Well done PRS, now you're building something that I actually want to buy. Something for the S style guy without hum and not compromising tone. And it looks fantastic!

Just got one in Metallic Orange/Rosewood. My first PRS and I'm still adjusting to the neck & scale but I absolutely love it! Sound is so sweet, like a slightly warmer version of the best of a Fender style single coil without that shrill ice-picky worst of a Fender style single coil. Like a great P90, but tighter and without hum. Like a really good Filter'Tron, but even more of what makes a Filter'Tron great. Love Paul, he and his staff are constantly thinking, testing and innovating like no one since Leo Fender.

@jeffreybiscoe6

Ай бұрын

I also thought of Leo + his G + L pickups when watching this video.

@cugir321

Ай бұрын

That crispy sound is a single coil....this doesn't sound like it.

@randomcommenterurl

Ай бұрын

@@cugir321 for sure, it’s great to have different sounding guitars to choose from though

You guys are always pushing the boundaries of what a guitar can be. Well done! 👍👍👍

@christoguichard4311

4 күн бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

Oh hell yes, especially in Metallic Orange!

This company does good work. Love that they’re still evolving

Those pickups sound fantastic, great colors for this guitar too!

@stratolestele7611

Ай бұрын

You got that from that clip?! Wow.

I wasn't too much of a believer, but after playing one today, holy smokes 💨💨💨 This has such unique character, sitting right between single coils with the beef and noise cancelation of humbuckers. I took home pearl white with rosewood today 🤘

@nunninkav

Ай бұрын

Lucky bastard.

@Rygo-wk3jm

Ай бұрын

Congrats!

For quality , craftsmanship, and price point prs is KILLING IT . Easily becoming my favorite guitar maker.

HSS version please! 58/15 LT on the bridge and 2 NF3.

@genghiskhando5507

Ай бұрын

Yes please

@NewPraetorianBlues

Ай бұрын

You're looking for the Studio! Those are the original NF pickups, not the Deep Dish ones however.

Very nice, will have to get one soon.

Bro.. saw it and want it immediately… that’s rare

I love the fact that you keep pushing boundaries and not resting on your laurels like other shops have been doing. Always a treat when I get to play a PRS.

Dam love that colour with a maple bourd, great sounding pickup's!

Paul you are genius this is what I was waiting for the last 50 years the sound is perfect 👍

@zoeherriot

Ай бұрын

I mean… fender have been doing stacked humbuckers in their noiseless single coils for years.

@thebaneofyourexistence.3377

Ай бұрын

@@zoeherriotcame here to say this

Nice. Can I get one with dots instead of birds?

Prs strat looking 👌 🔥 I love it

👍 love ya Paul. Best regards from Montreal!

I love my tremonti se, great dark bridge

Just got one today & may I say orange looks amazing

@Rygo-wk3jm

Ай бұрын

Did you go for rosewood or maple?

@randomcommenterurl

Ай бұрын

@@Rygo-wk3jm rosewood, purely based on appearance cause my hearing is not that precise. I wish they would’ve used a single piece of wood for maple neck & maple fretboard combo, since mismatched grain on the same color wood looks off imo

@Rygo-wk3jm

Ай бұрын

@@randomcommenterurl I just ordered a maple one, but only because I have more rosewood guitars already. I like the feel of rosewood so much more, but I figured I could use some variety. You made a good point about matching wood types. I wish I thought about that more prior to purchasing!

@randomcommenterurl

Ай бұрын

@@Rygo-wk3jm I’m sure you’ll love it! Now that I’ve been playing it for a week I appreciate the sound & feel more than the looks. FYI I got mine at a local store & it was $50 cheaper than the listed price

@Rygo-wk3jm

Ай бұрын

@@randomcommenterurl $50 off is impressive considering it’s newly released! I’ve really enjoyed playing it and it sounds so full compared to my other guitars. I just adjusted the pickup heights a little, which helped them sound a tad less dark.

I'm sure that it's an awesome guitar, but i would say that bass response is more on the humbucker thing. John Mayer has a video where he tries (and achieve) to show us how the silver sky SE feels and response playing the 6th string. This guitar sems to be a really different thing, much more darker and rounder!

