dansan

after one month of test and inquiring, here is what I've found the Classic 57 in my ES355 Memphis were overly bright and very close to an Alnico5 pickups type, so maybe they've mixed A2 and A5 magnets at the factory or maybe produce a batch of A2 magnets with a very high Gauss magnetic field I've replaced the pickups with a set of S-Duncan Antiquity, which were better sounding, but got even a better result with a set of Alnico4 humbuckers, which is perfectly balance in this guitar hope this could help people with same issue

Thanks for your comments. I'm not familiar with Gibson and been extremely surprised how bright and honky was the tone, compared to my japanese ES type, which is more balanced in tone, probably because of a maple neck. So after one week inquiring, I'm happy that there's nothing wrong with my ES355, just a different world.

I use a vox ac30, which seems to be uncommon with an ES guitar, but this my amp, so I've to deal with it 🙂

you don't mention the Custombuckers, so not so good that we could expect ?

it seems the pickups are not PAF '57 Classics, but MHS (Memphis Historic Specifications) a kind of Custombuckers, with less turns, so could be a reason of my surprise I don't think it comes from the richlite fretboard material, especially on an electric guitar

that's could be the reason ! Where have you found this info, maybe a link ?

thank you for all your answers ! (I modified my post, it's bridge pup which is very bright) I'll try to record a sound or video file to show what I mean here the guitar

Hello, I've recently bought an ES 355 Memphis 2016 and been very surprise how bright it sounds, especially the bridge pickup ... overly bright. Have some of you experienced the same and how do you explain that ? I heard that the wiring could be different on the Memphis, but would it produce more treble ??? Pickus are supposed to be Gibson PAF '57 Classics. Thanks for your help. Mickael (France)

hello, I've bought a Gibson Chet Atkins CE , serial number E005 could you help to identify the year of building ? Thanks