Tuesday, November 5, 2024
ElectricGuitar

The Best Mostly Inexpensive Alternatives to PRS Electric Guitar


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This is a list of the 6 Best (mostly) inexpensive USA PRS (Paul Reed Smith) Custom 24/22 Alternatives on the market. In this video, I discuss the pros and cons of each of the PRS guitar alternatives. Most of the guitars on this list are far less expensive than the USA made Paul Reed Smith Guitars with the exception of one or two. I hope you like this video! Let’s try and get this to 500 likes!

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► Sweetwater (USA) – https://imp.i114863.net/PRS
► Thomann (Global) – https://bit.ly/3cR8iUh
► Amazon UK – https://amzn.to/3dXVGMo
► Amazon Canada – https://amzn.to/3hm1oK3

►Dillion Guitars – https://www.dillionguitars.com/guitar/electric/DR/DR1500/dr1500.htm
►Harley Benton – https://bit.ly/3cS0gKL

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23 thoughts on “The Best Mostly Inexpensive Alternatives to PRS Electric Guitar

  • Very much appreciated video. Thank you for some alternatives to the PRS.

    However, I must offer up a correction. The 2nd to the last company, you called, Dillon (like Dylan). The company's name is actually, Dillion (Dill-ion). The guitars shown have gone through a dumbing down of the design.

    I have the lawsuit Dillion DR 500T, complete with the quite accurate Birds-in-flight on the fretboard, Tremolo bridge, and a MUCH MORE accurate body style and headstock to the Custom 24. Though it came with a 3 way toggle, I wired it according to the schematic of the early 90's 5-way / 3 knob design including the pickup split and out-of-phase combinations. Has a set neck, 24 3/4" scale. Pickups are very cheap, and the poorly implemented tremolo is a two-post, knife-edge variant that NEVER returns to tune, especially the G and B strings. What else is new, right?

    Changed the machine heads to locking, went with minimal winds on the post. I put in a Tremsetter, put in a Graphtech nut, oiled the saddles, adjusted screw tension on the springs, etc. Everything I could find out about compensating for a bad tremolo, no soap.

    Oh well. I still really enjoy playing it. It looks the part and plays well enough for $450 with case, new, shipped from Canada to the US. Keep your eyes on the used market for the DILLION DR 500T, circa very early 2000's

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  • PRS farms out most of their work to China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Korea. And EVERYTHING is made on CHINESE made CNCs. And CORT makes OEM products for EVERYONE. Keep believing there is a difference.

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  • Cort makes great guitars. I took a chance on one of their 7 strings and it's excellent. Really great options/upgrades and wood choices.

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  • I BOUGHT a PRS SE "Pauls" in the brown burst quilted finish. My first PRS! I was so looking forward to that. All the quality talk is just talk.. Nasty looking flaw in the veneer under the clear. Not damaged. It also had a electrical ground issue and 12 of the 24 frets were HIGH. I have never bought any guitar at any price that had that many frets off. They set it up high it seems to hide it. It was out of the box less than a hour and back it went. Now here is the twist..I then ordered a Harley Benton CST 24. It arrived here in the USA in 3 days in perfect condition. Setup well and I could not find any flaws worth a complaint. ONE Fourth the price and 4 Times the Guitar.

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  • IYV IP-350 TBK. Can hold its own with any brand discussed in this fine video. Set neck, all the specs but with dot inlays. $130 Cdn at a pawn shop, excellent cond'n. These are excellent players.

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  • I've had several Dillion PRS copies over the years. One even had the PRS bird inlays. PRS threatened to sue so Dillion had to change the design. Mine had a beautiful blue quilt top. I should have kept it. I still have 2 of their LP copies. The DLP-650 in green quilt top and a white DL-625. I also have their Fender strat copy. The DS-100. Back in the early 2000s, these guitars were around $450 at the most.

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  • The Kiesel California Carved top blows any PRS I have ever played out oft he water and they're half the price.

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  • I had a IYV that was a PRS clone it was amazing for a 200 dollar guitar… I changed pickups to a set of Duncan's and wow … I traded for a Squier 50's Telecaster or I'd still be playing it ✌????????

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  • Pretty cool video, very thoughtful and well researched. I wonder why I watched it, though. I don't even like PRS guitars, nor do I seek to own one ????

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  • There are the Hamer models that look like PRS too, but I believe that they're almost more like Les Paul DC.

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  • Just got the SE Zach Myers model in Myers Blue. Awesome playing guitar that solves some of the quirks of my Les Paul. I’ll always love my Paul but I love the feel and tuning stability of the PRS.

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  • Always great videos. I'm sure this is a repeat comment, but I got the IYV PRS style and couldn't be more pleased at under 200 dollars. Cheers!

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