2012 PRS P22 Makena Blue 10 Top

2012 PRS P22 Makena Blue 10 Top At the NAMM 2012 we all love, Paul Reed Smith presented a bunch of novelties, including the Signature Limited, the SE acoustic series, Van Damme/PRS cables... But the most important thing, perhaps, is the PRS P22, their first solidbody electric guitar with a piezo! "We have been working on creating a solid body electric guitar with a piezo for, you wouldn't believe it, an entire decade. We didn't put a piezo pickup in solid-body instruments solely because our favorite company L.R. Baggs didn't manufacture a pickup+preamp that would fit there. But we managed to reach an agreement and developed one." Paul Reed Smith "I have recorded and mixed hundreds and hundreds of acoustic guitars, including mixing live and studio tracks, and I have never heard a more musical, more natural sound from an acoustic pickup system. This fact alone excited me extremely, but when I heard the electric sound – I was just blown away," said Grammy winner, famous producer and sound engineer Don McCollister after a recording session with the P22. Sound: 10 out of 10 Build/craftsmanship quality: 10 out of 10 Appearance/design: 10 out of 10 Price/quality ratio: 10 out of 10 User opinion: the best guitars I have ever held in my hands! The guitar is definitely worth the money! Specifications: Color: Makena Blue finish Finish: V12 Construction: set neck Body: Select Mahogany Top: Select Maple Neck: Rosewood Nut width: 1 11/16″ Fretboard: Rosewood Neck profile: Pattern Regular (PRS Fat Wide neck) Scale length: 25″ Number of frets: 22 Bridge: PRS Piezo Adjustable Stoptail Tuners: PRS Phase III Locking Fretboard inlays: Pearl birds Pickups: neck: Uncovered PRS 57/08 Bass bridge: Uncovered PRS 57/08 Treble Truss rod cover: p22 Controls: volume, tone, 5-way switch, piezo switch. Hardware: nickel Country of manufacture: USA Production year: 2013 Condition: Perfect condition! Like new! Included: Original case, documents, stickers, adjustment tools + Pack of strings (Gauge of choice!) (Review by my good friend and colleague, the first owner of a PRS P22 in the CIS) It is impossible to find it for actual sale in stock in the CIS, because the model is new... they are mostly bought only by order. I compared the p22 with my hollowbody with piezo – I liked it more than that – the main difference – the presence of coil splitting besides the piezo and a fatter sound from the humbuckers, and it is a solid wood body after all! You can dial in anything starting from the acoustic sound of the guitar to fat riffs on the humbuckers. The rosewood neck adds + five hundred to the beauty of the instrument, which is already beyond all praise. It is more comfortable in the hand than the serial p22 models. I haven't heard anything like this sound-wise! Many say that the guitar differs from a custom only by the piezo, but that is not so! The instrument has its own aura, its own sound, its own pickups, giving hellish evil! And at the same time it sounds like an acoustic, at first I didn't believe my ears!!! It fits perfectly in the mix!!! It's easy to record! In general, the best guitars I've had are undoubtedly the PRS P22. The PRS P22s I sold can be heard in: Moscow, at the performances of the group "Tsvet" with Oleg Predtechensky, in Kharkov, in Magadan, and this one naturally in Dnipropetrovsk! My personal review of my first, and at one time the first in the CIS, PRS P22 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcvURsgZz7I#ws Such a wonderful instrument... The prices for which in the USA (without shipping, taxes, interest, customs...) sometimes exceed $4500 photos – https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8p1sxah5vhunqnb/ICWJeO_iDI Paul Reed Smith talks about the guitar (Review) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akLtvMC6zM0 Video review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6zN8pyGD7c Sound sample with overdrive! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYlVJrUIVa4