Prestige Heritage Deluxe

Cole McLennan
colesharley@hotmail.com

As far as the sound goes, wow oh wow... This thing is a monster; it is everything a great guitar should sound like. Les Paul x 2... with the help of the high quality pots and switch, and the Seymour Duncans they chose for this axe. Obviously the guys at Prestige took their time and found the perfect combination to get the sound that others try to get by swapping everything out of their guitars. With a good solid state amp with gain, it sounds nicer than more expensive guitars with a high end tube set up. Then when you plug into a tube head with a 2 or 4 x12 "oh my god" what can I tell you?... by far nicer sounding than my buddies Les Paul Standard or American HSS Strat, and these 2 guitars are 2-4 times the price. I never use a distortion pedal with this axe...tube or solid state.

Prestige NYS Deluxe

Marty Lowman
marty@martylowman.com

I've owned my Prestige now for about 3 months and I just wanted to drop a line and say that I'm very happy with this guitar. I've been playing since I was 10 years old and I've had Fenders and Gibsons mostly - Les Paul's, teles and strats. Recently I've been playing jazz and was looking for something that would give me the tone I was after. The NYS Deluxe certainly fills the bill - I love the sp-90s and the tone and sustain are outstanding. The guitar looks great and feels even better than it looks. I've played half a dozen shows with it now and used for several recording sessions - every time I play it I just say wow. It also attracts a lot of attention and praise from other players - both the tone and looks.

Prestige Heritage Standard

Brent Woods
brent.woods@insightbb.com

Shines through my Boogie F30, but equally good through solid state gear. I've put the Prestige head up vs. my 05 Gibson Les Paul Standard through all my gear.

The Prestige has a more polished, slightly rounder overall tone than the Gibson. Not really darker, just more refined. The Gibson's burstbucker pros are a little raunchier sounding, raunchy in a good way though. When you A/B on the same patches, my son says the Prestige sounds like "recording studio" and the Gibson like "rock concert." That's about as well as I can put it. One's not really better than the other.

The Prestige has Terrific sustain, complex 3D tone, eager pinch harmonics. Also very usable on rhythm setting (doesn't get muddy). Three areas where it's better than the Gibson are individual string definition within chords, how it sounds clean, and the tone controls do more to the overall sound. They have to be using very good pots, etc., in this guitar. I also find less tweaking is needed on certain patches to get a good sound with this guitar. This is the best value in a solid body, LP style guitar, I have ever seen. Prestige is a young company, but they are doing some amazing things.

I've been playing for 25 years. I have two Gibsons (LP Standard, LP Studio), an American Deluxe Strat, a 1980s Japan Squire Strat, a Martin DM, and a few other electrics. I can honestly say this: If I were comparing this guitar head up to my LP Standard (a really good one btw that I handpicked after playing about 30 of them) with no knowledge of price or reputation, it would be a dead heat. The finish details on the Prestige might push it over the edge. Then, when informed on the price difference ... well, enough said.

Prestige Musician

celtic_hound@hotmail.com

The sound of this guitar is INDESCRIBABLE! It IS a tone Monster! :) Some feedback at high gain, but I usually don't play it at High gain! It is an Awesome Rocker, MAJOR Blues guitar, and a Superb Jazz Axe! I play it through an old Ampeg VL-503 tube amp, with an OLD Morley/Telray Volume/Boost Pedal, with a Boss NS-2, and a Boss CH-1 (in that order) and I get ALL I NEED and then some! This guitar, when played through my clean channel, is OUTSTANDING! I can make the Duncans bark on channels 2 and 3! REALLY an exceptional instrument!