It has 'that' tone in spades and having had a complete pro setup, it plays as well as any Gibson in recent memory. As it happened, the 339 trussrod broke and wanting to stay with the hb sound and tone, I replaced it with a very good playing and sounding Epi Dot in the cherry finish. I originally bought an Epi 339 specifically for the humbucker tone and hollowbody bluesy-jazzy tones but found it a bit lacking. Your description of the 339 tone is bang on. HNCCD, (Happy New Casino Coupe Day) merciful-evans. I can also use the 339 case for both guitars of course. with black binding on the 339 and cream binding on the Coupe. It will be also useful to practice on the Coupe at home when preparing for a gig with the 339.īoth guitars are cherry coloured. I would expect feedback issues in the louder Soul/Ska band I also play in. I may in time try the Coupe in the Jazz band I have just joined. The Coupe has authentic semi-acoustic sound colour using P90s, while the 339 is closer to a solidbody with 57 classic HBs. It may look like the 339 but it handles differently & sounds very different. I finally hit a slight buzz at the 10th fret area so raised it slightly again.

No buzzes anywhere, so I lowered the bridge slightly in the shop. My only concern was the neck relief was marginally uneven on each side, but the action is good as is the intonation. Its lighter than the 339 of course, and is louder acoustically too. I quickly forgot about that as I took it for a spin through some jazz territory and then out on some rocky roads. I obviously have compared it to the Gibson ES-339 I got early this year, but it is very different.

It played better than I thought it would and sounds sweeter than other P90 models Ive tried too. I noticed it today and nipped over to try it out.Īs this is now gone from stock the link may disappear soon, but this one shown is the actual one I've bought. Now, having just returned from a 3 week Med cruise (and all the poorer for it) the shop finally got one in. I was trying to buy one of these a couple of months back (I did have a thread here but cant find it).

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