Sup all,
So after receiving my PRS SE Custom 24 after the Sweetwater Black Friday special, I was swamped with finals and the like; after a couple mods, I bring you pictures of her in all her beauty. I installed a GraphTech Black Tusq, Jin-Ho locking tuners (they already make all the tuners for the World Music factory, these are a drop in replacement for the stock PRS tuners), and I steel wooled the neck down to satin. After these mods, she holds tuning impeccably well, and I have her in Drop C with a D'addario 11-56 set, so you can definitely dig in and get your chug on, but you have enough give for leads. Fit and finish wise, it's better than my Schecter KM-7. Damn near impeccable. The Vintage Bass neck pickup is awesome for cleans and leads, but the bridge is nowhere near agressive or articulate enough for a decent high gain tone. Definitely having some trouble getting it to sit in a mix, but I figure I'll replace it eventually, probably with a nickel covered Titan or Nazgul, so I have an excuse to try potting and covering the Vintage Bass myself. I would definitely buy another one of these and do the exact same mods + a new bridge pickup. These play like guitars way more than they're worth.
Tone test below:
[SC]https://soundcloud.com/dailluminaughty/prs-se-custom-24-test[/SC]
So after receiving my PRS SE Custom 24 after the Sweetwater Black Friday special, I was swamped with finals and the like; after a couple mods, I bring you pictures of her in all her beauty. I installed a GraphTech Black Tusq, Jin-Ho locking tuners (they already make all the tuners for the World Music factory, these are a drop in replacement for the stock PRS tuners), and I steel wooled the neck down to satin. After these mods, she holds tuning impeccably well, and I have her in Drop C with a D'addario 11-56 set, so you can definitely dig in and get your chug on, but you have enough give for leads. Fit and finish wise, it's better than my Schecter KM-7. Damn near impeccable. The Vintage Bass neck pickup is awesome for cleans and leads, but the bridge is nowhere near agressive or articulate enough for a decent high gain tone. Definitely having some trouble getting it to sit in a mix, but I figure I'll replace it eventually, probably with a nickel covered Titan or Nazgul, so I have an excuse to try potting and covering the Vintage Bass myself. I would definitely buy another one of these and do the exact same mods + a new bridge pickup. These play like guitars way more than they're worth.
Tone test below:
[SC]https://soundcloud.com/dailluminaughty/prs-se-custom-24-test[/SC]