Talk:Gibson ES-335

Riviera
The link to Riviera in the Epiphone comments was pointing to the word 'riviera'. Removed — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.50.100.220 (talk) 11:41, 9 January 2019 (UTC)

Lee Ritenour
NO mention of Mr. 335? Larry Carlton is Mr 335 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.19.247.61 (talk) 02:19, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
 * He is already detailed properly on the Gibson player list. This article is about a guitar. Its notable players are talked about on a different page. Libs (talk) 02:42, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

photo
Hey, anybody that's reading this, get a good picture that shows the full body of the guitar, like they have on the Gibson Flying V and Gibson SG. Somebody do that, 'cos it needs it. Don't get some picture of BB king, it needs a picture of the guitar itself. Yeah, this guitar's pretty cool...I'm debating whether or not I should get one. I also really like the Flying V and the SG Blackbear3 21:55, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Sustain and feedback
I think the current article is a bit POV, and makes some false claims to support the idea that semi-acoustic guitars are superior.

In particular, I don't think it's true that The ES-335 and other semi-hollowbody guitars have a rather distinctive, "woody" sound, mellower than solid-bodies, but retain their high sustain and low feedback. Either sustain is reduced or feedback rejection suffers (often a bit of both), both in theory and in my experience. So they don't retain these features at all, rather they are a compromise that offers far better feedback rejection than an arch top, generally at the expense of both sustain and tone, but a tone and a more "musical" sustain that is very difficult to achieve on a solid body. The solid body will generally beat all comers on feedback rejection (but even it can be made to feed back if that's what you want, especially with extreme tone settings}.

IMO a good arch top has a clean tone that no lesser instrument can come near, but at the cost of really horrendous acoustic feedback... some gigs I have ended up miking and/or DI-ing mine and letting the PA guy deal with it, the guitar amplifier was simply uncontrollable at any audible volume, so it was that or switch to the solid body. Or you can stuff an arch top with absorbent material, and achieve much the same result as a semi-acoustic, but exactly to your personal preference... I think it's tragic that so many modern guitarists have been convinced that they need to meekly accept the tones that Fender and Gibson and their various clones mass-produce. Don't get me wrong, they make good guitars. Just not as perfect as their endorsed players and other sales staff would have you believe...

The semi-acoustic is the right choice for some playing situations, but while every guitarist probably at some time thinks that their favourite guitar is what everyone should play, this is, ummm, not an encyclopedic view. I generally don't like thin semi-accs myself, except for my Magnetone TB36/12, which is perfect... (-> Andrewa 15:22, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

ES-333?
I believe there is a guitar by Gibson called the ES-333. It appears to extremely similar to the Es-335 (semi-hollowbody, two f-holes) should this guitar be mentioned in the article? EarthGuardian 03:09, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

I wasn't aware of the existence of this model until you mentioned it, but it does seem to have as much right to be included as, say, the 345 and 355 models. By all means go ahead, I say. Guy Hatton 09:23, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

"Models And Variatlons" Section
The sections mentions the difference between the 345 vs the 345/355 as being in the latter two models having stereo wiring, but they also differ from the 335 in having a VariTone switch, a concise description of the function of which can be found at http://www.gibson.com/reference/infoguides/5.html. However I do not know if these were the only models to have such a switch. Hi There 14:32, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Moved info from Gibson ES-355 and redirected it here.
I have moved the information from the Gibson ES-355 page to the ES-355 section of this page and redirected the ES-355 page to that section.

I have not moved Lucille (guitar) here because that page is about the history of B. B. King's "Lucille" guitars, while the "Lucille" section here is solely about the the specifications of the Gibson B. B. King Lucille signature guitar. Respectfully, SamBlob 01:51, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

No photo?
Where has the photo of the guitar gone? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.212.132.254 (talk) 23:00, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

ES-335TD-12
I see no mention here of the fairly obscure 12-string version of the ES-335, produced from 1965-1975. Objections? Rastral9 (talk) 04:41, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Pickups
What kind of pickups does this guitar use? Just the original Lover PAFs? --Eidlyn (talk) 19:29, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Gibson ES-345 re-issues in the 2000's
Gibson re-issued the ES-345 in the 2000's. I have a 2006. I am not sure of the exact production date range or numbers, but they don't seem all that common so one would assume they were only in production for a short while in limited numbers.

As far as I know, this production run preceded Epiphone's re-issue of the 345.

I will try to contact Gibson and clarify this when I get a chance.

If anyone else could share some information that would be great. — Preceding unsigned comment added by VK2AFL (talk • contribs) 12:45, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

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Marty McFly
The article is headed ES-335 - although the ES-345 is included as a subsection on the page. The lede indicates that notable users include Marty McFly in BTTF. However, the ES-345 section indicates he used a 345, not a 335.

It therefore seems to be to be misleading to including McFly as a notable user in the lede section that is only about the 335. He should either be removed, or the line should read something like "notable users of the ES-335 or one of its variations include..." TheHYPO (talk) 05:09, 7 June 2020 (UTC)

Gibson ES-345 and ES-355 factual errors
Hi - I work at Gibson, so I am not going to edit anything on our pages, but there are a couple of factual errors on the page - specifically, the release years of the ES-345 and ES-355 are incorrect. The page lists them as being released in 1958, but their actual release was in 1959. For a third-party reference to substantiate this, please check out http://www.guitarhq.com/gibson4.html#es345.

Thanks!

Phil O'Keefe Senior Editor, Gibson Brands

47.146.135.37 (talk) 13:39, 21 April 2021 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately, the source you offered has no apparent editorial oversight. If I am remembering correctly it makes the source unacceptable for use here. Another editor may want to comment as I am not totally up on all the guidelines here.THX1136 (talk) 13:47, 9 October 2022 (UTC)