PRS breaks new ground with its head-turning 2020 lineup of new acoustic and electric guitars
With new hollowbodies, solidbodies and acoustics of all kinds, 2020 has been a year of firsts for PRS
2020 has been a wild year for a lot of people, but for PRS, it's been a year defined by firsts.
In May, PRS announced the SE Parlor series, its first ever line of parlor acoustics, while June brought news of the SE Hollowbody II Piezo, the first guitar in the more affordable SE series to feature the company's core-line combo of acoustic and electric guitar sounds.
PRS also of course made waves in January by bringing its top-of-the-line McCarty 594 designs and specs to its most affordable USA-built line, the S2 Series, for the first time.
Here to unpack all of these exciting firsts is PRS Product Specialist and demo guru Bryan Ewald, who kindly gave GW a visual and sonic grand tour of all three new models.
You can hear and see the new guitars for yourself in the video above.
For more on all things PRS, stop by the company's website.
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Jackson is an Associate Editor at GuitarWorld.com. He’s been writing and editing stories about new gear, technique and guitar-driven music both old and new since 2014, and has also written extensively on the same topics for Guitar Player. Elsewhere, his album reviews and essays have appeared in Louder and Unrecorded. Though open to music of all kinds, his greatest love has always been indie, and everything that falls under its massive umbrella. To that end, you can find him on Twitter crowing about whatever great new guitar band you need to drop everything to hear right now.
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