Suhr Guthrie Govan Modern Pro Signature Guitar vs PRS McCarty Model Electric Guitar
The Suhr Guthrie Govan Modern Pro Signature Guitar and the PRS McCarty Model Electric Guitar are both electric guitars sharing transparent, smooth. The Suhr Guthrie Govan Modern Pro Signature Guitar leans tight and warm. The PRS McCarty Model Electric Guitar leans full and mid-forward.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.49% — somewhat different
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Smooth Jazz
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- transparent
- smooth
Suhr Guthrie Govan Modern Pro Signature Guitar
Unknown brand · electric guitar
PRS McCarty Model Electric Guitar
Unknown brand · electric guitar
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.The Suhr Guthrie Govan Signature Modern Pro is a hand-crafted collaboration between Guthrie Govan and John Suhr featuring basswood body with plain maple top, roasted maple neck and fingerboard with 16 inch radius and 24 stainless steel jumbo frets. The HSH pickup configuration includes Suhr SSV neck, ML Standard middle, and SSH Plus bridge pickups. Hardware includes Gotoh 510 bridge with 2-post bent saddles and steel block, master volume, master tone with neck humbucker split, 5-way lever pickup selector, and blower switch. The compound radius fingerboard facilitates seamless transitions between chords and solos. The tone is lush, clear, and ballsy—versatile across jazz, shredding, fusion, and contemporary styles.
The PRS McCarty is named for Ted McCarty, Gibson's president through the 1950s, and was PRS's move toward that older voice: a thicker body than the Custom 24, 22 frets on a 24.594-inch scale, a shallower neck angle and lower-output vintage-style humbuckers. The extra mahogany depth is the main tonal difference, adding low-mid weight the thinner PRS bodies do not have.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Jazz
- Blues Rock
- tight
- warm
- lush
- full
- mid-forward
- sustaining