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. The bridge and tailpiece lock to the body so they don’t fall off when you remove the strings.

Also on the hardware front, Epiphone has always been a bit clever in this area. The Epiphone’s Wilkinson tuners are smooth and keep the guitar in tune. It’s also is a very ‘full’ sounding guitar, so having the coil-taps available to clean things up on the Epiphone is a major plus. A semi-acoustic is already a very versatile instrument and adding coil-taps just adds to this. The most useful of which are the Alnico Classic Humbuckers, not only are these upgraded from the Epiphone ES 335 DOT but they’re splittable via the volume pots, unlike the Gibson’s Burstbuckers (although you or your guitar-tech can carry out this mod later if you want to). This Epiphone ES335 PRO has a few tricks up its sleeve. The Gibson “Plek” System Gibson Memphis ES 335 / Epiphone ES 335 Pro differencesĢ Epiphone Alnico V Classic PRO humbuckersġ4:1 ratio Vintage Wilkinson Classic tuners

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Below is a table of the main differences between the two guitars.

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