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Experience the clarity, chime, and jangle of a fully hollowbody thinline electric with P-90 pickups. |
The Gibson Custom ES-330L is a hollowbody electric guitar with stunning acoustic character that provides performers and songwriters with a very inspiring musical tool. The artisans at the Gibson Custom Shop have created an ES-330 guitar that is not a reissue, yet it has all the highly-desirable attributes of the original 1959 ES-330, such as period-correct 17° angled headstock, and black plastic pickup covers. Added to those are superior enhancements including premium tulip button tuners and a vintage period-correct 1-11/16" nut made from Corian that provides superior strength, durability, and musical sustain.
Introduced in 1959, the Gibson ES-330 was a revolution in the field of hollowbody electric guitars with its unique laminate top and back, top bracing, neck block, and tenon. The ES-330L has the same great pairing of features—dog-ear P90 pickups and hollowbody construction—as the Epiphone Casino guitars used by The Beatles to provide punch on recordings such as "Taxman" and "Paperback Writer," and most of the electric guitar tracks on Sgt. Pepper.
Full hollowbody
The Gibson ES-330L incorporates the finest features including single-ply binding on the neck, small pearloid block inlays, long tenon neck joint, and nickel hardware. The ES-330L body is truly hollow and has no center block, making it a lightweight, comfortable, and uniquely resonant guitar. Without a maple center block the ES-330L is free to vibrate acoustically and the weight reduction is substantial. The Gibson ES-330L guitar features the preferred one-piece mahogany neck for supreme resonance that has inspired both players and songwriters.
P-90 tone
ES hollowbody signature tone is maintained, regardless of volume control setting, through the special control wiring scheme known today as the Memphis Tone Circuit. It allows a wide array of tonal variations from what many consider to be the best pickup ever designed—the P-90. The ES-330L guitar features P-90 pickups in both the bridge and neck positions with independent volume and tone controls for each pickup. A 3-way pickup selector switch allows you to choose either pickup independently or both pickups combined.
Musical feedback
More acoustic in nature than most electric guitars, the ES-330L provides a balanced voice with more power than other hollowbody guitars. The sum and difference of the top and back (not to mention rims) create a vibratory explosion of acoustical energy with an awesome midrange that exhibits a sweet spot at every fret. This results in its ability to produce musical feedback. The ES-330L starts feeding back at a lower volume threshold and delivers a wider dynamic range of musical feedback. Controlled feedback is musical and adds to the player's creative arsenal. With the ES-330L guitar, players need only pivot their stance a bit to get in the zone. Infinite sustain is yours at just the turn of your torso with overtones, undertones, howls, and shrieks at your beck-and-call. Because the ES-330L guitar starts feeding back at a lower volume threshold further from the source, you actually have a lot more control over the feedback.
Neck design
The 1-piece Honduran mahogany neck has a long, narrow tenon for extra strength and resonance and the 30/60 neck is slimmer than a '59 rounded profile and ever-so-slightly larger than a '60 slim-tapered, making it comfortable for any guitarist. The large 1-11/16" nut width means you'll have plenty of fingerboard real estate to peel off your favorite riffs. The new ES-330L guitar combines the best of vintage ES-330 models with a 17° pitched peghead from the 50s model and a neck join at the 19th fret from the 60s model for easier access to the upper frets. The pitched peghead supplies increased downward string pressure after the nut, insuring brilliant tone, increased sustain and tuning stability.
Other features such as the pickup riser for the bridge pickup (normally offered only on more expensive models such as '50s L5 CES, ES-5, Byrdland etc.) which moves the pickup closer to the strings for a more robust performance, increase tone and output.
The Gibson ES-330L is the electric guitar for the truly musical guitarist, songwriter, and musical explorer. When pursuing a musical road less traveled, the ES-330L travels it well!
Gibson Custom Custom ES-330L Electric Guitar Features:
- Plain maple laminated top, back, and rims
- Fully hollow double-cut body
- Ultra thin nitrocellulose lacquer finish
- One-piece Honduran mahogany neck with long narrow tenon
- 30/60 neck profile
- 22-fret rosewood fingerboard
- Pearloid small block inlays
- Vintage style dog-ear P90 single-coil pickups with black plastic covers
- Trapeze tailpiece
- ABR-1 bridge
- Kluson-style tulip button tuners
- Single-ply creme binding on neck, top, and back
- Nickel hardware
- 2 volume/2 tone controls with '60s reflector knobs
- 500K Ohm audio taper pots
- 3-way pickup selector
- Memphis Tone Circuit
- 24-3/4" scale
- 1-11/16" nut width
Gibson Custom Custom ES-330L Electric Guitar Includes:
- Custom Shop hardshell case and certificate of authenticity
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Posted by GenoJamminSolo from Norwalk, Ct on Jan 11, 2010
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Working musician.
Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, Blues, Jazz
Very satisfied with this guitar. Every guitar has it's voice or voices and this one goes from stinging highs from the bridge pu to very jazzy tones from the bridge pu. This is the versitility I was looking for and lacking from the rest of my collection of F and G guitars. Quality out of the box was very good overall. Very nice guitar and the price is right.
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A great guitar for the money & playing
Posted by Sixpakplayer from San Francisco, Bay Area on Sep 10, 2009
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Hobbyist
Reviewer's Play Style: Blues, Rock& Roll and a little Jazz
This is a well constructed guitar the fit & finish are excellent. From the time I first picked up this guitar it felt right in my hands. And the tone was just as described. It takes a little bit of work to get the hang of it but the small effort pays. I was mildly disappointed with the tone of the pickups so I am changing those to Lollar 50's wind P-90. and that's only because I like those pickups (I have them in another guitar)
and I have the money to spend other wise the Gibson pups would have been fine. That is why I am giving it a 4.5 on Features
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Gibson ES 330L
Posted by kurlywolf from Charleston, SC on May 25, 2009
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Active Musician Semi Professional
Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, Blues, Funk, Jazz
The combination of a full hollow body and the P90 pickups give this guitar much of the warmth of a Gibson humbucker equipped guitar but with additional clarity. This is especially evident when playing complex chords. The feedback produced by this instrument is very musical, but can take some getting used to, especially when playing at high volume. Backing the tone and volume off a bit helps, which makes the even taper of the Memphis Tone Circuit a real asset. The playing experience is what you would expect from a custom shop Gibson guitar as is the finish. Both are superb. This is one of the less expensive custom shop models and yet it offers a unique sound and the professional quality that should be the true measures of a custom shop instrument.
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