THEY ACCIDENTALLY MADE THE BEST METAL GUITAR IN THE WORLD?? || GRETSCH BARITONE
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
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GRETSCH ACCIDENTALLY MADE THE BEST METAL GUITAR
My scale length is bigger than your scale length. Headphones strongly recommended to properly feel the brown notes 🥲
If it's not metal enough for your taste... What is? 👽 I'm just a stoner though 💨 what do I know?
I play a 35 inch scale 5 and 6 string bass, so...nope. Still winning.
LOL, seriously tho, good video. Got a like.
My short scale gretsch g2220 is still longer scale and heavier than your guitar😈.
in case you read this. there's one thing that helps ENORMOUSLY when keeping a Bigsby in tune and it is quite perplexing that Gretsch hasn't implemented it on all their Bigsby guitars, and they have a LOT.
locking tuners.
that's it, locking tuners. it's at the tuners the string goes out of tune, not the Bigsby. i still wouldn't recommend metal trem dives with it tho, lol. wasn't designed for it. EDIT, should be mentioned. installing a roller-bridge and ensuring there's good string movement through the nut will allow the locking tuners to do the job at a higher efficiency.
Hey, Hunter. On Bigsby trems guitars tend to go out of tune due to the string windings biting on the bridge saddles. The way around this is to replace the standard bridge with a roller bridge. These can be found pretty cheap. Another upgrade that this guitar might benefit from for your kind of music is an active pre-amp to give the pickups a boost as well as give you some new tonal options. Both of these upgrades can be done on a budget if you don't mind using no-name parts.
I can imagine Mick Gordon recording the Doom Eternal soundtrack with that guitar...
I did my best to channel my inner Mick Gordon for this mix lol
@@LukeDKramer That mix was badass Luke! Kudos to you for unleashing your inner Mick Gordon!
@@M4RCM0NT31R0 Thank you! ❤️
This was a beast to mix lol
I have a schecter hellcat that’s very similar to this guitar, and can confirm they do that type of sound very well
Yup that was infernal, lol. \m/
LOATHEing AS ONE intensifies
Since Gretsch has been very openly trying to get people to play styles other than the normal surf and jazz that people think of when they see their guitars, I think they will be more than happy with this demo. Who knows, maybe they could end up doing a colaboration with some UA-camr to make a more metal focussed model...
I do have a Gretsch hollow body 12-string guitar and I enjoy playing any kind of genre, like I did recorded pop-punk, power metal, alternative metal, etc.
Maybe Gretsch should make a metal version with full size humbuckers. It would really look cool in satin black with black chrome hardware. Maybe even put a Floyd on it.
I am sure that this thing would sell like crazy if they'd make it a hardtail with high output passive pickups
The world isn't ready for your vision but I am
The EVH Gretsch
@@alastor1052high output passives would just be eternal mud.
Vague memory brings the name Broadtones.
Man along with the constantly great track writing the camera has been fantastic with the new studio during the demos. Keep up the awesome work man!!
Fit For A King meets Alpha Wolf Vibes for the demo track. Sick
I had waaaayyyy too much fun mixing this. Might’ve summoned a demon or two
Doing the Flying Spaghetti Monster's work! 👏
@@CantKillACowboyTX Praise be the Flying Spaghetti Monster 🙏🏻
You had to mix that? I feel bad for you bro.
@@richardclark. I did! It was a bear, but luckily I’m crazy enough to enjoy it 😂
I think that was your best track ever!!! You killed it and you looked like you were having a really good time playing that thing too!!! Awesome man!!!
Absolutely loving seeing how you come up with the demos! Pretty sure I’ve said it in the past but this style works for you! I actually tried my first baritone the other day, a Squier CV baritone tele and it was SICK!
I remember seeing other reviews in the past and thinking "JUST TURN UP THE AMP GAIN" in terms of the pickups, but with headphones on I see what you mean. If you got it routed for some Jazzmaster pickups I'm sure it would rip lol
Shit I'm sure there's high gain filtertron replacements out there. There's no way there's not in this day and age
I mean P-90s I used to slot right in with a slight baseplate mod.
