Ok, guitar arrived.
Looks great, sounds great, neck feels fantastic.
But:
- Needs quite some setting up. All the praise about how the stock setup would be so great on PRSes is defenitely not true for this one, in fact, it's pretty bad, string action is almost ridiculously high.
I mean, look at this, doesn't even need any scale for being able to tell that this is just very bad:
As it's not the truss rod (neck is pretty much perfectly straight), I'm actually not even sure whether the saddles offer enough leeway to fix this, so adjusting the 6 vibrato screws might be in order. That's absolutely not what I had on my bingo card when ordering a PRS that gets praised all over the net.
- They seem to know shit about ergonomics at PRS. I have no idea about how you could come up with that position for a pickup toggle switch. Yes, I will get used to it, but it's pathetic. I'm already considering to flip the switch and pot positions. Sure, it's not as bad as the rotary knob they are "famous" for, but it's just not good for fast pickup switching. Let alone they mounted it so the switching direction is pretty much sideways, which is absolutely awkward (sure, that's a 30 second fix).
- Along the same lines: Moving the pot knobs with your pinky feels pretty bad, they're slippy and the values are pretty much unreadable. The tone pot is actually fine, but both volume pots have way too much friction for these polished surface knobs to work. I will replace these asap.
I thought about playing a bit more straight after receiving it, but as it needs some setup anyway, I will now just take care about the locking tuners.
Been incredibly excited for the thing to arrive today already, but this is a real let down.
