The PRS SE DGT Deep Dive Series 

This one to me sounds better than many of the top shelf PRS I have heard still not a tone profile I am in love with but it is a lot of guitar for the price point

@@stanknugget it's all subjective buddy. Chill out.

I pre-ordered this guitar and contemplated having them install the core pick-ups on it, but they are $500. And the more and more people get their hands on this and make videos, I'm hearing, and people are also saying how close the pickups are to the original. It's not even worth the upgrade at this point. PRS is killing it in the last 3 years.

Anyone know what the difference is between the DGT pickups and the custom 24's 85/15' pickups?

​@LytesOut the DGT pickups were originally based on his late 60s 335. That makes them potentially T top pickups, at least in the bridge. Basically a bridge pickup with alnico 5 wound to about 10k. A neck with an alnico ii or iii to prevent the woofiness of a scooped alnico 5 wound to the upper 7ks to low 8ks. The original DGT wiring used a resistor to partially ground the one coil so that it was not the typical 4k under wound split coil when put in the "split" position.

Plus his sound examples are great! In some other channels, you get good information, but the dudes can't play, play something stylistically completely irrelevant for the type of instrument they review or record the sound with the camera mic...

the best review is when you have the guitar and play during some years :)

I agree, there's something satisfying about it

A DGT has been on my must-have list since I first played one around 2011. Bought a Custom 24, so I couldn’t justify another $4.5K. Now I can justify it!

The problem with the SE is the small frets.... horrible...and the pickups,visibly this one has jumbo frets I refret my se Santana SY and put Seymour Duncan 59,and now it's not the same guitar!!🔥

Did you receive the guitar? How is it?

@@SiddharthKarunakaran I did receive it and I will say it’s very much like all the other SE models… plays well, very well constructed, and solid but the best part are the pickups… they sound very good like you paid another $300 for them. Overall you will not get the sensation of a core model… that’s just unattainable at this price but you will get a solid guitar that sounds great. I will also say I will change the knobs to core models and maybe tuners… it doesn’t need anything but that’s just my preference. I never liked the SE knobs but it’s just a knob nothing more. I will also say the electronics take a bit of getting used to as the forward knob is the bridge pickup… that’s different. I give it a B+ overall but considering the price point I would bump that to an A-… change the knobs and tuners and it an A…

@@dcaudio1 Thanks so much for your detailed response.

@@SiddharthKarunakaran your welcome. Just to add info… I have owned around 15 SE model PRS guitars and enjoyed all of them. I will also say the recent Zach Meyers guitar is well worth a look. The neck on it is fs oh loud and ting liked on the back… very comfortable guitar.

I feel like they had to offer moons on this one bc David Grissom’s personal DGTs have them. Goldtop with moons is what you’ll usually see him playing, going back to his original 1980s McCarty (before the DGT)

You should do as merch a little tool kit for the home guitarist to breakdown his guitar at home and maintain it. Merch sized merch priced! No voltmeter or anything but things like basic tool or neck shapes tool. Anyway! Thanks for the review and congratulations on an awesome job!

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Neck position at 22 frets vs 24 does make a difference

What adjustments did you make? I have a 24-08, just curious.

I have the same pickups in my Se 35th anniversary and absolutely agree with you. Very clear and open sounding pickups

@MikeDubs94 @@justinclarkphotos same here, do tell!

I've actually got the Paul's guitar so it's a bit different of an animal at 22 frets. However, I've found my lasting contentment lies with the bridge humbucker 2.5 mm from bottom of bass string to top of bobbin and 2mm even on the treble side while adjusting each individual pole piece minus the slugs to 2mm so the output is even all the way across. Neck humbucker sits at 3.5mm from bottom of bass string to top of pickup Bobbin and right at 3mm on the treble side. I've sunk the bass side pole piece into the pickup though so it's distance to the bottom of the bass string is at 4mm The 5th string (A) is between 3.5 and 4mm from top of pole piece to bottom of string and basically once you get to the high E string the distance is down to 3mm. I found great results here sinking the bass pole piece into the body without having to sink the humbucker itself down into the ring. But try out the specs if you so desire. The TCI S pickups change a lot with fairly subtle variations.

It was more important to get the neck humbucker right, for me anyway. The 24-08 will need different adjustments, of course. Both pole pieces for the G string were raised half a mm higher than the others, too.

I was wondering about that guitar as well.