Phil Hurley & Chris Beall compare an original 1958 ES-335 to a Limited Edition 2014 ES-335
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- Phil Hurley and Chris Beall of The South Austin Moonlighters play and showcase a first-year, 1958 Gibson ES -335 with original PAF pickups and compare it to a 2014 Gibson ES-335 "Rich Robinson" limited edition model.
They both play through custom Category 5 amps.
Toward the end of the video Phil plays the same thing on both guitars-back-to-back-on the bridge pickups (6:15), middle position (6:56) and neck pickups (7:51).
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Awesome as always and the podcast is great too. I hope next year we'll get a video about the one behind the camera.
Thank you for the kind words Claudio. I'm happy to hear that you enjoy the podcast too. Do you have a favorite episode?
Dude, I love these videos. I just saw your gold top video, and not only do you pick some AWESOME guitars, you talk about them with such passion. Real joy to watch, reminds of watch guys talking about their watch collections. But these you can play!
Thank you for such kind words Daniel. I appreciate you watching the videos and taking the time to post a comment. Phil's love for music and his instruments just oozes from him doesn't it?
@@MythvsCraft honestly amazing, i'm a huge hodinkee fan, and i just discovered your channel. Needless to say I'm binging all of them!!!
@@daniel_chayra Thank you! I thoroughly enjoyed my conversation with Ben Clymer too!
Love these guys. Great musicians and guys!!
I thought the neck was way brighter on the 2014 until I noticed you used your fingers on the 58 and a pick on the 2014. The bridge pickups were a lot closer sounding than I would have predicted.
Beautiful playing on the intro!
Thank you for the kind words!
1958 sound like an old piece of wood, deep and soulful ! Top!
I wanna say the burstbucker are wonderful. They are much hotter and seem to be much brighter. The PAF'S are rounder in tone. Not a bright. Smoother. Both are great. I have some Patent numbers in my 69 SG and they sound just insanely good. I mean mind blowing. But my newer les Paul's with BBers sound crazy good too. I never understood people swapping out pickups as soon as they buy a guitar.
You’re correct pluses and minuses. Well can’t really hear the minuses 😄 They both sound superb. The 335 is such a great design and light weight for stage use. Had a 60s 330 was an amazing guitar but fed back quite a bit. I’d have to position myself on stage to compensate. Thanks for the demo.
Great guitars! Would love to try the 58, like to see about the paf's... Hard to tell most things across youtube... Thanks so much.
I prefer the punchiness of the 2014, thanks for the comparison!
if you can hear fleas cough, then you hear the difference
There was a huge difference on the neck pickups which also made the middle position different, but I think there are more similarities than differences on the bridge pickup
great play and toyz, the red reissue is more percusive and clean to me, which is great but too thin on neck position compare to its grandma' perfect jazzy tone.
Agreed. But, I also noted that I used my fingers on the neck pick up of the '58 and switched to a pick for the 2014. My mistake!
Makes me wonder if some of that "top" will mellow with age as well.
@@philtron1969 sometimes the frets wearing in can soften the sound a little but other than that my reissues tone hasn't changed over time and it's now 13 years old. Do you typically find instruments change tonally over the years? Without any modifications or changes of course
@@metalmulisha0143 Some folks will suggest that as the magnets in pickups age they lose some of their magnetic charge, thus changing and potentially softening their output.
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Great guitars. Intelligent discussion.
The Red is a way more brighter...
The 2014 sounds good its very close....the mids are alil muddy on thr bridge
It's amazing how TH-cam can not transfer the real sound in the room, listen how they rave about the - 58 but in the clip it's subtle, and only experience guy can understand how big the difference is.
One thing to notice, when you listen on YT, clean tone is very hard to distinguish but on OD you get it much better.
There are things that a small mic can not transfer, only a pro recording can do justice.
I have an original - 61, and in the room no new 335 can come even close, clean and dirty but when recorded not so well all become subtle. things like focus, huge dynamic range, woody, sweet highs, big low mids bottom vs Big sub mud bottom and very thin midrange on the new one. new 335 has a strong "ping" with a huge mud and thin sterile sound especially when you go up the neck, it's also sound much more "steel like" and has no warm wood at all .
All this differences are flattened by the mic somehow.
Than you see kids watch these clips and decide that there is no difference and they don't understand that only after playing a good one you realize how bad and sterile are the new ones.
I wonder if they could play harley benton with these faces
you guys have the same haircut..;)
millon dollar pafs,old wood,handmade by gibson luthiers...blah blah blah...The reissue is better :)
I think you can hear whatever you want to hear out of these two guitars. In a noisy bar could you really tell the difference? I doubt it.