PRS Custom 24-08 Electric Guitar - Black/Natural Reviews
The PRS Custom 24-08 retains the familiar qualities of the company's original Custom — namely, the maple top, mahogany body and neck, 24 frets, and 25-inch scale — while adding modern features to expand its tonal flexibility. This stunning solidbody electric guitar is capped with an exquisitely carved maple top. Of course, the Custom 24-08 is as playable as it is amazing to look at, thanks to its Pattern Thin neck and lightning-fast rosewood fingerboard. And when you plug it in, the Custom 24-08 yields fat, snarling humbucker tones with outstanding note articulation by virtue of its TCI pickups. You also get mini-toggle switches and a 3-way pickup selector, arming you with eight different pickup tones. The Custom 24-08 brandishes a rock-solid PRS Gen III tremolo for maximum expression, along with Phase III locking tuners with stunning wing buttons. Attractive natural body binding, iconic PRS Birds fingerboard inlays, gleaming hybrid hardware, and a light-catching gloss nitrocellulose finish put the perfect finishing touches on the Paul Reed Smith Custom 24-08.
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I play dive bars and honky-tonks. I own a variety of Strats, Les Pauls, Vs, Zs, hollow-bodies, acoustics and try whenever possible to buy American. I also own a bunch of amps but would say I tend to fall in the Deluxe Reverb camp vs Marshall territory. I play classic rock, funk, country, blues and just about anything else that gets people dancing. I'm in it for the cheap beer, pocket change and the stories. I have a day job.
First impression on unboxing. Its got the mahogany body with the maple cap so it look Les Paul-ish. Its got ergonomics like a Strat. But somehow this guitar is so much more refined. Every detail is meticulously well done. I routinely have let people use my Les Pauls and Custom Shop Strat to jump in and play a song to the chagrin of bandmates. "You let that guy use your CS Strat and you just met him?!!" When I picked the Custom 24-08 up for the first time, I thought to myself .... I'm not going to want to let people play this one. Never had that thought with a guitar before. The finish is really pleasing to the touch and is exquisite (I didn't know this could be a thing).
Sound. It gets a more mid-rangey feel than Strats or Les Pauls. This took a bit to get used to. I played it through Deluxe Reverb, Pro Reverb and a Carmen Ghia with a probably 15 different combinations of overdrives and boosts to get the sound I like and comfortable with the mid-range tones. It seems like you really can't dial this sound out by spinning knobs. It took me a bit to figure out but I got there. I took it out to some jams to hear how it sounds in the band mix and there were a few times when it got in the muddy zone to me. The trick with this guitar is that it has more sounds than I'm used to slapping around on a Strat and Les Paul. Typically on a Strat when I'm playing and singing, I'll adjust tone and volume while I'm playing. This feels like it has a much wider tonal variety. The volume knob is right there to roll off with your pinky and actually gets some great tones rolled off just a bit. The pickup 3-way is a little out of the way, but I'm getting the hang of it. The mini-toggles are a little trickier to switch but not bad. Sort of in the middle is the tone knob and for me, I try to stay away from it for now. I'll typically roll a little tone off on a Strat bridge pickup if it's too bright. This tone hits both pickups and typically I don't like rolling tone off the neck pickup. I feel that when I get the hang of adjusting all the sounds this can get while playing, it will add a bunch of tonal variety in my playing.
I played a gig with it this past weekend. First off, it is an incredibly comfortable guitar to play and it feels light even during a 4-hour gig. It does a great job staying in tune. I got more comfortable adjusting sounds from the guitar as the night went on. During solos, the consistent tone from the low notes to the high notes was noticeable. Some notes that I used to have to wring out of a mid-scooped Strat and Fender amp combination just sang with the Custom 24-08 .... that was awesome. I typically play that edge of breakup sound and notes had amazing sustain with it. That was really cool. In the live setting this thing kicks butt.
When I play out, I tend to beat on my guitars a bit and play hard. This leads to string breakage. Clearly this is an expensive guitar. But it is so darn great, I bought another one.
