PRS Special 22 Semi Hollow McCarty Sunburst
Product information "PRS Special 22 Semi Hollow McCarty Sunburst"
The PRS Special Semi-Hollow offers players a versatile humbucker/"single"/humbucker configuration featuring two PRS McCarty III humbuckers and a PRS Narrowfield midrange pickup.
The McCarty III pickups were developed by Paul Reed Smith and the PRS New Products Engineering Team. From our own hands-on research of coveted vintage pickup models to advances in signal analysis and "tuning" technology, these pickups incorporate every detail of the pickup expertise PRS has gained through research and development over the past years. PRS McCarty III pickups are vintage-inspired humbuckers that lend a vocal clarity to their full, warm tone. The PRS Narrowfield pickup in the middle position delivers the bite of a single-coil, allowing it to cut through the mix with clarity and punch—yet without hum.
Combined with a 5-way blade switch and two mini-toggle switches that control the McCarty III humbuckers, this guitar masters countless sounds and styles (with a total of twelve pickup combinations). Turn the tone control down for more growl, turn it up for more brilliance, and have fun exploring this versatile palette of sounds. The volume level remains very consistent between the humbucker and single-coil settings, and the semi-hollow body with an F-hole lends the guitar’s sound a welcome airiness and depth.
Additional specifications for the PRS Special Semi-Hollow include a maple top, a mahogany back, a mahogany neck with 22 frets and a 25-inch scale length, a rosewood fingerboard, Phase III locking tuners with wing knobs, and the patented PRS Gen III tremolo.
- Binding: Maple
- Body Material: Mahogany
- Body Shape: PRS-Style
- Bridge / Tremolo: PRS Patented Tremolo Gen II
- Bridge Pickup: PRS DGT
- Color/ Finish: McCarty Sunburst
- Colour: Sunburst
- Controls: 2x volume, 1x tone
- Country of Origin: USA
- Custom shop: no
- Fretboard: Rosewood
- Fretboard Inlays: Moons
- Fretboard radius: 10"
- Frets: 22
- Hardware: Nickel
- Includes: Hard case + accessories
- Neck: Mahogany, one-piece
- Neck Pickup: PRS DGT
- Neck Profile: DGT
- Neck construction: Set in neck
- Pickup Configuration: H-H (2x Humbucker)
- Pickup Cover: Nickel
- Pickup type: passive
- Scale: 25" (635 - 659 mm)
- Scale Length: 25" (635 mm)
- Serial number: #0373695
- Signature Artist: David Grissom
- Signature Model: yes
- Special Features: Limited special model
- Strings: 6 string
- Strings thickness ex factory: .010 - .046
- Technology: Semi-Hollow Body
- Top: Figured Maple
- Weight: 3,16 kg
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.