Paul Reed Smith is working on a new amp....

[bwgintegra]

Very interesting! Didn't care for the PRS amps I've played so far, hope this one has something to offer.

 

[lespaul6]

open minded... just hope it doesn't have that ghey flamed wood look

 

[yankeebulldog]

I hope it sounds totally different than the H but I bet it won't. Even the latest revision has a fizziness in the high gain tones I don't care for. The cleans on that amp are awesome. If it was voiced more the vein of the "Plexi" amps, 25th Anniversary, Original Sewell, HX/DA, etc. but with more gain, then you might have something.

 

[cphr3d]

Not sure if you guys check out Guitar Interactive Magazine, but the latest issue there's a rig rundown where Tremonti talks about this new PRS amp. He says in the video its called the "Arkon".

http://licklibrary.ceros.com/iguitarmag/issue22/page/15

 

[thiswaythatway]

Will be interested to hear it but, Heavy Is Coming? Mesa has been making heavy sounds amps since the 80's! Heavy has been here a long time. Hopefully it's 3 channels, MIDI, with a lead boost.

 

[nevusofota]

I'd be very interested in playing their amps & seeing how they're designed. Amps aren't really something i'd associate with PRS.
John Suhr for example, even designs circuit boards for his amplifiers himself, so I trust him, his company, his opinion & I can justify the costs of his products.
PRS, although they make excellent guitars, do mass-produce standard instruments at custom shop prices. I'm yet to buy into PRS's pricing structure if i'm honest.
Call me cynical, but my predication is that the amp's value will likely be invested in a 'private stock'-esque wooden exterior & aesthetic beauty rather than the amp's interior design, sound & functionality.
They have some fierce competition in the high-gain amp market that's for sure.

I don't have to call you cynical.... I can just call you flat out wrong, at least in regards to what your perception of this amp is

Especially since a 5150 III produced in China streets at 2k, I am willing to bet a lot of people will be more than happy with this amp and its price point but again, official details coming soon

I think you mean Mexico, not China.

 

[th3m1ke]

If this amp is under 3k I will be shocked! If it's not, it will have to deliver something Bogner, Diezel, Fryette, Friedman, Engl, Mesa etc are not.
I expect it to be pretty to look at, and that's about it. Just like their guitars.

Prepare to be shocked!

He says in the video its called the "Arkon".

Yes, it is the Archon

 

[NJM 74]

I've heard a prototype of it and it's really good. Very ballsy.
It has a lot of gain but not fizzy at all.
The EVH has a bit more gain if that's what you are into.
The thing that is really impressive is it's clean channel.

 

[MississippiMetal]

So what's really impressive is the opposite of what the amp's supposed to be about?

 

[spirit7]

I'd be very interested in playing their amps & seeing how they're designed. Amps aren't really something i'd associate with PRS.
John Suhr for example, even designs circuit boards for his amplifiers himself, so I trust him, his company, his opinion & I can justify the costs of his products.
PRS, although they make excellent guitars, do mass-produce standard instruments at custom shop prices. I'm yet to buy into PRS's pricing structure if i'm honest.
Call me cynical, but my predication is that the amp's value will likely be invested in a 'private stock'-esque wooden exterior & aesthetic beauty rather than the amp's interior design, sound & functionality.
They have some fierce competition in the high-gain amp market that's for sure.

I don't have to call you cynical.... I can just call you flat out wrong, at least in regards to what your perception of this amp is

Especially since a 5150 III produced in China streets at 2k, I am willing to bet a lot of people will be more than happy with this amp and its price point but again, official details coming soon

If this amp is under 3k I will be shocked! If it's not, it will have to deliver something Bogner, Diezel, Fryette, Friedman, Engl, Mesa etc are not.

I expect it to be pretty to look at, and that's about it. Just like their guitars.

Haaa. Without wishing to start a fight, and acknowledging that guitars are a matter of subjective preference, have you actually played a PRS for any longer than 5 minutes? I understand people not liking them but to say they're all looks and nothing else is just objectively wrong.

-C

 

[cardinal]

So what's really impressive is the opposite of what the amp's supposed to be about?

I lol'd.

Given that the standard sound of radio-rock the past few years has been a PRS into a Rectifier, that's kinda what I'm expecting this to be.

