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MGR/Eric Miller « Gretsch Electromatic Double Jet »
Published on 07/02/04 at 15:00I bought the guitar new in 2003 at guitar center for about 450 dollars a year and a half ago.
The guitar was beautiful it had a mahognany body with a nice glossy overall finish with die cast tuners , rosewood fingerboard.It had an adjustable tune-o-matic bridge which was cool.The overall look of the guitar made me fall in love with it.
The sound quality wasn't as good as i expected it to be. I play punk and alternative rock and it's hard to get that dark overdrived sound with it. It's to happy and country sounding.
the look of the guitar was better rather the sound. First of all The humbuckers had a very muddy sound with the distortion and i use it on a marshall avt20.This guitar is basically for rhythm . I tryed playing solos on it but once you get past the 12th fret it buzzes .Also There was a short in the guitar a week after i bought it. One of the humbuckers didn't workhalf the time .The humbuckers sounded ok with it clean. The guitar was really heavy and had a bolt on neck that's 8 pounds . It was just cheaply assembled the strap nut became loose and everytime i tryed to play it with a strap the nut would just fall off .When i got one of the nuts fixed the other one started having problems. The screw was stripped .Also the rubber that held the suspension of tuning pegs came off and became so loose i couldn't tighten that tuning peg .With the bolt on neck i had some problems the neck. It had got bent from playing alot of punk shows .I had to get it synchronized and the bridge adjusted .It also gets out of tune very easily within 3 minutes of playing. It doesn't sound good at all with distortion.With All of the shows i played i had so many problems with it that i ended up playing my friends squier stratocaster and i liked it a lot better than the gretsch
It's definetly not worth the price . It's not a reliable guitar at all and there are a lot better cheaper guitars that are better than this one .It's like owning an old classic jaguar but having your'e breaks going out on you and getting the suspension fixed new muffler and all that other stuff. It just tiring to constantly maintain it. I'm not saying gretsch's are bad guitars, there one of the best manufacturesnext to fender and gibson . Just don't buy any under The electromatic series .
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com
The guitar was beautiful it had a mahognany body with a nice glossy overall finish with die cast tuners , rosewood fingerboard.It had an adjustable tune-o-matic bridge which was cool.The overall look of the guitar made me fall in love with it.
The sound quality wasn't as good as i expected it to be. I play punk and alternative rock and it's hard to get that dark overdrived sound with it. It's to happy and country sounding.
the look of the guitar was better rather the sound. First of all The humbuckers had a very muddy sound with the distortion and i use it on a marshall avt20.This guitar is basically for rhythm . I tryed playing solos on it but once you get past the 12th fret it buzzes .Also There was a short in the guitar a week after i bought it. One of the humbuckers didn't workhalf the time .The humbuckers sounded ok with it clean. The guitar was really heavy and had a bolt on neck that's 8 pounds . It was just cheaply assembled the strap nut became loose and everytime i tryed to play it with a strap the nut would just fall off .When i got one of the nuts fixed the other one started having problems. The screw was stripped .Also the rubber that held the suspension of tuning pegs came off and became so loose i couldn't tighten that tuning peg .With the bolt on neck i had some problems the neck. It had got bent from playing alot of punk shows .I had to get it synchronized and the bridge adjusted .It also gets out of tune very easily within 3 minutes of playing. It doesn't sound good at all with distortion.With All of the shows i played i had so many problems with it that i ended up playing my friends squier stratocaster and i liked it a lot better than the gretsch
It's definetly not worth the price . It's not a reliable guitar at all and there are a lot better cheaper guitars that are better than this one .It's like owning an old classic jaguar but having your'e breaks going out on you and getting the suspension fixed new muffler and all that other stuff. It just tiring to constantly maintain it. I'm not saying gretsch's are bad guitars, there one of the best manufacturesnext to fender and gibson . Just don't buy any under The electromatic series .
This review was originally published on http://www.musicgearreview.com