@michaelhaydenbell

17 күн бұрын

What?

I have metallic orange with maple fretboard on back order. Love PRS

@Rygo-wk3jm

Ай бұрын

Exactly the same here! I look forward to seeing it in person! I almost went the rosewood route, but my instinct said to go maple!

Thanks for the cool SEs. Paul, man of the people!

SEs sound just as good as cores now! thanks Paul.

"Humbuckers that sound exactly like single-coils. It's not 'kind of like' a single-coil; it IS"....why say that when they clearly don't sound like single-coils in side-by-side videos? They sound great, but they're different, and that should be praised. Surprised the rest of the team agreed to let him make that assertion.

@viziobehringer3633

12 күн бұрын

I been playing over 10 years and can't really tell the difference without a side by side . What are you on about child

@stricknine8623

12 күн бұрын

Agreed. They certainly do not sound like traditional single coil pickups at all.

@BlackWylde

8 күн бұрын

I want to disagree with this so bad, because I absolutely love PRS, but you are right, these sound like humbuckers. Mind you, they are fantastic sounding humbuckers, but still doesn't have the high end twang of a single coil. it also very much has the body and resonance of a humbucker, which you wouldn't have with a single coil. It is possible that the audio translation of this video has something to do with it, or maybe even has the tone rolled off a little.

@Ottophil

2 күн бұрын

@@stricknine8623yeah. They don’t hum lol

@humiut2041

2 күн бұрын

There will always be someone who believes it and buys it.

Damn, that guitar sounds sick! Well done PRS. Might have to get this bad boy after rocking the Holcomb SE I got last year!

Reminds me of Bill Lawrence pickups.

Love it

I really like the maple neck/ fingerboards.

They sound good but its definitely different from a single coil.

@deanevangelista6359

Ай бұрын

I watched a demo of this guitar, and the in between settings, it definitely has that single coil “quack.” I’d like to install those pickups in one of my guitars.

@tiagoramalhais5493

Ай бұрын

Since the guitar has a pickguard, i would guess some people will get custom pickguards and replace the humbuckers with real single coils so some of these pickups might find their way into the 2nd hand market, it is unlikely that PRS would sell aftermarket SE Pickups.

Wow!!!!!!when i first started really playing was the first year PRS had a mailable brochure/catalog. It has been awesomw watxhing Paul reinvent and invent and cover new ground!!

THANKS FOR GETTING LEE ANDERTON AND PETE SOME TO DEMO ON THE 1ST DAY LIKE THE BIG CHAINS. LITTLE GUYS AND OUR LITTLE WALLETS STILL MATTER!

Kinda single coil like but with more midrange. So it’s a variation on any other none single coil that’s supposed to sound like a single coil. Ergo it does not sound like a good single coil. It’s muted by comparison. For starters these are hum cancelling. Hey I like the variations, but single coil sounds these are not. Just play along side a Strat or Tele and the difference is quite stark. 🤷‍♂️

@gregmacklin9758

Ай бұрын

I couldn't agree more. The difference is day and night. I bought a 2015 Fender American Delux HSS . It's a beautiful guitar , which came with the Shawbucker and N-3 noiseless pickups. Those pickups sound pretty spot on to this PRS demonstration. And that's why it stays in the case. Muted, almost no fidelity. I remember thinking something was wrong with this tone pot .

I would add a switch to that pickguard, to get the neck-bridge combination. With those NF mini-humbuckers, it’ll be a perfect combination of a Telecaster and Les Paul middle positions.

I saw Paul the other day in Sweetwater carrying around a guitar in a case. I guess that was the guitar.

Way to go Paul! I just ordered this exact guitar through Long and Mcquade! Gentlemen, which songs should I learn this summer on it?!

@michaelhaydenbell

17 күн бұрын

Why would you act like you're going to let a KZread comment section determine what songs you're going to learn?

@Rygo-wk3jm

17 күн бұрын

@@michaelhaydenbell I was just looking for fresh ideas. It’s not an act.

Sounds great, thanks Paul! 🤙🏼

That’s cool!

