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First was the output jack couldn’t be tightened properly, to the point where the wires broke off it. Loved it at first touch but it came with a couple issues.
EPIPHONE VS GIBSON ES 125 PRO
I wanted something as versatile as possible for what will probably be my only electric and found a new cherry ES-335 Pro for $399. I just recently got back into playing (at) guitar after a more than 20 year hiatus. Even Gibson get confused about that on much of their advertising material on specifications.Īnyway, the Epiphone is a fine guitar and an absolute steal for the money.
EPIPHONE VS GIBSON ES 125 FULL
Coil tap only works on a single coil pickup by tapping into the windings on the pickup to alter its sound by removing a portion of the full number of windings. Coil split removes one of the pair of coils of the humbucker effectively making it a single coil pickup. Incidentally, I must point out that these are COIL SPLIT selections NOT COIL TAP. I also replaced the control knobs with Gibson style speed knobs which made the push/pull humbucker/single coil sounds much easier to select.
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This was remedied by a couple of shots of Servisol into the switch mechanism which seemed to clear what must have been oxidisation on the contacts.
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The pickup toggle switch was a bit hit and miss delivering sound when selecting the bridge pickup. The frets were perfect right out of the box, the action was a little high, but soon adjusted by cutting the nut a little lower and tweaking the truss rod and bridge height. Having owned a Gibson ES335TDC many many years ago I was rather sceptical about the Epiphone model being anywhere close in sound or quality. I was very fortunate to pick up one with natural finish at the £299 price point just before they all became unavailable as new stock. In fact, I’ve often quite happily strummed away for hours with the Epiphone ES-335 PRO clean, there’s an inspiring range of tones here that are a great tool for songwriting. Manipulation of the tones, volumes and coil-taps can take you anywhere you want, from funk with coil-tapped middle and a phaser, to even a bit of country on the bridge. You can actually feel the body vibrate and the air coming out of the f-holes.Ĭlean is where the neck and middle positions really come into play, with full-bodied jazz tones the Epiphone’s forte. Of course, the semi-hollow nature adds yet another layer of sophistication to the proceedings, meaning that notes bloom with a bit of controlled vibrato, into singing feedback, but in a sometimes unexpected way, which all adds to the fun. Whilst maxing the gain can get you from full-solo, back down to clean(ish) using the coil-taps and backing off the guitar volume. If it all gets too much, the coil-taps can turn a mildly driven tone back to clean, and add some welcome snap into the proceedings (particularly good if you have a few retro/lo-fi numbers in your set for example).
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The bridge is spikier compared to the much fuller neck, but again I have found more use for the neck pickup on the Epiphone, the Gibson’s always being too indistinct for anything other than a full-blown delayed ballad solo. There seems to be larger differentiation of tone between the bridge and neck pickups on the Epiphone than on the Les Paul. The Epiphone is more responsive than the Les Paul in that backing off your picking attack makes a bigger difference to attack/sustain of the notes played. The response is slower, with a softer attack, so it’ll take a while to get used to tight riffing and sharp chord stabs, but the pay-off is a wider, more expansive sound, and a better balance between the individual notes, making chords sounds massive, open and clear. Starting with overdrive on the bridge pickup, the Epiphone doesn’t have the immediate power of the Les Paul.