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I agree

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Yes, very thorough!

PRS has some of the best full tonality of any guitars on the market. Truly brilliant. If you want the best single coil pickups by PRS get the John Mayer Silver Sky.

Yeah, I basically came here to say that my main take-away from this whole video is how it re-confirms my own reasons for loving my SE Custom 24

My thoughts exactly.

I heard that the prs split in general is special not getting much volume drop

My understanding is that the PRS has not a complete split, but a simple attenuation of one of the two coils. This should be done by inserting a resistor between the coil you want to eliminate and the ground. I might have used some incorrect terminology, but i hope that was understandable enough.

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Could you mark the guitars beside 1,2,3,4?

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I always get quite a bit of flak when pointing this out on other channels: the importance of _getting to the point._ Darrell is one (of the many good channels) to get this right. I could not agree more.

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I don't get how you can say the tele sounds the best but you aren't a tele fan. If you think it sounds the best then aren't you admitting that you had misconceptions about it, and should now change your mind and become a tele fan?

MPAII maybe just how it looks??

No no listen to how things are. There are two types of guitarists. The ones that like teles. And the ones that don't know it yet. You my friend used to belong to the second group and with that I welcome you.

the strat has so much more caracter bro... and I m not a strat fan XD

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Les Paul was good! But I was impressed by G&L too.

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Hey Darrell! I've comented on one of your videos before, besides that I personally love the telecaster. I've always been a huge fan of Fender. By the way, I love your telecaster, looks great! I have a tele myself, however it has two humbuckers, so it has more of an aggressive sound. It is similar to the PRS. Although I still have to give it to your telecaster. Love your videos, and I hope you have a great week!

All Kinds Teles usually are more punchy, mostly because of the metal plate and position to bridge. Also most stats don't have the bridge pickup running through the tone control.

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In my opinion, coil splits are perfectly usable but impractical because it takes more fiddling to get a decent tone. That's my experience with the coil splitter on my Godin Session anyway.

ya they are brighter if thats what u want.

Not so fast - unbalanced coil humbuckers like the Fralin Unbucker will sound virtually the same in coil tap mode. The cherry on top is that humbucking mode sounds like a sweeter, hotter single coil due to the unbalanced coils. Two, genuinely useful sounds in one pickup. It can be done.

The lp tricked me into believing that it was a strat, on the ather hand the G&L sounded like a les paul... am I going crazy? xD

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Les Paul was the best in the solo test to me

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I would also have liked a direct comparison of single coil strat to split humbucker and full humbucker strat because that is exactly what I've been thinking of doing. P.S. if you do it, tell us what pickup you used- I'm still shopping....

Mike, [EDIT: I've been deceived by the marketing machine (Seymour Duncan website descriptions of Alnico II being "warm, sweet and round" or whatever so don't read this crap I typed] if you want the split humbucker to sound anything like a single coil you'll want to make sure that it is not the typical ceramic magnet humbucker, but some kind of alnico magnet. I've got a Duncan Custom Custom (TB-11 I think it is), which is some kind of Alnico magnet, however, I have not split it yet. [EDIT: People on the Duncan forum actually say that the JB splits fantastically and gives strat tones- and I think it is ceramic].

@@StratMatt777 Darrell did a video busting the ceramic vs alnico myth. The take away was that ceramic is cheaper than alnico, so manufacturers use ceramic to mass produce crappy pickups. The crappy pickups then become associated with ceramic "harshness and thinness" when it was just a bad pickup to begin with. Darrell's comparison shined a lite on how full ceramics can actually be when the pickup is a quality pickup.

@@guitarplayergeek Yep, I just discovered Dylan's channel a couple days ago and, thanks to him, have a full understanding of how volume and tone pots and tone caps work. I think I also saw a video from Darrell (or somebody) where they debunked the "ceramic is bad" thing. And I thought, "Crap! I have posted a comment promoting this falsehood. I wish I knew where it was so I could delete it... but I have no idea where it is. Dammit." Thanks to you I found it! It makes me wonder where I learned it from... it was probably from discussions on the harmony central forums (which used to be usable before they redesigned the website) 10 or 11 years ago where people were bashing ceramic MIM strat pickups or perhaps it is from my experience of the ceramic Duncan Custom and Pearly Gates being way too bright for my strat and the Custom Custom, which is Alnico 2 being the fix... and knowing that real strat pickups are alnico and reading that alnico is smoother/rounder/warmer...? You know what? I think all these lies about how different magnets sound came from the descriptions on the Seymour Duncan website!!! They should know that it is wrong, but marketing is all about getting that ca$h... I just saw Dylan's video where he cut some Squire pickups in half to reveal that they have a lot less windings and much lower output than non-budget single coils and that their poles are not magnets but are sitting on top of little ceramic magnets... And related to that (wait for it! :), one time years ago when I went to my usual lunch spot for Mongolian there was a guy playing a strat out front. When I complimented him on his playing and his strat he took off his guitar and put around my neck and said to play. Even through his little battery amp, it sounded like the perfect strat sound. Like what I would imagine John Mayer signature scooped pickups sound like. It was a SQUIRE! He said he bought it used at Guitar Center because it sounded so good. I suspect that low output = amazing strat tone because Stevie Ray Vaughn's #1 had '63 -era outputs that were measured to be very low output plus he had his pickups adjusted pretty low. I guess I don't need to delete this post now since you brought it to my attention (found it for me) so I could correct it. I did edit it to point out that I was deceived and full of crap! :) Darrell's comparison video you mentioned showed me that I don't like ceramic strat pickups because they are less bright than Alnico, probably as a result of being higher output- which does make them sound fuller or rounder (not from low quality). Magnets merely create magnet fields for the strings to vibrate in so they can pick up those vibrations. The idea that different types of magnets create different tone is illogical, electrically speaking. I usually am playing through the Custom Custom humbucker in the bridge of my strat, but when I switch to the singles I like the vintage sound I get from my Fender Original '57/'62 pickups. Regarding the marketing machine that tells guitarists that they NEED to upgrade their gear to sound like their guitar heros… and all the "cork sniffing" that is gear-snobbery... a quote from Neal Schon who said that when he played EVH's rig he sounded like himself and then said, "I can make any rig talk". Unless your tone is so bad that you get mad and want to kick out your speakers because you can't get a sound that you are pleased with... ignore all the marketing crap that is trying to convince you that the gear you have is not good enough. Marketing has always been about convincing consumers that what they already have is not good enough. - Me