Thats nice Paul i have never played a PRS guitar this one looks really nice never had a opportunity to play one i live so far from any music stores.

Serious question here...how are these different from a strat with noiseless single coils?

OK so now I'm finding an issue with my NF3 that I got today. I noticed that as soon as I turned the volume down to around 7 or 8, the volume dropped off dramatically and the treble dropped off as well. It stays about the same volume all the way down to 1.

Excuse me Paul. Would it be too much trouble to make a 12" radius fretboard with a thicker neck like a 50s Gibson. Thanks brother 👊

@Bbbbad724

Ай бұрын

I shattered my shoulder and broke my arm and a wide thin neck with my big hands prefers a U shape at 1.68 width. Your guitars are nice but the 25 inch scale with 22 frets is kind of tight. Great idea though for the pickups, are they Almico V magnet and bobbins? I have heard some new pickups in a custom guitar that are really great.

@Bbbbad724

Ай бұрын

I shattered my shoulder and broke my arm and a wide thin neck with my big hands prefers a U shape at 1.68 width. Your guitars are nice but the 25 inch scale with 22 frets is kind of tight. Great idea though for the pickups, are they Almico V magnet and bobbins? I have heard some new pickups in a custom guitar that are really great.

@michaelhaydenbell

17 күн бұрын

Paul here, I'm cooking that up for you as we speak! When will you be ready to pick it up?

Eager to try one. Not in the local stores yet. :(

But it's the 2 and 4 positions that count?

Gonna cannibalize the SE Silver Sky

@MrSongwriter2

Ай бұрын

If you want something humbucker but still sounds single coil look at the original Seymour Duncan stacked humbucker single coils stkn 4

Love PRS guitars. Honest question, though. If the goal is to sound like a single coil, what's the purpose or benefit of having a humbucker? Better sustain?

@PaulCooksStuff

Ай бұрын

Noise cancelling

No noise if I plug it in standing inside an electrical substation?

Excellente 💃🏼💃🏼😀👍🏼

I had one of the older model core nf3's some years ago. Great guitar I wound up trading it for another PRS because I didn't like the dilated eye inlays on it. Glad to see the model make a return!

Shut up and take my money! That thing is beautiful.

Wow! Worthy of consideration.

I want one of these now also. Thanks for that.🤦🤘

When I first heard NF I thought not Fender! I also want to say the price is crazy good compared to other high end guitars.

One on the way!

You and Porsche, how do you keep improving on perfection?

I still have my 245.SE I want this one lol.

Done and done! Was gonna get a DGT, but this is more my speed. Thanks for actually leaving the middle pickup in (looking at you Swamp Ash). It has evrything I need out of a guitar...like the neck, )smae as the SE SEmi Hollow that I have), lower output pickups, no hum and simple controls...oh, and no crazy flame tops...just plain old fashoined paint and solid colors.

Love it. Love humbucker narrow band. I have 5 PRS And used my Se Pauls on the Blush Hollow Band album Natural High on all streaming, plus se soap Bar ll, se 245, se Zach, s2 mcCarty 594 dbl cut..I'm a PRS major fan

I'm very tempted!! 😊

What scale length and neck radius is available. Something about Strats that I don’t like is the control placement being right there and able to bump accidentally. I prefer a Tele control set with push pull pots for a regular humbucker to be split. And a string through body with out a trem.,

@stratolestele7611

Ай бұрын

That's easy to resolve with any number of aftermarket pickguards.

I like the color of this guitar. Their doubling down the on strat PRS.

brilliant Paul. Now it not only looks like a Fender Stratocaster but sounds like one too. Well done after 70 years.

Nice. It looks like a strat. Gotta get one.

Got one of the first coming in here (orange/maple) to complement my Fiore (my favorite guitar of all times). It is fantastic. Of course do these pickups sound like single-coils, just not like every single coil ever made, which differ greatly. They are not as bright as 50s or late 60s / early 70s single coils. but they are not darker than some early 60s ones, and definitely not darker than Texas Specials. I do have a Fender CS strat with Texas Specials and it is definitely darker and barkier than the NF3. The clarity and attack of the NF3 pickups is definitely single coil territory. Neither P90s nor humbuckers sound like that.

