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I bought one when they dropped too. Got it 2 days ago. Like you said, its a "no brainer" at this price point. I Had to clean and oil the fretboard, restring of course and that was it. Frets were great, everything was in workong order. The pickups are surprisingly very good! Better than any Epi or Squire at the sub $500 mark for sure. There seems to be little difference between Gretche's low end and mid range models. Appreciate the vid!
Heck yeah! Really good pickups. I also really like the pickups on Squier CVs and the ~$400-500 Epiphones. Lots of guitars are getting good sounding pickups nowadays. We're lucky! 🤘
That guitar has a great sound in each of the different styles you played. Beautiful cleans from both pickups, or all-out thrash. Thank you Karol for providing this review, man! Be safe and well.
I was able to bag one for $151 what a deal, Temu started selling all kinds of guitars lately and when this came up at this price I jumped on it, this is one of those guitar's I've always wanted,but always choose something else,glad for the sale can't wait to play it,lot of guitar for the money.
I got one of these too! Played one in a local shop but didn't like the colors they had, saw the brown one and bought it on Reverb, looks like a space cowboy guitar and plays great! Very interesting sounding guitar, lightweight and plays great!
A little late to the party, but ive had the shell pink version for a couple of weeks now. I got it for $199 as well. I've been wanting a P90 guitar for a while and this totally fits the bill. I was pleasantly surprised by the Broad 'tron pickup. Different voicing than anything I've ever played. The only issue i have with it is a high 2nd fret. If I give it enough relief to kill the buzz, the action is too high. Otherwise, i can't seem to put it down. It's quickly becoming one of my favorite guitars.
Gretsch has some wonderful entry level guitars . Electric and Acoustic . If you like to play in unique chord voicing, I don't know why , but they work .
I have the white G2210 with 2 Broad’Trons. The bridge comes in at 9.3 ohms of resistance. I play it a lot to save my Gibsons from fret wear. These guitars are hot and quite suitable for old school heavy metal.
I just bought this guitar from Adorama for $219 a few days ago. The guitar was setup perfectly. The strings suck but I can change those out. The guitar is on the heavier side but the neck is easy to play. Frets are well done. I bought this same finish and the video does not do justice to how pretty this guitar is in person. This guitar is a steal, great action and well made. Does not feel or play like a cheap guitar at all. Gretsch is making outstanding guitars for the money!
I got one from Adorama for $200. Took a lot of work to get it playable. I put on a new bridge with adjustable saddles, new knobs, took off the pickguard. I also leveled the frets. Plays nice now. I like the P90, but the Broadtron I found a bit nasaly. What a value.
Which bridge did you put on it? Looking to do the same and may also consider a bigsby or trem. Any suggestions? Have you considered swapping the Broadtron for a Filtertron? Or have you tried the six-screw mod on the Broadtron?
Agreed about names: I am absolutely not going to remember a variety of numbers. Good price, though! I think I saw you do a demo of a Gretsch where the volume knob was turned accidentally, by the material of your shorts (or pants) because of its low position.
Yeah that was the first impressions video for this guitar. Lots of Gretsch models have the same knob placement but I just wasn't used to it while playing sitting down.
I WISH I had seen this video before I made my last guitar purchase. This is _exactly_ what I was looking for at EXACTLY my price point. Turns out I couldn't find exactly what I was looking for, though I did come in below my price point and am pretty well satisfied with my purchase, but shoulda, coulda, woulda... Hard to tell over video, but I think I like the Gretsch sound better than mine, but mine just has a couple of cheap humbuckers.
@@ArtOfShredYT It is a strange bird, with very little in the way of reviews available, Truth is I was looking for an affordable Single Cut Solid Body. I had never heard of the company before, and I found it on Ebay as an open box guitar. Here ya go... It is an Asmuse, double humbucker, double cutaway, strung through the body, kind of a super strat looking thing, with a slim C neck.They no longer make this model, and the only review I can find on it was from Fulton Street Beats. He loved it enough, I think he did 4 different reviews on it. I am not fond of his style, but if you feel it worth your while, you might check it out.
@@ArtOfShredYT Their "Bread and Butter" guitar seems to be their Les Paul Clone. I also bought another guitar you reviewed. I got the Monoprice Indio Boardwalk, with which, I am well pleased.
@@ArtOfShredYT I also ordered that squier affinity from your mailing list link at the same time from adorama as well but it arrived completely perfect.
