90s Gibson Studio Les Paul Vs PRS CE24

Which one should I buy ???…too late I got 'em both !

I paid 1650 USD for the PRS New from a mom and pop shop in Iowa and ~700 (inc shipping) for the LP from eBay (1100 USD new…bargain !)

Ok so doing an A / B test

Playability:
The PRS wins hands down, it is just incredibly comfortable to play. The scale length is the same for both guitars and I’m not sure about the fret board radius however if any one is interested in comparing and contrasting both are stock and will be available on line. I have both set up with 9s and string savers and although the Gibson feels clunker (and less comfortable), I think I can actually go faster on the Gibson (I haven’t worked that one out yet either)!

Tone:
The two axes do not sound remotely similar.

Well the PRS sounds lovely I really like the HFS / vintage combo and the LP sounds like an LP. Set the LP on “rythum” and wander up to the 12 fret and hey presto, Slash’s tone ! Flip the PU switch back to “lead” and bang….. loadsa crunch !

The PRS is a different beast it is much more versatile in the type of sounds it can make and having a tap switch helps a lot here !

Looks
No competition here, the PRS wins hands down, but what else would you expect the studio is not really meant to be a looker !

Overall:
Both are lovely axes and I think the LP will grow on me even more … and for the fat end of 700 USD it is a real bargain. Admittedly I have put sperzles and stringsavers on it however that is not really a biggy ! At the end of the day the PRS is still my #1 axe and until I find a better one or it dies, that’s the way it is ! The LP sounds like an LP and that’s good ‘cos that’s why I got it !

If any one is interested I can post some sound bytes !

I didn't want to see this thread fall down the charts without a reply, so....

PRS guitars blow Gibson's out of the water, in my opinion. Why? The pickups, the fact that you have basically 24-fret access, etc.

Dickey Betts was known to play a Gibson Les Paul his entire career, and then in 1994, switched to a PRS, because the PRS could make the same/better 'fat blues' tone that he wanted. Not only did he get more access to the frets, but the guitar weighed lighter.

I think that PRS guitars rely less on the actual wood, and more on the pickups, or so it seems (at least to my ear:D).
Glad to hear that you have Two fine axes, now!

~Incidents

Oh I like all my axes, if they don’t pull their weight, they go on eBay ! Even the Fenders all have there own sound which is why I keep ‘em from country twang to Hendrix !

Its funny that the fasted axe I have (IMHO) is a late eighties USA made Jap strat and, even with the longer scale length, it blows both the PRS and the LP clean outa the water (in terms of speed). It still is not as comfortable and as musical of the PRS.

I thought about this in terms of physics until my head hurt, at which point I gave up, opened a beer and decided just to enjoy playing them.

At least my chronic GAS is no longer aggravated by the Line 6 variax (I guess we will see how long that lasts)!

Tee Hee

S

Sounds of:

PRS CE24 bridge and neck
LP Studio bridge and neck
80s USA made Jap Strat bridge and neck

All through a Pod pro set on 5b (Soldano X88)

http://www.trinkit.net/Songs/Demo.mp3

Dude, your voice scared the SHAT right out of me!!!!

I was downloading the demo and then was reading some other posts and all of the sudden

*PRS BRIDGE*

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!


Scared the bejesus outta me.

Yes, scared me too. I'm not sure how long the file was supposed to be, the one i got was 31 seconds long, and covered the PRS guitar. I expected your voice to sound much different than it does.

Your guitar style is much different than mine, if your sound files give a general 'idea' of what's happenin'. I pretty much make a religious effort to sound good, without pulling any standard 'flashyness'. The ultimate goal, to me, is to get through an entire show without pulling any flash, you know, relying completely on pure music. Usually during our 2nd sets, I'll fire some licks (blues), similar to the ones you've posted, and usually the audience goes nuts, although we had a show where the audience got hammered by the beginning of the 2nd set. You see, I'm the kind of person that says "Well, that was nice, but I want to hear a melody, so naturally, I am a melodic guitar player. It doesn't feel right, unless it perks my ears up and says "I like that!".

"You're 15, where the hell do you play???" - We play at three venues, basically, two of them are independantly owned, one is a business. Two of them are what you would call 'large farmhouses', and generally we get 100-150 kids (Jam Band Music is huge in Wisconsin) out there per show, and at "Paddy's", which is the name of the "pizza bar", gets about 75 (the place is really small).
We play for free + no admission for the farmhouses (We have kegs ready, and almost everyone buys a few cups a' brew from our 'salesmen'. Generally, this generates $600 to $700; we take home about $500, and give the rest to the barn owner/salesmen/etc. Works out nicely.

~Incidents

Sorry guys and I was stone cold sober too! Eeeeekkkk !

The file is about 2 and a half min long and contains 6 samples. None of it is planned (musically) as I only wanted to give an idea of how the different guitars sounded using the same distortion / amp settings!

I figured a little pentish blues and some A / E shaped bars would do that nicely!

IH, glad to here you are gigging so hard, I’m jealous!

Yo Incidents, I'm quite happy that you can play and get some money dude! Good for you! That means that with determination and hard work, you can succeed.. Cool!