DoubleBoogie
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I'm really digging this. The fit and finish is flawless and I love the Cadillac Green! The neck feels awesome and I am loving the tone too. Very cool guitar! :yah:salude
Gorgeous!
The Japan made Gretsch are some of the best, modern made, production level guitars on the market. QC is right up there with PRS USA. The Korean Hollows also can be great, value for the money, guitars.
I was relatively late to the Gretsch party, partly because most vintage pieces I played were trainwrecks. Granted I had very limited exposure to the 50's guitars, so don't take my experience as a blanket statement. Fender taking over management for Gretsch in the early nulls was a game changer for me.
DoubleBoogie, yes I agree that the "mud" switch is more or less useless, but it is historically correct. Iirc Chet Atkins really pushed for the switch over the tone control that was found on earlier era models. If you play around with cap values you can get a pretty decent muted Jazz tone which is engaged with the flip of the switch, but I generally just go to Gibson pickups with a traditional tone control if that's the tone I'm going for at that time.
¡Felicidades!
What are those pickups?
Bigsby!
The original marital aid.
Makes any guitar sound like sex.
Women wettern' a shampoo'd water buffalo.
Men like penitentiary steel.
And that Gretsch...
Seven Nation Army tone.
Rock it compadre.
TV Jones Filtertron Classics. A really sweet sounding pickup. I hooked this thing up to my Victoria Victoriette amp and have literally been playing it alone since I got it. It is a really sweet sounding set up pickups. The neck is just smooth and "buttery" if you know what I mean..and with the clarity of a bell. The bridge has brighter tone with more "twang". The middle position is of course in between. I just love the tone of this thing.