Fret buzz from what and where? Can be as easy as a truss adjustment to a quick spot level, or really messed up from a neck swell. Either way, all things I'd happily deal with at this price. Need more info.
This is back. I found the fret access not great, i found the neck to be chunky, and ceramic pickups at $400 is simply not right. After all, you can get an EART with stainless steel frets and Alnico pickups for about that. The couple of Gretschs I played in the store had fine frets and fret ends.
About half of Seymour Duncan and DiMarzio pickups have ceramic magnets. The signature Kirk Hammett set from EMG uses ceramic magnets. Seems to me they're pretty good! Stainess steel frets aren't inherently better either. But anyway, this guitar is maybe not for everyone but it's still great. Especially at under $250.
I'd like one of these if I didn't already have too many guitars. I think it's way cool and sounds great and you got a killer price. Even at $300-ish it's still a good deal. Just had an idea about the odd placement for the vol pot, which is usually the master volume on the upline Gretsches with more complex wiring and controls. Swap the pot locations on this guitar and put the tone knob there and the volume by the bridge. Problem solved. I don't know about you but I work the volume knob about 20x more than the tone. I bet your local tech could swap those pots to the other holes in less than an hour. I guess the going rate for that would probably be about $50-75. A further cool mod would be to wire the bridge 'tron so you could switch it with a push-pull and play the guitar with two single coils if you like. I'd be surprised if that nice bridge pickup does not already have four conductors. THAT would be awesome and unique, K. If it's feasible. But it's definitely possible!
Swapping the knobs is a good idea! I also use the volume far more than the tone. Easy enough mod for me to do. The push pull split never sounds great to me so I wouldn't personally do that mod, but yeah if it's got the 4 wires (I haven't checked) it's easy enough.
@@ArtOfShredYT Yeah if you can solder and rewire that yourself, go for it! Why not? That'd be a very cool mod. And, I hear you about a split circuit for the bridge p/u. Just an idea in case you were interested. I wouldn't do it either on this guitar. It actually sounds just fine as-is.
If you think that BT-2S pickup was the bomb, try two of them as standard only on the INDO built Straemliner Jr....it's an absolute beast that comfortably eats L/Paul's for a snack.
Wow, I think that front P90 really does it all. The humbucker in the back (IMO) just doesn't seem like it's needed. I'm a total newbie, so please... let me know other's opinions!!!
UPDATE: I went to Adorama last night. The guitar was still $199. I decided to sleep on it. This morning I said, "what the hell, buy it." Now the price is $219... f$ck you Adorama. 🖕 It ticks me off when this crap happens. Sorry man. 😞
Amazon is selling at that same price. I guess Mr. Bezos gets my money. PS thanks for replying and hearing my gripe. Great channel. You rock! Wish I could play like that. You guys and gals make it look so easy!!
How about replacing that bridge pick-up with a FilterTron? Would it fit as is or would it require digging into the body? I have this guitar and that's the mod I would like to attempt but I was hoping to find a how to video for this exact guitar model.
Good intro tune, thanks for the review. Quite good for $200; guitars that inexpensive used to be impossibly bad not very long ago. With inflation driving up American and EU products this is the most obvious bang-for-buck, but still... _caveat emptor._ *Note for the Beginner:* A guitar this cheap is built very quickly - i.e. although it is indeed assembled, it is not often 100% _finished._ This is not an exclusive issue solely plaguing cheaper guitars, but it IS apt to be more common in them. Tighten every screw and get it set up to play correctly as soon as you can, or you may start to feel like it's "fighting" you before long. A cheap(er) guitar is often higher-maintenance than a nice one, if just to keep it in half-decent playing condition.
I bought one of these based on this review video. The neck is sweet. Frets work is good. Fit finish good. Volume knob is not tight lots of wiggle and play. The tone control doesn’t work. P 90 tone is sweet. Bridge pick up tone is nothing to write home about. Not great out of the box. Disappointed actually. I didn’t send it back because I’ll set it up with a Kwick Plug system and I’ll have a killer guitar for the price. I would buy it again but not online.
Oh wow, that's too bad about the volume and tone controls but those are fairly easy to fix. The kwik plug system looks interesting, still haven't tried it
@@ArtOfShredYT Yeah, well, thanks! Rub it in why don´t you! Us poor Europeans just never get these opportunities to find the "no brainer" deals 😞 Great review too! 🙂
@@akwamarsunzal Haha, I hear you. I lived in Poland for ~4 years as an adult so I know the struggle. On the other hand you do have Thomann/Harley Benton more readily available than us here.
