Gibson ES-335 Custom Shop P90 

As long as the modification doesn’t require any further routing or alters the cavity in any way… I’d say go for it

thank you very much !!

Yes Nice Tone

I agree! I prefer the clean tone of a p90 over a humbucker! Also most all the videos here on YT with ES335's sound muffled and dark. This one is clear, bright, sweet, and yet powerful! Yes!

I don’t like this comment for several reasons. 1. Distortion is not fake 2. Most of the best guitar players ever use distortion, so by those standards they suck. (This is my opinion)

@@cailebouellette5815 The real distortion was born by mistake, due to amp speakers failure. But it became pleasant and symbolic of a dirty and angry sound, suitable for the times and for the 'new' rock music (which I love). That said, some manufacturers began to put on the market some pedals (actually very valuable) that imitated the sound texture of a distortion. And this is fine, although I have never appreciated artists who use distortion by transforming the sound of the electric guitar into a violin. And this may still be fine. What I don't like (and that perhaps too many don't consider) is that the distortion transforms the sound of a guitar into something else that changes its original timbre, so that we cannot appreciate its native qualities. This is my own opinion too.

@@cailebouellette5815 i would suggest that Vai , satriani , etc do suffer tonally ..i dont even think they have a good distorted tone ...just like a building must have good foundation , same with clean tone ....build from there and you cant go wrong . But you do have a point - but the fundamental tone is a clean one .

Appreciate the clean playing also.

@@nicero870 (y)

Thank you!

Cheers!

mhmm if they have the same sice as the humbuckers it is worth a try !

Seymour Duncan Phat Cats should fit (and sound lovely).

Lindy Frahlin makes p90's that fit in humbucker cover!

@@curiousuranus810 everyone does !

Most of that is reverb

Haha, on top of that I put jack? Great!

no😂

Thank you very much! That function is called "coil tap". I´m not 100 percent sure what its doing. but i think i´ve you activate it you will use ~66% of the single coil wiring instead of 100 %. Please correct me if i´m wrong! :)

@@tonsoftonez202 yep it taps into the coil somewhere in the middle so you basically get a less hot version of it

@@calinguga is it a thing built with the guitar or an option with the p90?

Nah they still sound like p90s

P90s are Single coils but much higher wound. Its somewhere between humbucker and standart Single coil. Maybe "woodier" tone than standart Single coil. Or möre twang like humbuckers... but also you could have Problems with hum...

Yes there is big difference. I had a 1966 Cherry Finish Gibson ES330 that has 2 dog ear P90s and 1968 Walnut finish ES335 with humbuckers. The tone is different P90s are grittier and have a low frequency hum if you are near florescent lighting, riostats or other electrical interference produced by machines in bars. That's why Gibson had to come up with a new styles pickup Humbuckers.

@@brianbrazil4426 you could always put in hum canceling p90s like Fralin has.

Just played a 335 with p90s in a local guitar store today...the difference is very noticeable. More grit, spank and top end. There’s an alive quality to the tone, that has a certain raw unpredictable quality. Switching back to humbuckers, evens things out in a slightly disappointing way.

Thank you! No- there is no hum above average with this guitar!

the guitar is built in 2012

I know what you mean.. But this guitar had only a controllable feedback. It faded slowly in. That was great!

They wouldn't be much difference because they're single coil pickups. In an ES 345 and ES 355 their 2 Humbuckers have 2 coils each that's why they can put veritone switches in them.

All stock!

@@tonsoftonez202 Oh, so they are Gibson p90's? I was thinking they were different because of the custom shop element. So what IS different from the custom shop? THX

Sorry. I've sold that guitar a while ago.. The neck is really thin!

So we have to call Gibson cause they labeled their guitar wrong?

@@tonsoftonez202, Look up their catalog of models. According to their website the ES 335 with P90s comes in black has a center block of mahogany under the pickups. It also lists the ES 330 with P90 pickups the finish is tobacco sunburst and it has slant block inlays on the fretboard instead of the dot inlays that they use to have. Gibson didn't use to put the name of the model on truss rod cover either they use to put a label inside the body on the left Florentine opening.

@@brianbrazil4426 it doesn't matter to me how it's called. My ears decide 😌

It is very simple: the es-335 is a semi-hollow guitar and the es-330 is a hollow body guitar.

Aqui en EEUU cuesta mas o menos $3,300 dólares. Un poco caro . . . .

The guitar is all stock. Dont know what they used exactly..

Mmmmm i think it was from 2012

@@tonsoftonez202 Okay! I have one from 2007. I think it was only 100 guitars that year. So they probably make a limited run with p90s every now and then.

i have no clue !

It's 'angry tomato' red.

They wouldn't be much difference because they're single coil pickups. In an ES 345 and ES 355 their 2 Humbuckers have 2 coils each that's why they can put veritone switches in them.

@@brianbrazil4426 Varitones settings are a series of preset notch filters, the same as have been used on some synthesizers. No reason why they would not work on single coils as well as humbuckers. That's kind of like saying a wah pedal, which is just another kind of filter, would not work on single coils.

Same over here

You don't like blues?🤪

@@jdl2180 I don't hate it, but I do hate gear review videos that are basically "look how fast I can play the pentatonic scale" instead of, you know, actual songs

@@MeatSnax I understand.

Youre welcome