martijn_de_jong

This guitar was on my wishlist for a while, as many described it as the PRS that Gibson should have build. And it really does hold up very wel compaired to a Gibson Les Paul Standard. I prefer the 4 knob layout of PRS's over the Default Gibson Layout, and this 3 knob layout I like as well. I bought mine second hand and the stock pickups had been replaced with a Seymour Duncan Jazz/Custom combo (SH2 and SH5), but I had just purchased a set of Gibson zebra 57's, so I sold the Seymour's which made the overal amount I spent really low. I was planning on saving for this guitar, even if it had to be the full retail price, but as it happend I only spent a third of that. To be fair, I am nowhere near a qualified guitar player. But I am an enthousiast and I've started collecting a few 6 strings by now. Of the guitars I have, there is a top 3, and this Bernie Marsden is one of them. The Gibson Les Paul Studio I own, is not. The body is as all more recent PRS SE's thick. Which some people say is a must for Singlecuts. The bridgesection is a single wraparound with no individual intonation capabilities, but it is still perfectly intonated. The main part of the sound is off course the pickups, which in mine aren't stock. I've played other PRS SE's with SE245's, which are just fine, just nothing special. In my opinion this Bernie Marsden should be equiped with Gibson 57's or derivatives like Seymour Duncan 59's. But then again, everybody has their own idea/sound.