@@ArtOfShredYT That is true! Even Thomann don´t give the amazing deal you got onthis Gretsche! Great guitar, great review! Keep up the great work with your bargains 🙂
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I bought one when they dropped too. Got it 2 days ago. Like you said, its a "no brainer" at this price point. I Had to clean and oil the fretboard, restring of course and that was it. Frets were great, everything was in workong order. The pickups are surprisingly very good! Better than any Epi or Squire at the sub $500 mark for sure. There seems to be little difference between Gretche's low end and mid range models. Appreciate the vid!
Heck yeah! Really good pickups. I also really like the pickups on Squier CVs and the ~$400-500 Epiphones. Lots of guitars are getting good sounding pickups nowadays. We're lucky! 🤘
That guitar has a great sound in each of the different styles you played. Beautiful cleans from both pickups, or all-out thrash. Thank you Karol for providing this review, man!
Be safe and well.
Thanks for watching!
I have the mint green. Rock solid, reliable, easy to play guitar. A keeper.
Yup! 🤘
I was able to bag one for $151 what a deal, Temu started selling all kinds of guitars lately and when this came up at this price I jumped on it, this is one of those guitar's I've always wanted,but always choose something else,glad for the sale can't wait to play it,lot of guitar for the money.
Damn, that's a great deal! Through the Rakuten referral mentioned in this video it would have been under $120. But $151 is just incredible
I got one of these too! Played one in a local shop but didn't like the colors they had, saw the brown one and bought it on Reverb, looks like a space cowboy guitar and plays great! Very interesting sounding guitar, lightweight and plays great!
Yup, sounds good, plays well, looks sweet to boot. Not much more you can ask for! 🤘
A little late to the party, but ive had the shell pink version for a couple of weeks now. I got it for $199 as well. I've been wanting a P90 guitar for a while and this totally fits the bill. I was pleasantly surprised by the Broad 'tron pickup. Different voicing than anything I've ever played. The only issue i have with it is a high 2nd fret. If I give it enough relief to kill the buzz, the action is too high. Otherwise, i can't seem to put it down. It's quickly becoming one of my favorite guitars.
Never late. Too bad about the high fret. Fairly simple fix but if you don't have the tools it's a bit of a pain.
Gretsch has some wonderful entry level guitars . Electric and Acoustic . If you like to play in unique chord voicing, I don't know why , but they work .
Yup, they're nice! 🤘
I have the white G2210 with 2 Broad’Trons. The bridge comes in at 9.3 ohms of resistance. I play it a lot to save my Gibsons from fret wear. These guitars are hot and quite suitable for old school heavy metal.
I just bought this guitar from Adorama for $219 a few days ago. The guitar was setup perfectly. The strings suck but I can change those out. The guitar is on the heavier side but the neck is easy to play. Frets are well done. I bought this same finish and the video does not do justice to how pretty this guitar is in person. This guitar is a steal, great action and well made. Does not feel or play like a cheap guitar at all. Gretsch is making outstanding guitars for the money!
Nice! Happy you like it! Really good guitar for the price
Unfortunately, it looks like they're sold out. Enjoy your guitar!
I got one from Adorama for $200. Took a lot of work to get it playable. I put on a new bridge with adjustable saddles, new knobs, took off the pickguard. I also leveled the frets. Plays nice now.
I like the P90, but the Broadtron I found a bit nasaly.
What a value.
Which bridge did you put on it? Looking to do the same and may also consider a bigsby or trem. Any suggestions? Have you considered swapping the Broadtron for a Filtertron? Or have you tried the six-screw mod on the Broadtron?
Up. I'm coming from the 2 point strat world and wondering if the 2 points match....?
@@jplee3 I got a cheap bridge on Amazon.
Nice thorough video.
Thank you! 🤘
Great review! Just subscribed!
Thank you! 🤘
Purchased this today for $219 on Adarama. Still a great deal.
Yup, even Amazon started selling it for $219.
Just got a new CV strat, it's great, but for that price I would have snagged one of those Jets as well. Sounds great. Cheers!
Those CV Strats are sweet, too, though! 🤘
Agreed about names: I am absolutely not going to remember a variety of numbers. Good price, though! I think I saw you do a demo of a Gretsch where the volume knob was turned accidentally, by the material of your shorts (or pants) because of its low position.
