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“Paul was like, 'Good God, what are you asking for?' I'm like, 'I'm just asking for a little struggle!'” Keith Urban is working with PRS on a new Tele-style guitar – and he wants to break the company's rules

The country rock great's go-to guitar since 1989 has been a Fender Telecaster called Clarence, but John Mayer has inspired him to join the PRS ranks – and he's working on a T-type like no other

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“You plug into a great Dumble and it is this awe-inspiring warm feeling you get”: Mark Tremonti reveals how he bought one of his sweetest-sounding Dumbles at a swap meet and explains why they are the holy grail of tube amps

The Alter Bridge and Creed guitarist is the proud owner of four Dumbles, confessing that he now has a whole room dedicated to amps and he'll just go in there to look at them

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PRS has dropped its objection to Gibson’s Theodore trademark – but the dispute continues outside of the courts

The McCarty-era sketch that Gibson recently brought to life has caused ruptures with the McCarty estate

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“When it comes to building guitar necks, there’s a quick way to do things and there’s a right way to do things”: Ever wondered how PRS makes its necks? This video walks you through a process where every detail matters

This behind the scenes video shot from the factory floor at PRS's factory in Maryland documents a meticulous build process in which there are no shortcuts

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“It’s used for fence posts in Guatemala, and somehow that has given it a low-class reputation on the internet”: Paul Reed Smith says the materials used to make a guitar absolutely do make a difference – but not for the reason you might think

The six-string scientist has once again stressed that certain woods do in fact change the tone of your guitar, and he's drawn attention to an oddly spec'd custom build to prove it

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“We’ve also talked about doing replicas, beaten up so they look like mine”: Mark Tremonti says a relic’d recreation of his Dimebag-stickered PRS is on the cards – could artificially aged PRS guitars become a reality?

PRS has yet to officially release a relic'd guitar, but that could all be about to change

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“‘I’ve never picked one up and it’s never moved me’ – that’s not fair”: Paul Reed Smith hits back at critics who say PRS guitars are “too perfect and have no soul”

The guitar engineer designs some of the finest instruments money can buy – but for some, they're just “too good”

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"'I’ve picked one up and it didn’t move me' is fair comment. But 'I’ve never picked one up and it’s never moved me' - that’s not fair": Paul Reed Smith takes on the PRS doubters

Paul Reed Smith addresses criticism of PRS guitars as ‘too perfect'

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“Paul Reed Smith wanted to do something, but I had to explain it was my dream as a kid to have an Ibanez signature. Paul said he’d do anything to make it happen”: Herman Li on his switch to PRS – and the perils of shredding on waterslides

Paul Reed Smith wanted to do something but I had to explain it was my dream as a kid to have an Ibanez signature. Paul said he’d do anything to make it happen

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“He preferred what was readily available – and affordable. And when he measured responses, he didn’t really see differences between woods”: Leo Fender didn’t think tonewoods made much difference to solidbody guitar tone

The electric guitar pioneer used pine, alder, ash, poplar, mahogany and more, but apparently deemed the tonal differences negligible

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“The lesser amount that the guitar shuts the string down the better the guitar is”: Paul Reed Smith explains what makes a good guitar – does yours pass his test?

There are all kinds of factors that go into making a great guitar but the PRS Guitars boss explains how telling good from bad can be as simple as taking out a stopwatch

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“John had to send a text with a photo of a piece of paper, where he scribbled, ‘Yes, it’s me!’” Before the Silver Sky was built, John Mayer cold-called PRS to discuss working on a guitar together – but the phone operator hung up on him

Session pro Tim Pierce recounted the tale on his YouTube channel, recalling how one of the most popular guitars of this generation got off to a rocky start

Guitar World

“Anything that touches the string is God”: PRS has re-engineered the shape of its tuners – and the new design could have a game-changing impact on tone

The Maryland brand is certainly no stranger to guitar innovations – its latest development may physically be its smallest, but could in fact make the biggest tonal difference

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The world’s most influential guitar gear designers: meet the pioneers behind the innovations that changed the electric guitar forever

It’s not just star guitarists who have changed the way we play – these are the innovators whose inventions forever altered the course of the guitar itself

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“People say it’s like going to Wonka’s candy factory”: PRS Guitars is offering tours of its Maryland factory

Get up close and personal with the 27-fret Sorcerer’s Apprentice and other rarities in the PRS archive and see what goes on behind-the-scenes at a high-end guitar brand

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The ‘90s was a watershed era for gear, and set the template for the future of the electric guitar – these are the retro designs, digital innovations and misfit toys that defined a decade and beyond

The invention of the seven-string, emergence of digital modeling and rise of the boutique pedal industry all took place during the ‘90s, and provided the blueprint for the sound of guitar music to come

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PRS Modern Eagle V review – 17 pickup options and a jaw-dropping guitar build that’s impossible to fault

While PRS has been making its mark on the bolt-on market, we finally get a new Core model, the shape-shifting modern Eagle V. But is it really new?

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“On a quick trip to interview Paul Reed Smith I was told we were going to the White House so I’d better pack a suit”: Celebrating 500 issues of Guitarist, one of the world’s greatest guitar magazines

From playing Eric Clapton’s Strats to narrowly avoiding knocking out Slash, Guitarist editors past and present share their favourite – and sometimes most embarrassing – memories of working for the esteemed UK publication

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“We’ve been talking about it for a decade – our artists want ‘that’ sound in their arsenal”: How Myles Kennedy and Paul Reed Smith reinvented a classic with the NF 53

Satisfying an artist is one thing, creating a new version of an old favorite is another. With the new Myles Kennedy signature and NF 53, PRS has attempted to do both

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"For me, it’s perfect": PRS drops stunning new Private Stock John McLaughlin model

Limited to just 200 examples in 2023, McLaughlin's new signature guitar has one of the most stacked spec sheets we've seen all year, including a neck made of hormigo – a tonewood often used on marimbas

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PRS has made John McLaughlin a jaw-dropping Private Stock signature model

The PRS Private Stock John McLaughlin was spec’d by Paul Reed Smith himself to honour the English jazz fusion guitar legend, and is limited to 200 instruments worldwide

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Myles Kennedy bought his first PRS guitar after he borrowed one at a gig and accidentally ruined it

The Alter Bridge frontman still uses the red PRS McCarty to this day, proving it wasn’t such a bad move

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It's official: PRS Myles Kennedy signature T-style and NF 53 guitars announced

"It's turned out to be extremely versatile," he tells us

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Yes, it’s really happening: PRS has unveiled Myles Kennedy’s long-awaited T-type signature guitar, and it’s a beauty

At long last, the Alter Bridge guitarist’s hotly anticipated Tele-a-like has become a reality – and it's joined by a standard-run NF 53

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Watch Paul Reed Smith take a trip down memory lane with the 1984 PRS sample guitars that started it all

The guitars evolved into the PRS Standard and Custom 24 but in '84, these prototypes scored the orders that got the brand up and running. Here Smith discusses their evolution

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