OFFLINE PRS SE Kestrel 2018 Bass, Black

Full Description

Lightweight Alder Body

The PRS SE Kestrel is built with a lightweight alder body, delivering the classic full-bodied tone many musicians favour. Its strong, clear sound lends itself to a variety of musical styles, offering a beautifully beefy midrange, excellent lows, and a sizzling high end with a decent sustain. A Hipshot Transtone bridge is also included to deliver the perfect level of intonation and string stability, featuring steel saddles secured to the main assembly for a punchy, long lasting sustain.

Maple/Walnut Neck & Rosewood Fingerboard

The use of maple and walnut for the neck creates a beautifully intricate design, adding subtle harmonics to your tone and offering an incredibly comfortable performance. The combination of the two woods provide a blend of warmth and brightness, creating a full tonality with snappy mids, full lows, and a sizzling high end. Adding a rosewood fingerboard enhances the bass' natural warmth, creating a sweet character and adding sparkle to the highs while thickening up the lows. Its 34'' scale length provides and instantly comfortable playing experience for both old and new players, while its through-body construction helps improve sustain and resonance for an enhanced performance.

PRS SE 4B 'S' Single-Coils

The Kester’s traditional single-coil setup offers players a familiar performance while infusing the bass with a truly versatile tone. The PRS SE 4B 'S' pickups are designed with an extremely punchy and focused tone, allowing players to create a variety of soundscapes to suit a range of playing style and applications. Players can produce low-mid focused blues lines to articulate high-mid focused tones saturated in rich harmonic, ideal for fretless playing styles. Use the independent volume knobs and master tone control to dial in scooped mids with a sweet top slap bassists favour, or dial in a razor sharp, blistering rock bassline.

Stunning Bird Inlays

Like many guitars from PRS, the attention to detail featured on the rosewood fingerboard is simply eye-catching, featuring a selection of birds which make up PRS’ iconic inlays. The bird inlays include representations of the following species; peregrine falcon (3rd fret), marsh hawk (5th fret), ruby throated hummingbird (7th fret), common tern (9th fret), Coopers hawk (12th fret), kite (15th fret), sparrow (17th fret), storm petrel (19th fret), and a landing hawk (21st fret).

Kestrel Series

The PRS Kestrel series is the ideal choice from modern bassists looking to find their own voice, offering outstanding clarity and a balanced frequency range to suit a variety of playing styles and applications. Designed in PRS’ Maryland shop with a traditional single-coil setup, the Kestrel is fitted with the classic PRS performance and attention to detail to offer the perfect blend of punchy tones and sophisticated looks.

Specifications

Body & Bridge

• Body: Alder
• Bridge: Hipshot TransTone
• Construction: Neck-Through
• Finish: Black

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck: 5-Ply Maple w/Walnut Strips
• Profile: SE Bass
• Scale Length: 34’’
• Fingerboard: Rosewood
• Frets: 22
• Inlays: Birds

Electronics & Hardware

• Bridge Pickup: SE 4B ‘S’ Treble (PRS-Designed Single-Coil)
• Neck Pickup: SE 4B ‘S’ Bass (PRS-Designed Single-Coil)
• Controls: 2 x Volume, Master Tone
• Tuners: Hipshot HB6
• Pickguard: Black
• Hardware: Chrome
• String Gauges: .045 - .105
• Case Included: PRS Gig Bag