PRS DGT - McCarty Sunburst - Rosewood, Flame Maple, Bird Inlays s#0364741

The DGT is the culmination of a 20-year-long partnership between Paul Smith and David Grissom. This model is based on the McCarty with a distinct DGT neck shape, taller frets, and special pickups. To ensure a vintage voice, Grissom and Paul carefully picked through 40 sets of pickups to settle on the DGT humbuckers. These humbuckers come with individual volume controls, plus a push/pull master tone control with coil taps to augment the versatility. According to David Grissom, “The DGT is the product of countless miles and gigs - with a vintage-like sound out-of-the-box. A lot of thought has gone into this, it's pretty perfect.”

It’s All in the Details: TCI-Tuned Pickups

Paul Reed Smith is known as a man who studies history, scrutinizes the details, and never stops applying what he learns to his own instruments. It is that passion, care, and tenacity that has permeated PRS Guitars’ culture and led to the constant evolution of PRS products. Last year, PRS announced TCI (tuned capacitance and inductance) pickups on the Paul’s Guitar. But, TCI is more than a pickup, it’s a process. That process has now been applied to all PRS pickups offered on our Core line of instruments, with the exception of a few artist Signature models.

“TCI stands for Tuned Capacitance Inductance. When you wind a pickup, the coils are capacitors, resistors, and inductors simultaneously. Our more refined ability to be able to tune those factors is what we have incorporated into TCI pickups,” said Paul Reed Smith. “To our ears, the results are very musical. We are very proud of how far we’ve come in the understanding and making of pickups. It’s been a fun process.”