3 years ago

Always eager to try out new and different guitars, I pounce on the opportunity to 'borrow' guitars from people.
A colleague at work, Allan, owns this rather nice PRS SE Tremonti guitar from 2015. A hardtail wraparound model made in Indonesia, it is the signature guitar of Mark Tremonti of Creed and Alter Bridge.
Unfortunately, I know nothing of him or his work so we will gloss over that failing swiftly!

It's got a mahogany body with set neck and a rosewood fingerboard inset with birds and, to be honest looks pretty good. I know it's a medium budget model but PRS never makes rubbish and this has the feel of a very much more expensive instrument.

The reason I have it at the moment is the bridge pickup appeared non functional but it was clear as soon as I got it home that the switch was the issue. Quite cheap and flimsy and it moves and wiggles whilst in use. It was merely the contacts though that needed a light abrasion and some de-oxit to bring back to life. A new short Switchcraft style switch is on order and I will solder it in just for long term reliability.

The demo therefore is of this guitar into a Carr Skylark clean initially then cranked a bit using the built in attenuator, then with my Benson boost as this was a suggestion made to me in my Carr Skylark video so I'm duly obliging.

00:00 Intro
00:08 Clean into Carr Skylark neck pickup
00:39 Clean into Carr Skylark both pickups
01:08 Clean into Carr Skylark bridge pickup
01:37 Neck pick noodling and tone control
02:24 Noodling both pickups
02:58 Bridge pickup noodling and tone control
03:41 Bridge pickup chords
03:59 Both pickups chords
04:13 Neck pickup chords
04:22 All three in succession
04:54 Carr Skylark cranked neck pickup
05:35 Cranked both pickups
05:54 Cranked bridge pickup
06:29 Bridge pickup Powa Kords™
07:07 Same as above on both pickups
07:40 As above on neck pickup
08:14 Switching in Benson Germanium Boost on top of the cranked Skylark. Boost was at 7. Bridge pickup
09:05 As above with both pickups
09:54 As above on neck pickup
10:34 Cycling through pickups to end