The SE Swamp Ash Special | Demo | PRS Guitars
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- čas přidán 20. 07. 2024
- A distinctive offering to the growing PRS SE Series, the SE Swamp Ash Special features a swamp ash body, 22-fret maple neck with a maple fretboard, and a unique pickup configuration that offers a wide array of tones. In this demo we walk through the model's features and tones.
To learn more about the SE Swamp Ash Special, visit: prsguitars.com/electrics/mode...
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro Playing
00:53 - SE Swamp Ash Special Intro
01:22 - Asymmetrical Neck Carve
01:40 - Pickup Switching Options
02:24 - SE Swamp Ash Special Specs
03:15 - Pickup Demo - Treble Humbucker
03:39 - Pickup Demo - Treble & Bass Humbuckers
04:06 - Pickup Demo - Bass Humbucker
04:34 - Pickup Demo - Treble Humbucker + Middle Single Coil
04:59 - Pickup Demo - Treble Humbucker, Bass Coil Tapped + Middle Single Coil
05:23 - Pickup Demo - Bass Coil Tapped + Middle Single Coil
05:57 - Pickup Demo - Treble Humbucker w/ Gain
06:33 - Talking Outro
06:51 - Outro Playing - Hudba
Here comes PRS making me want another guitar, but you guys wouldn't be in business if it were the opposite. The tonal options are immense and that maple fretboard is stunning! 😍
Most interesting PRS guitar I've ever played.
Omg I've wanted an HSH SE for so long
Edit: I just wish it had a five way switch with coil splits for both humbuckers. The 3 way toggle seems pointlessly limiting
I love this wiring, it’s exactly what I’ve been hoping a manufacturer would do
5-way with push/pull would give you like nine combinations and be extremely versatile including three single coil, single-pickup tones. Indeed it is too bad.
I agree completely - I looked at this guitar and thought it was perfect, but then I saw how they did the pickup switching - I don't think, I could live with that :(
@@Smittefar1 replace the switch and re wire it yourself
@@rickhammel9541 is not so easy to replace a 3-way with a 5-way and have the end result look good
Ok, so I just got Silver Sky SE maple….. and now this beauty comes out! Love the twang tones.
Daaaaaaaaamn that is absolutely sick. Just kinda wish it was a 5 way switch so other single pickup options could be implemented (middle single only and neck tapped single only).
For the money though I imagine that thing is badass. I'll need to check it out!
Ikr, no five way just doesn't make sense
Personally I’ve been thinking of why no manufacturer has used this exact wiring setup and I’ve been dreaming of it, so I’m super happy to see it
I think the neck pickup is coil tapped ??
@@geoffreyalder7275 correct, BUT you cannot have it by itself. It goes with the middle pickup. OR the HSS all pickup position.
It's a very nice guitar indeed for the money. Far superior to a Fender Player Tele IMHO.
I'm not a PRS fanboy either - this is my first PRS.
Thank you so much for not mindlessly chugging power chords like so many reviewers of overseas guitars do.
Holy smokes… y’all just keep making me want more guitars, devils or angels, it’s hard to tell 😂🔥❤️
EDIT: Just bought the Iri Blue version of this SAS and the pickup configuration is great, gets most of the tones you'd expect with the combination of coil taps and the AS-01, good job PRS! My old EG-2 HSH (sadly stolen in 98) had the Fralin single coil separate, and the versatile switching was great fun, I'd have liked that here, but what's there probably more practical in real world, in the SAS.
hell ya swamp ash sounds like some thing i would drool over in a sunburst.. the swamp soaked mud really gives the wood crazy wood grains.. wooooooo hell ya
If you like fender tele like/type spanky sound, this guitar is my favorite prs se that Ive ever played, I'm a clean twangy country player, this guitar does it very well, it very lively for a prs. Very happy with my purchase, glad I didn't wait. For everyone out there thinking about pulling the trigger, if u like fendery tones you will love this guitar.
That's a really interesting comment as I compared this guitar to a maplewoood necked Fender player Tele earlier today at a music store here in the UK.
