Is PRS teasing another McCarty model for this year’s NAMM Show?
PRS has shared a video to Instagram that suggests something related to the late and great Ted McCarty will land this month.
Although no details have yet been confirmed, it sure looks like either a new product or possibly a documentary exploring the life and legacy of McCarty will be landing on 22 January – just in time for this year’s NAMM event.
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The video recaps how the original McCarty model first released in 1994 was unveiled at the NAMM show, and features footage of McCarty discussing how the guitar came to be: “One day, Paul met me at the trade show in New York. We talked about guitars and he said, ‘how about if we make a Ted McCarty guitar?’
“I said, ‘well, perhaps it would be fine. And I would be very thrilled and honoured to have one of your guitars with my name on it, but who’s gonna buy it? Because I’m not a musician, I don’t go around and play guitars.’ Paul said that he didn’t think I knew quite the reputation that I had,” McCarty concludes in the footage.
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Ted McCarty was a pioneer of the electric guitar and the musical instrument industry. He was president of Gibson during its “golden age”, and became a longtime friend and mentor to Paul Reed Smith of PRS.
In the late 1980s, Paul Reed Smith asked McCarty to consult with him on guitar design and production techniques, and in 1994, PRS released the first McCarty guitar. Over the years since, the brand has launched a number of McCarty models across its brand.
More recently, PRS launched a 40th Anniversary McCarty SC56 Limited Edition model in summer 2025 – a single-cutaway model that was both “a tribute to tradition and a modern performer’s dream” – limited to just 400 pieces worldwide. It also launched McCarty III pickups last year: vintage-inspired humbuckers that bring a vocal clarity to their full, warm tone.
Whatever it might be, PRS says the Ted McCarty news will land on 22 January. You can view its full product line up over at PRS Guitars in the meantime.
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Source: www.guitar-bass.net
