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Re: Gimme an "N", gimme a "G", gimme a "D"....
« Reply #15 on: March 13, 2010, 10:29:12 AM »
cool guitar philly - its very you!

Indeed. When I saw the first pic I thought it was a Melody Maker :lol:
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Re: Gimme an "N", gimme a "G", gimme a "D"....
« Reply #16 on: March 13, 2010, 10:40:07 AM »
cool guitar philly - its very you!

:lol:  Thanks, and yes, I think it is!  I seem to be gravitating more and more towards these simple little Junior-style guitars.  Even starting to lose some of my love for SGs, to be honest.

Now I need to practice more, so I can have "me" playing as well as "me" guitars!  :wink:


(Edit:  Love that Melody Maker, even though it is modded to hell and back!)
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Re: Gimme an "N", gimme a "G", gimme a "D"....
« Reply #17 on: March 13, 2010, 11:19:46 AM »
Very nice guitar  :D  I have a Mapletop Mira which plays and sounds great but is probably a little too 'bling'.
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Re: Gimme an "N", gimme a "G", gimme a "D"....
« Reply #18 on: March 13, 2010, 11:42:06 AM »
after playing that joan jett melody maker, i think it might be cool to do a modded one. i wish gibson did them in the 'SG' shape rather than Les Paul junior. the melody maker look of your PRS is totally post punk - any pickup plans?
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Re: Gimme an "N", gimme a "G", gimme a "D"....
« Reply #19 on: March 13, 2010, 12:43:18 PM »
I've been playing the Mira X all morning (only through the PODxt thus far) and I'm loving it already.  Sounds great clean, dirty and very dirty and sustain seems excellent (although my fingers are getting too sore to hold the strings down!  :( ).   There doesn't, so far, seem to be any downside to the extremely light weight (5 pounds!  :o ), which was my big worry.

Pickup-wise, it's very interesting to hear how these compare with the same pickups in the Mira.  I always found the Mira bridge pickup a little too rounded, but on the Mira X it seems much brighter and snarlier.  There's more contrast between neck and bridge too, although that's partly due to 22 frets versus 24.  It's a little bassier than I was expecting through some of the POD models, but that's pretty much par for the course with humbuckers.

So to answer gwEm's question, no pickup plans initially.  I'm liking these, and I'd like to know the specs - they're obviously fairly hot-vintage in output, but I've no idea what the magnets are.  Obeche's such an unusual body wood that I don't have much of a "feel" for what pickups would suit it.
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Re: Gimme an "N", gimme a "G", gimme a "D"....
« Reply #20 on: March 13, 2010, 12:53:11 PM »
Congrats Philly on the new guitar.   It  looks a nice one.   Enjoy it! :P

"Philly X" certainly has a ring to it too.  I think Ian might have come up with your stage name.
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Re: Gimme an "N", gimme a "G", gimme a "D"....
« Reply #21 on: March 13, 2010, 01:00:29 PM »
Congrats Philly - looks a nice guitar.


Can we call you Philly X now?

No you bloody well can't!!  And much as I dislike the bloke, I have to admit I'm not worthy...  :P


Come on Philly ... you know you would love to get the black nail varnish out  :lol: :lol:
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Re: Gimme an "N", gimme a "G", gimme a "D"....
« Reply #22 on: March 13, 2010, 01:12:08 PM »
Congrats Philly, that looks great.

Like a few have stated here earlier, the Mira is the only PRS i really like!
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Re: Gimme an "N", gimme a "G", gimme a "D"....
« Reply #23 on: March 13, 2010, 01:30:26 PM »
That looks like a cool, no-nonsense guitar.

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Re: Gimme an "N", gimme a "G", gimme a "D"....
« Reply #24 on: March 13, 2010, 01:36:32 PM »
Nice Philliy!

But I am VERY disappointed in you..  :x

Where is your Warmoth build?..... Where?

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Re: Gimme an "N", gimme a "G", gimme a "D"....
« Reply #25 on: March 13, 2010, 01:41:55 PM »
Where is your Warmoth build?..... Where?

No more excuses or I come round and give your parts to the guitar needy. It beyond a joke now :)

I'm relieved you think it's only ONE Warmoth build.  :oops:
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Re: Gimme an "N", gimme a "G", gimme a "D"....
« Reply #26 on: March 13, 2010, 03:01:08 PM »
It looks really nice Philly.  I keep thinking about the Mira as I love the basic junior style.  Interesting that you like the shorter scale with the pickups.  Aren't they the 245 pickups without the covers?  I just upgraded my Singlecut with a set of Crawlers and changed out the pots and capacitors for a set of the BK 550K pots and vintage paper in oil caps.  I'm amazed how tiny the PRS caps are, just mini ceramic discs.  I've yet to turn up everything, but at low volume the improvement is great. 
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Re: Gimme an "N", gimme a "G", gimme a "D"....
« Reply #27 on: March 13, 2010, 03:30:42 PM »
Thanks Phil, from what I've read the Mira X pickups are indeed uncovered 245 pickups, but with different magnets.  From the review in Guitarist:

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Called Mira X humbuckers (early pickups have a 245 sticker on them with a large red X inked on the baseplate) they appear identical to the open-coiled units used on the Mira – aka Mira humbuckers, which are actually 245 humbuckers without covers.

Still with us? These are basically the same, based on the uncovered 245 but with a different magnet: "You should hear more high-end and bass," says Smith.

According to the PRS site, the 245 pickups are 9.6k bridge and 8.9k neck, hotter than I was expecting!  No idea what the magnets are, but based on that description maybe AV as compared with the 245's AII or AIV?
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Re: Gimme an "N", gimme a "G", gimme a "D"....
« Reply #28 on: March 13, 2010, 06:21:38 PM »
That looks great, I really like the colour. It reminds me of a mates CMI double cut from may years ago. Nice one!

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Re: Gimme an "N", gimme a "G", gimme a "D"....
« Reply #29 on: March 13, 2010, 06:23:42 PM »
OK, now that Twinfan, the "GAS Messiah", has shouldered our collective guilt (and simultaneously rescued the UK economy) by spending six trillion pounds on guitars already this year.... I felt free to buy this.

that was quantitive easing, now he has to destroy all the guitars else it'll cause inflation