 

[chunktone]

I'd be very interested in playing their amps & seeing how they're designed. Amps aren't really something i'd associate with PRS.
John Suhr for example, even designs circuit boards for his amplifiers himself, so I trust him, his company, his opinion & I can justify the costs of his products.
PRS, although they make excellent guitars, do mass-produce standard instruments at custom shop prices. I'm yet to buy into PRS's pricing structure if i'm honest.
Call me cynical, but my predication is that the amp's value will likely be invested in a 'private stock'-esque wooden exterior & aesthetic beauty rather than the amp's interior design, sound & functionality.
They have some fierce competition in the high-gain amp market that's for sure.

I don't have to call you cynical.... I can just call you flat out wrong, at least in regards to what your perception of this amp is

Especially since a 5150 III produced in China streets at 2k, I am willing to bet a lot of people will be more than happy with this amp and its price point but again, official details coming soon

If this amp is under 3k I will be shocked! If it's not, it will have to deliver something Bogner, Diezel, Fryette, Friedman, Engl, Mesa etc are not.

I expect it to be pretty to look at, and that's about it. Just like their guitars.

Haaa. Without wishing to start a fight, and acknowledging that guitars are a matter of subjective preference, have you actually played a PRS for any longer than 5 minutes? I understand people not liking them but to say they're all looks and nothing else is just objectively wrong.

-C

I have tried a lot of them, and really wanted to like them. I just don't like the way they play. I much prefer my Carvin, and others.

 

[SFW]

I'm interested to hear it. With that said, unless they can bring it in around the $2k range, they will be hard pressed to do serious damage to the market.

 

[th3m1ke]

I'm interested to hear it. With that said, unless they can bring it in around the $2k range, they will be hard pressed to do serious damage to the market.

Prepare for easy pressing.

 

[Heritage Softail]

Aside of Rhodes, I have not heard a noteworthy new Heavy. The are some great new or newish modded Marshall tones I absolutely dig out of Henning and Gower. Those are or can be heavy. Depends on what they mean by Heavy.

We shall hear. It is easy for me to be optimistic. I have a CU24 and SC-58. Two pieces of work that reflect great pride and craftsmanship. The 58 is just amazing... Not sure if I will like the voicing, but if I do, no worries about the quality being there.

 

[th3m1ke]

Aside of Rhodes, I have not heard a noteworthy new Heavy. The are some great new or newish modded Marshall tones I absolutely dig out of Henning and Gower. Those are or can be heavy. Depends on what they mean by Heavy.

I just want to say, and I believe someone else made the same point earlier in the thread, that when I said "heavy is coming" I meant specifically to PRS. I am in no way saying the company is advertising this as some sort of revolutionary new sound and that image/graphic was made solely by me. In short I just meant that PRS has never done anything high gain or metal specific amp wise and this is just that. Its not a different head modified, its not a two channel H tweaked - its its own beast and its meant to be mean.

Whether or not you dig it, thats obviously subjective but everyone including myself that's heard or played it is very very into it.

 

[squank]

Aside of Rhodes, I have not heard a noteworthy new Heavy. The are some great new or newish modded Marshall tones I absolutely dig out of Henning and Gower. Those are or can be heavy. Depends on what they mean by Heavy.

I just want to say, and I believe someone else made the same point earlier in the thread, that when I said "heavy is coming" I meant specifically to PRS. I am in no way saying the company is advertising this as some sort of revolutionary new sound and that image/graphic was made solely by me. In short I just meant that PRS has never done anything high gain or metal specific amp wise and this is just that. Its not a different head modified, its not a two channel H tweaked - its its own beast and its meant to be mean.

Whether or not you dig it, thats obviously subjective but everyone including myself that's heard or played it is very very into it.

I got that from what you said.

 

[JerEvil]

I'm interested to hear it. With that said, unless they can bring it in around the $2k range, they will be hard pressed to do serious damage to the market.

Prepare for easy pressing.

Well I am certainly interested.

 

[GRK]

Where's this video someone mentioned?

 

[th3m1ke]

Where's this video someone mentioned?

Right side, top picture is a video. Mark talks about it there

Official demo video should be coming soon - it was shot earlier this week with some guitar slingin' maestros of metal and rock.