seymour),and it has a magic that I can't explain 🤣
Yeah, it's funny that my "cheapest" guitar, is the one I play the most. It just has a sound and feel that makes me want to play.
I definitely feel you about having the one guitar that you would call your "me" guitar. I have tons of guitars but I definitely have one that speaks to me the most and its my black Gibson SG Special with a checkerboard pickguard. It was my first guitar, and since I learned on it, its the easiest one for me to play because I just "know it" so well.
Shout out to the Savatage- Hall of the Mountain King album in the background.
So true about the guitar taking to your heart! I guess that’s something we discover over time and after having played so many instruments and feeling the music come through them. The guitars I feel connected to and which I feel sound like ‘me’ have so changed from the guitars that I always wanted when I was younger (signature models and pickups etc). I don’t gravitate to those anymore, I gravitate to the guitars that feel like hey convey my ‘voice’. Have an awesome day man!
Absolutely!! Those sig models/spec'd out custom build get the juices flowing but when you find the one all that melts away
I had a carvin custom built 30 years ago and it has been my main guitar ever since. Always wanted a Tom Anderson, but this guitar did exactly what you described it just spoke me and there was no need to go much else and I have other guitars and I like them but this guitar always brings me back
Actually you could replace that bridge with an adjustable wraparound bridge.
Sounds great. Been circling a Cherry 245 SE for a few weeks . . . I'm a Les Paul person and it looks like a good PRS place to start with the same neck scale.
She’s definitely Leon’s Lady. It’s really cool how different guitars have different energy and thus channel different music.
My main guitars are a McCarty 2004 with rosewood neck, also wrapround bridge and a LP tribute 2018 with electronics modded for vintage clapton style. Not much of shredder instruments so i struggle a bit to play fast stuff but the tones are glorious.
always loved your PRS SC and your playing, Leon. Thanks for showing us.
Love the rosewood neck!!
I found and s2 sc245 that was the prize for some car race from the 2007-2012 era cant recall the year. Almost bought it but it got away from me, sad I missed out on it theyre winderful and unique sounding guitars
Literally wanted this video 😂. Leon is the best
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Bought my first prs about a month ago and it immediately became my favorite. 2021 se 245 standard. It is the best guitar ive ever played. So comfortable and great tones. Its the kind of guitar that pushes me to want to learn to play better because it deserves it. And being drop dead gorgeous doesnt hurt either.
Congrats! Agree with you that great instruments make you want to play better.
All of them sound fantastic! Goes to show why us guitar players love an assortment of fiddles. 😂
For me, my main one is my Chocolate Sunburst Oswald, S Style , Clapton Mid boost is amazing, and it inspires me beyond belief
I picked up a Gold Top SC245 also a 2008....when a trade came up on Facebook I jumped at it knowing I enjoyed yours so much! 👍👍
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Great guitar. I just joined the PRS single cut club with you. Just picked up a new PRS Tremonti with a stoptail bridge. Love it.
Welcome aboard!
Main for cover band is Sunburst Fender EJ Strat (mid 2000’s). Best recording guitars: rhythm = 1981 Ibanez AS-50 with Lollar Imperial Low Wind pickups and coil-splitting, and for 70’s Marshall lead tones (especially harmonized) = 1971 Les Paul Deluxe Goldtop (stock) and glorious Thin Lizzie tones. Certain tones are great with 1963 Gretsch Tennessean (totally stock), and Strats and Teles. Great Fun.
I just want to say I love these guitars, but that Hammer Explorer sounds incredible to me!
24 3/4 scale, 24 frets guitars indeed sound meatier than any other guitar indeed. My faves are all in that scale.
Easy to understand why that's your #1. Even the blacked out birds on the fretboard have a cool look. I've modded my Reissue Strat into my #1electric guitar.
Is interesting that it's the first time I realices that you play drop C tuning and normally when doing low tunings people go for longer scale but you went the other way around to fell comfortable 👍🏼.
That PRS suits you well. It has a wider and deeper sound, perceived as a scoop in the midrange compared to traditional humbucker equipped guitars. Something PRS are known for. My personal experience has been that I end up with a very similar sound with every guitar. The first thing in my guitar chain is always an EQ. I've found that I shape the tone of every instrument towards the same "target" that I hear in my mind, guided by how I want the instrument to respond to my touch. For ergonomics, modern headless guitars are it for me.
