Paul Reed Smith Custom 22/12

This gorgeous guiatr is made following the classical PRS specs:
- Carved quilted maple top with mahogany back
- 25" scale length mahogany neck with rosewood fretboard and Abalone bird inlays, with Special 12-string neck carve
- PRS string adjustable stoptail and PRS 14:1 Phase II low mass locking tuners with mini pearloid buttons (in option)
- Chrome hardware
- treble and bass HH with covers and a Lindy Fralin single coil center pickup which adds accoustic-woody sound
- Volume and push/pull tone control with 3-way toggle pickup selector (push/pull in the up position splits the treble pickup to single coil and activates the center pickup)

It sports the famous PRS double cut body, comes with teh square black PRS case, and all the usual goodies for a $2000+ guitar.

I originally bough it to add harmonics on ballads. It was ment to be plugged into my DAW (Digi002), directly into the mixer. I actually exchanged the PRS against a Rickenbacker 330/12, which generated some -30dB of noise!
the PRS doe it. The sound is smooth and alice on ballads, but the most amazing is when you plug it. I used a AC15, and I started to paly blues with it. This is reaaly another world! Same feel as a 6 strings, a 12 strings can actually roar and purr!

As stated by the Great House of Guitars people when I asked if they had teh time to prepare it, "a PRS don't need anything"! Right out of the box, the guitar has just the necessary action, as low as possible without hindering the strings to give their best!

Everything is just fantastic, as you could expect from PRS. To find a flaw, you'll need a jeweleer magnifier and a few hours to waste.

Well, unless you want to emulate Pete Townshend at the time his scenic performance laid more in his ability to destroy gear tahn to play, you won't expose the guitar to much abuce. For versatile as it is , I dont imagine death metal played on it. It call for ballads, blues, rock and some folk/pop, , and it will handle well everything you will play.

You can depend on a PRS

I never had to deal with PRS customer support per se (their products do not need support), but I called them once to know about delivery date of a guitar I ordered. They were useless, with a hint of arrogance: "it is not the policy of our company to disclose production schedule with the customer. Please refer to your dealer". Of course, the dealer knows everything about PRS production planning!

It's my 4th PRS, and probably the one I use the most. I wanted it to complement my sound palette, and I ended up trying it at first on everything. Of course, I won't recommend it for everything, but it is a truly versatile guitar. As righfully stated by PRS, it is a 12 strings taht plays like a regular solid body. My friends aks me why one would want to buy a 12 string solid body until they try it. Once they've tried it, they buy their own. No kidding, it happend twice so far!