PRS Sweet 16 amp (Page 1 of 2)

I know they're expensive.
These new PRS amps seem to be excellent but christ, the cost is insane. I don't think they're THAT much better.

http://www.sweetwater.com/c623--Paul_Re … _Amp_Heads

$1650 is pretty steep...unless you have the money, you love it, and you get a decent deal on a used one.

If you love the tone but not the price check for the original Sewell amps.  They are pretty much the same amps designed by the same man for a lot less $$$.  PRS just glammed them up, added the popular "PRS" brand to it, and jacked up the price.

Thought I read it was at least partly designed with David Grissom

I saw him play it locally down here at Antones
Sounded Fantastic, but he always does
Lot of bite and sustain

Didn't hear it clean.
Can definitely do a small club with no problem

I think it sounds pretty good too, but confirms the issues I had with it.  Even in that demo it seems to always have a very apparent top-end to the notes on the distorted tones.  The clean sounds are very lively and chimey which I like, but for an amp that's only 16 watts there's almost no headroom.  If the amp was 40-50 watts I'd probably like it a lot more.  I also liked the amp a lot more with single coils, but alas I've kind of moved away from single coil guitars...

I should like this amp seeing that Single Coils are my favorite pickups.  You can just get so much more from your volume controls out of single coils and you don't have to run 2 amps to get that clean distorted thing going.  You can just dial in that overdrive tone you want add a Tube Screamer or something for leads, and then back it off to get the clean thing going.  All of the Gibson humbucker guitars I've owned over the years sounded awesome but to sound clean you either had to bring a bunch of stuff with you to get the distortion or overdrive the amp, and then when you would turn down the volume on it you still feel like your getting everything its got but at a lower volume.  I've never cared for that but have always gone back and forth with Single Coils or Humbuckers.  Now that I'm playing regularly our other guitarist has only 2 Les Pauls so I'm usually forced to play a Single Coil instrument just to stand out from him.  Its also been the easiest I've ever had it as a guitarist because I hate bringing everything I got.  With my Stratocaster I take a very minimalist aditude and generally just use the distortion from the amp itself.  So with that being said 16 watts would be great for me turn on turn up and jam.  Used to have a Fender blues jr. and with my strat it sounded great.  I traded up for a 40 watt Hot Rod Deluxe for a bit more distortion and have been disappointed for a while, I think I just don't play anywhere that requires a 40 watt amp so I never heat up the Power amp.  What do you guys think?  I'll stop typing now.

Funny you should say that

I was playing one of these all weekend
That Neck Bucker gets fantastic Les Paul tones
Fun guitar to play

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or here, if my tags aint working

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The Custom Shop makes some Fantastic Tele's

I just got the book at the link below

http://www.alfred.com/Products/Get-Yer- … 33882.aspx

The Rolling Stones Get Your Ya Ya's Out  - Completely Tabbed
Great Stuff, been working through this weekend

The Bucker in the Tele neck nails the tone of the Jumpin Jack Flash Intro
The Bridge pup nails Mick Tailors lead tones

I'm thinkin ... I can cop Keef's Les Paul tone, and Micks SG tone with one Tele....
If Jagger calls .... I would give up my day job :-)