PRS P22 Quilt Whale Blue NEW

PRS P22 Quilt Whale Blue NEW Absolutely NEW from the factory American PRS. At the NAMM 2012 show that we all grew to love, Paul Reed Smith presented a bunch of novelties, including 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 worked on creating a solid body electric guitar with a piezo for, you wouldn't believe it, a whole decade. We didn't put a piezo pickup in solid-body instruments solely because our favorite company, L.R. Baggs, didn't produce 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 tremendously, 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. Specifications: Top Wood Carved Figure Quilt Maple Top Back Wood Mahogany Number of Frets 22 Scale Length 25″ Neck Wood Mahogany Fretboard Wood Rosewood Fretboard Inlays Birds Neck Shape Pattern Regular Bridge PRS Piezo Adjustable Stoptail Tuners PRS Phase III Locking Tuners Hardware Type Nickel Treble Pickup PRS 57/08 Treble Bass Pickup PRS 57/08 Bass Controls Volume and Tone Control with 5-Way Blade Switch and PRS/LR Baggs Piezo Finish V12 Whale Blue The look is chic, a most beautiful color - blue, characteristic of PRS. Functionally, the guitar is more diverse than any other, of course, due to the piezo and two outputs. No matter how you look at it, this is the MOST VERSATILE guitar today. Just like on the P24, there are 2 separate outputs here - piezo and mix; you can play through both simultaneously, as well as record. 5-way switch, tone, volume, a knob for blending the piezo with the pickups, and actually a 3-way piezo switch - top is piezo only, center is mix of pickups and piezo, bottom is pickups only. Moreover, you can even mix the piezo while using the 5-way switch at the same time, for example, blending 50% piezo sound with 50% coil split on the neck! It's generally brilliant. For those who haven't read about the P22 – I described the piezo above, it is the same LR Baggs; when recording directly to an audio interface from the piezo output – you simply won't distinguish the sound from a recorded acoustic guitar – that is the phenomenon – it's not for nothing that the model was developed for 10 years. The sound of the pickups themselves – I would say the mids and highs are equal, the lows are a bit lower. A fairly meaty sound on overdrive, on clean you can achieve softness in the neck. The instrument sounds quite confident, characteristic, and every note is readable on any sound, even with the tone rolled off, quite modern in sound. In conclusion, I will say that this is the ideal option for a guitarist looking for 22 frets with a piezo and a fixed bridge. Review of a similar PRS with Paul Reed Smith himself And here is a review of the P22 but with a fixed bridge - the very first PRS P22 I brought to the CIS The guitar is located in a warehouse in the USA. NEW, unopened in original factory packaging. Shipping is possible to anywhere in the world. The price is indicated - INCLUDING SHIPPING to any CIS country.