I've been wanting to get rid of most of my guitar collection (15 guitars) to have one instrument I play 95% of the time. The headless instrument I have is it, but the issue for me now is whether to leave that one guitar as an HH (with single coil splits) or make it into an HSH configuration for further versatility. Either way, there are gains and losses in the tone options. I love the clean tones from both configurations!
Had custom 22 and ce24 before. Bridge pups had some annoying upper mid frequencies I was struggling with. Can’t hear them in your sc245. But what I really love in prs are their neck pickups. They sound godly!
Switched to esp eclipse and horizon. Both sound amazing on bridge, but eclipse is quite dull on neck. Horizon though is more responsive on neck.
I have a 2009 SC 250 that I traded in for a Les Paul. Although I prefer slightly thinner necks and the 250 has a wide fat neck, I can't keep my hands off it because the tone is so awesome.
I think I have to test the 245, too
Sounds terrific
Do it, they're definitely their own thing
I used to work at a high end guitar shop and have owned a variety of instruments but never really had a #1. I’ve liked elements of my Suhr moderns and PRS guitars that I’d have to go private stock to get the marriage between the two that I would really want. I’m really hoping PRS does a core custom 24 with the 594 control layout. Even better would be a Floyd rose as an option on that for a bridge choice. That would really be what I’m looking for at this point but I can’t imagine they would make that a standard production model as I feel it would be incredibly niche.
PRS SE Clint Lowery actually. Got it new in 2013 it’s my go to for writing and rhythm recording. I have Fishmans in it now that combined with the feel is perfection. Plays better than my core models
Awesome combo!
Recently managed to score a pristine case queen 2011 SC-245 25th anniversary and I have been SMITTEN with it ever since. Classically I'm an Ibanez locking trem 24 frets boy, but after getting a CE-22 last year I've really been pulling more and more towards PRS. It's got the 57/08 pups, which sound good, but I found an original 245 treble humbucker I'm gonna have put into it soon and putting a Wolfetone (Seattle based pickup maker) in the neck, can't wait. I can hardly put the thing down, I've found a whole new love for playing. It's great! Heck, I've let friends play it and they hardly want to put it down or give it back haha. The short scale is so much different than what I am used to but as soon as I took it out of the case it felt right. Just straight at home. I think I've done my best playing ever since I got it.
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Leon Im a big PRS fan I own a bunch but most are SE's because I believe in value and moar beer.
My go to guitar is a 198? Yamaha SE 1212 HSS double locking tremolo. It's stock except that it has a Semor Dunkan Pearly Gates in the bridge and I have a couple DiMarzio Area pick ups that I intend on installing. I was at the music store for strings and picks and tried it and had to have it. I had to sell my 79 Gibson The Paul Standard to a friend that still owns it to afford the purchase.
My PRS Sc245 2001 is by far the best guitar I have ever had ..I've been staring at it on the shelf in a shop for a couple of years till the day I decided to buy it. Not even my PRS Custom 24 1996 gave me that "feeling" ...and by coincidence I still use it ...downtuned to C 🙂
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I always wanted a Les Paul custom because so many of my favourite players use them, but I always somehow ended up with a bolt on. My main guitar for a few years has been a Music Man Axis, for example. Recently, though, I nabbed a Greco CEG-220, one of their more recent models made in 2010. Good lord, this is my new #1. I finally have that thick sound I was always looking for but could never tease out of the Axis.
Awesome guitars
Have you tried the Abasi Pathos Distortion yet? Feels like a Mark IV in a box.
Armed And Ready!!!!
It's good to find your number 1 guitar.
Mine is my Ibanez PS10. I have PS120, and PS60, but the PS10 is on another level, but for value/level, the PS120 can't be beat if you're into Ibanez PS models.
Cheers!
That is a killer guitar and it sounds great.. The pickups sound pretty hot.. Maybe it's just me, but they soud really good.. I love short scale guitars personally.. I saw an experiment a guy did with a strat and he moved his hand back as far toward the bridge as he could and was using a humbucker and it sounded sorta like a short scale guitar, and then he did the same with a single cut with a single coil in the neck and moved his hand forward and it kinda sounded like a strat.. So, it was interesting, but there's just something about a single cut I love. They always seem to fit me better. They have a neck that slants toward my body and don't just go straight from the body and it fits me better..
Great guitar brother and it always sounds good, but that's because you'd make anything sound good my friend.. Very cool!
Great video sir!
I need to try that
@@LeonTodd Yeap.. It kinda works..
Very Cool, Thankyou. Awesome Guitar, and can see you shine when playing it. I probably have too many guitars to make a decision(If that is possible lol) but I would have to say "My Guitar" Would have to be my Gretsch G5248T, Chambered Body, 'Gold Top' Double Jet with Bigsby as it amazes me everytime I get it out of it's case, which is really not often enough. I also have a Gretsch G5215 simple single cut, single pick up Rock Machine, that I probably love more and at half the price is totally amazing. I also have a 'collection' of Artist Guitars that are all SO Amazing, excellent quality and playability. Then my Yamaha Pacifica and Sterling by Music Man Silo 3 are battling it out as my favorite 'Strats' at the Moment, both purchased as second hand bargains that have totally impressed. Better stop there before I depress myself as I realize I have too many guitars. (again Is that possible? Cheers All.
Does it have a wide fat neck? and how comfortable is the fretboard for shredding, picking fast, legato stuff, etc..?
Sorry for another comment, but I was just thinking that Seymour Duncan Custom 5 and your PRS Bridge pickup sound pretty close and I love the Duncan Custom 5.. One of my favs along with the Dimarzio SD and SD3 .. The later probably being my favorite pickup of all time if it's a passive. I love actives though if I'm only playing filthy dirty stuff which is where I like to live! :-P
Yeah Duncan do great stuff. Love them
I have a 2011 SC58 McCarty burst with 57/08 and its better than every les paul l i have ever owned
I have have 3 Core 594's and th sc58 hangs with them like a champ
Glorious instruments
Oh hey PRS, aren't they the ones who make the Silver Sky? 😁
This PRS is a black beauty , does your newest PRS have that same feel with the D chord test that you instantly know youve fallen in love with ... Cheers mate.😊
Yeah that's the ultimate test! New one is a little zingier than this one. Like a beef fillet instead of beef brisket :p
@@LeonTodd thanks🎻🥩😺🦘🌏🦘🐨😸❤️ for confirming my suspicion Leon !!! That is such a great feeling axe. I have a cheap bolt on strat copy that's a light natural wood weighs hardly anything and you can feel the whole body resonate and sustain endlessly without even being plugged in ... And a couple more that are juicy in their own way .. a 90s HSH teal metallic Floyd Jackson that you can breathe on and strings touch the fretboard instantly fast and effortless without a buzz, and another perfect feeling neck on a Jackson with active fluences and Floyd that feels so solid you could run a tank over the neck .. the perfect neck / PUP'S.. bout time for the show mate , wonder what you will be playing for us tonight.. I hear lupins takin the mic in the House tonight for the show.. 😺😺
@7:59 BIG Sykes vibes :)
Daniel John’s had a prs correct?
Buying an 08 245 today jet white wide thin neck ?
Lovely guitar. PRS would upgrade it for you if you contact them. When I say upgrade I meant to todays spec. New locking tuners and the adjustable stoptail bridge! Worth doing
They could. But if he already loves it as is, I don't think he should take that risk with modding it. That and the PTC aren't doing many mods right now, due to backlog (I recently asked about having a bridge humbucker routed in my 305).
Better off finding a later model 245 with 2 piece bridge and phase 3 tuners, or better yet....just get a McCarty 594.
The SC is definitely more chunkier than both the Greco and C'24 but its also a darker sounding guitar and has less clarity/cut than them. I'd tonally preference the C'24 myself but when considering its versatility it makes it even more the 'swiss army knife' of a guitar. Thanks for the comparison.
You nailed it. The SC245 is less versatile but has a real definitive "character" that makes it great for playing the original music we make, whereas the C24 is a better guitar for gigs where we're playing covers or a a mix.
Hi Leon. What are the SD pickups on your Green PRS CU24? Are they they trembucker spacing or regular ? Thanks.
Regular. Jb/jazz
@@LeonTodd Thanks brother
If it were all about the science of sound, you'd compare guitars by having a robot pluck the strings. But it's the art that matters, I think, and that's about your connection to the instrument. And you are so obviously very connected to that 245.
Exactly!
I'm not too far from PRS. Let me know if you're ever in the Baltimore area.
For sure!
4:56 that’s horrible riff he does often is sooooo boring… don’t know the provenance, but why he’s using it??? I mean you don’t need to choose bad riffs when you have sooo much good music
Thanks for doing the video Leon! That guitar sounds badass through and through and I've been on a quest to find out like it. @prsguitars should make you a signature model.
..."It doesn't speak to your heart" OR it doesn't "say it" the way you want it to. It has to speak your language, your tone, your soul...to be your Guitar. That will be the one your pick up daily, assuming you have something to say always...