PRS Special Semi-Hollow Electric Guitar - McCarty Sunburst

This PRS Semi-Hollow Does It All
The PRS Special Semi-Hollow delivers an irresistible package to the tone-savvy guitarist who demands the ultimate in playability and sonic versatility. It all starts with a resonant chambered mahogany body and gorgeous carved maple top graced with a single F-hole. The Special Semi-Hollow is fitted with a trio of high-performance PRS pickups and flexible switching that provides instant control over the a formidable tone arsenal, giving you a total of 12 pickup combinations that will cover any genre, from classic rock to edgy fusion. And of course, being a PRS, playability is flawless. If you’re looking for one guitar that does it all, Sweetwater’s guitar gurus suggest giving the PRS Special Semi-Hollow a serious audition.




A sonic arsenal under your command
The PRS Special Semi-Hollow is all about tonal dexterity, thanks to its complement of proprietary PRS pickups and versatile switching scheme. Stationed at the bridge and neck is the 58/15 LT, which produces a rich, organic vintage tone. This is the warm and clear sonic elixir that propelled the original 58/15 pickups to the top of many guitarists’ favorite PAF-style humbucker lists. The 58/15 LT is based on that successful design, but it’s wound with fewer wire turns for even more clarity and nuance. Cranked through a good tube amp, the 58/15 LT can produce raging overdrive with fat, snarling tone that nevertheless maintains crystalline note separation within chords.
PRS’s Narrowfield, deployed in the middle position of the Special Semi-Hollow, is a remarkable pickup that delivers the best characteristics of a humbucker, a P-90, a traditional single-coil, and a mini humbucker. Technically, the Narrowfield’s dual coils classify it as a humbucking design, while its svelte form factor is reminiscent of a mini humbucker (with which, perhaps not surprisingly, it shares certain tonal characteristics). Mini humbuckers have long been prized for their ability to maintain clarity in overdrive conditions while bucking the hum.
The Special Semi-Hollow is equipped with two mini-toggle switches that split the pickup coils for sparkly single-coil tones, while a 5-way pickup selector switch serves up spanky reverse-polarity tones in positions 2 and 4. The immense flexibility of the Special Semi-Hollow’s unique pickup and switching arrangement gives you an instrument that can serve up any electric guitar sound you could ever need for a live gig or studio session.


Pattern profile neck for optimized playability
The PRS Special Semi-Hollow is spec’d with PRS’s Pattern profile neck. A hallmark of PRS quality, neck shapes are, of course, critical to your playing experience. Perfected after years of prototyping, the Pattern neck is an updated Wide Fat PRS neck style based on neck shapes Paul Reed Smith designed in the 1970s and ’80s for Carlos Santana, Peter Frampton, and Howard Leese of Heart. Fast and comfortable, the Pattern profile always feels just right. In reality, most electric guitarists employ a combination of thumb-over and thumb-behind fretting-hand positions in their playing, and the Pattern profile lets you switch seamlessly between the two.


PRS Special Semi-Hollow Features:

Chambered mahogany body; flame maple top
Mahogany neck, Pattern profile
22-fret rosewood fingerboard with Bird inlays
Neck pickup: 58/15 LT
Middle pickup: Narrowfield
Bridge pickup: 58/15 LT
5-way blade pickup selector
Master volume and Tone controls
2 mini-toggle coil-split switches
PRS Gen III Tremolo vibrato bridge
Designed and crafted by PRS luthiers in Maryland, USA



Tech Specs

General
Number of Strings 6
Left-/Right-handed Right-handed
Body
Body Type Semi-hollowbody
Body Shape PRS Special
Body Material Mahogany
Top Material Flamed Maple
Body Finish Gloss
Color McCarty Sunburst
Neck
Neck Material Mahogany
Neck Shape Pattern
Neck Joint Set Neck
Radius 10"
Fingerboard Material Rosewood
Fingerboard Inlay PRS Birds
Number of Frets 22
Scale Length 25"
Nut Width 1.6875"
Nut Material Synthetic/Bronze powder blend
Hardware
Bridge/Tailpiece PRS Gen III Tremolo
Tuners PRS Phase III Locking
Electronics
Neck Pickup PRS 58/15 LT Humbucker
Middle Pickup PRS Narrowfield Single-coil
Bridge Pickup PRS 58/15 LT Humbucker
Controls 1 x master volume, 1 x master tone
Switching 2 x mini toggle coil-tap switches, 5-way blade pickup switch
Miscellaneous
Strings PRS, .010-.046
Case Included Hardshell Case
Manufacturer Part Number: 108490::MS:N

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