The PRS SE Swamp Ash felt, played and looked like a superior guitar in every single department at price point of less than 100 pounds more.
Suffice to say I walked away from the store with a PRS SE Swamp Ash for a decent price after haggling with the store rep.
Very happy to be a first time PRS owner.
@@vinunleaded ive had mine 5 months i pick it up everyday since i bought, i have fenders, core prs's, gibson, gretsches. But i always pickup the swamp ash se, it truly is a great versitile guitar, u can play anything on it, if you split the coils in the middle position, it almost sounds like a piezo pickup. U wont regret it.
At last !!! I was waiting for this one since the John Mayer SE. I will wait for a "special factory run" with a Roasted Maple neck. For me, nowadays, an electric guitar must have either a roasted maple neck or carbon/graphite reinforcement rods in the neck. It sounds nice, I will wait for a tri color sunburst ... very versatile instrument.
I was really excited to see the other finishes too!!! looking forward to it!
That just sounds fantastic.
Great job guys, that’s very exciting.
Really cool to see Swamp Ash used on the SE range!!
Love this! I need the sunburst one in my life!
F*** YEAH! I'm totally in love with this guitar!
Very nice I love Ash+Maple😊
the Stephan A. Smith signature guitar
Killing me with this. Ordered.
I wanted a hsh from you in a while. The maple and 22 frets is a bonus
Played mine today. Gorgeous guitar! And though I have other PRS SE guitars with the 85-15 pups, this new guitar absolutely has it’s own, thoroughly engaging voice! Super versatile! Nice overall build quality. The maple neck with abalone is stunning and the satin finish feels very good. Only one knock; fretwork and the edges of the fretboard are a significant downgrade from the SE DGT. It’s not bad; but usually these are strong positive differences between PRS SE and the competition. So, in this case, whereas I usually describe the fretwork and fretboard edges on SE guitars as “Great and not just good”, on this new guitar they are “Good and not great “. By the way, the new neck joint is an absolute HOME RUN!!!
Ive always wanted one of these!
I have the SE Custom 24 with maple neck. Beautiful single coils and humbuckers sounds.
OMG Drool city….
I want the blue one!
THIS is the one I want!
Nice job! I want one!
YOOOO FIRST SE SPECIAL
Nice demo.
I’m a lefty and you guys have very limited stuff so I built my own Silver-sky and because I hate the middle pick up it gets in the way of picking I put the 90s in it
Nice! Very smart options - someone thought about this! 😅My main guitar since 1992 has been a Sadowsky NYC HSH and this covers some of that ground and offers up a bit more with the single coil options - clever and I would consider as a back-up but maybe wait for some design options - colour and fretboard etc. Let's see how this model develops.
I remember demoing a 97 or 98 Swamp Ash and loving the feel of the thing, but it was way out of my price range. Fast forward to 2024 (patience, patience) and PRS has made a Swamp Ash Special for the people! It sounds fantastic, though Alex's tasteful, tight playing is part of the magic. That maple neck looks awesome and the iri blue paint is gorgeous. Might as well just take my money now!
Mine, in blue, is back ordered at Sweetwater. Hope it comes in soon.
The guitar is about to light on 🔥
Sweet!
This with 24 frets and no middle pickup would be perfect for me..and maybe a floyd rose 👀 Love the ash body and maple fretboard look!
Bonus points for Cumberland Blues intro!!!
I feel like there is a niche market for people wanting similar to the super eagle, maybe one day we will have a super SEagle
@@gabeensley1842 love that!! Or at least a Modern Eagle V se- so we can get all that middle single coil Jerry/Mayer goodness
Nice guitar!
Coolest guitar PRS ever made with the dumbest switching any guitar ever had. Here have all 3 pickups but no option for the single alone. Good thing that three way isn’t tele style, if it had been we could have fixed it after market.
Ya wtf is that? It makes no sense.
I don’t need I don’t know why but I absolutely love that this has new features that are not available on core
Damn ive been on the look for awhile for axe number 3 and think ive just found what i want 😍👌🔥
Wow ! Exactly what I was expecting for ! As soon as a 24 frets is announced I preorder it. Please do you know when the 24 will be available ? You made me suscribe. Thank you for this very interesting demo and have a very happy new year...