Finally. A consistent. Easy to play . Great intonation. Guitar. With Stratty sound.

@michaelhaydenbell

17 күн бұрын

Why. Do you type. Like this.

i was just thinking about the fender staggered seymour Duncan stag mag humbucker ....

P.R.S.= GODD💯💤💤💤👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍❤❤❤

They make the prettiest accustic guitars

They sound nothing like single coils to me. But the guitar looks cool.

You had me at “deep dish”

P.R.S.= GREATNESS. If you have the money.😢

sounds amazing i just wish prs made some more ergonomic body shapes

Big methodical mistake: the magic is the 2 in-between positions on a Strat. Where are they in your short??

@michaelhaydenbell

17 күн бұрын

It's a SHORT.

@ymelfilm

16 күн бұрын

@@michaelhaydenbell a short which has a shortage. Lol

All this fascination with turning a watermelon into a pear is mind-blowing. What I'm hearing is a mini humbucker with a few more wines of wire around longer magnetic pole pieces. I'm guessing the ohms is around 6.8 -7.5 Then again, i watched this on a cell phone, so i might be way off lol..

That's a good idea.

Wait, what about positions 2&4, does it quack like single coils, or isn’t that part of the design?

Ordered one in just that colour within like 30 minutes of knowing about it lol. Got the rosewood board though. My Silver Sky is maple.

@Rygo-wk3jm

Ай бұрын

How is it to play?!

He may be wrong about "ToNeWoOd", but the man sells nice guitars. Put those in a Core series and I'm interested.

I love it, but... is that not what a coil splitter is for? I love my humbuckers in general, but my daily driver has the splitter. If I played this guitar, I have humbuckers that "sound like single coils" ... idk, I'm missing something I'm sure it's a wonderful guitar.

Paul has just invented the strat.

@stratolestele7611

Ай бұрын

No. No he hasn't. Man, the fanboyism in PRS circles runs deep. You guys are 🤣

So what's the difference between that and everyone's single coil noiseless? I can't say that that tone is blowing me away

Niys,playing,pal,❤❤❤

is it true PRS don't make left-handed guitars? Cool

How heavy are the tuners, is what I wanna know.

with NF "S" pickups in the SE line, I know a PRS SE NF53 (telecaster) must be coming soon.....

So single coil sound without the hum? I’m in!

This might make PRS #6 for me

PRS are constantly innovating pick up technology. He is in the same league as Leo & Les

I remember getting my very first PRS. It changed my life.

@stratolestele7611

Ай бұрын

People should change your life, not material objects. I've got loads of gear, but none have changed my life. 😏

I want one

Don’t forget the lefty option ;)

I wonder if it’s gonna be better than the john mayer silver sky

@shawnmcginnis2508

Ай бұрын

I have no complaints with my 2023 SE silversky. Great guitar for the money. Though I believe the early ones did have some issues, I got nothing to complain about on the newest ones.

Really cool. Twang and snap, but without the hum.

Maybe this clip is too short. But why would I want humbuckers that are single coils? I don’t get the purpose.

I have one of the original NF3's from a dozen or so years ago and it is one of the few guitars I will never sell. Its all the STratty goodness with no hum and with some dirt you can push it into its own thing that nothing else sounds like.

Since PRSs are so unaffordable, I’ll wait for the knockoffs. And/or build my own with knockoff pickups. Or why not just the old school gold and silver pickups?

@CAGED1702

Ай бұрын

This guitar is not unaffordable. Street price for these is between $750 and $790.

Are the necks on these made out of green wood?

They really don't sound just like a single coil the comparison against even a SE silver sky you can tell it's different. Let alone a set of stacked single coils by Seymour Duncan or even lace sensor which sounds closer than this

PRS just keeps pushing things forward and raising the bar for everyone. We all benefit from PRS even if you haven't seen the light and tried one yet.

Just when I was thinking it would be great to have a PRS with some kickass P90’s, here it is!

I thought it was Chevy chase at first. I’ve always wanted a PRS