Gretsch G5260 Electromatic Jet Baritone | 12 months later review

Remote Mixing, Mastering & Production:

0:00 Intro song
3:15 Overview
6:50 Playability
11:42 String gauges & setup
14:19 Hardware & pickups
18:46 New Faces In The Dark

Gear used:
Gretsch Baritone G5260 in metallic cherry (the colour is very important!). Running into my Audient iD14.
For the intro song, I'm boosting with my Earthquaker Plumes OD. For the Loathe cover, it's the Nembrini Audio Klon clone for the boost. Neural DSP Plini for the main rhythm sounds on both. GGD Zilla Cabs for the IRs.

Bass is my random P-bass knock-off with Lace Pickups Nate Newton Riffblasters.

Vocals are my Shure SM7B running straight into the Audient.

The main drum sound for the intro song is GGD Periphery IV and the Loathe cover uses the GGD Modern & Massive with the VK copper snare (plus some additional samples on the kick and snare).

Synths are mostly the TAL-Un-O-LX (a great Roland Juno emulation) plus Surge XT (fantastic freeware synth) and Dexed (Yamaha DX-7 emulation).

[vexedpixels]

Man I loved hearing that Title Fight cover on the B standard!

[kadensabourin]

That’s the best loathe cover I’ve ever heard…amazing video, underrated

[jaybrueder]

Videos like this are the reason why I (used to) love YouTube.
100% awesome guitar nerdiness without any sponsoring bulls**t.
Very educational and entertaining. Please make more!

Extra praise for the updated studio and production quality!

I am off to buy a weird extended scale guitar to compensate for....something ;)

[davidb_]

bro. a full song, in depth review, a fucking cover at the end, plus just genuine high quality production value video with less than 100 views. youre joking. great video man im blown away. the guitar is great too. and i am also obsessed with loathe.

[dethvvitch]

Intro song really deserves more recognition. Very very tight vibes. As a longtime vocalist interested in moving towards producing /songwriting, Ive been wanting an extended range baritone (without adding strings) and your video has me sold on the Gretsch. Well done. 🙌

[SerjShower]

My brother I am BEGGING for that intro song to be on Spotify it’s so fire

[jaydensydes]

How is it that you can nail absolutely everything in this
The scream vocals? Tones? Mixing quality? video quality? comprehensive entertaining review of a product? Technical details?

Instant sub

[_noahwainwright]

I wasn't expecting a playthrough at the end.

You've got a killer voice and scream!

[maxthomas]

Man, this entire breakdown, musical production, and writing... Was expecting just an overview, but this was top tier

[limi.]

this is a perfect review... I wish more guitar companies will start releasing guitars like this.

[bredslicer]

Insane how you managed to create the best full band loathe cover I've come across 🔥 solid review too lol, we need more 12 month later type reviews on gear forsure

[GrahamsYouTube]

I have seen the other reviews on the Gretch, but this is the standard all reviews should aspire too! Simply stellar, covering all angles and the recorded cover track is mindblowingly good, appreciate the effort!

[Quicksilver_Cookie]

I so agree on the B to B tuning this thing came with. So, my story with it. I was in my local store, just kinda browsing. In a mood for impulse buy. And I see this thing. I never had a baritone, but always wanted one. Knew about them pretty well. So I thought why not. It's not expensive. Grab it, start noodling in the store. And it feels AGONIZING to play. It comes with stock strings of 14 to 72. Yes, seventy two. It was stiff as you know what. Grab my phone, google some alternative baritone tunings(remember, at that point I'm still clueless?). Decide to just keep going lower in standard. Arrive at A standard. And it was night and day. Suddenly it's agreeable, soft, pleasant. The lower you go the more comfortable these become to play. And that's coming from somebody who often finds 12s on a strat in E standard perfectly fine. Gorgeous cleans for massive deep chords. Great for texture work. Great for chugs. I ended up buying it, and exploring it a bunch more. So, my recommendation is if you grab one to try in the store - forget about B to B. It'll ruin your impression of how good this can feel to play.

[Jazzguitar]

People are complaining about the pickups but on the Bunn's video he got one of the most killer Baritone sounds I've ever heard so I don't know what they are talking about.

[Caesuramusic]

Love that you played that Converge riff lol. Axe to Fall is such a good record!

[eddybarker]

Super professional review and likely one of the best demos of the product with obviously hours and hours of preparation from a super talented musician. Well done!

[kyler.]

I fully thought this was a video with well over 10k views. Not only is the content fantastic. The video production itself is great. Subbing to join the journey!

[bastiankuhn]

Man... i think this is the best guitar review video i´ve ever watched on youtube! That Loathe cover was damn sick! I hope to see more from you :)

[wandersaroundalot]

how is your mix better than the original LMFAO this was so good to watch man, thank you

[ryansteel]

dude I’ve been waiting ages for a youtube guitarist who talks about heavy music the same way blues guys talk about the same 5 artists lol

please keep making shit, you have a unique creative voice and very cool production