Hi together,

my friend had asked me before I went on vacation if I did not even look at his Floyd Rose 1000 Tremolo system on his PRS. He is quite dissatisfied with the stability of the mood and has lost a bit of the desire for the FR 1000. Last weekend he had brought me the good piece. I had a PRS in my hand for the first time.
Here are my impressions:

The SE Floyd Custom 24 has a cool look in a traditional PRS design with a mahogany body and flat maple top sloping at the edges.
No idea if this is a great one-off item or if production in Korea is always good. At any rate, I did not recognize a single production error.

On the back, plastic plates precisely cover the spring and electrical chambers with the top edge.
Even an electrical shield with ground contact is not missing.
The rather bulky foot of the neck completes the front pickup milling. This promotes in my opinion, the vibration transmission positive, the guitar is well balanced, so not top-heavy.

The rosewood fingerboard was built very clean, including edging and polish.

The Floyd Rose 1000 Vibrato is very smooth.
It has screws that guide the string slides, string-tightening screws, and fine-tuning adjustment screws for the strings.
A foam rubber insert is located under the FR 1000.
The lever for the tremolo is attached with a union nut and controls to the ease of the plug lever.
The pickup on the neck is a vintage bass (PRS SE HB with zebra coils).
The pickup on the bridge is a Hot Fat Scream Treble.
There is a three way switch with the master tone poti having a HB split function. This deactivates the inner HB coils.

Now for the actual setting.
The Floyd Rose 1000 tremolo is a floating system (so the string is held in balance by the springs on the back string).

Here is my approach.
Since the thicker strings produce a greater tensile force than the thinner strings, I did the following.
Springs in tremolo shaft: (here for .009 strings)
A spring on position of the e-string
A spring on position of the E-string
A spring diagonally to the E-string

Strengthen new strings by hand immediately after drawing; as we always do.
Set tuning of the guitar and
always make sure that the tremolo is parallel to the top of the guitar.
If necessary, slightly correct the counter-screws in the body of the guitar.
Tighten the clamping screws on the saddle (headstock).
Fine tune the adjusting screws.

If the base plate of the FR 1000 is parallel to the top of the guitar, everything remains stable.

Intonation:
I feel as suboptimal; Okay, you only do it once.
Here, the string must be completely relaxed again and again to move the carriage accordingly and then to fix again.
There are probably also special tools that I do not own.

Now I wanted to play the PRS.

The guitar is comfortable in size and in good balance on the thigh.
The guitar has a dynamic sound development with a direct response and good sustain; I think something good for the filigree, expressive and slightly distorted blues blues guitarist.
The sound is balanced and has a clean sound definition.
Also, the vintage bass pickup has no difficulty serving a properly distorted blues.
In combination with both humbuckers, the neck pickup controls the characteristic in the sound, because the bell-shaped sound is carried with clear basses and silky heights.
He is also a little louder than the bridge pickup; but that can certainly (if you want) influence by settings, which I do not want here now. I was only asked to set the FR system.

With the coil splits, there are three additional sounds available.
The pairing of both SC coils clearly shows a Fender-TC.
Regardless of clean or distorted, all three sounds are useful if a little less fat sound is desired.
Both potis are obviously to handle precisely by uniform control characteristic.
When turning back the volume poti hardly any significant height loss can be seen for me.

In the end, I can`t fault the stability of the mood and after a few minutes of play, really nothing; not even on the second day after adjustment.
Everything worked as it should.

But, All in all, the sound direction in my view is perhaps a bit too “metallic”.
How is your PRS experience?
Maybe you have some additions or hints.