Yeah that was the first impressions video for this guitar. Lots of Gretsch models have the same knob placement but I just wasn't used to it while playing sitting down.
I bought one in havana burst just this week. I'm kinda bummed it's so good so I feel it's a waste of money to mod it 😂😂😂. Honestly It's that good
Yeah, legitimately doesn't need any mods
I just ordered one!
Heck yeah! 🤘
I WISH I had seen this video before I made my last guitar purchase. This is _exactly_ what I was looking for at EXACTLY my price point. Turns out I couldn't find exactly what I was looking for, though I did come in below my price point and am pretty well satisfied with my purchase, but shoulda, coulda, woulda... Hard to tell over video, but I think I like the Gretsch sound better than mine, but mine just has a couple of cheap humbuckers.
It happens to the best of us. What'd you end up buying?
@@ArtOfShredYT It is a strange bird, with very little in the way of reviews available, Truth is I was looking for an affordable Single Cut Solid Body. I had never heard of the company before, and I found it on Ebay as an open box guitar. Here ya go... It is an Asmuse, double humbucker, double cutaway, strung through the body, kind of a super strat looking thing, with a slim C neck.They no longer make this model, and the only review I can find on it was from Fulton Street Beats. He loved it enough, I think he did 4 different reviews on it. I am not fond of his style, but if you feel it worth your while, you might check it out.
@@rainsilversplash4376 Thanks for that! I'd never heard of that brand, but I'll take a look
@@ArtOfShredYT Their "Bread and Butter" guitar seems to be their Les Paul Clone. I also bought another guitar you reviewed. I got the Monoprice Indio Boardwalk, with which, I am well pleased.
I got one of these with your link but unfortunately it arrived with ridiculous amounts of fret buzz. Sent it back, hopefully the replacement is good.
Aww damn. Thanks for sharing! I hope the replacement is good, too 🤘
@@ArtOfShredYT I also ordered that squier affinity from your mailing list link at the same time from adorama as well but it arrived completely perfect.
@@Freezerburn26 oh heck yeah!
Fret buzz from what and where? Can be as easy as a truss adjustment to a quick spot level, or really messed up from a neck swell. Either way, all things I'd happily deal with at this price. Need more info.
1-28-25 I believe the price just jumped up to $350. I saw it listed for $200. ( Adorama). But it's gone.
Damn, yeah, looks like it's gone, but it was between $200 and $220 for almost a year. Maybe it'll drop again!
This is back. I found the fret access not great, i found the neck to be chunky, and ceramic pickups at $400 is simply not right. After all, you can get an EART with stainless steel frets and Alnico pickups for about that.
The couple of Gretschs I played in the store had fine frets and fret ends.
About half of Seymour Duncan and DiMarzio pickups have ceramic magnets. The signature Kirk Hammett set from EMG uses ceramic magnets. Seems to me they're pretty good!
Stainess steel frets aren't inherently better either.
But anyway, this guitar is maybe not for everyone but it's still great. Especially at under $250.
@ArtOfShredYT
Yes, I forgot to add at 400 it's not great but at $200 it is a good deal.
I'd like one of these if I didn't already have too many guitars. I think it's way cool and sounds great and you got a killer price. Even at $300-ish it's still a good deal. Just had an idea about the odd placement for the vol pot, which is usually the master volume on the upline Gretsches with more complex wiring and controls. Swap the pot locations on this guitar and put the tone knob there and the volume by the bridge. Problem solved. I don't know about you but I work the volume knob about 20x more than the tone. I bet your local tech could swap those pots to the other holes in less than an hour. I guess the going rate for that would probably be about $50-75. A further cool mod would be to wire the bridge 'tron so you could switch it with a push-pull and play the guitar with two single coils if you like. I'd be surprised if that nice bridge pickup does not already have four conductors. THAT would be awesome and unique, K. If it's feasible. But it's definitely possible!
Swapping the knobs is a good idea! I also use the volume far more than the tone. Easy enough mod for me to do. The push pull split never sounds great to me so I wouldn't personally do that mod, but yeah if it's got the 4 wires (I haven't checked) it's easy enough.
@@ArtOfShredYT Yeah if you can solder and rewire that yourself, go for it! Why not? That'd be a very cool mod. And, I hear you about a split circuit for the bridge p/u. Just an idea in case you were interested. I wouldn't do it either on this guitar. It actually sounds just fine as-is.
