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    Choices, Choices

    Apr 06, 2021 5 minutes
    Words Dave Burrluck

    Back in 1988 when PRS originally introduced the Studio, the company had been in the business of making production guitars for less than three years. But if the new brand was beginning to make waves, it was also starting to illustrate a theme that has underpinned over 35 years of guitar building: choice. Even back then, PRS recognised the desire for something different, second-guessing the market and providing a different sound.

    The Studio was the first PRS guitar with three pickups – a Hot Vintage humbucker at the bridge and two regular single coils – and it was an attempt to entice the LA studio musicians into the PRS fraternity in the same way that the Special, with its back-routed vibrato cavity, was designed to attract the whammy brigade when it launched that

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