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SKU PRS-101547-FW-H

PRS Paul Reed Smith Custom 22 Piezo 10-Top Guitar, Faded Whale Blue

$4,680.00
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Player's Perspective

Music Store Live is proud to offer up this Custom 22 Piezo from Paul Reed Smith with an absolutely stunningly beautiful and highly figured flame maple top. PRS regularly outdoes itself in terms of quality, consistency, and tone.

PRS's Custom 22 Piezo is a musical chameleon. It's decked out with great magnetic pickups, but it also sports a piezo in the bridge for lush acoustic sound. Metalheads, classic rockers, fusion players, jazz, blues, funk... you name it, musicians from just about every genre prize this axe's versatility.

This tremolo-equipped version of the Custom 22 Piezo expands its possibilities even more. You can get away with just about anything on the trem arm, and the axe snaps right back to tune. The strings have that slinky, effortless feel that PRS has dialed in over the years. Big bends are easy, fast runs have a way of playing themselves and chords all over the neck won't give you trouble. The neck pickup, being a bit farther from the bridge than on a Custom 24 model, has a richness to it that is simply amazing. In the Custom 22's, the neck pickup sits right under the 3rd order natural harmonic of your strings. That's fancy talk for: there will be more harmonic content in your notes. The difference between the Custom 24 and Custom 22 models is much more than simply 2 extra frets. The neck pickup really does have a different vibe to it when it's in this position and we're huge fans of what the 22 fret build does for the sound of the neck pickup on PRS guitars.

The piezo produces a wonderfully passable acoustic guitar tone and can be used on its own or in conjunction with the magnetic pickups. An age-old recording studio strategy for fattening up a guitar tone is by layering an acoustic guitar under the electric guitar track. Here, you can blend in part of the piezo pickup along with your magnetic ones to accomplish the same thing. It's a thing of beauty when you're rocking out on the magnetic pickups and then slowly start to roll in some of the piezo sound along with it. It can be very subtle or extremely noticeable depending on how much piezo you add in along with the pickups. But this is one of our favorite ways to utilize the PRS Custom 22 and Custom 24 Piezo models.

The construction is immaculate: The intonation is set perfectly, the bridge and nut design keep everything in tune. This guitar is for anyone who's looking for that unmatched PRS-level quality on a versatile, dynamic electric guitar.

Manufacturer's Description

The Custom 22 Piezo provides musicians the versatility of wielding both acoustic and electric guitar tones in one instrument. PRS and LR Baggs partnered more than a decade ago to design the piezo system found in PRS’s original hollowbody models. The new system retains the same circuit design as the original, maintaining tonal authenticity and real world practicality. There are two output jacks on the Custom 22 Piezo, allowing guitarists to plug into their favorite electric or acoustic guitar amp or DI into a soundboard. By utilizing the separate blend control, the tone of the 85/15 pickups can also be combined with acoustic sounds through a single output.

The Custom 22 Piezo comes standard with a figured maple top, mahogany back, mahogany neck with a 22 fret rosewood fingerboard, and a redesigned PRS/LR Baggs piezo system.

Pickup Switching Positions:
   - Position One: Bridge humbucker
   - Position Two: Bridge humbucker with neck singlecoil, in parallel
   - Position Three: Bridge and neck humbuckers
   - Position Four: Neck singlecoil with bridge singlecoil, in parallel
   - Position Five: Neck humbucker

Specifications

BODY

  • Model: Custom 22 Piezo 10-Top
  • Color: Faded Whale Blue
  • Top: Flame Maple 10-Top
  • Back: Mahogany
  • Binding: Natural

NECK

  • Construction: Set Neck
  • Fretboard: East Indian Rosewood
  • Neck Wood: Mahogany
  • Profile: Pattern - 1 11/16" width and 28/32" depth @ nut
  • Scale: 25"
  • Radius: 10"
  • Frets: 22
  • Inlays: Birds

ELECTRONICS

  • Pickups: PRS 85/15 Bass and Treble
  • Controls: Volume, Tone
  • Pickup Selector: 5-Way Blade Switch

HARDWARE

  • Bridge: PRS Gen III Tremolo
  • Tuners: PRS Phase III Locking
  • Hardware Finish: Hybrid

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Case: Black Tolex Deluxe Hardshell
  • Serial #: 0327701
  • Instrument Weight: 8.7 lbs.

Overall Condition

Music Store Live is proud to be an authorized dealer for Paul Reed Smith. This Custom 22 Piezo is 100% brand new and is being sold with a full manufacturer's warranty. Photos are of the exact guitar you'll receive.

Our in-house guitar tech will inspect, test, set up, and clean all of our instruments on site prior to shipping. All of our instruments are guaranteed to be fully functional upon arrival.

Music Store Live is one of PRS's top independent dealers and is one of only a select few PRS Signature Dealers. If you still haven't found what you're looking for, we are more than happy to help you custom order your next Paul Reed Smith instrument. Our PRS experts can help guide you in purchasing a new SE, S2, CORE, Artist Package, or even your very own Private Stock guitar or bass. Message us for details!