PRS Horsemeat, Mary Cries and Wind Through the Trees pedals review

Paul Reed Smith's pedalboard debut offers top-tier options for transparent overdrive, optical compressor and analog flanger

PRS pedals
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Guitar World Verdict

Like Paul Reed Smith’s admission suggests, each of these pedals delivers pro-quality sounds and tone-enhancing performance that are sure to win over even the staunchest pedal skeptics.

Pros

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    Top-quality sounds.

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    Wind Through the Trees is a desert island flanger.

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    Good design, with top-mounted jacks.

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    Built from high-quality components.

Cons

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    The enclosures are pretty sizeable by modern standards.

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Anyone who has paid close attention to Paul Reed Smith’s thoughts about guitar gear over the last decade or three knew that the chance of PRS ever releasing effects pedals was as likely as pigs flying or hell freezing over, as he often criticized stompboxes.

However, seasons change and reasons change, and here we are looking at a trio of brand new boxes introduced by PRS. “I hate pedals,” Smith acknowledges in a promo sheet included with each product, before he elaborates, “At least that’s what I used to say,” and admits that he’s started collecting them.

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Chris Gill

Chris is the co-author of Eruption - Conversations with Eddie Van Halen. He is a 40-year music industry veteran who started at Boardwalk Entertainment (Joan Jett, Night Ranger) and Roland US before becoming a guitar journalist in 1991. He has interviewed more than 600 artists, written more than 1,400 product reviews and contributed to Jeff Beck’s Beck 01: Hot Rods and Rock & Roll and Eric Clapton’s Six String Stories.