PRS SE Hollowbody II - Charcoal Burst Review

Quality Instrument

This guitar is beautiful. Fit and finish is high quality. Surprisingly the pickups are outstanding. The only change I made was the addition of PRS SE locking tuners. As always the Sweetwater setup was exceptional right out of the case. Shout out to my sales engineer Alden DeBee for his service. Thanks buddy, you're the best.

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This thing is absolutely amazing.

This guitar is absolutely fantastic. The clean sound from both of these humbuckers is perfect. Super clean. Well rounded, smooth, deep, bright and creamy. All achievable. Then, kick on the distortion and holy mother sweet love of all things desirable, this thing can scream. I play it half the time without even plugging it into an amp in my living room after everyone has gone to… read more bed. I've owned several guitars over the last 30 years. I still have 5 of my favorites. Up until I brought this PRS Hollowbody 2 home, my Les Paul was my favorite. The LP is now my 2nd favorite guitar. The fit and finish on this guitar is outstanding for the price. The binding is perfect. The ebony fretboard and bird inlays is perfect, fast and crazy comfortable to play. The neck is very comfortable with perfectly smooth edges. I have small hands. Like size 7 gloves small. I have no idea why this is called a wide fat neck. It is not. It's more rounded than a slim taper Les Paul but it is by no means fat. PRS states they've refined the neck. If refined means the most dang blasted playable neck, then they nailed it. The paint and finish is absolutely beautiful all around. I just can't say enough about it. I did pull the strings off and put my preferred strings on. I also polished only three frets while I had the strings off. It was probably okay as is, but I'm a perfectionist and I figured I might as well do it while the strings were off. I'd buy this guitar over and over again. Holy smokes PRS nailed it with this guitar. I could not be happier. I went with 4/64 low e and a little over 2/64 high e for action and I get zero fret buz. I love this guitar. This is the most playable guitar I have ever handled, regardless of price.

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I’ve had this guitar for a month, CANT PUT IT DOWN!

This is the first guitar I've seen a huge difference between using the toggle switch so the pickups are amazing! My favorite feature is how light it is due to the hollow body, so if you stand up and play no stress on the shoulder like a Les Paul! This guitar just has an awesome feel and I feel like I have a extremely high end guitar for mid range price! So if you're thinking… read more about getting this guitar just go for it!

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Wow... I'm impressed

This is a Beautiful guitar. Sounds and plays amazing. Nice tone plugged directly into Logic. I highly recommend it if you are looking for a new axe.

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Wow

I just received my SE Hallow II today. I took it to a rehearsal for church and was completely amazed at the tone of this guitar. I was worried I wouldn't have a good rehearsal because I'm unfamiliar with the guitar, but it was setup and ready to go straight out of the box! I have a Les Paul Studio I've had for years and is my only humbucker guitar I have at the moment, to compare… read more the pickups to. My poor Les Paul Studio sounded like a telecaster it was so thin by comparison to my PRS SE Hallow II. The tone and volume controls have a nice taper and the 58/15 S pickups clean up really easy by turning down. The only mod I intend on making is I purchased the locking tuners for the SE range and that is by preference only, the tuners on it stock are perfectly fine, but I prefer the ease of locking tuners. For church modern praise this guitar has a lot of character to its voice. For rock it can do classic rock no problem. I thought it was a little woofy for hard rock and 80's, but that could be eq'd. Slide guitar? This thing sustains like nobody's business! Blues guitar screams with this bad boy! Country? Maybe if you go clean it would work well, it's not that twangy to be honest. Would I buy again? Absolutely! The only regret I have is I wish I got the Piezo version because I could cover more ground! But this guitar is a keeper, and would make anybody's collection well rounded!

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