PRS DGT David Grissom Tremolo Signature

About the PRS DGT David Grissom Tremolo Signature

The DGT is built on PRS's McCarty Trem foundation - mahogany body with a carved maple top - but reshapes several details around David Grissom's own playing preferences rather than simply carrying a famous name on the headstock. The neck carve sits deliberately between PRS's wide-fat and older regular profiles, closer to a mid-1950s Les Paul feel, and is paired with Dunlop 6100 fretwire that is noticeably taller and wider than PRS's usual gauge - a combination chosen specifically to suit the heavier .011-.049 strings the guitar ships with. Electronics received the same level of attention: Grissom and Smith reportedly compared more than 40 pickup pairs before settling on the DGT humbucker voicing, aiming for something closer to a vintage PAF character with lower output than many prior PRS humbuckers, while still splitting convincingly into single-coil tones. The coil-split circuit itself is unusual - rather than fully disconnecting one coil, a resistor partially lifts it from ground, leaving a touch of that coil's signal in the mix for a fuller, less thin split tone than a hard switch produces. A high-gloss nitrocellulose finish and the restored PRS Gen III tremolo (absent from the standard McCarty) round out a guitar built around rhythm and solo tone in roughly equal measure.

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Sound character of the PRS DGT David Grissom Tremolo Signature

In full humbucker mode the DGT delivers a thick, Gibson-leaning grind on power chords and singing, sustain-rich leads, while the push/pull split opens up a brighter, snappier tone with a gristly, P-90-like edge rather than a thin single-coil quack - a direct result of the partial coil-lift circuit retaining more of the humbucker's low end than a full coil-split would.

What owners of the PRS DGT David Grissom Tremolo Signature say

The locking tuners hold tuning reliably even under heavier string gauges, and the neck carve draws particular praise for how comfortable it stays over long playing sessions despite feeling fuller than a typical Fender C profile. The bridge pickup reads as clear and close in character to other PAF-style humbuckers without being especially distinctive on its own, while the neck pickup and the overall vintage-leaning voicing earn more consistent praise - tighter in the low end than a Singlecut but sweeter and more musical than a Custom 24. Split mode comes across as closer to a Gretsch-style single-coil character than a Fender one, keeping noticeably more low end than a hard coil-tap typically allows and blending well with overdrive.

Playability & handling of the PRS DGT David Grissom Tremolo Signature

The DGT neck feels fuller than a Fender-style C profile but never leaves notes out of reach, and reviewers consistently describe the overall feel as top notch. The taller Dunlop 6100 frets give the heavier .011 strings more room to bend under the fingers without feeling cramped, and the push/pull tone control puts the coil-split within easy reach during a single song without needing to look down at the controls.

Recommended accessories & strings for the PRS DGT David Grissom Tremolo Signature

The guitar ships standard with PRS Signature .011-.049 strings, heavier than the .010 sets common on most solidbodies - a direct consequence of the fretwire and neck carve being built around that gauge, so dropping to .010s changes the feel the guitar was designed for. Given Grissom's reputation for dynamic, headroom-dependent clean and crunch tones, the DGT suits tube amplifiers with plenty of clean headroom that let the push/pull coil-split do its job rather than amps voiced primarily for high-gain saturation.

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Price history for the PRS DGT David Grissom Tremolo Signature

Cheapest seen: 650 EUR  ·  Most expensive seen: 6.688 EUR

The history of the PRS DGT David Grissom Tremolo Signature

The DGT was unveiled at Summer NAMM in Austin in July 2007, the visible result of a collaboration between Paul Reed Smith and David Grissom that had already run for more than twenty years by that point. Grissom's stated goal was a guitar that would appeal equally to studio session players and touring musicians, and Smith later noted that prototype after prototype left the PRS factory on the same day it was finished - an unusually fast approval cycle for a signature model. Rather than inventing a new body shape, PRS built the DGT on its existing McCarty Trem foundation and concentrated the changes on pickup voicing, neck carve, fret size, and the reintroduction of a tremolo bridge to that McCarty-spec body.

About PRS as a manufacturer

PRS Guitars was founded by Paul Reed Smith in 1985 in Maryland, built on the premise of combining Fender-style playability with Gibson-style tonal richness in a single instrument, and has since become known for its figured maple tops, proprietary pickup designs, and a reputation for exacting build consistency across both its US-made Core/S2 lines and its Indonesia-made SE line.

Notable players & recordings featuring the PRS DGT David Grissom Tremolo Signature

David Grissom, the Austin-based guitarist the model is named for, has played with John Mellencamp, Joe Ely, Storyville (featuring the rhythm section from Stevie Ray Vaughan's Double Trouble), and The Dixie Chicks, and first built his PRS association through his work alongside Joe Ely.