GRETSCH G5442BDC hollow-body BASS || Sound Review
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NECK MATERIAL Maple
NECK FINISH Gloss Urethane
SCALE LENGTH 30.25″ (768 mm)
FINGERBOARD RADIUS 12″ (305 mm)
FINGERBOARD MATERIAL Rosewood
NUMBER OF FRETS 22
FRET SIZE Medium Jumbo
NUT MATERIAL Delrin®
NUT WIDTH 1.6” (40.6 mm)
POSITION INLAYS Pearloid Hump Block
HEADSTOCK Early ’50s Gretsch
NECK PLATE None
BRIDGE PICKUP Black Top Filter’Tron™
NECK PICKUP Black Top Filter’Tron™
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Great demo! Thanks for the good sound quality and playing! Thanks for positioning your right hand at the neck pickup! Now I want one!
Cheers
Excellent video, thanks very much. This video convinced me to find and buy this bass. Appreciate the length of the video and sound quality
Damn Igor, you really make that thing cry and sing. I’ll bet with your playing style you could make any bass sound good.
after like 20y playing guitar, I got the older cut-away model, the 5440B, as my first bass and I'm in love. The playing skill showed here does justice to the warm tone of this bass. Thanks for the nice video !
Interesante el sonido de este bajo, el timbre es como un electroacústico pero con mucha más potencia, me gusta!
Do you recall what strings you had on this bass when you made the video?
I'm looking for one of these in Phoenix, Arizona (USA)
Any, and I mean literally ANY bass can be caused to make an acceptable bass tone. Simply pluck the string to sample its generic bass sound. But that's not all that goes on when you play. You would think that its the pickup's job is to make an even accounting of every fret on every string in every register. That's challenge enough, but in practice not that hard to achieve. And yet only two basses define bass orthodoxy.
The problem is that bass players ears are so long habituated or accustomed by experience, or unquestioned adoption 'of' and allegiance 'to' the prevailing bass narrative (whose adoption is necessary to prove early membership through tribalism and identity politics in absence of manifest skill), to quantitatively and qualitatively 'variable' tone , as consistently defined by historical standards of either the P or the J bass.
The job of the pickup is not then to provide even tone or volume across the range as needs direct, but instead to emulate the sound, warts and all, of those two very idiosyncratic instruments. Fender discovers this the hard way every time they try to do something new, something different, and yes…something better! People complain that it fails to satisfy 'because' its better! It lacks the 'accepted' weaknesses that have come to define character.
Paradigms shift slowly or not at all! Any bass manufacturer that fails to acknowledge or take this persistent sonic and aural paradigm into account is likely destined to fail for succeeding!
I’m going to ask question. Is there a plugin out there that is an emulation of this bass? I’m not a bass player. But I absolutely love this tone. I saw Sade’s bass player use something similar. And the tone was low and smooth. I want that sound.
This is the thing
Ahoi Igor!
Very cool – What kind of Strings are you using? Flatwounds or Roundwounds?
I am not a big fan of semi-hollow basses, but this one sounds great!!! With your awesome playing you make this bass growl, rumble and sing! 7:00 : this is so cool, so nicely laidback! Thank you, Igor!
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It sounds great!
How is the build quality?