@@nocturnal101ravenous6 ah no. see if the pups in the baritone are true Filtertrons you'd be right. but i suspect they are Broadtrons. Broadtrons are the same dimensions of a regular humbucker, made to look and sound like a Filtertron. in this case, the Filtertron Blacktop. they call it the Broadtron Blacktop.
Gretsch are not very clear on the matter and it took me some time to figure out what was going on.
EDIT, looking closer, don't think they are Broad after all. i was wrong.
THAT is a cool guitar. I gave up on buying one and just bought a Fender Baritone Strat Conversion Neck, which worked out great, but only because I had the parts. The Gretsch sounds badass. Great video as always!
Holy hell that sound is amazing! Great video and insight as always!!
Definitely one of my favorite things you’ve written. That breakdown went hard. Stay up fam
Bro that track is fuckin killer. Truly.
this was fun. i am just now putting together a jazzmaster with a bigsby (and a dual-rail filtertron pickup in the bridge position, jazzmaster pickup in the neck), well, duesenberg's version of a bigsby. i am inspired to finish it quicker... damn heatwave, can't open the windows so I can't be soldering now... maybe tomorrow.
that full demo riff with the chugs and the 1s and 0s was genuinely the best chug groove i’ve heard in a very long time, amazing job man
I wasn't on the toilet for this and now I need new pants.
That guitar looks fun 😃🤘
I just recently got a 27 inch baritone and didn't feel like it was a big adjustment to play. But I'm curious if this would make that adjustment more prominent. Rabea did a sick demo of this too. You guys are crushing it!
I'm addicted to you and Ola's Videos.lol great video as usual...Love that gretsch!!!🤘
SRSLY gretsch kicks the entire ass. My first electric was a 2019 electromatic Jet Club.
And even tho my guitar is too cheap to have them, 'trons make f'n awesome metal pickups if you do them right.
I smiled through the whole video.
"This is gonna be ridiculous!" You got that right, Hunter. I have a short-scale bass which, at 28.6 inches, is shorter in scale length than that Gretsch baritone!
Next High intergrity project?!
It sounds like he was playing the Doom soundtrack
Thank you! That’s what I was going for with this mix ❤️
loathe bois 💚 my absolute fav band rn
The hardtail version of this has been rather popular among baritone players for a while now, Erik Bickerstaffe of Loathe comes to mind (12:09 in the video)
I own one and love it - it's an idea machine as you so perfectly demonstrated!
I just got the Gretsch Nick 13 signature and it surprisingly chugs quite well
First time here. You were such a delight!
That demo track was a fucking BANGER, dude!
Bought one back in like 2013, used.. loved it. Glad to see theae are getting the praise they deserve.
That was an impressive track! Thanks to Gretsch for this remedy against constipation lol!
yeah loved the track
I had the amazing opportunity of teching for Erik of Loathe at the Heavy Music Awards this year, and he uses a 105 gauge for the 6th string, tuned to B an octave below ‘standard’ Drop B ☠️. The bridge had to be drilled to accommodate that behemoth of a string.
The pickup cavities are perfectly sized for p90s. So some high output ones or P90-sized EMGs will make it absolutely devastating metal machine.
has anyone tried this?? would be super interested
Baritones are amazing and one of my favorite instruments 🎸🥰
sounds wonderful with clean amp/settings....
You playing Baritone infront a wall of amps looks soo bad ass
I love Gretsch guitars and I have used them for hard rock settings. Mine have TV Jones in them and the do the Malcolm Young style sound well and even hopes up in Drop D tuning. Nice clear crunchy sound.
I was debating if I should pick one up, think that cemented that. Thanks bro. Think I'll grab the version without the bigsby, my electromatic has one and retuning it every divebomb got old pretty quick.
Damn bro, those drums sound sick!
Great guitar, playing and video!
I'd get it if I'd have the money, no doubt :)
Thank you! ❤️
I tried to channel my inner Mick Gordon while still keeping with Hunter’s style
Need to see you do a build on this!!! New pickups, graphite nut, locking tuners!!!
