It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Subscribe to our Patreon, and get image uploads with no ads on the site!
Base theme by DesignModo & ported to Powered by Vanilla by Chris Ireland, modified by the "theFB" team.
Comments
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
To think I swapped my 335 for a Yamaha MSG in the early 90's in a fit of something or other... Don't get me wrong - the Yamaha was a great guitar, but I'd much rather have my 335 twenty-five years later...
https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/product/px180205322165004--ibanez-as53-tf-semi-acoustic-pre-owned
Probably a Gibson led initiative to shift units based on the dire financial situation.
Or you're just going to have that awful feeling of buyers remorse.
It still has the relatively sucky epi pickups in it, would sound even better with an upgrade but it seems to me that these semis can handle a pickup handicap better than solid bodies can due to the inherent jangle.
Much of the beauty of the sound at the start of the video is coming from the room & any reverb on the amp.
has that "hollowness" for want of a better word. That's a cool song though! If I was going to get a "budget" semi-hollow it'd probably be a Gretsch G2622. Really dig the sounds in this video:
That Freddie King clip is epic. I’m not sure anyone makes a guitar that sounds like that anymore though.
That tone I guess is cranked amp (you can hear the cabinet), room, semihollow Gibson, PAFs and Freddie’s fingers.
Those PAFs have a dry, empty quality to their tone that really works well with the semi, you can hear the same quality in 59 Pauls. When I hear modern performances going for that tone it tends to sound thicker and frankly, rather cheesy.
Maybe it can be done somehow I don’t know? OP’s tone definitely an easier target by far!
PS: if you like this tune, you should check out Honey from the same session. Amazing song, however the jangly 335 tone doesn't feature quite as clearly.
And just listened to the Gretsch demo - very nice - a bit similar to my Club King RT.... which is of course one of the reasons I can't really justify a 335... the other one being my Manta Ray... How many semi hollows is too many!
I'm completely torn now.. keep the CK and forget about a 335 alike or move it on??? Decisions, decisions...