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Get the best price on PRS Custom 24 at Guitar Center. Most PRS Custom 24 are eligible for free shipping. Featuring a sport model style, the PRS SE custom 24 electric guitar is a flat top design with a double cutaway. Features of the build of the PRS electric guitar include a mahogany back, a maple top, a.
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Key Features
- Fantastic playability and brightness in every note thanks to roasted maple neck
- A gigantic range of powerful electric tones with bass and treble pickups
- Includes a PRS gig bag to help you easily transport your guitar
- A sensationally built, stunning model that's ready to rock
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PRS SE Custom 24 Roasted Maple Neck, Whale Blue Overview
Stunning playing feel. Magnificent electric sound. And with style that stands out. The PRS SE Custom 24 Roasted Maple Neck brings everything you need into one superb guitar. With a fantastic roasted maple neck and fingerboard - the first ever PRS SE to use this wood - it delivers a beautifully natural playing action alongside scintillating brightness in every note.
You'll enjoy complete freedom as you play. 24 frets give you two full octaves to play with, meaning you can explore uncharted territory in your soloing. And, as you'd expect from a PRS, this beast is powerful. 85/15S pickups perform superbly at high volumes, meaning you can blast every note home with total clarity. Add in its gorgeous quilt maple top, and you've a guitar fit to be the pride of your collection. Or anyone's, for that matter.
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PRS have upped their game with this one. The SE Custom 24 is the first SE model to feature a roasted maple neck and fingerboard. The result? A guitar you won't want to put down. The maple is specially roasted in chambers, removing moisture and curing the wood to the point of perfect playability. It becomes superbly stable and smooth to the touch, meaning your hand can glide along it with ease. You'll always enjoy a balanced performance.
It sounds good, too. With a beautifully bright quality, the maple will bring definition and sharp articulation in every note - tremendous for solos and lead lines. And you'll never be held back. 24 frets mean you've got two entire octaves to play with, providing you with a greater range than your standard electric guitar. This is an instrument you'll never tire of playing.
Remarkable range
The SE Custom 24 never limits you. PRS have loaded it with a pair of 85/15S pickups specially designed for both bass and treble. These ensure maximum clarity and fullness in sound - no matter the frequency you're playing at. So whether you're looking to play booming power chords at the low end, or sharp arpeggios up the top of the scale, it's got you covered.
And you can blend your sound until it's just right for you. There's a heap of tone-shaping options that'll help you sculpt your ideal tone. A 3-way blade switch lets you choose between either pickup, or have both engaged at the same time for a thicker sound. Volume and tone controls provide quick and simple ways to alter your tone. And there's push-pull coil-splitting, allowing you to alter the sound of each individual pickup. The possibilities are practically endless.
Experiment to your heart's content
For even more ways to change your sound, PRS have included a tremolo bridge. So you can easily add warbling, trembling tremolo to your solos for a unique, distinctive edge. This is a legendary effect used by some of the best in the business - make your music more individual than ever.
Specifications
Body
- Model Name: PRS SE Custom 24 Roasted Maple Neck, Whale Blue
- Model Number: SECU4QTTWN
- Body Material: Mahogany
- Top Material: Quilted Maple
- Colour: Whale Blue
Neck and Fingerboard
- Neck Material: Roasted Maple
- Fingerboard Material: Roasted Maple
- Inlays: PRS Bird Inlays
- No. of Frets: 24
Hardware and Electronics
- Pickups: 85/15S Bass and Treble Pickups
- Switching: 3-Way Blade Switch
- Controls: 1 Volume, 1 Tone w/Push-Pull for Coil Split
- Tuning Machines: PRS Tuners
- Bridge: PRS Tremolo
Miscellaneous
- Case: PRS Gig Bag (Included)
The average fully appointed PRS typically sells for around $2,500—a fair price, especially when you consider the difficulty of building a guitar that performs and looks like a PRS. Now, imagine trying to build a guitar of the same caliber for less than $800. This unenviable task is exactly what Paul Reed Smith asked of the special team that oversees his SE guitar line.
To meet the price point, PRS builds its SE guitars entirely at a specially chosen Korean factory. The maple tops they use aren’t heavily carved—the SE Custom’s top is totally flat; the flame effect on the maple caps is achieved through a seamless veneer application, and the famous PRS bird inlays aren’t on offer. But these are mere cosmetic differences. In use, the SE instruments are no less playable or beautiful sounding than the legendary guitars built in Stevensville, Maryland. This month I have the pleasure of reviewing two of the latest additions to the SE lineup: the PRS SE Custom and SE Singlecut guitars.
