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This PRS Semi-Hollow 10-Top Does It All





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PRS' Special Semi-Hollow 10-Top delivers an irresistible package to the tone-savvy guitarist who demands the ultimate in playability, sonic versatility, and stunning visuals. 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.





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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. For the icing on the cake, these humbuckers are treated to PRS’s TCI (Tuned Capacitance and Inductance) tuning, a process by which the PRS team leverages their years of pickup design experience to sculpt the sound to perfection.





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.





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PRS Special Semi-Hollow Electric Guitar Features:


Chambered mahogany body; flame maple 10-Top


Vintage-style nitrocellulose lacquer finish


Mahogany neck, Pattern profile


22-fret rosewood fingerboard with Birds inlays


Neck pickup: TCI-Tuned 58/15 LT


Middle pickup: Narrowfield


Bridge pickup: TCI-Tuned 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