Boudoir Guitar
Rock Star
- Messages
- 3,916
I've always wanted to like Gretsch guitars, but have never been good at coming to terms with the pickups...they all sound thin and hi-fi to my ears. Tonight at a jazz jam I kept my tele in its gig bag and instead grabbed the Gretsch that was hanging on the music school's wall just to try a little something different. I was surprised to find it strung up with flat wounds. It sounded GREAT!!!!!!! PERFECT for a jazz jam. I don't like the classic Wes Montgomery tone-rolled-off jazz sound, and don't typically like the sound of flat wounds on Gibson-style guitars. My tele never has enough weight for this jam, but it works fine. After tonight's session, I bet a tele with flat wounds would be perfect, too. The Gretsch had the bigger sound of a guitar with thicker strings (duh) (also, before we get into 'but I tried 8s, 9s, and 10s, and there's no difference!!' -- try 12s). But it also took the pickups from sounding overly thin to instead sounding kinda like hum buckers, but without the low-mid-mud that a lot of Gibson guitars get for me. Was so great!!
I think the Gretsch was this one, and I'm not gonna lie, based on tonights experience I might get one and put some flats on it: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/de...-cut-electric-guitar-with-bigsby-walnut-stain
I think the Gretsch was this one, and I'm not gonna lie, based on tonights experience I might get one and put some flats on it: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/de...-cut-electric-guitar-with-bigsby-walnut-stain