Let's see some PRS pics and share your stories about them

[TheGreatGreen]

I really like the moon inlays over the birds. Have been considering picking up an older McCarty as I've never owned a PRS before. Do you guys find the stock pickups work well for metal?

Not the ones I’ve tried, no. I haven’t tried the DMO or the Metal pickups though.

If it were me, I’d throw a different set of pickups in whatever you get.

 

[ChurchHill]

I really like the moon inlays over the birds. Have been considering picking up an older McCarty as I've never owned a PRS before. Do you guys find the stock pickups work well for metal?

The McCarty is a great guitar. Stock pickups are OK, or at least some people like them. I don't, not for metal, not really even my taste for rock. I find them to be a little spikey in an unpleasant way. The guitar is fantastic, though, will handle everything I throw at it. My MC with humbuckers in it has BKP Crawlers, same as my CU24, and is the evil twin of the white one I posted earlier with P90s. As much as I love my CU24, I prefer the stop tail on the MC. It just feels more solid, especially for rhythm work.

 

[Steinmetzify]

I really like the moon inlays over the birds. Have been considering picking up an older McCarty as I've never owned a PRS before. Do you guys find the stock pickups work well for metal?

Did for me. At the gain levels our amps have anymore almost anything will work. You could always boost it, they’ll be fine.

 

[Music&Chaos]

I really like the moon inlays over the birds. Have been considering picking up an older McCarty as I've never owned a PRS before. Do you guys find the stock pickups work well for metal?

I believe the pickups vary every few years. Even the stock McCarty Bass/Treble seem to vary a bit. I have a set and am almost certain it uses A4 magnets - possibly A2. They sound great. I thought I was going to be replacing them when I bought it, but every time I slam it into some gain - I do not find a need to swap them out. Really fun for riffing and chording. I am not certain what kind of 'metal' you may be thinkng of, so they may or may not do it for you. I wouldnt base a guitar off of a set of changeable pickups though either way. If you don't like em - sell the set and get something else.

Vintage powered and styled but clear and articulate. Not crazy hot, super-juiced or compressed.

 

[VonBonfire]

The Kaizen are larger; still my main guitars.

Paul Reed Smith needs to make a Kaizen shape with a ten top and bird inlays only then will it be worthy of the medical and legal professionals that make up the majority of this board.