All user reviews for the Gretsch G5129 Electromatic Hollow Body

Gretsch made in korea, equipment under license Bigsby

USE

super race but settle, I have all set upon delivery, coach hollow at the handle
malgres controls the quality, original rope game has changed, tuning intonation
at the beginning the string change surprises but with practice it is sy
gorgeous red

SOUNDS

then the armonds of this is the slap, vacuum it sounds gypsy, a once connected it is the Gretsch sound more than the 5120, the sound rockabilly, surf music, jazz, it is no problem models
high-end brand, I have a prestigious model battery at home, but frankly it
take pleasure and more value for money is really groovy.
the sound is beautiful

NOTICE GLOBAL

1 day, no regrets, great deal compared to € 3,000 Japanese models

This is a Korean maple, short scale, 2 DeArmond pickups in 2000, 22 frets anecdotal, rosewood fingerboard and bridge, aluminum nut (I am not) Corrected for the octave, Bigsby B60, the radius is fairly flat, thick neck, a volume microphones, a master, a tone, a 3-position switch ...

UTILIZATION

It is not for this shredder is clear! but the handle is still very playable for an archtop. You can "glue" the string to the handle, it borders not ...
It is very easy to adjust, I sometimes pass a high action low action on stage time a joke.
The pickups and electronics are very good and allow many sounds with adjustable pads and pots reagents.
In fact everything is good except access to acute. If you're not an octopus oversights that guitar more than 12 frets ...

SOUNDS

It is very versatile, a little fat still, demand for good and patient settings microphones p ***** but it sounds!
However, you may be disappointed on a transistor amp, it is made for lamps ...
Anyway, a transistor amp is not really an amp, no?

OVERALL OPINION

Its versatility and limitations have made a second eternal but first come and go, as we all know ...
I do not divide them!
Musician and son of a musician (I made you grace my complete CV ...), so I played on many instruments, it is objectively a very good scratch and I almost wish I would have preferred that the only guitar that I'm all for 10 years an indestructible solid body that I could throw in a cover of folk with his two younger sisters, but unfortunately for my life showman, the sound is there!
And do not be fooled by the Argus, it is much more than that ...

Fabiquée Korea
22 frets
United States De Armond pickups single coil
Bigsby vibrato
Chevallet floating Bigsby
1 master volume, 2 tone and volume that controls the micro switch activated by the micro
Channel varnish rather round
7.5 cm box ep
color red face Sides and back black with white binding
The finish is more than acceptable with a kind of polyurethane varnish the most beautiful effect.

UTILIZATION

Handle fairly thick but very nice fast and flowing
access to acute not easy
the guitar is pretty light (lighter than my strato!) is very nice.
When I plug into an all-tube amp (TWIN) and even on my Tone LAB (vox) it sounds regardless of the microphone used.

SOUNDS

The microphone at the top is very hot jazz and rhythm powerful
the microphone at the bottom is more acute for Chuck Berry style solo
Technical Info and gain ca crunch pushes more and more to reach saturations used in DIFFERENT styles of music.
But for me the top is the config selector in the middle with two microphones. Gretsch is really the sound that the pickups are single coils that. It twang style stray cats or other rockab.

OVERALL OPINION

I've had four months and fell in love since his trial although a priori from the price I really parissait "too much" affordable.
This is a total success but it is a matter of taste (aesthetic typical).
I tried to Autes brand models 3 times more expensive and apart from the microphones that are duplicates filtertron with her even hotter, I could not find a difference.
I will go soon to try again to see if my impression is confirmed.
O
K I just try three models, one with TV jones on an amp orange. Well my impression is confirmed the G5129 is on a par with models to 3000 euros if not at the finish !!!!! so I began to note 9

Only weak point which lowers the average to 8 is that the guitar comes bare without even a bag or a carton. (At least in the store and I bought it)

Clearly I do it again this choice. And I advise anyone who wants a half crate, to try it.

What country does she makes?
Corenne
22 frets
2 microphones Dynasonic
Bigsby
2 Tone knobs for each of the microphones
1 master volume
A microphone to microphone volume chosen by the slecteur.
Slecteur 3 positions

UTILIZATION

Channel really screwed.
We are far from Jackson to the handle ironing board.
It is also far from the trs Fender and their sleeve too curved.

The ergonomics are impeccable.
It is lgre.
I am a scne with m'empche and not moving anywhere,
to mount on the low-cons included, to linger in the public.

Access in acute is not ais.
But this is not what is asked.
I do not see how a shredder on the can (although ...)
Be careful, I do not say we could not do a solo pass the octave.
But as I play rockabilly, it plutt in aa severe bend that all its charm.

Sound good?
Hh. Clearly.
The sound is trs diffrent between the bridge pickup and neck pickup.
on the other hand, for recording studio, as was going to stay on a cake, I buy two TV Jones Classics.
The only BMOL I meet at the moment is not the result of six strings.
I have a transistor amp Hughes & Kettner Matrix Combo that does not sound good.
Yes, it is "good." But when the food Setzer length of journalists, one in front of a Fender bassman rve 72.

