PRS SE Chleo Charcoal Purple Burst
Product information "PRS SE Chleo Charcoal Purple Burst"
The PRS Chleo is Herman Li's uncompromising signature design, created in close collaboration with the DragonForce guitarist. It combines modern construction with classic PRS craftsmanship and targets players who demand the highest playability, precision and tonal flexibility.
The extremely thin mahogany body with a figured maple top keeps weight low and provides an ergonomic playing position. The specially designed maple neck offers a very flat profile, increased playing comfort and a 20" radius. The modified neck-body transition improves stability and promotes optimal vibration transfer. The ebony fretboard is adorned with the exclusive Eclipse Dragon Inlay.
The Herman Li Signature Fishman Fluence pickups deliver three voicings and a versatile switching system for up to 13 tone combinations. The pickups are extremely low-noise and perform convincingly in tube, modelling and studio setups alike.
A Floyd Rose 100 Tremolo ensures maximum tuning stability and enables precise tremolo work, whether subtle or extreme.
- Body Material: Mahogany
- Body Shape: PRS-Style
- Body finish: Satin
- Bridge / Tremolo: Floyd Rose 1000 SE
- Bridge Pickup: Fishman Fluence Signature Series Omniforce Herman Li
- Color/ Finish: Charcoal Purple Burst
- Colour: Violett / Pink
- Controls: 1x volume, 1x tone
- Finish: Satin
- Fretboard Inlays: Dragon
- Fretboard radius: 20"
- Frets: 24
- Hardware: Smoked Black
- Middle Pickup: Fishman Fluence Signature Series Omniforce Herman Li
- Neck: Maple
- Neck Pickup: Fishman Fluence Signature Series Omniforce Herman Li
- Nut Width: 1.75" (44.45 mm)
- Pickup Configuration: H-S-H (1x Humbucker, 1x Single Coil, 1x Humbucker)
- Pickup Selector Switch: 5-way switch
- Pickup type: active
- Scale: 25" (635 - 659 mm)
- Scale Length: 25,5" (648 mm)
- Signature Artist: Herman Li
- Signature Model: yes
- Special Features: 2 differential Sounds pro Pickup per Push/Pull knob
- Strings: 6 string
- Technology: Solid Body
- Top: Flamed Maple Furnier
PRS Guitars sets its own standards when it comes to electric guitars. At session you'll find not only the high-class PRS Custom Shop guitars but also mid-range models and PRS electric basses. At NAMM 2016 PRS looked to the past and reintroduced CE 24 models to the main range after many years, featuring bolt-on and maple necks — an interesting alternative to the traditional construction. Later, a hugely successful instrument emerged through the collaboration with John Mayer: the Silver Sky series, which was initially expanded with more colours and later complemented by the more affordable SE series.
Through a great passion for guitar making and meticulous research and optimisation of his models, founder Paul Reed Smith has been creating instruments for over 40 years that are rightly regarded as true works of art. Not only guitar legends like Carlos Santana play the high-quality PRS guitars from the Standard line, the exclusive Private Stock or the more affordable SE production.
Paul Reed Smith makes a name for himself
Officially the American guitar maker PRS Guitars was founded in 1985, but founder and namesake Paul Reed Smith has been active in guitar making since around 1975. By giving his guitars to stars like Carlos Santana, Al Di Meola and Peter Frampton and convincing them directly, his instruments became increasingly well known. In 1985 serial production of the Custom 24 began. With former Gibson president Ted McCarty as an experienced advisor, Paul Reed Smith set the course for success for the guitars with the characteristic bird inlays on the fretboard.
Every guitar a Custom Shop model
PRS guitars are generally positioned at the higher price points due to high-quality materials and careful workmanship. Since the 1990s there has also been the SE line, manufactured in Korea, which despite more affordable materials still competes at a high quality level. The S2 series forms a bridge: the instruments are made in the USA but remain relatively affordable.
PRS refers to all its instruments as Custom Shop instruments because of the high quality and the options for customisation, but with the Private Stock instruments the company goes one step further and sets real benchmarks in terms of materials, quality, originality and individuality. One thing all PRS guitars have in common: they are true workhorses with great versatility and they look outrageously good. This is also evident from the countless endorsers who swear by their PRS, as well as the numerous signature models from artists like John Mayer, Carlos Santana, Orianthi, Mark Tremonti and Chad Kroeger.
