WHAT ABOUT PRS GUITARS?

[BEHEMOTH]

does this guitars work to play extreme metal? Or not?

[MoonRaven]

uhh, i plan on getting a custom 24 sometime in the distant future when i can afford one, so yeah, id say they can handle extreme metal. now i have played a shit ton of different guitars, and the one PRS custom 24 i had the pleasure of jamming on was, in all honesty, the most enjoyable to play guitar i have ever tried out. the neck was incredible, i dont know what radius they use for the fretboard, but i could everything from full chords to leads to full on death metal on it with no trouble. it was pretty much better than sex.

[brainsforbreakfast]

anything can be used for extreme metal.

[Sycophant]

I definetly think so. Maybe if they weren't so ridiculously expensive...
For the record the best guitar I have ever played in my life was a $3500-4000 PRS. Best neck I have ever played, best sound I have ever gotten out of my hands (and I was playing it through a Line 6 Spider II [the tiny one] on the 'Insane' amp setting.)
I would love to see bands like Cryptopsy or Necrophagist totally ripping it up on guitars like Schecters or PRS, too many fucking metalcore/nu-metal losers play these brands and I think they're fine guitars [I myself own a Schecter C1-Classic.]
I'm sure somebody here can namedrop some good bands that use PRS guitars...

[DeathCS]

the guys in opeth use prs guitars.

[jaxadam]

I have a PRS and I love it.

[Robbie Filth]

the guys in opeth use prs guitars.
Yep.

They look cool (most of the time) and usually sound very good too. I'd recommend one to anyone who has about £3000 to spend.

[amerok]

sycophant - i second that, PRSs are wicked expensive but play nice as hell.

[OpethFan]

I heard they have a massive heel where the neck meets the body?

[arvina]

I definetly think so. Maybe if they weren't so ridiculously expensive...
For the record the best guitar I have ever played in my life was a $3500-4000 PRS. Best neck I have ever played, best sound I have ever gotten out of my hands (and I was playing it through a Line 6 Spider II [the tiny one] on the 'Insane' amp setting.)
I would love to see bands like Cryptopsy or Necrophagist totally ripping it up on guitars like Schecters or PRS, too many fucking metalcore/nu-metal losers play these brands and I think they're fine guitars [I myself own a Schecter C1-Classic.]
I'm sure somebody here can namedrop some good bands that use PRS guitars...
which color is you guitar, i hvae the antique amber, someone else has one too on here.

[Doktorskell]

If a guitar has a humbucker in the bridge. you can play extreme metal on it

[Sycophant]

Arvina, my Schecter is that antique amber/red color as well. It's a damn nice guitar. The Seymour Duncan pickups always put a smile on my face. I think after spending about 2 years straight playing that guitar before I went back to my Ibanez RG about a month ago has spoiled me for getting guitars with neck through bodies.

As for PRS having a giant sized heel, dude - I don't remember that, all I remember is it felt DAMN good.

[brainsforbreakfast]

If a guitar has a humbucker in the bridge. you can play extreme metal on it

You can even play extreme metal if you only have a single-coil guitar.

I bet you can even play it if you have a saxophone.

[The Angry Hobbit]

I definetly think so. Maybe if they weren't so ridiculously expensive...
For the record the best guitar I have ever played in my life was a $3500-4000 PRS. Best neck I have ever played, best sound I have ever gotten out of my hands (and I was playing it through a Line 6 Spider II [the tiny one] on the 'Insane' amp setting.)
I would love to see bands like Cryptopsy or Necrophagist totally ripping it up on guitars like Schecters or PRS, too many fucking metalcore/nu-metal losers play these brands and I think they're fine guitars [I myself own a Schecter C1-Classic.]
I'm sure somebody here can namedrop some good bands that use PRS guitars...


ehh, i dont really like shecters. the c1 classic sounds killer and looks killer, but it just feels uncomfortable to me. is the neck shape on a prs anything like the schecter shape?

[Zertonshfits]

You wankers... make up your own minds....

[problematic]

anything can be used for extreme metal.
Hit the nail right on the head.

Cryptopsy have used Stratocastors. Jon did, I believe.

[TheDreadfulHoroscope]

If its a chromatic instrument, you can play extreme metal on it, which is I think every instrument:).

But about PRS....if you muster up $3000 dollars and buy a PRS, you will be a really happy guitarist. They are so damn easy to play, and their tone is incredible.

[Valtiel]

I heard they have a massive heel where the neck meets the body?

