If you can get to a music store and try both out in the same amp, perhaps with just a touch of reverb (nothing more) and listen to the difference in tone, it might help. In spite of the above 335 advantages, the Epiphone Casino and Gibson ES-330 are underrated guitars.
You need to evaluate the sound of the different pickups (without FX), the volume you play at, and the kind of music you want to play. A center block to reduce feedback, humbucker pickups to reduce hum and neck join at the 19th fret all made the guitar better for loud rock than the ES-330 which can suffer from both feedback and 60 cycle hum. With my FX pedal, I can make the P90s sound similar to a humbucker, but there is nothing you can do to make a humbucker sound like a P90Ģ) Casino is full hollow, Dot is semi-hollow.therefore.Ģa) Casino is much lighter than Dot (about 6 pounds)Ģb) Casino sounds much better and louder unplugged (great for practice without an amp)Ģc) Casino will have a tendency to feed back at high volume levels, but IMHO if you are playing that loud, you are permanently damaging your ears anyway.Īlthough they look similar, they are two very different guitars. You might disagree.ġ) Casino has P90, Dot has humbuckers.
I recommend the Casino - but that is for my style of playing.