Tremendous
Wow!!!
I think PRS is smokin' hot right now. They have about 5 SE models that I really like starting with rhe DGT, which unfortunately they are not yet offering in Dark Cherryburst. So, that means I will soon be ordering a Custom 24-08 in that beautiful honeyburst finish. The Swamper is cool but I've never liked having a middle pickup.
I'm in love with the IB from the first look on it 😍 Does the neck have a satin finish on the back?
I really dig this. I have a late 90s CE22, it's the one guitar out of the several PRS that have come and gone from my possession that I never even considered selling. That said i always wanted one with the maple neck. I'd be swapping out at least the humbuckers. I know they've become popular but i just can't do the 85/15s, at least the original pickups they're copying. I find they have WAY too much midrange for my tastes, but that is just my taste. I definitely would rewire the switching on it though. I don't understand some of the choices PRS makes on their switching systems, IMO it's always been the one flaw in them. The really limited master volume/master tone they still use has proven to be a deal breaker for me in the past, specifically on their original 25" Hollowbody line (they did smarten up with the McCarty 594 Hollowbody II). I tend to stay on the neck or bridge pickup on solid bodies, but my 335 and pretty much any semihollow I've played live in the middle position and I use the volume controls to dial them in. You can't do that with a matter volume though😮💨. I don't know why they didn't give this a 5- way blade switch. The whole point of a HSH pickup layout is so you can split the coils and get that Strat in-between setting, I don't know why they would go with a 3-way. But fck it, for the price you can't complain.
It looks like a shorter scale than the 25", which if true would be cool.
It's much warmer than I would have expected considering the maple fretboard and ash body. I'm curious as to how consistent the tone is from one to the next. I've been repairing guitars for 25 years and over the hundreds of PRS I've played through, they've proved to be the most consistent sounding guitar from one guitar to the next. Fender and Gibsons can really vary from one to another. You can have two players Strats that are identically spec'd but they can sound and feel quite different. PRS are one of the few guitars that if you've played one model you've pretty much played all of them in that specific model. You really can buy them online sight unseen and base your decision wholly on aesthetics. But ash is one of those woods that can have a marked difference from one example to the next. One will be warm but punchy, while the next is really scooped and bright.
Alex, you play so tastefully well. I’d like to hear more of you on that Swamp Ash. Do you have any albums recorded that we can enjoy?
🎉🎉🎉
I sure would like to see these with a rosewood fingerboard, I'd grab one in a minute.
I got one of these the other day. It is my favorite of the SE line-up. If I had a complaint, it would be to teach the assembler how to string a guitar. All tying the high strings to the post does is piss off the the guy trying to get them off without effing up the finish. I put Fishmans in my Myers guitar, not liking the 85/15s. The switching on the swamp ash really changes things for me with that pick-up set. (even playing heavier tones) The discount right now makes the guitar a tremendous value for the price. oh, it is a fat bottom girl. heavy chevy, didn't weigh it yet.
Nice. So no option for the single coil on its own?!
NEXT : PRS Fiore SE? this model have some kind of similarity in function and shape with Fiore
And I need to buy one 😂
I think 5 position would have been better. But this is very easy thing to solder yourself or take to luthier to do it. I think main point is that its routed hsh so you can replace easily pickups..
A five way switch that can be fully configured on the phone via bluetooth thanks.
So a Superswitch?
Looks nice but is there no setting for the single coil by itself?
what they should have done is w push pull to have single-mid, single of both sides bridge humbucker parallel, single-mid parallel that would be awesome
A question. Is coil split / tone knob normally bit loose compared to the volume knob ? I just bought the SE CE last week and find this issue, though i still not so sure is it a problem or just the character because this is my first guitar with coil split knob.
What’s with all the country/ bluesy playing? I have a 91 robin( work horse) with a swamp ash body, maple neck, rosewood fretboard, H/s/s, single volume, push/pull tone… Dimarzio super distortion bridge, two fender Texas specials in the middle and neck,,Floyd rose! Amazing playing and sounding guitar! I don’t use it to play country/ blues! I use it for everything from The Eagles, to Metallica! Just saying. If I’m not mistaken, Eddie’s frankenstrat was an ash body.
