Electric Guitar PRS CE 24 (Blue Matteo)

The original CE model was introduced in 1988, offering players traditional PRS design and quality. The new and improved PRS CE 24 offers snappy attack, wood tones and an American sound with a bolt-on maple neck at an attractive PRS price. Since the dawn of rock and roll, the click and response that comes from a bolt-on neck guitar has become an integral part of the mix. These qualities, in turn, have become important to many players trying to tell their story through music.

A TCI-tuned 85/15 pickup set and an updated switching system will take you through the full tonal range that lets you play from ringing, clean single-coil sounds to searing humbucking overdrive. The mahogany body, gorgeous maple top, maple neck and rosewood fretboard give the guitar a warm and balanced sound, an irresistible look and playability. The fast maple neck of the instrument glides across the hand for smooth transitions between the upper and lower frets, while the rosewood fretboard provides precise note articulation that PRS veterans are sure to love. Built on designs Paul Reed Smith has worked on for decades and refined over years of prototyping, the Pattern Thin neck profile is an updated version of the traditional wide thin neck. The CE 24 features a PRS Tremolo bridge and low-mass locking tuners for maximum expressiveness and tuning stability.

Connect the CE 24 to an amplifier and enjoy the sweet, clean, articulate sound of the PRS 85/15 pickups, which are rich in harmonic overtones reminiscent of vintage humbuckers. For maximum tonal versatility, the CE 24 is equipped with a coil-separating push-pull pitch control that opens a portal to a universe of single-coil tones. Paul Reed Smith has retuned his original pickups to bring the sweet harmonica and ringing warmth of a classic design, but with modern power and articulation for today's players and equipment. Each set of pickups was tuned by Paul and his team by ear in what is known as Tuned Capacitance and Inductance (TCI). The result is very musical pickups that are true to their ancestry but updated for today's players.