Paul Reed Smith Santana SE II Review

History: Been playing for around 5 years

Purchase: Bought from The Rock Inn (Perth, Western Australia) for $AU925

Pros: I cannot recommend the SE line of PRS guitars highly enough. I have a silver version of the santana se and it looks great. It has a nice wide, fat carve neck that feels great. The bridge pickup sounds great for dirty tones while the neck pickup seems to be better for cleans. Comes in an excellent heavy-duty gig bag too!



Cons: The clean tone on the bridge pickup isn't the greatest. The neck sounds a little muddy to me but i find if i use the middle position i can get a pretty decent clean tone.

Santana SE II Quality: The guitar is very well constructed. I cannot see any finish flaws whatsoever and the headstock and neck binding is applied fairly well (i had to really look hard to find some minor flaws). The stock pickups are about as good as i have ever heard stock pickups to be too, particularly for overdriven or distorted tones.

Paul Reed Smith Summary: Great value for money. I consider it to be much better than similarly priced guitars, such as the epiphone les pauls. I'm so impressed that i plan to get a prs soapbar se ii maple in the near future as a p-90 guitar. I know that if it is as good as this one i'll be really happy! I'm giving the guitar an overall rating of 5 for quality relative to price. i have played better guitars, however, none that are in this price range. Without a price consideration i would still rate the guitar as a 4 out of 5.

Rating of this product: 5

This Paul Reed Smith Electric Guitars Review Submitted By: Nick

Date: 2005-12-02

Usefulness Rating: 4.07143 out of 5. 14 reader(s) voted.