Wish it had 24 frets
No
@@GlennJimenez yes
Great looking guitar but I wish it had a 5 way switch with separate coil tapping option….I guess nobody said anything during testing phase 🤦🏾♂️
Hey it’s the dude from CME 100 riffs video lol
Sure is. Hi!
Besides no 5 way selector, isn't the switch in a weird place
Beautiful looking guitar. I can just tell they will feel amazing but the electronics This really could have been resolved with a five-way switch lol 😅
So find someone that will help you solder and rewire your new 5-way in…
You just know everyones going to be modding this one to get the splits / single coil sounds
Looks like another "good" guitar from PRS, would have looked great if you did the demo with either of the other colours to really show the swamp ash. Considering Iri Blue is either new or not seen on SE line, should have picked that colour to really grab attention.
Please make this in the tobacco Sunburst
I get that it's designed for this kind of playing, but how would it sound playing metal through it?
I think it's better suited towards the clean stuff.
What about the SE Studio now
What is the weight of this guitar? Is it heavier than the other SEs?
Next: McCarty II SE? Or a 509 SE
Isnt Alex relicing guitars at CME anymore :(
Why, why, why, do they not recess the back covers?
Why did you choose to exclude the option to have the middle pickup by itself? Is this aimed to be a HH guitar with the single coil there to supplement them rather than stand alone? I'd love to just get the middle by itself.
Any chance you would be considerate and nice to make a lefty version ?
Rarely my fellow lh
Hi PRS, please make SE Vela :D
Omg
No mention if the neck is satin or glossed over like most SEs due to the neck joint. If it’s as smooth as the super thin satin SS maple neck / fretboard then it’s worth considering. Also, it looks like a 2 or 3 piece body so if it’s not book matched properly you’ll get mismatched streaks in the finish as it appears to be a dye paint job.
The neck feels totally unfinished, but I suppose you could call it satin.
My next guitar. I just bought an SE24 Standard last year, and now I want this one. Hopefully I can hide it from the wife.
Why swamp ash body?
I thought it was a bit soft to be good for guitar body?
No coil split on the bridge PU is a miss on this one in my opinion. Otherwise I love it, but the pickup switching makes it a no go for me.
so is that a gloss finish on the neck or satin?
Satin
Fucking Paul Reed Smith gives me GAS all of the fucking time!!! Stop it guys!!! I’m a heavier style player but this sounds like fun!!! 😂
Love everything about this guitar... except the wide, thin neck profile. I'm a tele guy and that wouldn't work for me. I like the Myles Kennedy or NF 53, but big $$$$$
is the fretboard raw maple or finished?
It sort of feels raw as does the neck, but I think they are using some sort of ‘infused into the wood’ technologically to seal the maple.
Swamp Ash Special SE????? SASSE!!!
PRS SE Fiore Please! 😭
Swiss Army Knife of guitars.
This would be AMAZING especially if they made it with 3 NF pickups, like they used to.
Love PRS, but I cannot stand that toggle switch location throughout the entire line.
So..... the push/pull is basically a "country" switch!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂lol
For $1000 with tax and ship I hope USA Pickups are soon to reality in All guitars? Yall can afford it , other builders are using Duncans /Ibanez on import builds.
JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED. PRICE POINT LOWER THAN EXPECTED
But everyone hates the miles and the nf? Sorry but I have seen essentially no bad ideas or guitars from this company. The only bad ones were because guitar center hung them up on the wall and didn’t take care of them and they lost their set up and got beat up by kids in the store. There’s just not a better guitar company right now.
Why on earth does this not have a 5 way??
Also where is ewald
True that’s a weird 3 way
Not a fan of the "treble pickup" "bass pickup" terminology . Both are midrangey pickups in different positions.
These new SEs are coming out hot, but too fast. I can hardly keep track of all of them.
Ughhh are you kidding me? This is every guitar in one