Amp/pedal recs for ES335

[Beachrunner]

Gotta agree with some of the others, with the Deluxe Reverb.

[rollypolly]

I’m a fan of fender pro junior or blues junior. Plenty of volume to make yourself deaf. But you’ll need to bring your own pedals. My pro junior has a volume and tone knob that’s it. I put a little reverb in front of it and go to town.

[davidd]

Without knowing what your tonal priorities are every recommendation is purely speculative. IMO a 335 needs no pedal to sound glorious. If you want a little breakup at moderate volumes a Princeton Reverb with a 12" speaker sounds great. A bit more headroom get a Deluxe Reverb. Clean, a Super Reverb or Twin. If you want to go more to the bluesy side look into a Marshall type amp.

Pedals are a flavor of the month item. Every guy has the best OD pedal ever invented until six months later when they flip it and get the next flavor. No OD pedal beats a great guitar into a great tube amp pushed into sonic heaven.

The more the signal chain is disturbed the less relevant your great 335 becomes.

[glaze3]

Originally Posted by davidd

Without knowing what your tonal priorities are every recommendation is purely speculative. IMO a 335 needs no pedal to sound glorious. If you want a little breakup at moderate volumes a Princeton Reverb with a 12" speaker sounds great. A bit more headroom get a Deluxe Reverb. Clean, a Super Reverb or Twin. If you want to go more to the bluesy side look into a Marshall type amp.

Pedals are a flavor of the month item. Every guy has the best OD pedal ever invented until six months later when they flip it and get the next flavor. No OD pedal beats a great guitar into a great tube amp pushed into sonic heaven.

The more the signal chain is disturbed the less relevant your great 335 becomes.

While I somewhat agree with a pedal chain taking away something from the 335 there is no way I would gig without them. I think from your list of amps and that for some reason I couldn't use pedals, I would chose the Deluxe Reverb.... or a AC15.

[arwhite]

I appreciate all the input. Good stuff. Lots of good thoughts on what can sound good with the 335. I’m having a blast exploring with it.

[ghostnote]

Humbuckers in general sound very good with some kind of treble boost. I don’t really like the term, but that’s the general area of what those pedals do. I like a Klon clone - I gave a couple - but I usually use a Luxury Drive or an HBE Germania, which is a Rangemaster clone. Get a tube amp nice and hot, add one of those pedals to the humbuckers, and you’ve got a great drive tone.

[PTony]

Def love the Klon and BluesBreaker tone circuits with Gibson.