That is an awesome guitar, I’d love to have one! It’s gorgeous too!
I have one of the squier jazzmaster baritones in all black. Awakened my love for ambient guitar. Highly recommend owning a baritone. A new tonal experience in a comfortable formfactor. Try one with p90s next!
Your videos make me want to create. You are awesome.
I love metal, I love Gretsch guitars.
Still never though I see best metal guitar in the same sentence as Gretsch
I'm sold. Have been deciding what kinda baritone I wanna buy and this demo sealed the deal.
I have one and I raised the bridge pickup a couple mm. It made a huge difference in the volume.
That is SICK!
Yes, that is splendidly sick.
I have one of these, sans bigsby. I’ve always wanted a baritone and found this one
I love it.
Delicious, nutritious DOOOOOOMMMM!!!
Loves a fuzz and some overdrive.
So those routes don't look far off from a p90 route, I wonder if you could get a set of EMG P81/P85's in there
Afaik p90s would fit right in the route, I was thinking about a gretsch like this with tv jones thunder'blades as a future project, I guess the emgs would fit too
You should be able, people used to put the soapbar p90s in some of the plates were a direct fit while others you would have to mod the baseplate.
@@th3w4nderlust Should the baseplate is the issue some will fit probably fine others you will have to mod the baseplate.
BARE KNUCKLE ‘PIG 90, or DeMarzo super distortion 90 could be cool too
Yeah honestly I love it pickups sound fine to me plus its like a guitar with a bass neck looks like its fun to play
Hello from Detroit. The sound of that beautiful guitar is so sick. It sounds amazing. Would you do a video of it with the other gage string's on it to here the difference between them?
Thank you this is one of your top 5 videos you have done.
i love my Gretsch baritone. suck an effortless playing guitar for EXTREMELY low tuning. I have the stop tail version and it's amazing!
This track slapsss BRO STUPIDly COOL!!!!! Felt this one!!!!
Got to play one tuned to F#, through a 5150. HO-LEE- MO-LEE it was crushing! Underrated as a metal guitar.
I have one of these (with the hardtail bridge) that I put a SD JB in, tuned to dropped E (well, EAEADF#) with Ernie Ball 13-72 strings, Gotoh locking tuners, and a Schaller bridge. Shit is gnarly.
Sooo good
Dudeeee dat tone HEAVY
I used to have one of these. Sounded just like yours from what I remember. Have fun changing the strings with the Bigsby lolllllll
I used it tuned like a Bass VI (E to E and octave lower than guitar). I was the "bassist" in a fuzzed out space prog/proto metal band. It wasn't a bad instrument, the Bigsby is super fun to mess with and sound like Blue Cheer. Eventually I felt the tone was a little undercooked and moved to a Fender Jaguar Baritone Custom (MIJ). World class tones, and easier to maintain on the road (or anywhere really) without the Bigsby. I took two of those Jaguars on tours, one heavily modded with roundwounds, the other stock with flatwounds. Played a Mesa Boogie Bass 400+ with 8x10's. And lots of fuzzzzzz. Beastly.
I have the stop tail version of this andddd I put fishman will adlers in it. It's a whole new beast with the pickup swap. Had to route out the wood though.
Some say the tiles in his house all popped out of the grout making this demo track, but that's better than what happened to the hardwood floors next door when he plugged the 2x16 cab in, and the shingles on the roof, and the drywall in the garage, and every toilet flushed within a quarter mile when brown notes were struck so the plumbing is clear. And he dares not bring in a proper Gretch Duo-Jet for fear all the Les Pauls will gather dust and cobwebs until the wee girl grows enough to rebel against him, and yet that might be preferable to some punk boyfriend from the shallow end of the gene pool spouting nonsense about phone apps and binge-watching. The man! The Legend! Der Fish!
That demo track was effin fire!
I think you should mod it. Big frets, new pickups, ext…
that was awesome
The writing of the demo segment was great, more of that, please.
Also, I didn't know I wanted a 29" scale guitar but apparently I do. 🤣
Welcome to the world of Gretsch, my friend! It’s all downhill from here!
