New David Grissom PRS is 'more focussed in midrange'

<p class="p1"><strong>If the <a href="http://www.musicradar.com/gear/all/guitars/electric/6-string-solid-body/david-grissom-dgt-155915/review">gorgeous maple-cap DGT electric from PRS</a> wasn't woody enough for you, Texan session ace David Grissom – who has played for the likes of Buddy Guy and The Allman Brothers Band – now has an all-mahogany DGT Standard model to his name.</strong></p> <p class="p1">Currently available in eight finishes, the twin-humbucker, solidbody electric is likely to appeal to fans of Grissom's fat, expressive tone. We asked him what else they can expect from the new model…</p> <p class="p1"><strong>Tell us about the evolution of your all-mahogany DGT Standard model…</strong></p> <p class="p1">"I'm really excited about it. Basically, a guitar that I special-ordered years ago became the PRS McCarty model. I got that guitar in 1992, and played it for the next 15 years - and developed a long list of things that I thought we could improve upon.</p> <p class="p1">"I didn't want to mess with the core design of the guitar that much, so the logical thing was to keep everything intact but just take the maple cap off and do a solid mahogany body.</p> <p class="p1">"In fact, my first PRS had a solid mahogany body – it was a Standard I think. I do so many things, especially sessions, where an all-mahogany guitar will take up a much different space in the mix [to the maple-top DGT model].</p> <p class="p1">"So the all-mahogany body just seemed like the most logical way to go. I got one at <a href="http://www.musicradar.com/event/namm/" onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'HubPush', 'inBody', 'namm']);return true;">NAMM</a> and I was totally knocked out by it so we said let's go ahead and do it."</p> <p class="p1"><strong>How does the tone differ from the maple-top model?</strong></p> <p class="p1">"The DGT with the maple cap has more lows and more highs. I don't quite know how to describe it, because every one is a little different. But in a way the maple-top version is a little bigger sounding, whereas the all-mahogany one is more focussed in the midrange.</p> <p class="p1">"I've been doing some sessions here at the house and had a chance to really kind of go back and forth between the maple top and the mahogany one and they're really complementary to each other. Even if you double a part and split them left and right, you get this texture that you don't get if you use two different maple-top guitars.</p> <p class="p1">"So it just fills up a different sonic space and a lot of people gravitate towards all-mahogany guitars – like an SG or whatever." </p> <h4>For more on the new PRS DGT Standard, check out <a href="http://www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk/music/guitarist-magazine-subscription/">Guitarist magazine</a> issue 357, on sale 29 June.</h4> <a href="http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/new-david-grissom-prs-is-more-focussed-in-midrange-550280">Read more about New David Grissom PRS is 'more focussed in midrange' at MusicRadar.com</a><img width='1' height='1' src='http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/673/f/8601/s/20af2bce/mf.gif' border='0'/><div class='mf-viral'><table border='0'><tr><td valign='middle'><a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/viral/sendEmail.cfm?lang=en&title=New+David+Grissom+PRS+is+%27more+focussed+in+midrange%27&link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.musicradar.com%2Fnews%2Fguitars%2Fnew-david-grissom-prs-is-more-focussed-in-midrange-550280" target="_blank"><img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif" border="0" /></a></td><td valign='middle'><a href="http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=New+David+Grissom+PRS+is+%27more+focussed+in+midrange%27&link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.musicradar.com%2Fnews%2Fguitars%2Fnew-david-grissom-prs-is-more-focussed-in-midrange-550280" target="_blank"><img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif" border="0" /></a></td></tr></table></div><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/137744403727/u/49/f/8601/c/673/s/20af2bce/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/137744403727/u/49/f/8601/c/673/s/20af2bce/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/137744403727/u/49/f/8601/c/673/s/20af2bce/a2t.img" border="0"/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/musicradar/all/news/~4/qxe4QMzCNlQ" height="1" width="1"/>







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