Great price. I'm curious the price difference between a one piece bridge vs a two piece tune-o-matic bridge?
I don't know but you can buy a wraparound bridge with individual adjustable saddles for under $100
Absolutely fantastic have a wonderful day also what is your favorite year from the 2010s in general ❤😊
Thank you! I don't have a favorite year
If you think that BT-2S pickup was the bomb, try two of them as standard only on the INDO built Straemliner Jr....it's an absolute beast that comfortably eats L/Paul's for a snack.
Hehe, but I like the P90
Wow, I think that front P90 really does it all. The humbucker in the back (IMO) just doesn't seem like it's needed. I'm a total newbie, so please... let me know other's opinions!!!
@@averagejoe8213 it's a pretty versatile guitar, that's for sure
UPDATE: I went to Adorama last night. The guitar was still $199. I decided to sleep on it. This morning I said, "what the hell, buy it." Now the price is $219... f$ck you Adorama. 🖕
It ticks me off when this crap happens. Sorry man. 😞
219 is still a great deal
@@ArtOfShredYT yeah. But it's a principle issue now. 😕
Amazon is selling at that same price. I guess Mr. Bezos gets my money.
PS thanks for replying and hearing my gripe. Great channel. You rock! Wish I could play like that. You guys and gals make it look so easy!!
How about replacing that bridge pick-up with a FilterTron? Would it fit as is or would it require digging into the body? I have this guitar and that's the mod I would like to attempt but I was hoping to find a how to video for this exact guitar model.
Another UA-camr tried it. It didn't work. There's a video. He's in Canada. Tech Tips.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing. I need to check out that video
His name is tech tips. @@ArtOfShredYT
I have had to limit the amount of guitars I have. Looks nice
I hear that. I ran out of room, but sold one yesterday so now I'm at max capacity instead of over capacity 😆
She is a looker and Jack of all trades.
Yup, a lovely guitar all around
How's the tension of that wraparound bridge???
It's fine
Good intro tune, thanks for the review. Quite good for $200; guitars that inexpensive used to be impossibly bad not very long ago. With inflation driving up American and EU products this is the most obvious bang-for-buck, but still... _caveat emptor._
*Note for the Beginner:* A guitar this cheap is built very quickly - i.e. although it is indeed assembled, it is not often 100% _finished._ This is not an exclusive issue solely plaguing cheaper guitars, but it IS apt to be more common in them. Tighten every screw and get it set up to play correctly as soon as you can, or you may start to feel like it's "fighting" you before long. A cheap(er) guitar is often higher-maintenance than a nice one, if just to keep it in half-decent playing condition.
That may be true of some cheap guitars but I don't think this is one. It's well done and, except a setup, won't need much beyond that 🤘
Gretsch does not fall into that category.
Which colour has more fans... Pink or Single Barrel?
Who knows. This one is cheaper though 😆
I got it in Havana Burst
That's not at all an unusual location for the volume knob. Pretty much every Gretsch electric guitar has its master volume knob there.
I bought one of these based on this review video. The neck is sweet. Frets work is good. Fit finish good. Volume knob is not tight lots of wiggle and play. The tone control doesn’t work. P 90 tone is sweet. Bridge pick up tone is nothing to write home about. Not great out of the box. Disappointed actually. I didn’t send it back because I’ll set it up with a Kwick Plug system and I’ll have a killer guitar for the price. I would buy it again but not online.
Oh wow, that's too bad about the volume and tone controls but those are fairly easy to fix. The kwik plug system looks interesting, still haven't tried it
Better than your Mitchell MS450? Doubt it.
I don't know. I think I like this one more. But that could just be the newness?
$199 is a steal for that! Cheapest in Europe $349 😞
Sorry about that, but that's why I'm saying it's a no brainer at $200 🤘
@@ArtOfShredYT Yeah, well, thanks! Rub it in why don´t you! Us poor Europeans just never get these opportunities to find the "no brainer" deals 😞 Great review too! 🙂
@@akwamarsunzal Haha, I hear you. I lived in Poland for ~4 years as an adult so I know the struggle. On the other hand you do have Thomann/Harley Benton more readily available than us here.
@@ArtOfShredYT That is true! Even Thomann don´t give the amazing deal you got onthis Gretsche! Great guitar, great review! Keep up the great work with your bargains 🙂
Hi name is tech tips.
It's heavey as hell. Needss someone o hold for you.
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