record? you mean j. mayer and prs' opinion which clearly is a marketing strategy. well, that's brilliant. and i do not hear any mention of the data or formula that the 2% is derived from.
Thats not marketing...I was talking to PRS' production manager and was telling him off about how above average the solid body sounds and telling him that I lament that there was rarely a magical guitar. I was pointing out that I found this pre-1993 killer sounding Custom 24. I thought he did not understand. He told me that he does and he has been with the current factory since it opened.
According to him, solid body production is so down pat because of Paul's tweaks to the manufacturing process. They can guarantee about 95% of all guitars to be above average sounding guitars and a few duds. But they would not sacrifice 99 production guitars to be below average to produce just one killer sounding guitar.
As a sign that he understood, he compared it to where PRS acoustic production is. Since its relatively new for PRS to produce acoustic guitars, everytime they just rolled off the line a beautiful /exceptionally magical PRS acoustic, Paul would have the line stopped and have everybody come over to examine that specific guitar.
By the way, I have no marketing strategy because my GUITARS are NOT FOR SALE. The last time I had a fire sale was back in the mid 1990s. Though on occasion, I have been tempted -- offered to be purchased -- by friends; I promptly bought back my guitars. Out of my 40 USA MADE GUITARS, I only have one PRS.
I have about 5 Jacksons, 6 Gibsons, 3 Bakers, 4 Music Men, 6 Fenders, 1 BC Rich, 3 Suhrs, 1 Asher, 1 Mike Lull, 1 Washburn N4, 1 EVH, 1 McGuire, etc. All Made in the USA. Basically, I have no favorites to promote.
What I do have to promote in contrast to so called advertising by guitar manufacturers IS that they produce more bad sounding guitars than good sounding ones. So as guitar buyers, be aware AND try at least 50-100 of the same guitar model. For example, my Ernie Ball JP15 which I bought last year in Tokyo, was so much of an effort to choose.
I actually had to go around at least 10 guitar shops in Tokyo and try out around 30 Ernie Ball John Petrucci guitars ALL MADE IN THE USA to pick the best one. Buti na lang mayaman ang Tokyo dahil kaya nila magparating nga maraming inventory ng bawat modelo ng gitara.
Pati Washburn N4, pinagpilian ko ay anim in the same store!!! 2 standard, 2 vintage at 2 authentic na lahat alder. Tapos may dalawang pang ash body na N4. So thats a total of 8 guitars in one session.