Yes, they do now. They didnt back in the 80's/early 90's but now PRS' are machine made and the disgustingly oversized neck heel is rumored to exit just as a means for a machine to hold on to.

New and Old heel, left to right: http://www.edromanguitars.com/resources/images/heelhell.jpg

[HalfmastTrousers]

i had a standard 22. necks on those things are WAAAY to thick for me...but they're not nearly as thick as some gibson necks i've come across.

but yeah they'd work great for metal. almost any guitar can work for metal. hell i have a samick strat that gets AWESOME tone.

[Soeru]

I'd never pay 3000$+ for a guitar, unless it's fully custom. As playable as they are, they're horribly overpriced.

[Zionist]

does this guitars work to play extreme metal? Or not?
Steve Austin from Today is the Day plays one so I would say yes.

[brainsforbreakfast]

I'd never pay 3000$+ for a guitar, unless it's fully custom. As playable as they are, they're horribly overpriced.

I wouldnt pay 3k for anything but a custom OR a prs.

[Sycophant]

Agreed. Probably the most overpriced guitar I've seen of late is the Jackson 25th Anniversary King Kelly - it's like 7,000 list and it doesn't even have a Floyd Rose.
Jeez.
Sorry Jackson but WTF?

[Soeru]

Agreed. Probably the most overpriced guitar I've seen of late is the Jackson 25th Anniversary King Kelly - it's like 7,000 list and it doesn't even have a Floyd Rose.
Jeez.
Sorry Jackson but WTF?

Word! That Fender strat... uh, I forgot what model, it might've been a Clapton signature, it was a very standard strat that went for 5000$. No free lesbian orgy included either....

And then there's the Gibson Hendrix Flying V. (8 grand!!!)

And yeah, anything with a bridge humbucker is perfect for metal, OR a humbucker-in-a-single-coil bridge pup. :P

Some people pay way too much just for that name on the headstock. I wonder what kind of people buy it, because I don't think I've seen pro's playing 5k$+ guitars.

[HalfmastTrousers]

Agreed. Probably the most overpriced guitar I've seen of late is the Jackson 25th Anniversary King Kelly - it's like 7,000 list and it doesn't even have a Floyd Rose.
Jeez.
Sorry Jackson but WTF?

because floyds are always better than fixed bridge :p

[Soeru]

No, because a real floyds/kahlers cost more than a plain ol tuneomatic stop tail/stringthru/crap-o vintage trem. :p Except for those Titanium ones, but no instruments come with them stock I believe, and come on, who blows 150$+ on a TUNEOMATIC bridge? :p A good Schaller should set you back 50$.

[brainsforbreakfast]

Personaly I don't need Floydroses and divebombs and what not.
Overused lead stuff, same with wah-wahs and such.

And IMO string-tru's have better sustain and are easier to change strings on.

[Blood Red Bass]

:beer: I thought i was the only one who thought that, ha.

[Valtiel]

And IMO string-tru's have better sustain and are easier to change strings on.

Well you didnt need to put a "IMO" cause thats pretty much undeniable fact. :D

Anyone that prefers to change strings on a Floyd Rose is some kind of masochist.

[brainsforbreakfast]

Well you didnt need to put a "IMO" cause thats pretty much undeniable fact. :D

Anyone that prefers to change strings on a Floyd Rose is some kind of masochist.

There are enough people that'll go: "oh, it isn't such a chore when you get used to it." or "I DON'T CARE!! ARE YOU GAY OR SOMETHING??!!!"

and we are only talking about changing strings on a floyd rose. Next stop: beer enema's.

[Soeru]

Oh... so using whammy bars is overdone. Meh. So are fucking power licks and pentatonics, in fact way more than wahs or trems. Wahs(and other effects) and trems are not for dumbasses that lack creativity, it's for people who want to explore different sounds other than the ordinary. I assume you don't do tapping and artificial harmonics because it's cliched. :rolleyes:

You have to be extremely mentally deficient to not be able to set up a Floyd properly after two or three tries. I have a Floyd on all my 3 guitars(Charvel Model 5FX with a Schaller, BCR Ironbird with OFR, and Ibanez Universe), and I have no problem whatsoever. However I am getting another fixed bridge guitar for the sake of a little more versatility and changing to/using tunings that I'd never need a tremolo on(ie: Drop D, Drop A, and B, for everything else I use I like to have a trem available).

[brainsforbreakfast]

I didn't say it is for people without creativity. I did however point out that I felt it is overused and corny, and something I wouldn't use for leads.