New in the house - PRS Grainger 5

[Giacomo]

Found this in a local shop, decided to trade in a PRS electric guitar as a partial trade

I have to say this bass is incredible, sound really articulate and the B strings is super tight

I see there's not much talk about PRS basses on here, just wanted to share for future references 

 

[Graham]

That looks really interesting, so you know what the pickups/electronics are? What's the scale length?

[Giacomo]

It's a 34 scale

Pickups are custom made by PRS (same for all their electric guitars, they all mount custom made PUs) 

First 2 knobs are volume for pickup 1 and 2, push pull for active passive 

Last 3 knobs are usual 3 band EQ

Works also full passive without batteries 

[Graham]

42 minutes ago, Giacomo said:

It's a 34 scale

Pickups are custom made by PRS (same for all their electric guitars, they all mount custom made PUs) 

First 2 knobs are volume for pickup 1 and 2, push pull for active passive 

Last 3 knobs are usual 3 band EQ

Works also full passive without batteries 

Sounds great, if you can record any audio or video I'd love to hear it 😀

[Giacomo]

I'll try to post something this week 

[OliverBlackman]

I recall that there were cheaper PRS SE models that didn’t seem to take off, but wasn’t this model quite expensive new?

[Giacomo]

I understood it first came as a Private Stock only product, which means $$$, 7-8k price tag, and that was only maple board (maybe I'm wrong here) 

Then they started both the production and SE models 

In Italy it's sold new between 4 and 4,5k eur, in US cost less, on reverb the ones available are quite expensive though 

 

Mine is a 2016 model

[Grahambythesea]

Was it well discounted as it has no strings? 🤪

[Giacomo]

49 minutes ago, Grahambythesea said:

Was it well discounted as it has no strings? 🤪

Yes that was the deal

[Giacomo]

On 09/08/2020 at 10:15, Graham said:

Sounds great, if you can record any audio or video I'd love to hear it 😀

Just realized I don't have the sound card with me as I gave it to a friend.. Need to wait when he's back from holiday.. 

[PatrickJ]

@Giacomo - can you do a shot of the full fretboard please?  I love PRS inlay designs and am curious to what's on this bass.

[Giacomo]

11 minutes ago, PatrickJ said:

@Giacomo - can you do a shot of the full fretboard please?  I love PRS inlay designs and am curious to what's on this bass.

Here it is, now with strings

Edited August 10, 2020 by Giacomo

[Giacomo]

On 09/08/2020 at 10:15, Graham said:

Sounds great, if you can record any audio or video I'd love to hear it 😀

Sorry totally forgot about this!

Check this one, it makes justice to the sound

 

 

[bazzbass]

stunning bass, all the best with it.

 

what strings are you gonna try first?

[Giacomo]

I've fitted a set of Rotosound

sound nice and articulate, but are a bit "low tension", any suggestion for another set I shall try?

 

[Giacomo]

and this one also (on the same youtube channel) - these guys are making quite some nice high quality videos!

 

[visog]

So would like to hear if this is Gibson bass scenario.... Quirky?