1:50
wow new lens? Everything looks awesome.
I can see myself blowing up some demons and running around hell with this demo mix in the background. Very nice job!
Thank you! ❤️
That’s exactly what I was going for lol
Gretsch are pretty overlooked for modern rock and hardcore music, but they do the job just as well as a ES-335 would, especially the G2622 and G2655, which come loaded with humbucking pickups that measure at about 17K stock
Are those pickups filtertrons? You need to dial back the gain for metal tbh. Also regarding tuning stability with a Bigsby, consider changing the TOM bridge to one with roller saddles
$30 Uber from the 1st to 3rd fret... nice one
You ever try squier Vi? They are 30 inch scale tuned bass E with trem
Did you replace the pickups? What'd you switch em to?
That bigsby spring is pretty stiff. There are options available. Changed mine to longer one I had. More spring, requires a softer hand for smoothness, but that and a roller bridge takes dives well.
Are you going to do a full review of the gibson adam jones standard, not just the unboxing?
Stay Metal Ray, you know what to do.
0:26 What she said Lol 😏
If you were to do a pickup swap, what pickups would you put in it?
You know, new studio should get a new video intro. Love the channel!!
so I see you mentioned you didn’t like the pickups, and I just wanted to mention that the gretsch broadtron’s that are in most other electromatic jets are way hotter and sound actually pretty great for high gain. Those mini humbuckers do sound kinda disappointing though, tbh
Yeah, he put absolutely no research or thought into this one at all, I am sure gretsch is thrilled. Sounded like crap as well. Didn't even try.
I caught that All Nightmare Long snippet
I approve
Luca Lanza does E-e with La Bella 767-6N Bass VI strings in .026, .035, .044, .056, .075, .095. Can go dark with D'Addario EXL 158 set.
*Doom guy intensifies*
What are you using for the ambient sound?
Wow dude, extra helping of brutal sauce on that song. I've been contemplating getting a 7 string or go all in on a baritone in e flat ( ya, I've been drinking all the electric wizard Kool aid, lol) still not sure which is the best too for the job yet. Any advice would be much appreciated. Cheers 🤘🏻☕🤘🏻
Anyone think the baritone can handle double drop D with the bigsby? I want to put a trem on my jazzmaster baritone but don’t want to not stay in tune
13:01 that's fatlip right? Or im just imagining it haha
Love the idubbz clip lol
If this is what we get when you tune lower, I need more. Please do more 8/9/bari stuff between F# and C (the low one). This was easily your best demo track yet
What string retainer did you throw on?
Song slaps
I have a gretch hollow body and it's a good guitar. Only issue is that the tuners and nut sucked. I replaced the tuners and a custom nut was made by a luthier. Now you can play gigs with it!
Have you considered a review of the Ltd bb-600? It's the signature guitar of Breaking Benjamin's front man and it seems pretty unique, a 27" baritone with Seymour Duncans and a second input jack specifically for a piezo. Believe it's also got stainless steel frets. And best of all its a Ltd single-cut ❤️ I still have the ec10 from when I was a teenager, it's an absolute workhorse, I could only imagine a higher-end speced-out version of it is godly
sick
Part of me is really thinking about seeing if it’ll be possible to route the bridge pickup on this out for a standard sized humbucker, bc I’ve been looking for a decently priced 30 inch baritone. I know there’s that one SubZero jazz master for like 350 bucks but I’m pretty hesitant because I can’t find what factory they’re made in and knowing my luck I’d probably get one with horrible quality control
There's also the Schecter Hellcat, if you didn't already know about that one. Probably more expensive than a lot of the other options but it's Schecter, who are reliable.
Another option is the Burns Shortscale Jazz Bass. I can't comment on the quality of that model specifically but if it's anything like my Club Cobra it should be better than the equivalent Squier Bass VI reissue by virtue of having Trisonic pickups, which should sound massive. The looks may be an acquired taste and there's no demos online but I suspect that it's got some mojo
Apparently Aria have a baritone in their Jet 2 line. It looks pretty decent but finding one is another matter
and also, did you drop your track on any streaming services?
Big Loathe vibes.