Marshall VS265 combined with Dot/Casino/Sheraton

[oobujoobu]

Hi,

 

First post here, looks like a great forum that I might get some real use from in future!

 

My question is, I am looking for a 2nd guitar, I am gigging regularly and feel I really should have a 2nd guitar available on stage, both for variety as well as a back up in case of disaster.

 

I currently use an Epiphone G-400 through a Marshall VS265, and I love the overdrive sounds I get from it, and clean sounds are good when chorus/phaser etc. is added, but I've never been particularly happy with the clean sound where no effects are added.

 

I would love to have something that sounds great with clean tones, and have been drawn towards one of the following - Dot/Casino/Sheraton , and also just because they look so damn cool!

 

However, I've been told that I might struggle to keep feedback under control with one of these combinations, especially as we often play small stages where I might sometimes be stood within 3 or 4 feet of the amp.

 

Does anyone have a view on whether these guitars might give me these kind of problems?

 

Thanks in advance

[Parabar]

The Casino is the most feedback-prone of the three, being both fully hollow and having P-90 pickups. Since the Dot and Sheraton are both semi-hollows with humbuckers, they behave much more like a solid body.

 

Eric Clapton did some of his most memorable work with Cream playing a Gibson ES-335 (very much like the Epi Dot) through Marshall stacks, with no apparent feedback problems. Check out Cream's "Farewell" DVD to see for yourself!

[oobujoobu]

Thanks for the advice. I've managed to get hold of a Dot to borrow for band practice tomorrow so I will see how it perofmrs. I hope it goes well as I would really like to get one ordered over the weekend!