PRS SE CUSTOM
- The PRS Custom has been the company’s flagship guitar since the mid Eighties, and it’s an appropriately pricey piece of equipment. My SE Custom test guitar is specifically the Korean variant of the PRS Custom 22. As with the American Custom 22 the SE’s mahogany body benefits aesthetically and tonally from a flamed maple top. But to reduce production costs, it has a flat, rather than carved, top. This is a first for a PRS guitar, and while I missed the smooth curves of the American-made model, the flat top had no unfavorable effect on the guitar’s playability.
- The mahogany neck is set into the body on a 25-inch scale and features the PRS wide-fat carve; however, to me this neck feels a little less wide than the U.S. necks of the same name. Moon inlays dot the rosewood board, and the 22 medium jumbo frets feature the same flattened crown that gives expensive PRS guitars a worn-in and fast feel. Hardware includes a beautiful version of the famous John Mann tremolo used on domestic PRS guitars and a set of sealed chrome tuners. The SE Custom’s black-and-tan humbuckers are also custom-wound in Korea and help to distinguish the guitar tonally from any instrument that PRS has offered to date. Controls include a master volume and tone with a threeway pickup toggle.
PERFORMANCE
The SE Custom’s pickups are unique and astoundingly responsive. Through my modified Mesa and Marshall, they were extremely sensitive to pick harmonics and full of usable presence. Their brilliant attack, screaming highs and intense dazzle are unequaled by any other PRS pickup. When I knocked the gain down on my amps, the SE Custom’s hot magnets got me closer to an authentic brown crunch than any of the U.S.-built Customs that I’ve played in the past. I found the clean sounds, especially using the neck pickup, to be mellow and satisfying, but not so dramatic as the Custom’s driven tones.
PRS SE SINGLECUT
PRS Singlecut guitars have enjoyed incredibly popularity since rockers like Mark Tremonti picked them up.
It’s hard to not be moved by the SE Singlecut’s sexy bodylines. The carved maple top is beautifully smooth and the body’s mahogany back keeps the guitar lightweight and full of warm tone. Fortunately, since the recent resolution of Gibson’s lawsuit against the design, Singlecut production is back on track, and we can now enjoy the new SE version of the PRS Singlecut guitar.
It’s hard to not be moved by the SE Singlecut’s sexy bodylines. The carved maple top is beautifully smooth and the body’s mahogany back keeps the guitar lightweight and full of warm tone. Fortunately, since the recent resolution of Gibson’s lawsuit against the design, Singlecut production is back on track, and we can now enjoy the new SE version of the PRS Singlecut guitar.
As with the SE Custom, the SE Singlecut is built on the standard 25-inch PRS scale, and the set-in wide-fat mahogany neck feels very comfortable in all positions. Its 22-fret rosewood board is marked with abalone moon inlays, and the impressive fretwork includes the exclusive flat-planed PRS fret crowns. The Korean-built stop-tail bridge and chrome tuners are essentially indistinguishable from the American hardware and are integral parts of this guitar’s clean and open tonality.
Much of the Singlecut’s universal appeal is due to its pickups. The SE’s specially wound humbuckers are designed to please a wide range of players, and they mate equally well with everything from clean to heavily overdriven amps. Standard controls include a single volume and tone with a three-way pickup switch.
PERFORMANCE
After hearing the SE Singlecut’s tone, I was excited to plug the guitar into my Marshalls and Fenders. It was not overly bright, though it did sound rather jangly and open, for a PRS, so much that I wondered if it had a tone chamber in the body (it doesn’t). Through my very crunchy Marshall, the SE Singlecut performed admirably, producing loud, punchy and dynamic tones. As I pushed the amp’s gain higher, I also noticed that the SE Singlecut didn’t lose its vintage flavor. The highs were never shrill, and the midrange was always woody and deep. The guitar gave me the same results through my Fender Deluxe Reissue and delivered a much broader spectrum of tone than I could have imagined from a mahogany guitar in this price range.
THE BOTTOM LINE
Paul Reed Smith’s SE guitars aren’t just less-expensive versions of the iconic American masterpieces. Each guitar design has a unique set of features and tonal qualities not found on its U.S.-built counterpart. The SE Custom is versatile enough for any gig, but its scorching pickups make it especially exhilarating when combined with wicked high gain. If you’re looking for a guitar that embodies the vintage-modern ideal, then the SE Singlecut is an excellent choice. I was extremely impressed by its ability to produce distinct layers of resonant tone. The PRS SE guitars get my vote for import guitars of the year.