PRS Silver Sky vs Fender Black1 John Mayer Signature || Head To Head Demo By Rhett Shull

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[RhettShull]

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[bohanananza]

The PRS sounds like your drinking Fiji water while the Fender sounds like your drinking any other water but it's the middle of the night.

[imCurveee]

When "Vultures" switched to the strat I was like ouuu yeah, there's the tone

[seandcannon]

My faith in the human race (as far as the youtube community is concerned) has been restored, I have read opposing views in the comments section of this video, and people have said what they liked and what they didn't like about the Silver Sky and Fender, without bashing on each other or on the guitar companies for what they have built (yet), just like the good old days when people could have a civilized conversation with different opinions and not hate on each other... there is hope after all.

[FireGrizzlyy]

I love this kind of demo where you play back and forth between the two guitar with no gaps.

[grummanf-tomcat]

PRS is clearer, with more definition. Fender has more character and depth to the sound.

[minusminus]

They both sound awfully similar, but I prefer the slightly fuller and brighter sound of the PRS. I find the thin frets really interesting too. Leland Sklar uses them and he's an absolute legend.

[leofuenzalida]

That PRS sound... i don't know, it's too perfect.... way too perfect that i feel a little unconfortable xD

[_NoDrinkTheBleach]

The Righteous guys are great. I bought a PRS from them last summer, and the setup they did on it was amazing.

[guitarded]

Both sound great to me! To be honest I probably couldn't tell the difference if I were to listen to it in a full mix.

[dostacos]

The PRS seems to take the classic strat sound and almost add the high end of a tele. Can’t go wrong with either.

[carlosangel]

I feel like the fact that they sound similar is a testament to how good they both are. They are both great guitars with great tone from 2 great companies, so as far as I'm concerned there isn't any problem. In a perfect world, I'd gladly buy both of them.

[riley.schmit]

The Black1 just feels like it has more character. Especially with headphones. Personal opinion of course.

[RhettShull]

UPDATE! After I shot this video, Righteous Guitars got their 2nd Silver Sky in and noticed that the pickups were set too high from the factory which was causing string pull. They spent time setting the height and it eliminated the output difference between the PRS and Fender. This tells me a few things, mainly that John Mayer liked what he had with Fender and wanted to recreate it as closely as possible with the Silver Sky. These two guitars really are extremely close in feel and sound.

[gonzalooliveraalves]

The Silver Sky sounds like a perfect guitar for a session musician that loves strats but hates their inconsistencies. Balanced when switching positions, sounds kinda different to a strat but it gets the job done. I'd only wish that the pickups weren't so noisy, but I guess that it'd compromise the tone.

BLACK1 sounds heavenly and like good strat should, but there is a considerable output drop when you switch positions (Just like most strats), the bridge pickup sounds too bright in the clean tones (Just like most strats), but when everything is right you just get TONE!

Does anybody else think that John's choice on frets for the Silver Sky is extremely impractical? Or am I the only one who loves mega jumbo frets?

[honeychilerider]

One interesting observation I'd make, when the guy tells him the setup is out-of-the-box and he says he's kinda shocked that he assumed they had done a full set up: When I got my SS I took it to a shop to get plek'd (I can't remember why) and the tech said it was as close to perfect everywhere as he had seen, that there was really nothing he could adjust, the margins were absurdly tight. To show me, he took a new Les Paul off the wall and ran it through the machine and compared the all the readings to the SS and the difference was startlingly obvious even to someone like me who had never seen them before.
It's one of the reasons I have become such a PRS fan (though I don't disparage Fenders or Gibsons or really anything else and I own both as well), they are just made at a level I've never seen another production guitar made. I have three and all three feel like boutique guitars that cost thousands more than they do.

[gangnamstylegrandpa]

I have been playing Fenders since 1968 . I play clean without pedals thru Fender amps . Paul Reed makes some Beautiful, and super build quality guitars . The Silver Sky sounds great, but the Fender sounds warmer, and that is always my goal . I have one Fender with a 7 1/4 radius, which I consider the most comfortable radius on guitars .The 9 1/2 is also very comfortable . I would vote for the Fender !!!

[Fugettaboutit]

PRS sounds like you added a bit of compression/sustain to the Strat.

[heycaptjack]

The best review/comparison on this subject. Thank you! Very well done!

[iTrove]

I own the SS, and have to agree with the folks using the word “sterile”. It is clean and easy to get used to as feel goes. In this video, the fender has a warm depth that hopefully will start to come through as the SS ages.