L o this guitar gives all she has the guts, it is with an amp lamp
a delay (all costs avoid incorporates Fender reverb that are horrible ...) between 120 and 150 ms (depending on the speed of the song). And BAM! THE Slap-Back rv!

SOUNDS

So, Hell Yeah, the bte turns history.
It can move from the Rockabilly Psychobilly, with small excursus to the countries of Jazz and its chords, a few stoppages in the right vintage rock. For cons, I can not believe those who tell me that AC / DC goes well over. For this kind of a more "hard rock" nothing beats a solid body. Okay, now everyone's dgouts and colors.

on the other hand, with my current configuration, the feedback is hard master trs.
My Hughes & Kettner Matrix Combo there may be something to do, but do let's face it. It is not meant to.

The two microphones are Dynasonic "honntes".
Trs But quickly, we want to spend anything.

OVERALL OPINION

I have a year and a few months.

Pot shot, I went to the Music Store in Germany and I have tried
DIFFERENT MODELS, the Ibanez copy that please do not buy!
Put the price and acqurez a real Gretsch.
Such an ibanez you can never sell it while a Gretsch is like good wine. It gets better with the tone.

In addition, blow pot, as the c'tait MODEL exposure and that there were three poor claws
I for one Monney flycase with. And happiness.

With exprience, so I would do the same choice.
The models most expensive I was not sure if it's their microphone.
As I do the scne that a move, we are not a shelter accident
Yes, I would resume the same guitar. For cons, I would buy directly from TV Jones.
And may be another bridge, like a Gibson Tune-O-Matic you can rgler.
The floating bridge is sometimes quite dstabilisant rglage harmonic and is quickly broken - c. ..

In conclusion;
Fan of big sound go your way.
The other approach a little .. yes more .. Listen to me and this wonder!

By way of introduction, attention, I do not make concessions in my criticism, and it's not because I have bought a guitar that's the best in the world (where the notes might have had higher in others).

For that price, it is a Korean course
However, microphones (2xDeArmond single-coils) and are made-in bigbsy US
The micro switch allows choices classics (pickup / end / both), a button for the volume overall, one tone and 2 volume knob, one for each microphone.
More information:
http://www.gretschguitars.com/

UTILIZATION

The handle is quite nice, not too thick or too wide in Maple, but quite hard to access after the 12th frets (small weak point).
The guitar is well balanced if not, and stays in place. Light forces, it does not kill my shoulders. Getting started is easy. The tuning is stable, if not abused Bigsby ...
The sound is correct from the start it's all part and no need for 36,000 effects / settings ... except a little reverb

<p class="bbcode-offtopic"> Off topic: <span>I play on a Hot Rod Deluxe with a little reverb effect without further</span>

SOUNDS

Sound without much surprise, it sounds unplugged well, a good present some serious ...
I use it for six months now, and for that I play a lot at home, in the apartment ', she tends to stay a little disconnected when I do not want to wake the whole neighborhood ... and it sounds the same, I use the blow almost my folk, it is clear that care is far from the sound of a folk ... but the sound is enough to correct Scratch'n fast.

Connected, the bridge pickup? (Dial up) that works wonders, a single coil in all its glory, with potato, the attack, well balanced in its tone, with lots of harmonics
(The fender hot rod deluxe is also something ...)

I do not too personnelemnt is tested in overdrive, but a friend has tried in the blues and it sounds good from the start (no need for 36,000 no longer the drive settings of the amp is sufficient).
I play post-rock or composed of Buckley, the radiohead or coldplay and it sounds good

OVERALL OPINION

What made me crack out of its look, the bridge pickup? (Dial up) the sound I was looking for, we must of course listen to really get an idea.

The slight sizzling is normal with a simple (that's why we invented the double I think) knows what to forget when you find the right position relative to the receiver and you begin to play.

At the time I bought it I was looking for a hollow-body

<p class="bbcode-offtopic"> Off topic: <span>(I wanted one since I play the guitar but the lack of versatility of a hollow-body I do prefer a ibanez RG first choice)</span>

So 10 years later, I go into choosing a second electrical Budget: € 800/900, so I tried the ibanez (series AFS / AF) that I quickly abandoned (no sound, hardware really limit)
The choice is very fast with this limited budget, yamaha / US Gretsch / Rickenbacker too expensive ... gretsch out but just a series made in Korea to the US mics ...

I hesitate, and hesitate again with a Telecaster if I had to redo US choice (nothing to do but to c clear sounds Buckley / radiohead / coldplay is TV and / or rickenbacker, there's not twist).

I also tried the pro-ject with the mini-humbucker which has not convinced me (not the sound I was looking clean and not too many potatoes)
However I have not had the opportunity to test the Duesenberg, which are matched pretty good.
https://www.duesenberg.de/

In total 7 / 10 is a favorite guitar, or, for those who want to blues, or those looking for a good single coil or a good hollow-body with an average budget.
It sounds good c clear, but ... I do not know, in total it's still not the perfection of a 9 or a 10/10 (it will also see how it matured).

The quality / price ratio remains quite good! And in this price range (good) hollow body are rare! So trust Gretsch.

Do not forget that the advisors are not paying and that in any purchase, try to do his own idea.