PRS's new £5340 / €6139 Modern Eagle V has a crazy amount of switching options

This year's Experience PRS 2020 event may have been a virtual affair, but it's getting a special edition model in its honour nonetheless. 

If over £5k for a contemporary electric guitar doesn't faze you, it might mean you're one of the select group of PRS collectors this kind of limited run is aimed at. But you're getting a hugely versatile bird here for your money. 

There will be 200 Eagle Vs in two finishes – Charcoal and River Blue – with some seriously versatile switching options. 

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The H/S/H (five-coil) pickup configuration features a  new switching system to expand on the tonal options. The five-way blade switch selects the pickups in the same way as the 509 model does; treble, treble and middle, middle, middle and bass, bass. However, the two paired mini-toggles separate the slug-side coils, "turning the humbuckers into true, TCI-tuned single coils".

There's also a single volume and a push/pull tone control that activates both humbuckers so players can access three pickups simultaneously. 

That enough options for you? Well there's more! A third mini-toggle that changes the volume pot value from 500k to 250k, to change the tonal character even further.

For more info, head over to prsguitars.com 

Rob Laing
Reviews Editor, GuitarWorld.com and MusicRadar guitars

Rob is the Reviews Editor for GuitarWorld.com and MusicRadar guitars, so spends most of his waking hours (and beyond) thinking about and trying the latest gear while making sure our reviews team is giving you thorough and honest tests of it. He's worked for guitar mags and sites as a writer and editor for nearly 20 years but still winces at the thought of restringing anything with a Floyd Rose.